The IEEE SWEBOK Summit 2025 will be held Tuesday April 29th, 2025 as part of ICSE2025
The SWEBOK Summit is a premier industry-focused event, bringing together practitioners, researchers, and educators from the SE communities to collaborate, share experiences and challenges, and provide future research directions on the body of knowledge (particularly the IEEE-CS’s Guide to the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge; SWEBOK Guide), skills, and competencies required for current and future SE professionals, as well as related professional training and certifications.
The Summit also encourages using the latest SWEBOK Guide V4 to address SE-specific challenges. In addition to keynotes, panels, and invited tutorials, the event will feature selected presentations on SE bodies of knowledge, skills, competencies, certifications, and related topics.
For this summit only, there will be no registration fee.
Speakers
Hironori Washizaki, IEEE Computer Society 2025 President, Professor and Associate Dean of Research Promotion Division, Waseda University: Introduction the Guide to the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge
Steve Tockey, Principal Consultant, Construx Software: A Framework for Software Engineering Professional Development
Gerd Hoefner, Senior Vice President, Siemens Healthineers: What really matters in software engineering
Rik Essenius, Manager Software Engineering Excellence, Shell International: Driving Software Engineering Maturity at Shell
Deborah Silver, Executive Director, Professional Science Master’s Program, Rutgers University and Stephen Frezza, Director of Software Engineering, Franciscan University of Steubenville: Defining Software Engineering Terms: Comparing SWEBOK to Job Postings
Peter Leather, Director, SFIA Foundation: Practical Application of SFIA in Software Engineering: Complementing SWEBOK with Industry-Driven Skills and Competencies
Marco Tulio Valente, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Federal University of Minas Gerais: Publishing a Software Engineering Textbook: A Journey Inspired on SWEBOK’s Knowledge Areas
Annette Reilly. ISO/IEC/IEEE 24765 editor, Systems and software engineering—Vocabulary: Using Software Engineering Standards with SWEBOK
Alain Abran, Professor Emeritus - École de technologie supérieure - Université du Québec: Measurement Across SWEBOK KAs : Coverage Analysis and Suggestions for Improvements
Panel Discussion
The Development and Usage of Bodies of Knowledge in Software Education
Nancy Mead, Awais Rashid, John Impagliazzo and Bastian Tenbergen
Daniel S. Katz, Chief Scientist, NCSA: Research Software Engineering: A SWEBOK Specialism?
Jari Porras, Professor of Practice, LUT University, Integration of Sustainability into SWEBOK
Ahmed E. Hassan, Canada Research Chair, Queen’s School of Computing Evolving: SWEBoK for the Foundation Model/LLM Era: Embracing FMware & Software Engineering 3.0
**Shaukat Ali ** and Paolo Arcaini: Quantum Software Engineering: Future Trends in Software Engineering Body of Knowledge
Regstering
To register for the SWEBOK Summit, go to the ICSE 2025 Registration page. You do not have to register for any other ICSE activity. On the event choice page, select ‘Tuesday’ and the SWEBOK Summit will appear as an option; there will be no charge when you check out if this is the only activity you choose. You can register for other ICSE2025 activities on other days as well (which do have a fee).
As with all other ICSE 2025 participants, you will be sent discount codes for travel and hotels with your registration form. We request that you use one of the hotel codes by March 25th, since costs are in part being covered through a sponsorship arrangement with Tourism Ottawa and these hotels.