💻 Keynote Speaker at RTNS 2026

I am going to be a keynote speaker at the 34th International Conference on Real-Time Networks and Systems (RTNS) 2026.

Predictability in the Edge-to-Cloud Continuum: When Time Matters

Abstract

Modern cyber-physical systems increasingly rely on distributed intelligence deployed across devices, edge nodes, fog infrastructure, and the cloud. This computing continuum offers unprecedented flexibility and scalability, but it also challenges one of the central assumptions of real-time systems: that the computational and communication substrate can be characterized with sufficiently stable timing properties. In applications such as autonomous vehicles, industrial automation, and cloud-based control, latency, jitter, resource contention, and missed updates do not merely degrade software performance; they directly affect the behavior of the physical system.

This presentation discusses predictability as a cyber-physical property of edge-to-cloud systems. The talk will argue that predictable cyber-physical intelligence requires moving beyond classical worst-case reasoning alone, toward systems that can understand, expose, and manage timing uncertainty across the computing continuum.