More details will become available as the program develops. The following is a brief outline:

Day by day plan

Sunday-April 27 to Tuesday April 29

• 12 Co-located conferences (see below)
• 32 Workshops (click here for a list)

Tuesday April 29

In addition to workshops and co-located conferences as above:

• Tutorial 1 (morning) Quantum Software Testing

• Tutorial 2 (afternoon) Social, Legal, Ethical, Empathetic and Cultural Requirements: from Elicitation to Verification

• Doctoral Symposium

• New Faculty Symposium

• Student Mentoring Workshop

• SWEBOK Summit

• Newcomer Reception 5:30-7:30

• BOF sessions and meetings 7-10

Wednesday April 30 to Friday May 2

Main conference in general:

• 9:30-10:30 Keynotes

• Panels

• Paper presentations from all main tracks (Research track, SEIP, SEIS, NIER, Journal First, Demos, Industry Challenge

• Technical briefings

• Special meetings during lunch periods

• Networking events during breaks and lunch periods)

Wednesday April 30 special events

• 8-8:45 a.m. Meditation with Laurie Williams
• 2-3:30 p.m. Awards and presentations by awardees: Harlan Mills award to Bashar Nusibeh; SIGSOFT Outstanding Research aeward to Martin Binard; Most Infuential Paper N-10 award TBD. Plus various other awards.
• 7-10 p.m. Reception at the National Arts Centre

Thursday May 1 special events

• 7-8 a.m.: Early morning run
• 4-5:30 p.m. TCSE and SIGSOFT Town Hall
• 4-6 p.m. Soccer game
• 7-10 p.m.: Sit-down banquet at the Rogers Centre

Saturday May 3

• Additional workshops
• Symposium on Software Engineering in the Global South (SEiGS)

Colocated conferences

These run in parallel with workshops and certain other events from Sunday to Tuesday.

Sun Apr 27 (one day). Both of these had been two-days but were shortened.

• ICSR (Software Reuse)
• MOBILESoft (Mobile SE and Systems)

Sun Apr 27+Mon Apr 28 (two days)

• CAIN (SE for Artificial Intelligence)
• ICPC (Program Comprehension)
• CHASE (Cooperative and Human Aspects of SE)
• TechDebt (Technical Debt)
• FormalISE (Formal Methods)
• Forge (AI Foundation Models)

Mon Apr 28+Tue Apr 29 (two days)

• SEAMS (Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems)
• CSEE&T (Software Engineering Education)
• MSR (Mining Software Repositories)
• AST (Automation of Software Test)

Daily schedule

7-8 on Thursday: ICSE run

8 a.m. Registration opens (7:30 on Wednesday)

9-10:30 session 1 (Mon-Wed+Sat parallel sessions; Wed-Fri Announcements and keynotes)

10:30-11 break

11-12:30 Session 2 (about 12 parallel sessions)

12:30-14:00 lunch. Includes various special lunchtime evnts.

14:00-15:30 Session 3 (about 12 parallel sessions most days)

15:30-16:00 break

16:00-17:30 Session 4 (about 12 parallel sessions most days)

19:00 Evening events some days (including Wed reception; Thu banquet)