Dear colleagues,

Since childhood, I have dreamed of visiting New Zealand and exploring distant countries and continents. This year, I had the opportunity to be part of the 40th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA 2026), hosted by Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. The conference was held in a hybrid format, and I participated remotely via Zoom. I presented my paper, “Sleptsov Net Virtual Machine Implementation on GPU,” during the AINA-S26 session. The presentation was followed by a productive discussion, with particular interest in the proposed novel approach for efficiently selecting fireable transitions within a net extended with priority arcs. I would like to sincerely thank the CAKE team for supporting my research. I look forward to seeing you all at future conference venues.

Best wishes,

Tatiana R. Shmeleva.