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09:00 - 10:00	POVC KeynotePOVC 2026 at Forum 16

09:00 60m Keynote		LLM-Driven Requirements Engineering: Automating Dependencies, Regulatory Tracing, and Impact Analysis POVC 2026 Lionel Briand University of Ottawa, Canada; Lero centre, University of Limerick, Ireland

10:30 - 12:30	Paper Session 1POVC 2026 at Forum 16

10:30 30m Talk		Prompts Matter: On the Impact of Code Smell Remediation with Large Language Models POVC 2026 Nadim Hagatulah Lund University, Markus Borg CodeScene, Emma Söderberg Lund University
11:00 30m Talk		Geometry-Aware Prompt Context for Model Consistency Management POVC 2026 Monalisha Ojha University of Mannheim, Shilpi Gupta University of Mannheim, Rahul Sharma Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
11:30 30m Talk		Agent4RE: A Self-refining Multi-agent Framework for End-to-End Software Requirements Engineering and Benchmarking POVC 2026 Yongjian Tang Siemens AG, Germany, Linhan Li Technical University of Munich, Thomas Runkler Siemens AG Link to publication DOI Pre-print
12:00 30m Talk		Prompt Pipelines as Engineered Artifacts: Regression-Testing a Multi-Agent Threat-Modeling Pipeline POVC 2026 Eldar Mametov Innopolis University, Andrey Sadovykh Softeam, Eugene Zouev Innopolis University, Alberto Sillitti Centre for Applied Software Engineering

14:00 - 16:00	POVC Paper Session 2POVC 2026 at Forum 16

14:00 30m Talk		VibeCheck - Assessing the Quality of LLM-Generated Unit Tests: A Multi-Agent Empirical Study Across Heterogeneous Repositories POVC 2026 Anika Tabassum University of Dhaka, Intesum Mushahid University of Dhaka, Md. Fahim Arefin University of Dhaka, Tarannum Shaila Zaman University of Maryland Baltimore County
14:30 30m Talk		TurnCost: Turns, Not Observations—Cache-Aware Loop Engineering for Coding Agents POVC 2026 Pramod Kumar The Pennsylvania State University, Raj Kumar Pandey The Pennsylvania State University
15:00 30m Talk		Towards Trace-Guided Automated Program Repair POVC 2026 David Georg Reichelt Lancaster University Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, Shinhyung Yang Kiel University, Wilhelm Hasselbring Kiel University DOI
15:30 30m Talk		Ranking Is Not Authority: Executable Context-Routing Contracts for Coding Agents POVC 2026 Nikhil Mahesh None

16:30 - 17:30	POVC 2026 at Forum 16

16:30 30m Talk		Your Prompt Is Only Half the Prompt: Silent Chat-Template Drift in Open-Weight Model Repositories POVC 2026 Simarjot Khanna Independent Researcher

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