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. Kounev. Keynote Talk, 9th International Workshop on Formal Engineering approaches to Software Components and Architectures (FESCA @ ETAPS 2012), Tallinn, Estonia, (March 2012)