SERL Conference on AI enabled Software Engineering 2026
Welcome to our website for the SERL Conference on AI enabled Software Engineering 2026!
In this fifth 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 (Thursday, 2026-11-19, and Friday, 2026-11-20), hosted by Ericsson 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!
Keynotes
Each day of SERL Conference 2026 opens with a keynote from industry, setting the scene for the day’s theme: Building with AI on Thursday and Trustworthy AI on Friday.
Rewriting All of Spotify’s Code Base, All the Time
Aleksandar Mitic, Spotify
Thursday 19 November, 09:00
At Spotify, our early experiments with agentic code migrations have evolved into a background coding agent that works at scale. In this talk, we’ll share how it merges thousands of PRs across multiple engineering disciplines per week, how we manage build feedback, evaluate prompts, and navigate a large, diverse codebase.
Welcome to the Real World of Active Cyber Defense
Bernhards Blumbergs, CERT.LV
Friday 20 November, 09:00
Take the blue pill, and you’ll see what CERT.LV sees on our eastern frontier. Take the red pill, and you’ll enter the wonderland of active cyber defence for national critical infrastructure. Take them both, and you’ll go down the rabbit hole of machine learning for detecting unknown threats in operational technology.
Agenda
Day 1 – Thursday 19 November: Building with AI
The first day of SERL Conference 2026, themed AI-Enabled Software Engineering, is dedicated to building with AI. Talks from research and industry cover the adoption and impact of generative AI, how AI changes the way developers and teams work, scaling GenAI agents in software development, preventing AI-induced technical debt, and security compliance when working with AI agents, with several live demos along the way.
| Time | Presentation | Speaker |
| 09:00 – 10:30 | Welcome and introduction Keynote: Rewriting All of Spotify’s Code Base, All the Time |
Aleksandar Mitic (Spotify) |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee break | |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Understanding the Adoption & Impact of Generative AI in Software Engineering: Insights from Research and Practice | Lukas Thode (BTH) and Hugo Villamizar (fortiss) |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | AI Makes Developers Faster. What Happens to Teams? | Darja Smite and Eriks Klotins (BTH) |
| 12:00 – 12:30 | The Dependency Black Hole | Ehsan Zabardast (BTH, Nordea) |
| 12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch, posters and networking | |
| 13:30 – 14:15 | Scaling GenAI Agents in Software Development – a talk and a demo | Liang Yu (Ericsson MFS) |
| 14:15 – 15:00 | From Software Engineering to Value-based Creation – Engineering on a different level | Markus Pitzka (itestra) |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Coffee break | |
| 15:30 – 15:50 | Code Rot at Machine Speed: Preventing AI-Induced Technical Debt | Markus Borg (CodeScene) |
| 15:50 – 16:10 | Slowing Down to Speed Up: How Software Teams Learn to Work with AI | Nils Brede Moe (SINTEF, BTH) |
| 16:10 – 16:30 | AI Agents and Security Compliance in the Software Development Process | Florian Angermeir (fortiss, BTH) |
| 16:30 – 16:45 | What’s next – ramp up |
Day 2 – Friday 20 November: Trustworthy AI
The second day of SERL Conference 2026, themed AI-Enabled Software Engineering, is dedicated to trustworthy AI. Talks from research and industry cover active cyber defense, building secure software with AI, AI-supported threat modeling, GenAI-enabled quality assurance and its role in society, and shift-left approaches to security assessment, with several live demos along the way.| Time | Presentation | Speaker |
| 09:00 – 10:15 | Welcome and introduction Keynote: Welcome to the Real World of Active Cyber Defense |
Bernhards Blumbergs (CERT.LV) |
| 10:15 – 10:45 | Coffee break and mingling | |
| 10:45 – 11:15 | Building Secure Software with AI: Benefits, Risks, and Industry Lessons | Sathwik Amburi (Siemens) |
| 11:15 – 11:45 | AI-supported threat modeling in practice – a talk and a demo | Felix Jedrzejewski (BTH) |
| 11:45 – 12:15 | Best practices in GenAI-enabled Quality assurance | Tomas Helmfridsson (Questit) |
| 12:15 – 13:15 | Lunch, posters and networking | |
| 13:15 – 13:45 | GenAI-enabled Software Engineering, Quality assurance and Society | Emil Alégroth (BTH, Synteda) |
| 13:45 – 14:15 | Know More Before They Know: Using an optimized AI approach to visualize attack paths and shift security assessment left – a talk and a demo | Nikhil Srivastava (Ericsson) |
| 14:15 – 14:45 | SecurityScout: Shift-left security for GUI testers – a talk and a demo | Oleksii Novikov and Davide Fucci (BTH) |
| 14:45 – 16:00 | Closing, coffee break and mingling |
What to expect?
- Industry and academic spearkers
- Practical AI engineering insights
- Networking and collaboration
- Emerging research and case studies
Venue
This event is kindly hosted by Ericsson at their stunning offices in Stockholm.
The entrance to the venue is at Torshamnsgatan 21, 164 40 Kista, Stockholm.
Contact
The event is invite-only. If you are interested in attending the event, please contact:
Eriks.Klotins@bth.se
Join researchers and industry leaders to explore the future of AI-enabled software engineering!