This year’s IE2026 conference features nine high-quality tutorials covering a diverse range of emerging topics, from intelligent urban systems and spatio-temporal AI to digital twins, batteryless IoT, and vision-based UAV navigation. These tutorials provide both theoretical foundations and practical demonstrations, ensuring that participants gain actionable skills alongside a deeper understanding of advanced research.

Each tutorial is delivered by experts coming from different continents, offering a unique opportunity for attendees to expand their knowledge, engage in hands-on learning, and explore potential collaborations. The tutorials are designed to be accessible to both newcomers and experienced researchers, combining conceptual overviews with applied case studies and demonstrations. All tutorials can be attended in person at the conference site or remotely.

Each tutorial will be one and half hours long.

1. Batteryless IoT Sensing Solutions for Sustainable Environmental Monitoring

Jimmy Fernandez Landivar, ESAT, KU Leuven, Belgium
Covers principles and hands-on design for energy-efficient, batteryless IoT systems enabling intelligent and sustainable environmental monitoring.

2. Advances in Vision-Based Technologies for UAV Autonomous Navigation, Path Planning, and Cooperative Systems with UGVs.

Guanchong Niu, Guangzhou Institute of Technology, Xidian University, China
Explores UAV navigation, landing, path planning, and UAV–UGV cooperation through algorithms, sensor fusion, and live demonstrations, with applications in surveillance and disaster response.

3. Large Language Model-Enabled Participatory Platforms for Intelligent Urban Systems

Chaimae Asaad (UIR, Morocco), Hicham Chabili (Bravent, Spain)
Demonstrates how LLMs can transform citizen narratives into structured decision-making inputs, supporting governance, participation, and trust in smart cities.

4. From Concept to Code: Building a Digital Twin for Virtual Power Plant Simulation with Python

Gian Marco Paldino & Gianluca Bontempi, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Guides participants in building reproducible Virtual Power Plant simulations with open-source Python tools, integrating forecasting, optimization, and real-time energy management.

5. Technology in Physiotherapy: Innovative Tools for Enhanced Patient Care

Ivan Miguel Pires (Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal), Mário Lopes (University of Porto, Portugal)
Introduces wearables, VR, and AI tools for physiotherapy, with demonstrations on improving rehabilitation, remote care, and patient engagement.

6. Digital Twin for Intelligent Parcel Sorting: Real-Time Management and Optimization in Logistics Networks

Wei Zhang, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China
Presents methods for building digital twins of parcel distribution centers, integrating IIoT data pipelines, cross-belt sorter simulation, and optimization with reinforcement learning.

7. Emotion Recognition for Intelligent Environments: EEG-based Affective Computing and Self-Adaptive Systems

Paúl Cárdenas-Delgado, Priscila Cedillo, Julia Nicole Abril Cabrera, Camila Verónica Granda Salamea, Universidad de Cuenca, Ecuador
Provides a pipeline for EEG-based emotion recognition, covering preprocessing, feature extraction, ML/DL models, and reinforcement learning for real-time adaptation.

8. Age of Information: Fundamentals, Applications, and Beyond

Zhengchuan Chen (Chongqing University, China), Howard H. Yang (Zhejiang University, China), Nikolaos Pappas (Linköping University, Sweden)
Introduces the Age of Information (AoI) concept, spanning queueing theory, wireless networks, semantic extensions, and case studies in IoT and control systems.

9. Spatio-Temporal Trajectory Foundation Model: Recent Advances and Future Directions

Sean Bin Yang & Yan Lin (Aalborg University, Denmark), Jilin Hu (East China Normal University, China)
Introduces trajectory foundation models in spatio-temporal AI, discussing modalities, scalability, and applications in urban mobility, traffic, and sustainable planning.

More details on scheduling and logistics will be provided at a later date. 

Tutorial Chairs