Software Center

Coordination team meeting
2025-08-25 11:00 - 12:00, 2025-09-22 11:00 - 12:00, 2025-10-06 09:00 - 09:30, 2025-11-10 11:00 - 12:00, 2025-12-15 09:00 - 09:30 (Europe/Stockholm) | Virtual meeting, Sweden

General Assembly and Strategy Workshop
2025-08-25 13:00 - 17:00 | Lindholmen, building Jupiter, room 520, Hörselgången 5, Göteborg, 41756, Sweden
Theme: Implications of AI on Software Engineering

QSIP Annual days
2025-10-01 08:30 - 2025-10-02 13:00 | KTH Innovation, Stockholm
Software Center / CoDig are attending the QSIP, Quantum Sweden Innovation Platform, annual days to learn more about quantum technology and connect experts in software and quantum computing.
The QSIP annual days are hosted at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm:
“We aim to offer a comprehensive agenda featuring insightful presentations and dynamic panel discussions. Topics will include the EU quantum strategy as well as the forthcoming Swedish strategy on quantum technology, opportunities for Nordic collaboration, and updates from QSIP’s various activities over the past year.”
Program: QSIP_program_annual-day_2025

Workshop on the future of Software Engineering
2025-10-03 13:00 - 17:00 | Axis, Emdalavägen 14, SE-223 69 Lund, Sweden, 22369
This is a cross-company workshop for Software Center partners, hosted by Axis.

SAST 30 years´ anniversary
2025-10-06 | Sweden
SAST, Swedish Association for Software Testing, was formed the in 1995 to create a forum where the members can exchange experiences and knowledge within software testing. Our main idea is to mediate knowledge within software testing as well as the neighbouring disciplines. SAST is a non-profit association for anyone in Sweden interested in the testing skill set. Four times a year SAST arranges full day seminars in Stockholm for the members. Presenters from all over the world are invited to share their knowledge.

Place:
Berns, Berzelii Park 103 27 Stockholm och Chinateatern

Mid-sprint steering committee meeting
2025-10-06 09:30 - 12:00 | Virtual meeting, Sweden

Cross-company workshop on AI in software ecosystems
2025-10-15 13:30 - 16:00 | Chalmers, Lindholmen, Hörselgången 5, Gothenburg, 41756, Sweden
Welcome to an exploratory cross-company workshop on AI-driven ecosystems. The workshop is for Software Center partners only and planned as an on-site event (with the possibility to attend online) at Lindholmen in Gothenburg on October 15th between 13:30 – 16:00.

Background:
Although software ecosystems have been around for decades, the emergence of generative AI (GenAI) is significantly changing the nature of software ecosystems. GenAI allows for individuals and organizations to replace human actors with AI agents that act on behalf of humans or organizations, but without human involvement. This leads to fundamental shifts in how ecosystems function and evolve.

Focus:
In this workshop, we together explore the trend of moving towards GenAI in software ecosystems, the implications this will have in practice and we hypothesize on how this will evolve in a context where some agents in the ecosystem are human and others are AI driven.

Location:
Please note that the workshop is organised as an onsite event. However, the possibility to join virtually will be offered for those who cannot join in person. The online opportunity will be more of a “listen in” opportunity and we really encourage everyone to, if possible, join onsite as that will be the superior experience.

Location: Lindholmen, Gothenburg (building Jupiter, Hörselgången 5)

Registration
Registration is done by e-mail to Helena Holmström Olsson and we hope to see you in Gothenburg. For potential online participants, we will share a link when closer to the event. For any questions about the venue and how to get there please reach out!

Looking forward to seeing you – and please help us share this invite with your colleagues!

Workshop on AI-driven organizations, AI-driven products and AI-driven R&D processes
2025-10-21 13:00 - 16:00 | Lindholmen, building Jupiter, room 520, Hörselgången 5, Göteborg, 41756, Sweden
Welcome to a cross-company workshop in which we explore the transition towards AI-driven organizations, AI-driven products and AI-driven R&D processes. We seek to discuss the steps that are involved in this transition and how to accelerate the adoption and use of AI tools and technologies.

As the motivation for the workshop (also discussed at the recent Software Center strategy workshop), we see that many of the companies are struggling with determining how the emergence of AI is causing their business to change and what actions they need to take. Therefore, we are very pleased to invite you to this workshop where we will present the results of an interview study involving several companies within and outside Software Center and be inspired by a keynote speaker who will share his experiences specifically on using AI in business processes.

Please feel free to share the invite with colleagues within the Software Center partnership as we look to attract a broad audience.

Date: October 21st
Time: 13:00 – 16:00
Location: Lindholmen, Gothenburg (building Jupiter, Hörselgången 5)

Agenda:
13:00 – 13:10: Welcome and introduction
13:10 – 13:30: Results from interview study
13:30 – 14:15: Keynote: Rehouven Libine, (Director Technology Transformation, Philipp Morris International)
14:15 – 14:30 Break
14:30 – 14:45: Topic identification for discussions
14:45 15:30: Breakout groups on topics of particular interests
15:30 – 16:00: Report back
16:00 – Closing and next steps

Please note that the workshop is organised as an onsite event where we have the privilege to have the keynote speaker join us onsite in Gothenburg. However, the possibility to join virtually will be offered for those who cannot join in person. The online opportunity will be more of a “listen in” opportunity and we really encourage everyone to, if possible, join onsite as that will be the superior experience.

