ICSE 2026
Sun 12 - Sat 18 April 2026 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
VenueWindsor Convention Center and Hotels
Room namePlenary (Asia II + III + Hall)
Floor3
Room InformationNo extra information available
Program

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Wed 15 Apr

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09:00 - 10:40
Wednesday Morning PlenaryMain Plenaries at Plenary (Asia II + III + Hall)

This will be the first plenary session of the main conference.

  • Introduction by General Co-Chairs and overview of logistics and social aspects.
  • Welcome by Diamond Sponsor Huawei.
  • Overview of the technical program and the reviewing process by the Program Chairs.
  • Keynote session by Jan Bosch.
  • Keynote session by Qinghua Lu.
09:00
15m
Day opening
Welcome to ICSE 2026
Main Plenaries
Marcos Kalinowski Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Rafael Prikladnicki School of Technology at PUCRS University
09:15
15m
Talk
Overview of the Program from the Program Chairs
Main Plenaries
Mira Mezini TU Darmstadt; hessian.AI; National Research Center for Applied Cybersecurity ATHENE, Thomas Zimmermann University of California, Irvine
09:30
35m
Keynote
Jan Bosch Keynote: Towards an Awesome AI-driven Future for Software Engineering
Main Plenaries
Jan Bosch Chalmers University of Technology
10:05
35m
Keynote
Qinghua Lu Keynote: AI Engineering: From Software-Centric Systems to AIware-Centric Systems
Main Plenaries
Qinghua Lu Data61, CSIRO
11:00 - 12:30
Panel - SE.next: In the Agentic TrenchesPanels and Special Sessions at Plenary (Asia II + III + Hall)
11:00
90m
Panel
SE.next: In the Agentic Trenches
Panels and Special Sessions
Ahmed E. Hassan Queen’s University
14:00 - 15:30
Wednesday Afternoon Awards PlenaryMain Plenaries at Plenary (Asia II + III + Hall)

This will be the second plenary session of the main conference (Awards session)

  • IEEE Computer Society Harlan D. Mills.
  • ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Awards.
  • Most Influential Paper Awards for ICSE.
  • SRC Awards
  • Distinguished Reviewers Awards
14:00
10m
Day opening
Opening by the Awards Chairs
Main Plenaries
Ipek Ozkaya Carnegie Mellon University, Stefan Wagner Technical University of Munich
14:10
30m
Talk
IEEE Computer Society Harlan D. Mills Award and Talk by Andreas Zeller: Should Computer Scientists Experiment Less? On the past, present, and future of software engineering research
Main Plenaries
Andreas Zeller CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security
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14:40
30m
Awards
Most influential Paper ICSE N-10 Award and Talk for: Automatically learning semantic features for defect prediction
Main Plenaries
Song Wang York University, Taiyue Liu Liu University of Waterloo, Lin Tan Purdue University
DOI
15:10
20m
Talk
Student Research Competition Awards and Distinguished Reviewer Awards
Main Plenaries

16:00 - 16:45
Wednesday Afternoon Awards Plenary 2Main Plenaries at Plenary (Asia II + III + Hall)

This will be the third plenary session of the main conference, including the TCSE and SigSoft Career and Distinguished Awards.

16:00
45m
Awards
TCSE and SigSoft Career and Distinguished Awards
Main Plenaries
Ipek Ozkaya Carnegie Mellon University, Stefan Wagner Technical University of Munich

Thu 16 Apr

Displayed time zone: Brasilia, Distrito Federal, Brazil change

08:45 - 10:40
Thursday Morning PlenaryMain Plenaries at Plenary (Asia II + III + Hall)

This will be the fourth plenary session of the main conference ( Second part of the Awards session).

  • ICSE Distinguished Paper.
  • SRC Awards.
  • Keynote session by Laurie Williams.
  • Keynote session by Silvio Meira.
08:45
45m
Awards
ICSE Distinguished Paper
Main Plenaries
Ipek Ozkaya Carnegie Mellon University, Stefan Wagner Technical University of Munich
09:30
35m
Keynote
Laurie Williams Keynote: What We’ve Learned By Actually Talking to Practitioners about Software Supply Chain Security (and How we Do it)
Main Plenaries
Laurie Williams North Carolina State University
10:05
35m
Keynote
Silvio Meira Keynote: Adaptive Interventionist Method (AIM): Rethinking Research Methodologies for Software Engineering and Interventionist Sciences in the Phygital Age
Main Plenaries
Silvio Meira TDS.company
11:00 - 12:30
Panel - SE.next: Research in the Agentic EraPanels and Special Sessions at Plenary (Asia II + III + Hall)
11:00
90m
Panel
SE.next: Research in the Agentic Era
Panels and Special Sessions
Ahmed E. Hassan Queen’s University
14:00 - 15:30
Panel - Technical Debt in the AI EraPanels and Special Sessions at Plenary (Asia II + III + Hall)

Panelists:

Dr. Dongmei Zhang, Heiko Koziolek, David Lo , Dr. Markus Borg, Margaret-Anne Storey.

14:00
90m
Panel
Technical Debt in the AI Era
Panels and Special Sessions
Paris Avgeriou University of Groningen, The Netherlands, Ipek Ozkaya Carnegie Mellon University
16:00 - 17:30
16:00
90m
Meeting
TCSE and SIGSOFT Town Hall
Meetings and BOF Events
Federica Sarro University College London, Marsha Chechik University of Toronto

Fri 17 Apr

Displayed time zone: Brasilia, Distrito Federal, Brazil change

09:00 - 10:40
Friday Morning PlenaryMain Plenaries at Plenary (Asia II + III + Hall)

This will be the last plenary session of the main conference.

  • Final thanks by General Co-Chairs.
  • Welcome to the next ICSE editions in Ireland (2027), Hawaii (2028), and Japan (2029).
  • Keynote session by Alexander Serebrenik.
  • Keynote session by Virgilio Almeida.
09:00
10m
Day opening
Final thanks from the ICSE 2026 organizers
Main Plenaries
Marcos Kalinowski Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Rafael Prikladnicki School of Technology at PUCRS University
09:10
12m
Talk
Introduction to ICSE 2027 in Ireland
Main Plenaries
Brian Fitzgerald Lero - The Irish Software Research Centre and University of Limerick, Liliana Pasquale University College Dublin & Lero
09:22
5m
Talk
Introduction to ICSE 2028 in Hawaii
Main Plenaries
Rick Kazman University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
09:27
3m
Talk
Introduction to ICSE 2029 in Japan
Main Plenaries
Hironori Washizaki Waseda University
09:30
35m
Keynote
Alexander Serebrenik Keynote: Beyond chasing the medals: software development as an Olympic sport
Main Plenaries
Alexander Serebrenik Eindhoven University of Technology
10:05
35m
Keynote
Virgilio Almeida Keynote: Governing Software and Algorithms as Institutions
Main Plenaries
Virgilio Almeida Federal University of Minas Gerais
11:00 - 12:30
Panel - SE.next: Raising the Agentic EngineerPanels and Special Sessions at Plenary (Asia II + III + Hall)
11:00
90m
Panel
SE.next: Raising the Agentic Engineer
Panels and Special Sessions
Ahmed E. Hassan Queen’s University
14:00 - 15:30
Panel - Future of Software Engineering: Toward a Healthy Software Engineering CommunityPanels and Special Sessions at Plenary (Asia II + III + Hall)
14:00
90m
Panel
Future of Software Engineering: Toward a Healthy Software Engineering Community
Panels and Special Sessions
Margaret-Anne Storey University of Victoria, Andre van der Hoek University of California, Irvine
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