on 10-04-2026
Jornadas IT 2026 will be held under the central theme Space, Defense and Emerging Technologies, highlighting the Institute’s growing role in strategic national and European domains, including resilient and secure communications, surveillance and monitoring, sensing, artificial intelligence, and related areas.
The "Jornadas IT 2026" aim to present the most relevant R&D activities within each Instituto de Telecomunicações (IT) thematic lines, foster scientific collaboration among IT research groups, promote strategic reflection on the contribution of each thematic line to this area, thereby strengthening IT connection to national and international innovation ecosystems in Space, Defense, and Security.
Program - April 10th 2026:
Until 09:00 | Reception of Participants
Arrival of participants and registration
09:00 | Opening Session | IT Board, Local Authorities and Invited Entities
▪ Instituto de Telecomunicações: José Carlos Pedro (President of the Board)
▪ Instituto Politécnico de Leiria: Nuno Almeida (Pro-President)
▪ Municipality of Leiria: Gonçalo Lopes (President)
Invited Entities:
09:45 | Keynote 1
President of the IT Board, José Carlos Pedro
“IT 2030 – Space, Defense and Emerging Technologies”
10:00 | Keynote 2
IT Technology and Interface Center (CTI-IT), Daniel Pôças
“2030 Opportunities and Instruments – Space, Defense and Emerging Technologies”
10:15 | Coffee Break + IT Research Groups Poster Session (ongoing, up to 2 posters per group)
Thematic Sessions - morning
10:45 | [S1] Basic Sciences & Enabling Technologies and the Space & Defense Challenge
11:45 | [S2] Wireless Technologies and the Space & Defense Challenge
12:45 | Buffet Lunch in the Lobby + IT Research Groups Poster Session (ongoing, up to 2 posters per group)
Thematic Sessions - afternoon
14:00 | [S3] Optics & Photonics and the Space & Defense Challenge
15:00 | [S4] Networks & Services and the Space & Defense Challenge
16:00 | Coffee Break + IT Research Groups Poster Session (ongoing, up to 2 posters per group)
Thematic Sessions – afternoon (ongoing)
16:30 | [S5] Information and Data Sciences and the Space & Defense Challenge
17:30 | Strategic Panel: Space and Defense in Portugal
Moderator: Francisco Fontes (Altice Labs)
Panelists:
18:15 | 2026 Awards Ceremony and Closing Session
When: April 10th, 2026
Venue:
School of Technology and Management – Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Alto do Vieiro, Morro do Lena, Leiria, Portugal
Coordinates: 39°44’03.52” N | 8°49’15.79” W
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More Information..on 01-04-2026
The International Conference on Smart Mobility (IEEESM), with the theme "Enabling AI-Powered Seamless and Sustainable Mobility for All", is taking place in Dubai, on April 1-3, 2026.
IEEE SM is designated for reporting recent research, development, and deployment results in smart mobility systems and services, their challenging problems, and their potential applications.
IEEESM is where academics, technologists, OEMs, mobility service providers, city planners, and policy makers can network, learn, and collaborate with each other.
The program of the conference features Smart mobility, which is one of the main pillars that characterizes smart cities and maintains their sustainability as a way to deal with continuously growing world urbanization and its expected impacts on public health, congestion, and accelerated global climate change.
The widespread deployment and the societal acceptance of smart mobility technologies will depend not only on the maturity of the technology but also on the availability of a well-developed governance framework and the proper city planning to accommodate these evolving technologies. This means that smart mobility depends on a triad of complementary factors: keynote and invited speeches from top thought-leaders and pioneers in the area of smart mobility, panel discussions, fully refereed papers, workshops, tutorials, industry sessions, Women in Mobility (WIM) Symposium and Triple Helix Exhibition.
Smart mobility is one of the main pillars that characterizes smart cities and maintains their sustainability as a way to deal with continuously growing world urbanization and its expected impacts on public health, congestion, and accelerated global climate change. The widespread deployment and the societal acceptance of smart mobility technologies will depend not only on the maturity of the technology but also on the availability of a well-developed governance framework and the proper city planning to accommodate these evolving technologies. This means that smart mobility depends on a triad of complementary factors:
Best Paper Awards
The 2026 International Conference on Smart Mobility (SM) also features the Best Paper Awards. These awards recognize the best paper in each of the three tracks of the conference (Smart Mobility Technology Best Paper, City Planning Best Paper, and Smart Mobility Governance Best Paper).
Important Dates
Submit your proposal on the Conference’s Website:
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