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The IEEE GRSS Austrian Chapter invites all chapter members and interested participants to attend the 2026 General Assembly. The meeting will provide an overview of chapter activities, achievements, financial status, and planned initiatives for the coming year. It will also offer an opportunity for members to contribute ideas, discuss future directions, and strengthen collaboration within the Austrian geoscience and remote sensing community. Date: 11 November 2026 Time: 5:00 PM CET Format: Hybrid Venue: Z_GIS Meeting Room Z_GIS – Department of Geoinformatics Schillerstraße 30 5020 Salzburg, Austria Online Participation: Microsoft Teams Meeting Meeting ID: 319 489 110 927 273 All IEEE GRSS members and interested participants are welcome to attend.

November 11, 2026

5:00 PM

Schillerstraße 30 5020 Salzburg, Austria

Earth Observation (EO) data cubes provide a powerful framework for organizing and analyzing large-scale geospatial data across space and time. Semantic EO data cubes enable additional data access and analysis methods for spatio-temporal analysis, supporting a variety of downstream tasks such as environmental monitoring and decision-making. This webinar will explore recent advances, methods, and applications of semantic Earth Observation data cubes.

November 11, 2026

4:00 PM

Schillerstraße 30 5020 Salzburg, Austria

Earth Observation and GeoAI for Climate-Resilient Urban Systems is an advanced school designed to equip the next generation of researchers, practitioners, and decision-makers with state-of-the-art Earth Observation (EO), geospatial artificial intelligence (GeoAI), and data fusion methodologies to analyze, quantify, and mitigate climate-driven risks and effects in urban systems. Within this framework, climate-resilient Urban Systems are understood as complex socio-technical systems composed of buildings, critical infrastructure, transportation networks, public spaces, and human communities. The program emphasizes how Earth Observation (EO), multi-sensor data fusion (including optical, SAR, and microwave EO), geospatial artificial intelligence (GeoAI), and participatory sensing can be integrated to strengthen urban resilience under conditions of climate change and multi-hazard exposure. The school combines expert lectures, structured hands-on laboratories, and a Digital City Studio living-lab experience to advanced EO analytics, GeoAI model development, and operational decision-making contexts. Participants will work with satellite imagery (Sentinel, Landsat, SAR, microwave missions), airborne data, in-situ measurements, geo-social media data and human-generated datasets using open-source tools and AI-driven methodologies to develop scalable scalable, explainable, and transferable workflows for urban risk intelligence, infrastructure vulnerability assessment, and climate perception analysis.

October 14, 2026

9:00 AM

Freistädter Str. 400, OG1 4040 Linz Linz, Oberosterreich Austria 4040

Power Electronics is one of the key technologies for the energy transition. Two of Austria’s largest research centers for electronic systems – AIT Austrian Institute of Technology and Silicon Austria Labs (SAL) have joined forces to organize this event as a meeting point for industry and academia in central Europe. The Power Electronics for Energy Transition Symposium will focus on newest technology for Medium-voltage power electronics, Grid-forming systems (AC and DC), Electrification of industrial processes and E-mobility – from Automotive to Aerospace. Topics Medium-voltage power electronics Grid-forming systems (AC and DC) Electrification of industrial processes E-mobility – from Automotive to Aerospace Conference Participation / Call for Abstracts: Link to Call for Abstracts webpage can be found here: Call for Abstracts Both industry and academia are invited to hand in abstracts related to the aforementioned symposium topics for either an Oral or Poster presentation. No final paper submission required. Deadline to submit your contribution: 4th May 2026 Notification of acceptance/rejection: 15th June 2026 Contributions will NOT be published on IEEE Xplore Exhibition: A table-top-exhibition will accompany the event. Sponsoring: There are attractive sponsorship packages available for companies or organizations (more information can be found here: Sponsorship Opportunites). Registration and ticket options Early bird tickets until 30th June 2026, excl. VAT Industry: €280 (regular €350) Academia, Associations, other: €210 (regular €260) Student: €110 (regular €150) Conference registration link: Registration Official website for more details: Power Electronics for Energy Transition Symposium

