Program

Workshop date: June 23, 2026 (Tuesday)

Start time: 3–5:45PM Lisbon time (10AM in New York, 7AM San Francisco, 4PM in Central Europe)

Workshop location: hybrid — on-location and virtual (Zoom)

Workshop local organizer: Luís Veiga (U.Lisboa)

Workshop recording: Videos playlist

Time
3pm-3:45pm welcome, online polls, and keynote with Q&A
Welcome [online slides] (Aleksander Slominski) [Video]
Online polls (Pedro García Lopez) [Video]
Keynote: What Primitives Get Us to 1000× Serverless AI Inference? (Luo Mai) [Video]
4-4:15pm coffee break (use that time for netwroking, extended dmeo, additional Q&A etc)
4:10pm-4:20pm demos (3x5min)
Architecture-Aware Load Distribution in Heterogeneous Edge FaaS Systems (Gabriele Russo Russo (University of Rome Tor Vergata)) [Video]
PyRun Cloud: AI-Powered Educational CloudLab Democratizing Distributed Cloud Computing (Daniel Alejandro Coll Tejeda (Universitat Rovira i Virgili)) [Video]
Blocks-DB (Octavio Iacoponelli (Universitat Rovira i Virgili)) [Video]
4:20pm- 4:40pm papers session 1 (2x10 min)
LLM-Assisted Interpretation of Graphene Image Analysis in Serverless Workflows (Josef Spillner (Zurich University of Applied Sciences) + Sepideh Shamsizadeh will be available remotely. Valerio Schiavoni will attend in person) [Video]
InferenceProfiler (Austin Bomhold (University of Washington Tacoma), Xinghan Chen ( University of Washington Tacoma ), Morteza Nabavinejad ( University of Washington Tacoma ), Wes Lloyd (University of Washington Tacoma)) [Video]
4:40pm-4:45pm break
4:45pm- 5:20pm keynote 2 (30min 5 min Q&A)
Keynote: AI Operating System (Gosia Steinder) [Video]
5:20pm- 5:25pm break
5:25pm- 5:45pm papers session 2 (2x10 min)
Evaluating Large Language Models for Automated Serverless Workflow Generation (Sashko Ristov (University of Innsbruck ), Philipp Gritsch (University of Innsbruck), Florian Unterhofer ( University of Innsbruck ), Ruth Breu ( University of Innsbruck )) [Video]
Benchmarking Serverless AI Architectures: Modular RAG, Serverless RAG, and Long Context Inference (FLORIAN ALEXANDRU SERB PETRUSEL (Universitat Rovira i Virgili), Pedro Antonio García López (Universitat Rovira i Virgili)) [Video]
5:45pm wokrshop end, feedback link, thank you!