IC2E 2025 Detailed Program

All session times refer to Central European Summer time (CST/UTC+2).

Tuesday, September 23rd 2025

13:00-14:00 — Registration

Registration

14:00-16:00 — Tutorials & Workshops

Tutorial 1: Synthetic Data for Research and Validation: From Theory to Practice.

Room: Petri.

Speakers: Mariana Vargas Vieyra (MOSTLY AI), Paul Tiwald (MOSTLY AI) and Mario Scriminaci (MOSTLY AI).

Tutorial 2: Introducing sufficiency and sobriety in the Cloud-Edge Compute Continuum.

Room: Turing.

Speaker: Klervie Toczé (VU University Amsterdam).

Workshop: 2nd Workshop on Accelerated HPC in the Cloud-Edge Continuum (AHPC).

Room: Markov.

  • Keynote: Serverless Functions across the Cloud-Edge Continuum: Challenges and Perspectives, Gabriele Russo Russo (Tor Vergata University of Rome).
  • Session 1.

16:00-16:30 — Coffee break

Coffee break

16:30-18:00 — Tutorials & Workshops

Tutorial 1: Synthetic Data for Research and Validation: From Theory to Practice.

Room: Petri.

Speakers: Mariana Vargas Vieyra (MOSTLY AI), Paul Tiwald (MOSTLY AI) and Mario Scriminaci (MOSTLY AI).

Tutorial 2: Introducing sufficiency and sobriety in the Cloud-Edge Compute Continuum.

Room: Turing.

Speaker: Klervie Toczé (VU University Amsterdam).

Workshop: 2nd Workshop on Accelerated HPC in the Cloud-Edge Continuum (AHPC).

Room: Markov.

  • Keynote: Fog computing, from smart city services to natural environment monitoring, Guillaume Pierre (University of Rennes).
  • Session 2.

18:00-19:30 — Reception

Welcome reception (at the conference center)

Wednesday, September 24th 2025

8:30-9:00 — Registration

Registration

9:00-9:15 — Opening

Opening session

9:15-10:15 — Keynote 1

Session chair: Cristina Abad

Speaker: Cristian Klein (Elastisys and Umeå University, Sweden)

Title: Adaptive Cloud-Native Architectures: Engineering for Resilience, Efficiency, and Sustainability from Core to Edge

Abstract: Cloud-native systems have grown too complex for elasticity alone to ensure reliability and sustainability. This talk examines adaptivity—systems that adjust scale and behavior using control-based mechanisms. Examples include graceful degradation to preserve core functionality, adaptive circuit breaking to prevent cascading failures, and hardware-level QoS tuning to optimize shared resources. Together, these approaches improve resilience, efficiency, and sustainability. I will also connect these ideas to edge computing, where control must balance local autonomy with global coordination.

10:15-10:45 — Coffee break

Coffee break

10:45-12:30 — Session 1: Performance

Session chair: Adrien Lèbre.

12:30-14:00 — Lunch

Lunch

14:00-15:00 — Session 2a: Security and anomaly detection

Session chair: Wes Lloyd.

15:00-16:30 — Posters and demos

16:30-17:30 — Session 2b: Security and anomaly detection (continued)

Session chair: Wes Lloyd.

18:30-19:30 — Social event

Social event: guided walking tour of the city center.

Meeting point: you may choose to meet in front of the conference auditorium or directly at the tourist office.

Thursday, September 25th 2025

8:30-9:00 — Registration

Registration

9:00-10:00 — Keynote 2

Session chair: Eric Rutten.

Speaker: Ada Diaconescu (Telecom Paris, France).

Title: Multi-scale Adaptive Designs: dealing with Complexity and Surprise.

Abstract: How to handle escalating complexity while adapting to unexpected change? And how to compromise between short-term efficiency and long-term survival? This presentation will examine how multi-scale adaptive systems, with various design styles, may help. It will bring a generic perspective distilled from cross-domain examples, from technical and living systems to ecosystems.

10:00-10:30 — Coffee break

Coffee break

10:30-12:30 — Session 3: Sustainability and edge computing

Session chair: Klervie Toczé.

12:30-13:00 — Awards + IC2E 2026 announcement

Awards + IC2E 2026 announcement

13:00-14:00 — Lunch

Lunch

14:00-15:00 — Keynote 3

Session chair: Anne-Cécile Orgerie.

Speaker: Grégory Lebourg (OVHCloud, France)

Title: AI impact on the environnent: from projections to remedies.

Slide deck: lebourg.pptx.

Abstract: With the boom of AI and in particular the hype aroung Gen AI, the materiality of the cloud becomes even more of a concern. This presentation will guide you through the maze of the mid-term trends as far the data centers utilities demand, their CO2e emissions and craving for minerals. Some mitigation levers implemented by OVHcloud will illustrate how the digital industry can reduce its impact on the environment while embracing the AI revolution.

15:00-16:00 — Session 4: Serverless computing

Session chair: Alessio Pagliari.

16:00-16:30 — Coffee break

Coffee break

16:30-17:45 — Session 5: Caching strategies and Function-as-a-Service Clouds

Session chair: David Bermbach.

19:30-late — Gala dinner

The Gala dinner will take place at restaurant La Closerie.

Address: 34 Place des Lices, this is not far from metro station Sainte-Anne.

Time: 7:30pm.

Friday, September 26th 2025

8:30-9:00 — Registration

Registration

9:00-10:00 — Session 6: Pricing schemes

Session chair: Gabriele Russo Russo.

10:00-10:30 — Coffee break

Coffee break

10:30-12:00 — Session 7: Placement strategies

Session chair: Shadi Ibrahim.

12:00-12:30 — Closing

Closing session

12:30-14:00 — Lunch

Lunch