Conference Date: 29 April 2025 co-located with the 47th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2025)The Guide to the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBOK Guide, http://www.swebok.org/ ), published by the IEEE Computer Society (IEEE CS), reflects the current state of generally accepted, consensus-driven knowledge and skills derived from the interaction between software engineering (SE) theory and practice. SWEBOK Guide V4 is the latest edition, released in October, 2024, maintaining its more than 20-year tradition as the definitive and most trusted reference for SE professionals.This Summit is a premier industry-focused event, bringing together practitioners, researchers, and educators from the SE communities to collaborate, share experiences and challenges, and provide future research directions on the body of knowledge, skills, and competencies required for current and future SE professionals, as well as related professional training and certifications. The Summit also encourages using the SWEBOK Guide V4 to address SE-specific challenges.The IEEE CS sponsors the Summit. In addition to keynotes, panels, and invited tutorials, the event will also feature selected presentations on SE bodies of knowledge, skills, competencies, certifications, and related topics.
Call for Presentations
You are invited to participate and submit your presentation proposals to the Summit. The Summit's areas of interest include (but are not limited to) the following topics:
Practical experience using SWEBOK Guide, skills, and competencies in SE
Education and training related to SWEBOK Guide, skills, and competencies in SE
Certification and qualification programs in SE
Research on bodies of knowledge, skills and competencies in SE
Discussions and challenges of bodies of knowledge, skills and competencies in SE
Future trends in SE to be potentially included in the next version of SWEBOK Guide
Submission Instructions
The Summit looks for submission of a 1-page abstract describing a single work addressing a topic relevant to the Summit. Submitted abstracts will be reviewed by a committee of renowned experts in the field and will be shortlisted. Authors of each shortlisted abstract are required to register and attend the Summit in-person for oral presentation(s). The summary of the Summit, including the material that the speakers are willing to provide (such as presentation slides), will be made publicly available via the Summit's website. Note that there will be no publication of proceedings. 1-page abstract template: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.htmlSubmission Link:https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=swebok_summit_2025
Attendance and Registration
As space is limited, registration will be made available on a rolling basis. For this summit only, there will be no registration fee. If you wish to participate in other sessions and events of ICSE, you need to register for them additionally, which requires registration fee payments. All summit participants are highly encouraged to join other sessions and events of ICSE.
Organizers
Hironori Washizaki, IEEE CS President / Waseda University, Japan (Chair)
Alain April, École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS), Canada
Daniel S. Katz, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA
Deborah Silver, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, US
Joaquim Jorge, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Juan Garbajosa, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Maria Isabel Sánchez Segura, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Yatheendranath TJ, DhiiHii Labs Private Limited, India
Richard Hilliard, USA
Steve Tockey, Construx Software, USA
Eric Berkowitz, IEEE CS Director of Membership, USA
