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

Call For Paper

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

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.

Committee

Conference and Workshop organization

Steffen Späthe

FSU Jena

Sandra Kreussler

navimatix

Stephan Linz

navimatix

Tobias Kästner

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