Maxim Chernyshev and his team received the Best Paper Award at EAI ICDF2C 2025 for their innovative use of large language models (LLMs) in digital forensics. Their research demonstrates how AI can assist investigations while addressing the challenges of compromised systems. In this article, he shares key insights, findings, and practical implications from the award-winning study.

What happens when the systems we build to enhance our own productivity become targets themselves? That question drove our team including Zubair Baig, Naeem Syed, Robin Doss, Malcolm Shore, and myself, to explore how large language models (LLMs) could enhance and streamline digital investigations of compromised LLM systems. Our work earned the Best Paper Award at EAI ICDF2C 2025, but more importantly, it opened conversations about the future of AI-assisted digital forensics.

As the academic community begins looking toward 2026, many researchers are reviewing the familiar EAI conferences they follow each year alongside other well-established events in our portfolio. These returning conferences continue to offer reliable venues for presenting new work, meeting collaborators, and keeping pace with developments across ICT and related fields.

To support early calendar planning for the coming year, we have brought together a diverse selection of EAI conferences scheduled for 2026 – well-known annual gatherings as well as other consistently active events that draw strong international participation.

The European Alliance for Innovation (EAI) proudly presents the 2025 EAI Fellows, a distinguished group of academics, researchers, and innovators recognized for their exceptional contributions to the EAI community, and strengthening society’s mission to advance global ICT research and innovation.

The EAI Fellows Program honors individuals who have made sustained and influential contributions to research, innovation, and community-building within the EAI ecosystem. Fellows are selected for their leadership in conferences, publications, and collaborative initiatives that support EAI’s mission of fostering open, community-driven scientific progress.

Each Fellow has demonstrated meaningful impact across disciplines and activities that accelerated international collaboration. We invite you to explore this year’s honorees and celebrate their role in driving academic excellence.

In 2025, European Alliance for Innovation expanded its open access journal portfolio with six new EAI Endorsed Transactions, reflecting key developments across digital transformation, intelligent communication, healthcare networks, smart business systems, broadcasting technologies, and transportation and ocean engineering. These additions strengthen EAI’s role as a global publishing platform for applied ICT, engineering, and interdisciplinary research.

The newly launched titles join a broad and well-established selection of EAI journals covering diverse research domains, from core communication and computing technologies to emerging application fields. Together, this growing portfolio supports wide thematic coverage, international collaboration, and accessible dissemination of peer-reviewed research.

Attending academic conferences is an essential part of research life. Among the various ways to share your work, presenting a poster offers unique benefits. Poster presentations allow researchers to showcase their findings, receive feedback, and connect with peers – all while often being more cost-effective than full conference registration.

If you are wondering why present a poster at a conference, this guide will explain the purpose, advantages, and best practices for poster sessions.

We are introducing a new open-access journal focusing on topics that bridge business, innovation, and digital transformation.

The annual Publication Integrity Week highlights the importance of fairness, transparency, and accessibility in research. At EAI, these values guide our (not only) publishing practices, ensuring that researchers from all regions and backgrounds can contribute to and benefit from the global scientific community.

This November, Dubai becomes the meeting point for artists, technologists, designers, and researchers from across the globe. EAI ArtsIT 2025 will offer three unforgettable days of keynotes, talks, papers, performances, and networking – all at the intersection of art, creativity, and innovation in interactive technologies.

For over a decade, Lucia Knapčíková has guided the EAI MMS conference, shaping it into a hub of innovation and collaboration. As Vice-Dean for International Relations and Mobility at the Faculty of Manufacturing Technologies (Technical University of Košice, Slovakia), she was recently honored with the Recognition for Outstanding Leadership Award from EAI President. In this interview, she reflects on leadership, community, and the passion that drives her work in science.

The team behind ASCENT was recognized with the Best Paper Award at EAI BlockTEA 2025 for their innovative approach to smart contract testing. In this article, Filippo Lampa takes readers behind the scenes of the research and shares insights from the award-winning presentation at the conference.