The Baltic Electronics Conference 2026 (BEC2026) marks its 20th edition, continuing a proud tradition as a leading event for electronics and embedded systems in the Baltics-Nordics. For nearly three decades, BEC has been the meeting point for academia, industry, and innovators, driving research and technology that shape the future.

BEC2026 is calling for contributions in the following tracks.

Communication and Cognitive Systems

5G/6G technologies; Cognitive networks; Automation of networks (e.g. self-organizing, self-healing, etc.); RF and optical aspects; Jamming, spoofing, and counter-measures; Cognitive Radio and Software Defined Radio; IoT; Sensor networks; Vehicular and aerial communication and networks; Public safety networks; Implementation methods, energy-efficient/low-power platforms; Energy harvesting (incl. transient/approximate computing); Channel Modelling, Coding and Information Theory, Communication Systems, Detection and Estimation, Massive MIMO, Physical Layer Security, Wireless Power and Information Transfer, Cooperative Communication and Networking, Wireless Network Security and Privacy, Machine Learning for Wireless Applications; implementations and demonstrations.

Embedded and Cyber-Physical Systems

Embedded hardware and software systems design, integration, test and validation. Analog, digital and mixed IC design for implementing cyberphysical systems. Simulation, synthesis methods and tools for embedded devices. Secure embedded systems and software, trustworthy integrated circuits. Low power embedded systems. Multi- and many-core systems. Reconfigurable and heterogeneous multiagent and adaptive embedded systems. Real-time applications of cyberphysical systems. Embedded machine learning and artificial intelligence technologies and applications.

Power Electronics and Sustainable Energy Systems

Theoretical and practical aspects of implementation of power converters in industry and transportation. Modelling, simulation and control of power electronic systems. Distributed power generation, integrated renewable systems, smart grids, microgrids, hybrid- and full-electric vehicles. Electrical machines and drives. Mechatronics. Power systems and high-voltage engineering. Emerging photovoltaic technologies and concepts (including tandem, bifacial, semi-transparent etc.) Nano-, micro-, opto-, and thermoelectric, devices: characterisation, modelling and simulation. Sensor- and low power solutions. Wide-band-gap solutions, photonics, thermoelectricity. Energy harvesting.

Sensing, Data Acquisition, and Intelligent Signal Processing

Data acquisition, sensors, signal and data processing, Non-destructive Testing (NDT), Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) and Condition

Monitoring (CM) applications, system identification, image processing, remote sensing, multimedia; navigation and positioning, radar, sonar; instrumentation and measurement devices and systems, hardware-, software- and integration aspects.

Bioinstrumentation, Smart Materials, and Adaptive Automation

Adaptive liquid handling automation; Adaptive automation in bioanalysis/synthesis; Machine learning for image analysis/instrument control; Nanomaterials & smart surfaces in biosensing; Printed electronic sensors/actuators (e.g. jet, screen); Portable platforms (e.g. Lab-on-a-Chip, Point-of-Care devices, wearables); Electrode surface functionalization (e.g. antibody, enzyme, DNA, nanostructure scaffolds)

Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity issues across all the other above topics.

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