Requirements Engineering 2026
Mon 17 - Fri 21 August 2026 Montreal, Canada
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RE CaresRequirements Engineering 2026

Join Us for the 9th Edition of the RE Cares Event!

What is “RE Cares” and how is it organized?

Since 2018, RE Cares is an established “Software Engineering for Social Good” event collocated with the RE Conference. It is organized as a dynamic and highly interactive event focused on collaborative software development to particularly address the needs of non-profit organizations local to the RE Conference venue.

Over three days, participants act as a team of Requirements Engineers and Software Designers, engaging directly with non-profit stakeholders (our “customers”) to collaboratively gather requirements and create a design specification during our all-day “design-a-thon.” After the conference, a smaller team refines and completes the results developed during this event.

RE Cares@ RE2026

Similar to the previous years, we aim to collaborate with a non-profit stakeholder local to the conference venue in Montreal. Currently, we are still in a planning phase, but we will keep you informed about any updates as well as detailed schedules for the event. A typical structure of the RE Cares based on the previous events looks as follows:

  • Monday, August 17th: “Kick-off” meeting with stakeholders to introduce and discuss the context, motivations, and current state (“as-is scenario”) from the customers’ viewpoint, followed by interactive requirements elicitation and creativity sessions among all participants.

  • Wednesday, August 19th: Summary, review, and refinement of elicited requirements, Q&A with stakeholders, and preparation for the “design-a-thon.”

  • Thursday, August 20th: All-day “design-a-thon,” featuring collaborative co-creation and co-design sessions focusing on interaction concepts, database structures, and UI/UX wireframes for the envisioned solution.

Stay tuned for any upcoming news!

Organisers:

  • Alex Dekhtyar, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo (co-Chair)

  • Anne Hess, Technical University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt (co-Chair)

  • Jane Hayes, University of Kentucky

  • Jennifer Horkoff, Chalmers

  • Gunter Mussbacher, McGill University

  • Xavier Garcia, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

  • Elda Paja, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark

  • Sarah Gregory, Crary Labs LLC, United States

Program Committee