The following MIXDES 2026 special sessions are planned:

1. Advances in Smart Electronics for Artificial Intelligence and Future Technologies
   organised by Prof. Chia Yu Yao (National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan) and Prof. Chih Wen Lu (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
2. FAMES Pilot Line highlights – current developments in FD SOI Technology and RRAM Applications
   organised by Dr. Piotr Wiśniewski (The Centre for Advanced Materials and Technology CEZAMAT, Poland)
3. Open-source Silicon Ecosystem
   organised by Dr. Krzysztof Herman (IHP GmbH - Leibniz Institute for High Performance Microelectronics, Germany)
4. UAV as a Platform for Various Applications
   organised by Prof. Paweł Śniatała (Poznań University of Technology, Poland)
   The session is dedicated to issues related to UAVs. Presentations may cover both technical solutions for drones and their use as platforms for other applications (data acquisition and processing, flying ad hoc networks, etc.). The session is co-organized as part of the project ‘Networked Airborne Computing in Uncertain Airspace: A Control and Networking Facilitated Distributed Computing Framework‘ (https://impressu.usermd.net/)