The traditional scope of the PATMOS conference series has mainly been about and around the design of circuits and architectures optimized for highest performance at lowest power consumption. But meanwhile, power-efficiency has become extremely important for many more areas spreading far beyond this traditional R&D niche. Energy-efficient ICT (Information and Communication Technology) infrastructures are a key issue of local and global economies. It is the intention of PATMOS 2016 to think beyond current solutions such that the very wide gap between computation and the massive energy consumption for ICT infrastructures can be closed.