Several of LASIGE members have recently been appointed as the main organizers of prestigious conferences in their respective fields:

• Vasco T Vasconcelos has been selected as the General Chair for next year’s edition of POPL, the most influential international conference in the area of programming languages.
• Teresa Chambel has been appointed as a General Chair for this year’s edition of ACM TVX, the leading international conference for research into online video, TV interaction and user experience.
• Nuno Neves is the General Chair for 2018’s edition of Ada-Europe, a conference on Reliability Software Techniques. António Casimiro, José Rufino and Pedro Ferreira are also part of the organization as Program, Industrial and Publication chairs respectively.
• Francisco Martins has also been selected as a General Chair for INFORUM 2018, the main Computer Science event in Portugal.