As the microelectronics industry is moving towards many-core processors, new opportunities and new challenges raise for high performance computing in the embedded domain. HIP3ES aims at providing a high-quality forum to bring together researchers and practitioners to present new results and ongoing work on all aspects related to high-performance and energy efficient embedded systems. We welcome theoretical and experimental papers, academic and industrial research, rock-solid and preliminary results, experience reports on existing techniques/technologies and wild new ideas, with the goal to build a lively workshop, to initiate collaborations and to inspire new advances.