On April 15th, ENACT was pleased to participate in the Interoperability for Enterprise Systems and Applications 2026 Conference – I-ESA 2026, held in Funchal, Madeira. The conference brought together researchers, industry representatives, and innovation stakeholders to discuss the future of Enterprise Interoperability, with particular attention to digital sovereignty, artificial intelligence, sustainable transformation, and secure collaboration across increasingly complex digital ecosystems.
ENACT’s participation in I-ESA 2026 provided an important opportunity to connect the project’s research with broader discussions on interoperable, trustworthy, and sovereign digital infrastructures. As modern enterprises and public organizations rely on increasingly distributed systems, the ability to securely exchange data, services, and software components across technological and organizational boundaries becomes a critical enabler of innovation.
Representing the project, Ioanna Kapetanidou presented the paper “An Object Space for Secure and Sovereign Sharing of Reusable Code Objects”. The work reflects one of the core ambitions of ENACT: enabling more intelligent, distributed, and interoperable environments across the Cognitive Computing Continuum, where software components, data, services, and resources can be shared and orchestrated in a secure, sovereign, and reusable way.
The paper is closely aligned with ENACT’s broader technical vision, particularly its work on secure and sovereign distributed data and object storage, application development support, and reusable software artefacts. Within the ENACT ecosystem, these capabilities are essential to support the development and deployment of hyper-distributed applications, while maintaining control, trust, and interoperability across the edge-cloud continuum.
By addressing the secure and sovereign sharing of reusable code objects, the contribution presented at I-ESA 2026 also connects with wider European priorities around data governance, digital sovereignty, and open, interoperable infrastructures. This is especially relevant in contexts where software artefacts must be exchanged between different actors, reused across environments, and integrated into complex deployment workflows without compromising trust, ownership, or operational security.
Events such as I-ESA are key opportunities to position ENACT’s research within larger conversations on enterprise interoperability, open architectures, and the future of digital infrastructures. They also help strengthen the project’s visibility in communities that are directly concerned with how organizations, systems, and technologies can collaborate more effectively across domains, sectors, and geographies.
ENACT would like to thank Ioanna Kapetanidou for presenting this work on behalf of the project, as well as all co-authors — Christos Diamantakis, Gabriel Danciu, Alexandros Nizamis, Septimiu Nechifor, Usman Wajid, Konstantinos Votis and Mihnea Lopataru — for their valuable contribution to this research.
Through this participation, ENACT continues to disseminate its results, engage with relevant scientific and industrial communities, and contribute to the development of secure, sovereign, and interoperable solutions for the next generation of distributed digital systems.