Tutorials and Technical BriefingsICSE 2027

Call for Tutorials and Technical Briefings

ICSE 2027 will host tutorials and technical briefings that introduce cutting-edge software engineering topics, tools, technologies, and research methods to software engineering researchers and practitioners.

Tutorials and Technical Briefings at ICSE 2027 will be scheduled between Sunday, April 25, and Saturday, May 1, 2027, in Dublin, Ireland.

Types of Tutorials and Technical Briefings

We invite proposals for the following three categories of Tutorials and Technical Briefings:

• Tutorials: Speakers provide a broad state-of-the-art overview of a major software engineering area (for example, empirical software engineering, search-based software engineering, or machine learning for code). Duration: 180 minutes, delivered as two 90-minute sessions.
• Technical Briefings: Speakers provide a focused introduction to a specific topic in software engineering (for example, practices tailored to particular system types or new technologies). Duration: 90 minutes.
• Hands-On Tutorials or Technical Briefings: Speakers organize a tool-supported interactive session on a topic with hands-on participation of attendees. Duration: Tutorials are 180 minutes, delivered as two 90-minute modules; Technical Briefings are 90 minutes.

Evaluation Criteria

The ICSE Tutorials and Technical Briefings committee will select proposals based on the following criteria:

• Overall quality of the proposal
• Relevance to the conference
• Level of interest the committee believes 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

Tutorials and technical briefings submissions must include the information outlined below, which must be submitted as a single PDF file.

Part 1 - Proposal: The tutorials and technical briefings proposals should be up to 3 pages long (including references) and must conform to the IEEE conference proceedings template specified in the IEEE Conference Proceedings Formatting Guidelines: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html (title in 24pt font and full text in 10pt type; LaTeX users must use \documentclass[10pt,conference]{IEEEtran} without including the compsoc or compsocconf options). The proposal should include the following information:

• Title
• Proposal type: Tutorial, Technical Briefing, Hands-on Tutorial, or Hands-on Technical Briefing
• 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 the 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 hands-on components, if any. I.e., where attendees will actually use a tool or do an exercise, and what kind of hardware/software would be needed for this.
• Biographies 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)

Part 2 - Sample Presentation Material: Please submit 5-15 slides showcasing presentation material that will be used in the tutorial.

Part 3 - Exercise Details: for hands-on submissions only, an additional page with exercise details is required.

The proposals should be submitted electronically using HotCrp at https://icse2027-technicalbriefings.hotcrp.com/

By submitting your proposal and the accompanying documents to an IEEE/ACM event, you are hereby acknowledging that you and your co-authors are subject to all IEEE/ACM Publications Policies.

Conditions

• Technical briefings will be presented as part of the ICSE conference program. Tutorials will be events before or after the main conference.

• ICSE 2027 is not able to pay for travel or other arrangements for Tutorials and Tech Briefings 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 will present during the main conference and must register for the main conference.

• Accepted presenters must inform the Tutorials and Technical Briefings Track Co-Chairs if they have to present papers in other sessions (ICSE tracks, workshops, or co-located conferences), so that conflicts can be avoided to the greatest extent possible.

• ICSE 2027 reserves the right not to accept any tutorial and technical briefing presentations.

• ICSE 2027 reserves the right to ask potential tutorial and technical briefing proposers to submit additional material before their proposal is accepted.

• ICSE 2027 reserves the right to cancel any Tutorials that receive fewer than 4 registrations by the early registration date.

Publication and Publicity

Upon acceptance, presenters of each accepted Tutorial and Technical Briefing will be required to provide a short video (1-2 minutes) describing their presentation topic. The videos will be posted on the ICSE website for publicity purposes.

The presenters of each accepted Tutorial and Technical Briefing will have the opportunity to publish a 2-page abstract in the ICSE 2027 Companion proceedings.

The abstracts must not exceed 2 pages, including all text, references, appendices, and figures. They must conform to the IEEE conference proceedings template specified in the IEEE Conference Proceedings Formatting Guidelines: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html (title in 24pt font and full text in 10pt type; LaTeX users must use \documentclass[10pt,conference]{IEEEtran} without including the compsoc or compsocconf options).

Important Dates (AoE time)

• Submissions Deadline: Friday, October 23, 2026
• Acceptance Notification: Friday, November 13, 2026
• Abstracts Camera Ready: Friday, November 27, 2026

Co-Chairs

Julia Rubin, The University of British Columbia, Canada

Raffaela Mirandola, Karlsruhe University of Technology, Germany