The 41th AIK Symposium will take place in Karlsruhe on the afternoon of November 6, 2026. This year's symposium is being co-organized by the SECUSO research group and the human-centered systems lab (h-lab). The title of this year's symposium is "Menschenzentrierte Informatikforschung" (Human Centered Compuer Science Research). In addition to presentations on the topic, there will also be time for networking and exchange. The symposium is organized once a year by the Verein Angewandte Informatik Karlsruhe e.V. (AIK). This year's event is expected to take place online and in person at the Novotel Karlsruhe City. The full program and registration information will be available on the website in due course.

On Sunday, 17th May 2026, Mattia Mossano presented his and Maxime Veit, Tobias Länge, Benjamin Berens, Filipo Sharevski, and Melanie Volkamer's paper "Development, Evaluation, and Implementation of SEQR -- a Usable Secure QR code Scanner" at the PostCHI26 event of the IDC School of Design of Mumbai. The PostCHI event is a curated deep dive into the top papers, trends and innovations from the ACM CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2026).

On March 31st, 20206, Mattia Mossano attended the Festschrift Symposium for Professor Angela Sasse on behalf of the SECUSO research group. He presented the paper "Guidelines for Usable Security Interventions" by Benjamin Berens, Mattia Mossano, Maxime Veit, Anne Hennig, and Melanie Volkamer. In total, 85 current and former students, collaborators, colleagues and friends came together at University College London to celebrate 35 years of Angela Sasse at UCL, at a Festschrift Symposium recognising and celebrating her contributions to the field of Computer Science and human-centred security. Papers published in the "Festschrift" can be found on the website or in the Festschrift that is available on Amazon.

Anne Hennig supports the program committee of the Conference on Sociotechnical Cybersecurity and Privacy (SCP2026). SCP is a new conference, formed by merging two well-established and successful venues in the area of sociotechnical, user-centric security and privacy: EuroUSEC (European Symposium on Usable Security) and STAST (International Workshop on Socio-Technical Aspects in Security). Peter Mayer and Melanie Volkamer also support the conference as members of the steering committee. Papers for SCP 2026 must be registered by May 20, 2026, and submissions are accepted until May 25, 2026. Accepted papers will be published through IEEE. SCP 2026 will take place September 2nd and 3rd, 2026 in Belval, Luxembourg.