20th European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA 2026)

The European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA) is the premier European venue for software architecture, offering researchers, practitioners, and educators a platform to present and discuss the latest, most innovative, and impactful findings and experiences in the field. The 20th edition of ECSA (ECSA 2026) will take place from September 7 to 11, 2026 in Bolzano, Italy.

Here is the ECSA 2026 program at a glance.

The conference serves as a crucial forum for researchers to establish collaborations, coordinate ongoing work, and align on emerging challenges in software architecture; therefore, personal attendance is mandatory.

As in previous editions, ECSA 2026 will feature an industry track alongside the main program. The conference will also include tool presentations and demonstrations of cutting-edge developments in software architecture, invited presentations of journal articles, and a series of co-located workshops. PhD researchers will have the opportunity to discuss their projects with senior experts in the field as part of the Doctoral Symposium. In addition, an Open Science track will allow researchers to review, promote, share, and catalog the research artifacts associated with accepted papers.

ECSA 2026 will also bring together several co-located events, including ASISAS, CASA@ECSA2026, IDEA-ARCH, and ESOCC. Together, they broaden the conference program with focused discussions on secure and intelligent agentic systems, context-aware and autonomous architectures, data-driven software architecture, and service-oriented and cloud computing.

New this year, ECSA 2026 introduces a Registered Reports Track to encourage researchers to submit their research plans for peer review and acceptance before the results are known. This model promotes transparency, reduces publication bias, and supports rigorous, hypothesis-driven research.

We look forward to welcoming the software architecture community to Bolzano for a week of research, discussion, collaboration, and exchange.