🇪🇺 Co-funded by the European Union

Online Workshop
Digital Transformation TIG

A one-day online event dedicated to digital transformation research, bringing together the universities of the STARS EU alliance around three major themes.

This online conference is dedicated to disseminating PhD/MSc/BSc students' research work and to providing opportunities to network with academic and applied researchers at STARS EU partner universities.

📅 12 June 2026
💻 Microsoft Teams · 100% online
🌍 STARS EU Alliance
3
Parallel tracks
28
Presentations
9+
Universities
1
Day

Three tracks, one ambition

Explore the sessions and jump straight to the programme you're interested in.

Key themes covered

From healthcare to quantum security, a panorama of European digital research.

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AI & Health

Zoonotic disease prediction, electrograms, trustworthy clinical agents.

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Quantum & Crypto

QKD key distribution, post-quantum, side-channels and Rust tooling.

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Frugal AI & Energy

Model pruning, energy-aware allocation, computing from edge to HPC.

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Languages & Education

Chatbots for learning, digital storytelling, generative AI.

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Digital Inclusion

Resilience to disinformation, accessibility, user agency.

🤖 Track 01 — Artificial Intelligence

Raphaël CouturierSession chair · CET
08:30–08:45
Presentation of STARS EU
08:50–09:10
Toward Explainable Zoonotic Disease Prediction: A Multi-Source Framework Integrating Genomic, Environmental, and Media Intelligence
Bibek Paudyal UMLP
09:15–09:35
Deep Learning-Based Filtering of Intracardiac Electrograms Using Autoencoders for Improved Signal Quality in Electroanatomical Mapping
José Javier Ortega Toledo ULL
09:40–10:00
The Development of Grammatical Competence among Russian-speaking Students Using Chatbot (FLE, A2 level)
Sandrine Azéma UMLP
10:05–10:25
The Augmented Dispatcher: Implementing Safe-by-Design AI for Emergency Call Processing in Zero-Resource Environments
Maxime Coulmeau UMLP
10:30–10:50
Service-Aware Predictive Autoscaling in Cloud Environments
Szymon Michoń CUT
10:55–11:15
Intelligent models and information technology for the classification of military objects
Maksym Saliutin PMBSNU
11:20–11:40
How AI Tools Are Changing Leadership in Digitalized Organizations
Rabita Lawaju UW
11:45–12:05
Multimodal AI System for Integrated Emotion and Gesture Recognition in Real-Time Digital Environments
Yelyzaveta Piatkina PMBSNU
— Lunch break —
13:30–13:50
Improving Infectious Disease Forecasts through Exogenous Variable Selection and Input Space Optimization
Oleksandr Kovaliv PMBSNU
13:55–14:15
Traffic Sign Detection in Panoramic Imagery using SAM3 and YOLOv8 in Low-Data Scenarios
Khadija Ben Madane UMLP
14:20–14:40
Structured Pruning in BERT: Performance and Energy Analysis from Edge to High-Performance Computing
Nicolás Hernández González ULL
14:45–15:05
Learning Operational Wildfire Risk through Ordinal Transition Constraints
Nicolas Caron UMLP
15:10–15:30
AI Agents for Healthcare: From Medical LLMs Toward Trustworthy Clinical Decision Support
Gulzar Safarli UMLP
15:35–15:55
SPDF (Semantic Processed Document Format): An Open Standard for the Semantic Understanding of Documents and Corpora
José Luis Saorin Ferrer ULL
16:00–16:20
Energy-Oriented Workload Allocation for Heterogeneous Distributed Training
Daniel Suárez Labena ULL
16:25–16:45
Sequence alignment problem performance optimization through specific purpose hardware design in FPGA
Salvador Pérez del Pino ULL
16:50–17:10
Application of contextualized vector representations and attention mechanisms in semantic text analysis
Viktor Ralenko PMBSNU
17:15–17:30
Wrapping up the session

🔐 Track 02 — Cybersecurity & Quantum

Joanna KolodziejSession chair · Warsaw time
08:30–08:45
Presentation of STARS EU
08:50–09:10
Security Analysis of Flutter Platform Channels: Threat Classification and Handler Substitution Attack Demonstration
Mateusz Nawrocki CUT
09:15–09:35
AI-Based Intrusion Detection Using Real Network Traffic from Critical Service Infrastructure
Belinda Cáceres Barrera ULL
09:40–10:00
Leveraging Kleptography to Strengthen Post-Quantum Cryptography
Édgar Pérez-Ramos ULL
10:05–10:25
Security Metrics Analysis of BB84 and E91 Quantum Key Distribution Protocols
Piotr Warchołek CUT
10:30–10:50
Exploiting and Mitigating Temporal Side-Channels in Decoy-State QKD Using Machine Learning
Ana Dybel CUT
10:55–11:15
Rust Tools for Simulation and Testing of Quantum Cryptographic Primitives
Jorge Garcia-Diaz ULL
11:20–11:40
Wrapping up the session

📚 Track 03 — Digital Literacy, Inclusion & Education

Madelon van OostromSession chair · CET (Amsterdam)
08:30–08:45
Presentation of STARS EU
08:50–09:10
Resilience deconstructed: How interventions construct and 'confer' resilience to disinformation
Julide Kont Hanze
09:15–09:35
Navigating Identity Through Digital Storytelling: Mediation and Multimodality in Plurilingual Contexts
Nour Imen Zaghouani UMLP
09:40–10:00
From Binary to Qubits: Rethinking Digital Learning
Ardrita Diko UAMD
10:05–10:25
"Just One More Prompt": Relational Behaviors Toward Generative AI
Andrea Cotino Arbelo ULL
10:30–10:50
Fostering reciprocity and participant agency in qualitative UX research: designing a 'Shared Space' tablet interface for adults facing digital barriers
Sem Meijerink Hanze
10:55–11:15
Wrapping up the session

🔗 How to join

AI Track
ID: 328 047 150 294 382
Passcode: hu7TB9gY
Cybersecurity & Quantum Track
ID: 338 569 411 903 736
Passcode: f8re2nw3
Digital Literacy & Inclusion Track
ID: 380 059 031 489 621
Passcode: 9Hj7WM6F