S. Kounev. Invited Talk, Jahrestreffen des Beirates der Universitätsprofessoren in der Gesselschaft für Informatik (GIBU), Schloss Dagstuhl, (April 2011)
S. Kounev. Keynote Talk, Open Excellence Workshop on Önline Models for Quality-of-Service and Resource Management in Modern IT Systems" organized by the "RELATE" FP7 Marie Curie Initial Training Network (ITN), Karlsruhe, Germany, (December 2012)
S. Kounev. Invited Talk (Kolloquiumsvortrag), Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany, (July 2012)
S. Kounev. (June 2023)https://www.sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/landkreismuenchen/garching-leibniz-rechenzentrum-deutsches-zentrum-fuer-luft-und-raumfahrt-erdbeobachtungsdaten-terrabyte-1.5933991.
S. Kounev. Informatik-Sonderkolloquium "Engineering Software for Decentralized Systems", Fakultät für Informatik, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany, (July 2019)
S. Kounev. Invited Talk, Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany, (July 2015)
S. Kounev. Keynote Talk at the 4th International Workshop on Large-Scale Testing (LT 2015), co-located with ICPE 2015, Austin, TX, USA, (February 2015)
S. Kounev. Keynote Talk at the 4th International Workshop on Large-Scale Testing (LT 2015), co-located with ICPE 2015, Austin, TX, USA, February 1, 2015, (February 2015)
S. Herrnleben. (February 2018)<b>Invited Talk for Best Master Thesis Award 2018 of GI/ITG Conference on Measurement, Modelling and Evaluation of Computing Systems (MMB).</b>.
S. Kounev. Keynote Talk, 9th International Workshop on Formal Engineering approaches to Software Components and Architectures (FESCA @ ETAPS 2012), Tallinn, Estonia, (March 2012)
S. Kounev. Invited Talk (Kolloquiumsvortrag), University of Edinburgh, Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, School of Informatics, Edinburgh, UK, (May 2007)
S. Kounev. Invited Talk, Department of Software Engineering, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, (January 2008)
S. Kounev. Konferenz des Alumni-Netzwerks Ukraine-Deutschland, Nationale Taras-Schewtschenko-Universität Kiew, May 29, 2018, Kyiv, Ukraine, (May 2018)
S. Kounev. Keynote Talk at the 24th International Conference on Analytical & Stochastic Modelling Techniques & Applications (ASMTA 2017), Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK, July 10-12, 2017, (July 2017)
S. Kounev. Technical Talk at the Symposium on Software Performance (SOSP 2014), Joint Descartes/Kieker/Palladio Days (Joint Developer and Community Meeting), Stuttgart, Germany, (November 2014)