Events & Talks: standards meetings, papers & community

Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

What it is

A running log of events I participate: IETF standards meetings, conference papers and demos, and talks, workshops, and community events. Every entry links to the materials it produced, such as slides, drafts, papers, and videos.

For chronological write-ups, see the News feed. Related project pages: ELA, Mari, and DotBots.

Conferences, talks & community

Reverse-chronological. Many of these also have write-ups on the News feed.

DCOSS-IoT 2026, Reykjavik (22-24 Jun 2026). Co-authored the SwarmIT paper, on turning a collection of robots into a robust, programmable swarm testbed. Paper, conference. 🇮🇸 [Conference]
ANTS 2026 (15th International Conference on Swarm Intelligence), Darmstadt (8-10 Jun 2026). Invited perspective talk Swarm Robotics: A Low-Power Wireless Perspective, with Thomas Watteyne. Program. 🇩🇪 [Talk]
OpenSwarm all-hands (Apr 2026). Location and focus to confirm. 🏳️ [Meeting]
Chiche! outreach, Inria (8 Dec 2025). With Yuxuan Song, gave a DotBot demo to high-school students through Inria’s “1 scientist, 1 class: Chiche!” programme, which connects digital-science researchers with secondary-school pupils. About Chiche!. 🇫🇷 [Outreach]
DotBot Academy, La Réunion (3-4 Dec 2025). Taught the first DotBot Academy to 33 CS students at ESIROI. Video, news. 🇷🇪 [Outreach]
Swarm Workshop, Brussels (26-27 Nov 2025). Gave a talk and a DotBot testbed demo, alongside five Horizon Europe swarm projects. swarmworkshop.eu, news. 🇧🇪 [Workshop]
Latinoware 2025, Foz do Iguaçu (22-25 Oct 2025). Gave a talk and ran a three-day booth on the DotBots and the OpenSwarm testbed at the 22nd Latin American Congress on Free Software and Open Technologies, reaching hundreds of students, teachers, researchers, and entrepreneurs. OpenSwarm write-up, latinoware.org. 🇧🇷 [Outreach]
OpenSwarm Roadshow in Brazil (3-28 Oct 2025). Presented the DotBot testbed at USP, the Salvador Arena Foundation, and UTFPR. news. 🇧🇷 [Outreach]
JNRR 2025 (French National Robotics Research Days), Rennes (30 Sep to 1 Oct 2025). Presented the DotBot and OpenSwarm testbed with Alexandre Abadie. jnrr2025.irisa.fr, news. 🇫🇷 [Talk]
OpenSwarm all-hands, Limerick (25 Sep 2025). Deployed the first batch of 100 DotBots. news. 🇮🇪 [Meeting]
EWSN 2025, Leuven (Sep 2025). 🏆 Best Demo Award for Mari, a 120-device live demo. Also co-authored a second demo, Vega, at the same event. Award, Mari demo PDF, Vega demo PDF. 🇧🇪 [Demo]
Automatica 2025, Munich (Jun 2025). OpenSwarm swarm-robotics demos: aquatic robots, aerial drones, and micro-robots. openswarm.eu, news. 🇩🇪 [Demo]
DCOSS-IoT 2025, Tuscany (9-11 Jun 2025). Presented the ELA paper. Post, paper PDF. 🇮🇹 [Conference]
OpenSwarm Hackathon, Inria (15 May 2025). Stress-tested the swarm infrastructure, reaching about 10x reliability gains. news. 🇫🇷 [Meeting]
Visit to HKUST (Guangzhou) (2 Apr 2025). Presented Mari; hosted by Tengfei Chang. news. 🇨🇳 [Visit]
IEEE WCNC 2024, Dubai (21-24 Apr 2024). Presented the EDHOC vs DTLS 1.3 performance paper. paper PDF. 🇦🇪 [Conference]
Talk in Virmond (12 Mar 2023). Returned to my hometown to talk with high-school students about careers in tech. news. 🇧🇷 [Outreach]
PhD defense, University of São Paulo (25 Oct 2022). Defended my PhD thesis on decentralized security for constrained IoT swarms. Thesis PDF. 🇧🇷 [Milestone]
GIoTS 2022 (Global IoT Summit), Dublin (20-23 Jun 2022). Presented A Low-Overhead Approach for Self-Sovereign Identity in IoT. Paper, news. 🇮🇪 [Conference]

IETF: LAKE working group

I co-author the IETF draft draft-ietf-lake-authz, the ELA protocol for zero-touch IoT enrollment, in the LAKE working group. The draft has been presented at every LAKE session since IETF 118. Below is each meeting with the draft version current at the time and the slides presented (some updates were presented remotely or by co-authors).

IETF 118, Prague (6-10 Nov 2023). My first IETF; joined the LAKE group to work on EDHOC and ELA. Draft -00, slides. 🇨🇿 [Standards]
IETF 119, Brisbane (16-22 Mar 2024), remote. Draft -01, slides. 🇦🇺 [Standards]
IETF 120, Vancouver (20-26 Jul 2024). Draft -02, slides. 🇨🇦 [Standards]
IETF 121, Dublin (2-8 Nov 2024). Draft -03, slides. 🇮🇪 [Standards]
LAKE interim (28 Jan 2025), virtual. Draft -03, slides. 🌐 [Standards]
IETF 122, Bangkok (15-21 Mar 2025). Draft -04, slides. 🇹🇭 [Standards]
LAKE interim (26 May 2025), virtual. Draft -04, slides. 🌐 [Standards]
IETF 123, Madrid (19-25 Jul 2025). Merged ELA security into Mari at the hackathon and demoed it live. Draft -05, slides, post. 🇪🇸 [Standards]
IETF 124, Montreal (1-7 Nov 2025). Draft -06, slides. 🇨🇦 [Standards]
IETF 125, Shenzhen (14-20 Mar 2026). Draft -07, slides. 🇨🇳 [Standards]
LAKE interim (26 May 2026), virtual. Draft -07, slides. 🌐 [Standards]
IETF 126, Vienna (18-24 Jul 2026). Draft -08, slides. 🇦🇹 [Standards]

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Events & Talks: standards meetings, papers & community

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