ELASTIC Newsletter #4: Project Highlights and Achievements (June 2025–May 2026)

This issue of the ELASTIC Newsletter highlights the project's progress and achievements from June 2025 to May 2026. ELASTIC is advancing secure, efficient, and scalable orchestration for next-generation 6G networks by leveraging WebAssembly, eBPF, confidential computing, and distributed service management.

Key highlights in this edition include:

• Mid-Term Reporting (RP1): Successful completion of the first reporting period, with strong progress across research, technical development, demonstrator preparation, dissemination, standardisation, and exploitation activities.
• Consortium Meeting in Chania (Sep 2025): Hosted by the Technical University of Crete, focused on review preparation and alignment across partners.
• Consortium Meeting in Lund (Jan 2026): Accelerating integration across the secure orchestration stack, with discussions on remote attestation, confidential workload execution, edge AI integration, and policy-driven security orchestration.
• Demo Series: Showcasing key technologies including Demonstrator 1 (Smart Connected Factory), Demonstrator 2 MVP (Sensitive IT Service Migration to Public Cloud), Propeller (lightweight WebAssembly-based orchestration), and Wasm-operator (efficient Kubernetes orchestration).
• Events & Webinars: Participation in the Women in ICT Standardisation Webinar (5th Edition) and a joint ELASTIC & 6G-PATH webinar on intelligent orchestration across the edge–cloud continuum.
• Scientific Contributions: Publications at ACISP 2026, ICLR 2026, INFOCOM 2026, Cluster Computing, and Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR), covering topics such as WebAssembly security in confidential computing, graph teaching algorithms, split learning optimisation, mobility prediction, and differentially private federated learning.
• EuCNC & 6G Summit 2026: ELASTIC participation at Booth 76 in Málaga, Spain (2–5 June 2026).