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On May 15, SMARTNESS hosted a technical and institutional visit from ANATEL-CEADI. Led by Eng. João Marcelo Mello da Silva and welcomed by Dr. Eduardo Sartori, the visit included a presentation of SMARTNESS activities, a tour of the laboratories, and a productive exchange on potential synergies in research and development in the field of telecommunications.

Undergraduate students from FEEC/UNICAMP visited the SMARTNESS lab on May 9 for a guided tour of research activities. The visit included a robotics presentation by PhD student Felipe Mota and demonstrations of drone systems and immersive media by PhD students Mauricio Rodriguez and Alan Teixeira da Silva. The activity sparked great interest and strengthened the connection between education and innovation.

Prof. Christian Rothenberg, from FEEC/UNICAMP and Principal Investigator at SMARTNESS, participated in the closing plenary of LACNIC 43 in São Paulo. His talk addressed using artificial intelligence and machine learning in network management, highlighting real-world cases such as YouTube QoE prediction and soft-failure detection in optical networks using network digital twins.

On May 8, Prof. Chrysa Papagianni (University of Amsterdam) delivered a talk in the IA382 – Seminar in Computer Engineering at FEEC/UNICAMP. She presented an AI-native 6G system architecture, highlighting distributed intelligence, real-time decision-making, and dynamic resource management through the DESIRE6G project, offering a vision for the future of mobile networks.

In Episode 4 of the Futurecom Connect podcast, SMARTNESS PhD student Marina Martinelli shares her insights on the future of 5.5G and 6G networks. She highlights the importance of AI-driven data center modernization, edge and fog computing, and sustainable infrastructure to meet the demands of a hyperconnected world. The episode also explores Brazil’s role in global telecom innovation.

On April 24–25, 2025, the Annual Workshop of the CPE SMARTNESS brought together researchers, students, and industry partners at FUNCAMP (UNICAMP) in Campinas. With in-person and online participation, the event featured sessions to define future directions, keynote talks on AI-driven 5G, national and international projects, roundtables with academia and industry, and live tech demos from SMARTNESS teams.

On April 22 and 23, the SMARTNESS Year 02 Bootcamp brought together participants in a hybrid format — online and on-site at UNICAMP — for practical sessions focused on networking technologies, AI/ML, and modern computing tools.

From April 7 to 11th, representatives of CPE Smartness visited Ericsson's headquarters in Stockholm to participate in a schedule of technical activities, knowledge exchange, and in-person discussions about the project's progress. The visit included Professors Christian Rothenberg and Luiz Bittencourt (Unicamp), Fábio Verdi (UFSCar), and researcher Maria Valéria Marquezini Miranda (Ericsson Research Brazil). The team carried out several meetings with researchers from Ericsson Research, covering topics such as Networks, Artificial Intelligence, Computing, and Software. The agenda also included meetings with Smartness project stakeholders and a visit to the Ericsson Imagine Studio.

On April 16, Eduardo Sartori (TT/SMARTNESS) and LEMAC researchers visited INPE (São José dos Campos) to learn about a system for measuring electromagnetic parameters of materials in the microwave range. The visit included tests on materials used in metasurface research and supported the planning of a similar system at LEMAC, with extended capabilities up to 500GHz.

The ERC SMARTNESS celebrates the acceptance of five research papers at SBRC 2025, a leading Brazilian conference on computer networks and distributed systems. These studies involve networking, cloud computing, AI and security, while the topics include stream encryption performance on programmable hardware, volumetric analysis of video quality of experience, ML-based cloud gaming traffic prioritization, quantum GANs for attack detection, and drone delivery evaluations.