IMDEA Software Institute’s Deputy Scientific Director, Manuel Carro, is coorganizer and chair of the Program Committee of the 1st Workshop on Program Transformation for Programmability in Heterogeneous Architectures (PROHA 2016). The workshop will be held March 12, 2016 in Barcelona, as a satellite workshop of CGO, and co-located with prestigious conferences such as HPCA, PPoPP, EuroLLVM, and CC. The workshop focuses on techniques and tools for program synthesis and transformation aiming at supporting the development and maintenance of programs for heterogeneous architectures.