From April 18-20 2016, Prof. Axel Sikora (HS Offenburg, Germany) and Prof. Chadlia Jerad organized a “Get-together towards a sustainable collaboration in IoT”. The Chair for Compiler Construction contributed with a presentation on “Programming Heterogeneous Embedded Systems for IoT”, where he discussed dataflow-based programming models and their potential role to handle the challenge of programming the highly heterogeneous and distributed systems in the IoT era.