Titled ‘Bridging Domains in Large-scale Complex and Critical Systems, 2026 Ed.’, the TechNexus Programme white paper draws on findings from the FORECAST workshop on functional technologies and STEADINESS workshop on systems-level technologies at HiPEAC 2026 in Kraków.
The white paper makes a series of high-level recommendations. For functional technologies, these are as follows:
- Position Europe's regulatory depth as a strategic advantage for scaling high-precision AI across industry.
- Support open source as strategic infrastructure for cyber-physical systems, with explicit governance for safety certification.
- Federate EU AI policy with industrial policy to extend cyber-physical systems applications and associated markets.
For systems-level technologies, the paper makes the following recommendations:
- Make automation itself a first-class engineering subject.
- Innovate how we innovate, in light of AI-enabled engineering.
- Build trust through concrete, high-value evidence.
The white paper’s authors are Adam McKay, Octavian Fratu, Géza Kulcsár, Bernd Westphal, and Charles Robinson. This work is supported by ARROWHEAD and HiPEAC.
