22nd International IEEE Conference on Factory Communication Systems (WFCS 2026)

Offenburg, Germany – April 21-24, 2026

22nd International IEEE Conference on Factory Communication Systems (WFCS 2026)

Offenburg, Germany – April 21-24, 2026

For more information, please contact the general chairs Axel Sikora and Stefano Scanzio.

General Co-Chairs

Axel Sikora

Hochschule Offenburg, Germany
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Stefano Scanzio

CNR-IEIIT, Italy
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Technical Program Co-Chairs

Tullio Facchinetti

University of Pavia, Italy
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Henning Trsek

inIT / TH-OWL, Germany
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WIP Co-Chairs

Frank Golatowski

University of Rostock, Germany
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Javier Silvestre-Blanes

Universitat Politècnica de Valéncia, Spain
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Special Session Co-Chairs

Gianluca Cena

CNR-IEIIT, Italy
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Ahlem Mifdaoui

ISAE-SUPAERO/University of Toulouse, France
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Dirk H. J. Pesch

University College Cork, Ireland
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Publication Co-Chairs

Mohammad Ashjaei

Mälardalen University, Sweden
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Luca Leonardi

University of Catania, Italy
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Publicity Co-Chairs

Pietro Chiavassa

Politecnico di Torino, Italy
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Jeannette Chin

University of East Anglia, United Kingdom
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Arne Neumann

inIT / TH-OWL , Germany
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Hou Weiyan

Univ Zhengzhou, China
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Industry Co-Chairs

Ramez Daoud

American University in Cairo, Egypt
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Thomas Höschele

CampusGenius GmbH, Germany
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Zhibo Pang

ABB & KTH, Sweden
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Tutorials Co-Chairs

Jetmir Haxhibequri

imec- IDLab, Ghent University, Belgium
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Peter Heusinger

Fraunhofer IIS, Germany
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Demonstrations Co-Chairs

Hans-Peter Bernhard

Silicon Austria Labs GmbH, Austria
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Jubin Sebastian

Hochschule Offenburg, Germany
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Financial Chairs

Frank Golatowski

University of Rostock, Germany
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Sandra Lutz-Vogt

Hochschule Offenburg, Germany
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Web chair

Julia Junker

Hochschule Offenburg, Germany
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Technical Program Committee

  • Omer Ali, Walton Institute, Ireland
  • Gehad AlKady, AUC, Egypt
  • Luis Almeida, University of Porto, Portogal
  • Ines Alvarez, ABB Corporate Research, Sweden
  • Hassanein Amer, AUC, Egypt
  • Abbas Arghavani, Mälardalen University, Sweden
  • Moris Behnam , Mälardalen University, Sweden
  • Hans-Peter Bernhard, Silicon Austria Labs/Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
  • Alessandro Biondi, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy
  • Konstantinos Bletsas, CISTER Research Centre, ISEP/IPP, Portugal
  • Gianluca Cena , CNR-IEIIT, Italy
  • Manuel Cheminod, CNR-IEIIT, Italy
  • Silviu Craciunas, TTTech, Austria
  • Patrick Denzler, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
  • Joaquim Ferreira , University of Aveiro, Portugal
  • Luis Ferreira , ISEP, Porto, Portugal
  • Chiara Foglietta, University of Roma Tre, Italy
  • Valerio Frascolla, Intel, Germany
  • Piotr Gaj, Silesian University of Technology, Joaquim
  • Svetlana Girs, Mälardalen University, Sweden
  • Florian Gruetzmacher, University of Rostock, Germany
  • David Hästbacka, Tampere University, Finland
  • Jürgen Jasperneite , TH OWL / Fraunhofer IOSB-INA, Germany
  • Wolfgang Kastner , TU Wien, Austria
  • Luca Leonardi, University of Catania, Italy
  • Lucia Lo Bello , University of Catania, Italy
  • Dina Mahmoud, AUC, Egypt
  • Yosof Maklad, ERICSSON Sweden, Sweden
  • Saad Mubeen, Mälardalen University, Sweden
  • Nicolas Navet, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
  • Roman Obermaisser , University of Siegen, Germany
  • Gaetano Patti , University of Catania, Italy
  • Paulo Pedreiras, UA/DETI/IT, Portugal
  • Luis Miguel Pinho, ISEP Porto, Portugal
  • Marco Porta, University of Pavia, Italy
  • Paulo Portugal, University of Porto, Portugal
  • Julian Proenza , University of the Balearic Islands, Spain
  • Tarek Refaat, Fortra Canada, Canada
  • Markus Rentschler, ARENA2036 e.V., Germany
  • Stefano Rinaldi, University of Brescia, Italy
  • Jean-Luc Scharbarg, IRIT, France
  • Ramon Serna Oliver, TTTech Labs, Austria
  • Dimitrios Serpanos, CTI/University of Patras, Greece
  • Michael Short, Teesside University, UK
  • Axel Sikora, Hochschule Offenburg, Germany
  • Javier Silvestre-Blanes, University Politècnica de València, Spain
  • Frank Singhoff , University of Brest, France
  • Ye-Qiong Song , University of Lorraine, France
  • Jacek Stoj, Silesian University of Technology, Poland
  • Abhilash Thekkilakkattil, Scania CV, Sweden
  • Henning Trsek, Institute Industrial IT - inIT/TH-OWL, Germany
  • Lisa Underberg, Institute for Automation and Communication (ifak), Germany
  • Lukasz Wisniewski, Institute Industrial IT - inIT/TH-OWL, Germany
  • Tao Zheng, Beijing Jiatong University, China
  • Alois Zoitl, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
  • Claudio Zunino, CNR-IEIIT, Italy

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