Call For Workshop

The FLTA 2025 Conference invites researchers, students, and professionals to submit workshop proposals showcasing their latest work and innovations. The conference will be held in Dubrovnik, Croatia, from October 14th to October 17th, 2025. Topics representing new research areas and directions, such as Federated Learning (FL) and its applications, are highly encouraged.

Workshops should focus on, but are not limited to, the following topics:

• Federated Learning Frameworks
• Federated Learning Aggregation Algorithms
• Federated Learning Applications
• Federated Learning Deployment Architectures
• Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning Techniques
• Federated Learning Communication-Efficiency
• Federated Learning Modelling and Simulation Tools
• Federated Learning Datasets and Benchmarking
• Challenges and Advancements in Federated Learning
• Federated Learning for Emerging Technologies

A workshop proposal should consist of a descriptive proposal that is up to 4 pages in length (IEEE 8.5″ x 11″ two-column format using 10pt fonts) in a single PDF file and must contain the following information:

1. Title of the Workshop.
2. The names, affiliations, phone numbers, and e-mail addresses of the proposed Workshop Organizers. The organizers should consist of at least two persons with a strong track record in the technical issues to be addressed by the workshop.
3. For each organizer, how likely they think it is that they can attend onsite.
4. A brief technical description of the workshop, identification of specific technical issues, topics, planned activities, and justification of the workshop timeliness.
5. Resources required, such as a one-day or half-day workshop, expected number of attendees (room size), whether a panel setup is needed, whether poster boards will be needed, etc.
6. Names of potential PC members and selection process of participants/presenters.
7. A tentative Call for Papers with important dates (submission of papers, notifications, potential program committee members, potential speakers, or keynotes, etc.), particularly describing the nature of contributions sought, and their types (research papers, position papers, short papers, demos, etc).
8. Information about the previous edition of the workshop (if any), including history and frequency of the workshop, previous conference co-locations, URLs, if available, and approximate attendance.
9. A short biography of each organizer highlighting their expertise and prior experience in workshops and/or similar events.

Acceptance will be based on an evaluation of the potential of the workshop for generating valuable results, encouraging and fostering interactions among participants during the workshop, the timeliness of and the expected interest in the topic, and the proposers’ ability to lead a successful workshop.

Organizers are expected to perform additional advertising in related communities outside the main FLTA community, create and maintain the workshop website, arrange for the collection and refereeing of submissions, and coordinate the collection and delivery of camera-ready material and copyright transfers.

Please submit your workshop proposals via email to info@flta-conference.org with the subject line "Workshop Proposal - [Your Title]" by May 30, 2025. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by June 15, 2025.