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Reporting workshop in Gothenburg: Towards AI-driven companies
June 12 @ 09:30 - 17:00
In Software Center, companies and universities work together to accelerate the adoption of novel approaches to software engineering. The reporting workshop takes place twice a year, in June and December.
This event aims at sharing results from research and cooperation within Software Center, including activities in the competence center CoDig, hosted by Software Center. The day before the reporting workshop there is an additional interactive workshop where you have the opportunity to discuss technical challenges with the Software Center projects, more information here >>
The agenda for the reporting workshop ranges from keynote presentations to in-depth sessions for themes and projects. The cooperation between academia and companies in Software Center creates the software engineering success stories that industry needs.
Registration for the reporting ws in Gothenburg, June 12:
Please register at this link: https://forms.gle/7Rzkn6d31TU2hDA28
Link for virtual participation – all plenary sessions:
You can join the meeting over Teams, but the digital solution will not offer an opportunity to interact with speakers.
Link to the Teams Townhall meeting >>
Software Center on tour, June 2025
This June Software Center arranges three reporting workshops to enable more to join our live meetings and discussions. Speakers and agenda will slightly different depending on where we meet, join us in:
Agenda, June 12, Gothenburg:
09.30 – 10.00: Registration and coffee
10:00-10:15: Opening: Jan Bosch
10:15-11:00: Engineering AI Systems: Keynote presentation by Ingo Weber, Professor at Technical University of Munich
This keynote talk is based on a recent book: “Engineering AI Systems: Architecture and Devops Essentials”, Addison-Wesley 2025. The main argument of this book is that the behavior and quality of software systems that use Artificial Intelligence (AI) stems from the AI part, the traditional software part, and the interactions between both. Achieving high-quality AI systems requires managing all of these aspects well, throughout the whole life cycle from architecture design through to operation & analysis.
In this talk, I will give an overview of the life cycle for AI systems, as well as selected insights.
11:00-11:30: Community & themes updates incl introduction to poster session:
- Theme 1: Kristian Sandahl & Daniel Varro, Linköping university
- Theme 2: Jan Carlson, Mälardalen University
- Theme 3: Miroslaw Staron, University of Gothenburg
- Theme 4: Helena H Olsson, Malmö University
11.30 – 12.15: Poster & mingle session
12:15 – 13:00 Lunch break (lunch at own expense)
Recommended lunch restaurant: https://www.facebook.com/wastegbg/
13:00 – 13.45: Industrial keynote presentation by Alwin Bakkenes, Head of Global Software Engineering at Volvo Cars, and Johannes Foufas, Lead Architect Software at Volvo Cars
13.45-14.10: Transforming radar business: Presentation by Hanna Svantesson, Head of Design AMB at Saab, and Christer Åkerblom, Head of Signal and Data Processing Applications at Saab
The need for speed in the development of defense material has never been higher; new threats are evolving continuously. At the same time, sensors are part of a larger complex systems, new capabilities needs to come with a minimum of integration efforts. At Saab we are devoted to keep people and society safe today and tomorrow – and we believe Software Center provides us with relevant support on this quest.
14.10-14.20: Software Center 2.0 – expanding the scope: Jan Bosch
14.20-14.30: Coffee break
14:30 – 16.00: AI-driven organisation and/or engineering: an interactive session
Chaired by Miroslaw Staron, University of Gothenburg, and Helena H Olsson, Malmö University
AI is here to stay, and all companies embrace it differently. In the Software Center, we focus on two areas – AI-Driven organizations and AI AI-supported engineering, which focus on the use of AI to create new business models, improve operations, and support in engineering new software. In this interactive session, we use Mentimeter to lead discussions on how we are equipped to tackle challenges when introducing these technologies. We also look out for new areas like quantum computing, sensing, and AI Software engineering 4.0.
16.00 – 16:15 Plans, reflections & closing: Jan Bosch
Speakers:
Alwin Bakkenes, Head of Global Software Engineering at Volvo Cars
Alwin Bakkenes has extensive experience from the mobility industry and has served as head of Global Software Engineering at Volvo Cars since 2022.
Prior to joining Volvo Cars he was VP Global Product Lines at Aptiv, EVP Automotive at Luxoft and CEO of Pelagicore.
He holds Board positions at Haleytek & Zenseact and has served on the Board of the GENIVI Alliance (now COVESA).
Mr. Bakkenes has a M.Sc. Knowledge Management from Middlesex University in London and B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Applied Sciences in Amsterdam.
Ingo Weber, Professor at Technical University of Munich
Prof. Dr. Ingo Weber is Full Professor in the Computer Science Department, TUM School of Computation, Information and Technology, at Technical University of Munich, Germany. Ingo Weber is also Director of Digital Transformation and ICT Infrastructure at the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft. Before moving to Munich, he was Full Professor of Software and Business Engineering at Technische Universität Berlin from 2019 to 2022. Before that, he spent ten years in Sydney, Australia, where he worked for the research institutions CSIRO, NICTA and UNSW. In 2009, he received his PhD from the University of Karlsruhe (TH), now KIT, and worked in parallel for SAP Research.
In his research, Ingo Weber works in various subfields of computer science, in particular business process management and process mining, software architecture and engineering, DevOps, blockchain, and applied artificial intelligence (AI). He is author of numerous publications and co-author of the textbooks “DevOps: A Software Architect’s Perspective” (2015), “Architecture for Blockchain Applications” (2019), and “Engineering AI Systems – Architecture and DevOps Essentials” (2025).