Prof. José D. Martín and Prof. Emilio Soria recently participated in the organization of a special session at ESANN 2017, held in Bruges (Belgium) from 26th to 28th April. The session was entitled “Randomized Machine Learning approaches: analysis and developments” (https://www.elen.ucl.ac.be/esann/index.php?pg=specsess#random) and was organized in collaboration with Drs. Claudio Gallicchio and Alessio MIcheli, from the University of Pisa.