September 29, 2026

9:00 AM

Schlossallee 8, 1140 Vienna, Austria; DoubleTree by Hilton Vienna Schönbrunn

The conference focuses on power system dynamics with a special emphasis on weak grids. The expected contributions include dynamic power system modelling and simulation, case studies, measurement results from field tests and more. An exemplary but not exhaustive list of subtopics is given in the following: • Characterization and definition of weak grids • Frequency stability in low inertia grids • Transient voltage stability • Dynamics of microgrids • Control strategies for microgrids • Converter-related dynamics and stability • Fault-ride-through behavior • Power system protection in converter-dominated systems • Intentional and unintentional islanding • Dynamics in grid restoration processes • Role of renewables in grid restoration

September 9, 2026

9:00 AM

Graz, Austria

Shaping the future of sector coupling and energy digitalization in Europe! Following the great success of the previous workshops in Hamburg (2022), Vienna (2023), Stockholm (2024), and Oldenburg (2025), we aim again to bring together European experts once again to exchange insights and create a roadmap on possible trends and research directions for design and operation of digitalized sector-coupled energy systems and sector integration. - Infrastructure: Explore challenges, applications, and best practices in sector coupling and integration at both system and component levels, including pilot projects, energy communities, and innovative technologies. - Stability: Discover advanced methods for modelling dynamics and improving the stability of sector-coupled systems, and learn about new methods and strategies for controlling components and systems to improve stability. - Digitalization: Dive into digital technologies that enable sector coupling and integration, such as AI, digital twins, IoT, communication systems, cloud solutions, and cybersecurity. - Flexibility: Examine system architectures and operational strategies to enhance flexibility management, energy markets, TSO-DSO-Customer coordination, congestion management, etc.

June 18, 2026

12:30 PM

Hamburg, Germany

The IEEE ARSO 2026 aims to bring together experts from various fields to discuss the impact of advanced robotics on individuals, groups and larger social systems.TU Wien, the Austria’s largest research and educational institution in the field of technology and natural sciences.

June 10, 2026

9:00 AM

VIECON – Vienna Congress & Convention Center.

Welcome To ICRA 2026 The Premier Conference in Robotics & Automation

June 1, 2026

9:00 AM

Online Event

Abstract: Most trajectories of energy demand and supply to 2050 anticipate significant new system challenges as we incorporate more low carbon generation, and meet increases in peak demand, driven largely by the extent to which transport and heating become increasingly electrified. At the same time, the energy landscape is changing rapidly with far-reaching implications for the global energy industry and actors. Some changes are already happening. Changes to energy grid management are underway and utility companies are developing commercial platforms that will make it easier for them to trade in flexibility with generators and consumers, even at very small scale. Renewable are also becoming key players. Harvesting renewable energies implies decentralization, where many consumers also become producers, who at times export electricity to the grid. To accommodate large numbers of renewable resources, energy distribution and transmission networks need to be adapted and expanded to avoid network congestion and failures. Flexibility options and services have to be also enabled not only at the supply side but also through responsive loads and suitable means of energy storage to maximize the security of supply and the quality of service in the most efficient way. Accelerating the energy transition also requires a rethinking of electricity markets in many aspects, a key one being the adaptation of their design and operation to support higher shares of variable renewables as well as distributed power generation. This talk covers the aforementioned promising areas in green energy transition and discusses the current and future opportunities and challenges exist in this context. Short Bio: Amjad Anvari-Moghaddam (S’10–M’14–SM’17) is a Full Professor and Leader of the of Intelligent Energy Systems and Flexible Markets (iGRIDS) Research Programme at the Department of Energy (AAU Energy), Aalborg University, where he is the founder and coordinator of the Integrated Energy Systems Laboratory (IES-Lab). His research interests include planning, control and operation management of microgrids, renewable/hybrid power systems and integrated energy systems with appropriate market mechanisms. He serves as an alternate Member of Council for Energy Efficient Transition at the Danish Ministry of Climate, Energy and Utilities, a member of Reference Group 5 “Climate, Energy and Mobility” for Horizon Europe (HE) at the Danish Agency for Education and Research (UFS), a Board Member of Energy Mission at Aalborg University, and the Chair of IEEE Denmark Section. He has authored more than 300 technical articles, 11 books and 23 book chapters in the field. Prof. Anvari-Moghaddam is the Editor-in-Chief of Academia Green Energy journal and serves as the Associate Editor of several leading journals. He is a member of IEC SC/8B- Working Group (WG3 & WG6) as well as Technical Committee Member of several IEEE PES/IES/PELS and CIGRE WGs.

April 24, 2026

10:00 AM

Vienna, Austria