The CC Chair was represented at the 2026 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI), the world's leading event in Computational Intelligence research and applications, held in Maastricht, Netherlands, from June 22 to 26, 2026. WCCI brings together three flagship conferences: the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), the IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, and the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation. At IJCNN 2026, under the Neuromorphic Systems track, Tauseef Ahmed presented his work on "Spiking and Event-driven Neuromorphic Mamba Models for Efficient Speech Recognition." The paper investigates techniques to introduce unstructured sparsity into Mamba-based architectures and explores its benefits for SENECA, the neuromorphic hardware from imec, advancing research in algorithm–hardware co-design.