Tutorials and Technical BriefingsICSE 2026

Call for Tutorials and Technical Briefings

ICSE 2026 will have a selection of tutorials and technical briefings introducing knowledge of cutting-edge software engineering topics, useful tools, and technologies or research methods to software engineering researchers and practitioners.

Tutorials and Technical briefings at ICSE 2026 will be held between Sunday April 12th and Friday April 17th 2026 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Types of Tutorials and Technical Briefings

We are receiving proposals for three types of Tutorials and Technical Briefings:

• Tutorials: Speakers provide a general state-of-the-art in the broader area of software engineering (e.g., empirical software engineering, search-based software engineering, machine learning). Duration: 180 minutes divided into two modular 90-minute sessions.

• Technical Briefings: Speakers provide a focused introduction to an emerging topic in software engineering (e.g., software engineering practices for specific types of systems or emerging technologies). Duration: 90 minutes.

• Hands-On Tutorials or Technical Briefings: Speakers organize a tool-supported session on a topic with hands-on participation of attendees. Duration: 90 minutes (Technical Briefing) or 180 minutes (Tutorial, to be divided into two modular 90-minute sessions).

Evaluation Criteria

The ICSE Tutorials and Technical Briefings committee will select a small set of proposals based on the following:

• Overall quality of the proposal

• Relevance to the conference

• Level of interest they believe the tutorial will attract

• Experience and qualifications of the presenters

• Suitability for presentation in the chosen format

Please note that proposals that focus on

• Very narrow research topics with limited audience appeal

• Commercial presentations that focus on specific tools

• Marketing materials

are not eligible and will be desk-rejected.

How to Submit

Tutorial and technical briefings proposals must include the following information, should be no longer than 3 pages and must conform to the ACM conference submission and formatting instructions (https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template).

• Title

• Proposal types (Tutorials, Short technical briefing or Hands-on)

• Presenters names

• Summary paragraph that will be used to publicize the tutorial in the program

• Target audience (e.g. PhD students, early career researchers, all researchers, practitioners)

• Justification for novelty of the tutorial or why ICSE attendees would be likely to want to learn the material and hence want to register for it

• Learning objectives

• Outline of topics to be covered

• Information about any hands-on component (e.g. where attendees will actually use a tool or do an exercise), and what kind of hardware/software would be needed for this.

• Bios of the presenters, including evidence that they are experts in the area, and have teaching expertise

• Preferred dates (note that we cannot guarantee the choices of dates)

• Other sessions the presenters hope to attend (to enable the organizers to try to avoid conflicts)

In addition to the 3-page proposal, sample presentation material (5-15 slides) must be submitted. For hands-on submissions, an additional page with exercise details is required. Please, note that all documents must be in a single PDF file.

By submitting your proposal (and other documents) to an IEEE/ACM Event, you are hereby acknowledging that you and your co-authors are subject to all IEEE/ACM Publications Policies.

The proposals should be submitted electronically using HotCrp at https://icse2026technicalbriefings.hotcrp.com/ .

Conditions

ICSE 2026 is not able to pay for travel, or other arrangements for tutorial presenters. Presenters of Tutorials and Hands-On Tutorials will not be required to pay for the day of their own tutorial. Presenters of Technical Briefings and Hands-On Technical briefings must register for the main conference.

Accepted presenters must inform the tutorial and technical briefings committee if they have to present papers in other sessions (ICSE tracks or workshops or co-located conferences), so that conflicts can be avoided to the greatest extent possible.

ICSE 2026 reserves the right to not accept any tutorial and technical briefings presentations.

ICSE 2026 reserves the right to ask potential tutorial and technical briefings proposers to submit additional material before their proposal is accepted.

ICSE 2026 reserves the right to cancel any Tutorial and Hands-On Tutorial that receives fewer than 4 registrations by the early registration date.

Publication

The presenters of each accepted Tutorial and Technical Briefing will have the opportunity to publish a 2-page abstract in the ICSE 2026 Companion proceedings. The abstracts must be sent by the deadline of (November 4, 2025). They must conform to the ACM conference submission and formatting instructions (https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template) and must not exceed 2 pages, including all text, references, appendices, and figures. Further, upon acceptance, all presenters will be required to provide a short (1-2 minute) video describing their presentation topic to be placed on the ICSE website for publicity purposes.

Important Dates

• Tutorial and Technical Briefings Proposals Submissions Deadline: September 29, 2025
• Tutorial and Technical Briefings Acceptance Notification: October 20, 2025
• Tutorial and Technical Briefings Abstracts Camera Ready: November 04, 2025
• Tutorial and Technical Briefings Presentation: TBD (April 12-17, 2026)

Co-Chairs

Paris Avgeriou, University of Groningen, Netherlands

Uirá Kulesza, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil