FSE 2026
Sun 5 - Thu 9 July 2026 Montreal, Canada
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SIGSOFT Town HallFSE 2026

SIGSOFT Town Hall

Join the SIGSOFT Town Hall at FSE 2026 for an open community conversation about SIGSOFT initiatives, the evolving needs of the software engineering field, and how we can collectively shape the next phase of our community.

Plenary

This program is tentative and subject to change.

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Tue 7 Jul

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08:30 - 10:30
Day 1 OpeningPlenary Events at H110
08:30
30m
Day opening
Welcome
Plenary Events
Foutse Khomh Polytechnique Montréal, Shin Hwei Tan Concordia University
09:00
40m
Keynote
Keynote 1: Benoit Baudry - Punking Up Dependency Hell
Plenary Events
Benoit Baudry Université de Montréal
09:40
40m
Keynote
Keynote 2: Dickson Tsai - Harness Design for Increasingly Capable Models: How Newer Claude Code Features Shape Agent Trajectories
Plenary Events
Dickson Tsai Anthropic
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee BreakCatering
10:30
30m
Coffee break
Break
Catering

12:30 - 14:00
LunchCatering
12:30
90m
Lunch
Lunch
Catering

12:30 - 14:00
FSE Steering Committee (SC) meetingCatering at MB 2.210
12:30 - 14:00
TSE Editorial Board MeetingCatering at MB 3.210
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee BreakCatering
17:30 - 18:30
TOWN HALLSIGSOFT Town Hall at MB 9A
17:30 - 18:30
TOWN HALLSIGSOFT Town Hall at MB 9B
17:30 - 18:30
TOWN HALLSIGSOFT Town Hall at MB 9C
17:30 - 18:30
TOWN HALLSIGSOFT Town Hall at MB 9D