About us

The ZiSE 2026 conference and workshop aims to bring together lecturers, teachers, researchers, industry practitioners, and individuals in the field of Zephyr in Science and Education to share their experiences, new ideas, latest findings, and state-of-the-art results regarding the Zephyr RTOS.

Important Dates

Sun, May 31, 2026

Pre-Submission for Abstracts and Paper outlines (rolling till May, 2026)

Mon, Jun 15, 2026

Paper Registration and Submission Deadline

Fri, Jul 31, 2026

Notification of Acceptance

Sun, Aug 16, 2026

Registration

Sun, Aug 30, 2026

Camera Ready

Tue, Sep 22, 2026

Conference

Paper Submission

Research Paper Submission Tracks

Education

Embedded operating system

Zephyr os

Educate zephyr and embedded os

Training content/curricula for embedded development (esp. Zephyr)

Methodical teaching approaches in training in system design, software design and embedded software development

Training on Zephyr

Zephyr real-time operating system (RTOS) subsystem and interface evaluation

Embedded Systems Development Training

Zephyr in robotics (e.g. ROS 2 / micro-ros 2)

Zephyr in edge AI

Zephyr community evolution and health

Distributed systems based on real-time operating systems (sensor systems)

Operating system architecture with a focus on real-time operating systems

POSIX OS as the basis for embedded operating systems

Concepts in Zephyr (e.g. device tree)

Zephyr in practice - migration of existing applications to Zephyr

Zephyr in practice - introduction of Zephyr in existing structures/teams

Call for Papers Description

Prospective authors are invited to submit articles on topics including training content, methodical teaching approaches, Zephyr RTOS evaluation, robotics, edge AI, and community evolution. Submissions can be full papers, short papers, or brief talks.