SERT Conference on Software Engineering 2024

Welcome to our website for the SERT Conference on Software Engineering 2024!

In this fourth conference in a series of conferences organized by BTH in collaboration with industry partners, we explore next-generation challenges facing companies developing software-intensive systems and products. This two-day event (Wednesday, 2024-11-20, and Thursday, 2024-11-21), hosted by Spotify in Stockholm and organized by BTH, is designed to inspire, educate, and foster collaboration among professionals at the forefront of the industry and academia.

Join us as we explore the future of software engineering and work together to shape the next generation of technology!

 

Agenda

Day 1 (Wednesday, November 20, 2024)

Track 1: Remote and Hybrid Working

This track will include talks about the long-term impacts of remote working on individuals, teams, and organizations and recent trends in corporate policies.

  • Maintaining a Sense of Belonging in a Distributed-First Company
    Marcin Floryan (Spotify)
  • Recent changes in remote work policies
    Nils Brede Moe (SINTEF)
  • Recent changes in the work policies at Ericsson
    Mats Fröling
  • State of hybrid at Ericsson survey results
    Darja Šmite (BTH)
  • Recent trends in hybrid work at Telenor
    Towe Remling (Telenor)
  • Making hybrid work. For real
    Mari Blikom (Storebrand)
  • Data driven decisions in corporate real estate
    Fredrik Karlsson 
  • Work-life balance vs work-life integration
    Darja Šmite
  • Meetings in Hybrid Agile Work Settings: Challenges and Success Factors
    Viktoria Stray (University of Oslo)
  • Measuring engagement in hybrid meetings
    Daniela Grassi (University of Bari)
  • What’s next – Interactive session
    Nils Brede Moe (SINTEF) and Darja Smite (BTH)

Track 2: Cutting-Edge Software Engineering

In this track, we explore the cutting-edge of software engineering from research and industry.

  • Platform Insights Journey at Spotify
    Jimmy Mårdel (Spotify)
  • Data-driven software engineering at Fortnox
    Henrik Edegärd (Fortnox)
  • We are getting faster – so what? Data-driven, Sustainable Software Product Development
    Javier Gonzalez Huerta (BTH)
  • Rolling in the Debt: From Technical Debt To Asset Management
    Ehsan Zabardast (BTH/Redeploy)
  • When GUI-based Testing Meets Code Reviews
    Andreas Bauer (BTH)
  • Talk Is Cheap, Show Me the Code: Code Review as Communication Network
    Michael Dorner (BTH)
  • Closing the Loop: The Role of Feedback in Continuous Software Engineering
    Franz Zieris
  • Data-Driven Approach: Driving Internal Quality and Customer Value
    Bhuwan Paudel
  • Measuring the Impact of Bad Requirements
    Julian Frattini (BTH)
  • Analysis of the most destructive software supply chain attacks
    Oleksandr Adamov, Oleksii Baranovskyi  (BTH)
  • Tax Compliance for Software Engineering
    Michael Dorner (BTH)
  • Challenges in Continuous Security Compliance
    Florian Angermeier (BTH)

Day 2 (Thursday, November 21, 2024)

AI and LLMs in Software Engineering

On the second day, we dedicate the whole day to the track on AI and LLMs in the context of software engineering. We will focus on the emergent topic of the role of AI and LLMs in software engineering and will include talks about their use to support such activities as programming, testing, and requirements traceability.

  • Introduction and the warming up talk – OpenAI and the Virtual Pandora’s Box of Sweet and Sour – An Industrial Perspective
    Tony Gorschek (BTH)
  • Towards AI-Native Software Development: Lessons from the Ericsson Trenches
    Ricardo Britto (Ericsson)
  • Accelerated Development using LLMs
    Patrik Jonsson (Novatrox)
  • AI4SE: New insights through tool-supported classification – two industrial cases
    Nauman bin Ali
  • Unpacking the Perceived Productivity of GitHub Copilot
    Viggo Telefsen Wifestad (SINTEF)
  • Test Hyper Automation – A Talk and Demo
    Diego Chedufau (Ericsson)
  • Gen AI GUI testing is the T.A.R.G.E.T.
    Emil Alégroth
  • Efficiency and Effectiveness of LLMs in SE
    Lukas Thode
  • Explore the Power of Generative AI
    Michel Nass (BTH)
  • Large Language Models to Support Requirements Traceability
    Waleed Abdeen
  • LLMs at Ericsson in real life – A talk and Demo
    Liang Yu (Ericsson) and Emil Alégroth (BTH)

Venue

This event is kindly hosted by Spotify at their stunning offices in Stockholm:

Regeringsgatan 19, Stockholm, SE

Sponsors

Join us as we explore the future of software engineering and work together to shape the next generation of technology.

Unfortunately, the registration for the SERT Conference on Software Engineering 2024 has been closed since we are entirely sold out. Hopefully, we will meet next year!​