We invite you to join our upcoming tutorial session on the topic of “Orchestrating Hierarchical Federated Learning Pipelines with AIoTwin Middleware” at the 15th International Conference on the Internet of Things, taking place November 19-21, 2025 in Vienna, Austria.
About the tutorial
This hands-on tutorial introduces Hierarchical Federated Learning (HFL) across the computing continuum. Participants will:
- Learn the fundamentals of Federated Learning (FL) and its extension to HFL
- Gain hands-on experience with the Flower framework for FL
- Explore the AIoTwin middleware components for scalable orchestration of HFL pipelines across heterogeneous edge–fog–cloud infrastructures
Prerequisites for the tutorial participation
- Basic knowledge of Python
- Familiarity with machine learning concepts (helpful, not mandatory)
- Laptop with terminal for SSH + Postman installed
What you will learn
- Practical experience with FL and HFL pipeline deployment
- Knowledge of orchestration, resource management, and runtime reconfiguration
- Access to distributed clusters (VMs & K3s nodes)
For more information, you can find the hands-on instructions on our GitHub repository:
- Hands-on part 1: https://github.com/AIoTwin/fl-service/tree/tutorial
- Hands-on part 2: https://github.com/AIoTwin/fl-orchestrator/blob/aiotwin-tutorial/tutorial
Organizers: Ivan Čilić (ivan.cilic@fer.hr), Ana Petra Jukić (ana-petra.jukic@fer.hr), Katarina Vuknić (katarina.vuknic@fer.hr) and Ivana Podnar Žarko (ivana.podnar@fer.hr) from Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing (FER), University of Zagreb, Croatia.