Registration:
Contact Helena Holmström Olsson.

Lindholmen Software Development Day
2025-10-22 08:30 - 16:30 | Lindholmen Conference Centre, Lindholmspiren 5, Gothenburg, 417 56, Sweden
The event Lindholmen Software Development Day is free of charge (you need to register and there is a no-show fee) and this year’s theme is “Paradigms of the software industry” with speakers from research and from industry:

Twenty years of software development have brought both disruption and stability. Some technologies have reshaped industries overnight, while others have remained steadfast. This year, we focus on the *Paradigms* — the temporary truths of the software industry.
Centralised or federated solutions? Edge computing, on-premises, or cloud? Agile frameworks, empowerment or software craftsmanship?
Should we follow trends or challenge them?
Can we know in advance, or is experimentation the only way? Or are we at the brink of a complete transformation with generative AI?
When technical choices become strategic moves, how do we navigate the landscape?
We are living in extraordinary times, making it more important than ever to come together and share experiences, insights, and opportunities. Innovation is born from debate, and for 20 years, we have built a free and open arena for software developers who share a passion for creating sustainable, exciting, fun, reliable, and trustworthy code.

Online workshop: Systems Engineering Community
2025-11-11 15:00 - 16:30 | Virtual meeting, Sweden
Dear all, welcome to the next online workshop for the Systems Engineering Community in the Software Center collaboration.
Updated agenda, with two discussion topics on popular demand:

Recap of previous workshop: Cybersecurity compliance and AI support, presented by Niels Jørgen Strøm, Grundfos.
Today’s workshop topic: Tool chains for systems engineering – from architecture and integration to continuous delivery and PLM support.
Next topic
Next site visit for on-site workshop in 2026

These workshops are open for Systems Engineers and similar roles focusing on architecting and integrating cyber-physical systems within the Software Center partnership.
—
Magnus Timmerby
Digitalization Champion, FSM Supplier Management, Tetra Pak

Workshop on Regulatory Compliance
2025-11-18 13:00 - 16:00 | Chalmers, Lindholmen, Hörselgången 5, Gothenburg, 41756, Sweden
Welcome to a cross-company workshop on Regulatory Compliance where we are interested in exploring automation and continuous compliance. The workshop is a collaboration between researchers in different Software Center research projects, and we are very happy to invite you for a joint effort on an increasingly relevant topic that is receiving attention in all Software Center companies.

During the workshop, the plan is to discuss regulatory compliance in all its aspects and we aim to focus the discussions on the standards that the workshop participants are most interested in and learn from each other about the current challenges, ways-of-working and strategies for dealing with regulatory compliance (when/where/how to automate).

As part of the agenda, we invite both researchers and industry representatives to present.
Place: Room 473 in building Jupiter, Hörselgången 5, Lindholmen, Gothenburg
The workshop is an on-site event but with the opportunity to participate online. Please register by sending an e-mail to Helena Holmström Olsson and indicate whether you plan to be on-site or online (we will share a link before the event). We encourage everyone to attend on-site if possible as the in-person experience is superior. However, we fully understand if traveling in is difficult and are happy to provide a link for those who asks for one.

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Please note that we are also planning a separate workshop on the AI Act either the morning of November 18th or the morning of November 19th. The difference between these two workshops is that the workshop you are hereby invited to is focusing on automation and continuous compliance. The AI Act workshop will focus on the specifics of the AI Act itself.

We have an expert on the AI Act (Rimma Dzhusupova, McDermott) who will be participating in this workshop. Please let us know if you and your colleagues are interested in joining also this workshop.

Participation:
This workshop is open for all Software Center partners and for others who are interested.
Registration:
Register by sending an email to Helena Holmström Olsson: helena.holmstrom.olsson@mau.se

Operationalizing AI Compliance: Practical Pathways under the EU AI Act
2025-11-19 09:00 - 11:00 | Chalmers, Lindholmen, Hörselgången 5, Gothenburg, 41756, Sweden
The EU AI Act introduces a new era of regulation for organizations developing or deploying AI, especially in sectors where AI applications can be classified as high-risk.
This session will guide participants through:

The EU AI Act’s Risk-Based Approach: understanding how AI systems are classified, what makes a system “high-risk,” and why this matters for software-intensive organizations.
Practical Compliance Frameworks: a step-by-step method for aligning AI development and deployment workflows with the Act’s requirements — including supplier management, adaptation of third-party GenAI, and internal AI development.
Real-World Case Studies: examples of how industrial organizations are establishing governance and compliance practices to meet new legal obligations.

Actionable Takeaways

How to identify high-risk AI systems in your projects
What to request from vendors and partners

How to integrate compliance into your AI lifecycle

About the presenter
Rimma Dzhusupova is an Industrial AI and AI Compliance expert with over 15 years of experience in the energy, infrastructure, and digital sectors, working at the intersection of technology, governance, and regulation. In her current role as Global AI Solutions Lead in a multinational engineering and construction enterprise, Rimma oversees the design and deployment of enterprise-scale AI applications, ensuring governance, risk management, and compliance with EU regulations. Alongside, Rimma serves as an Assistant Professor at Eindhoven University of Technology, TU/e, with expertise in Industrial AI applications and EU AI Act Compliance and contributed to the European Commission plenary group that drafted the General-Purpose AI Code of Practice (2024–2025)

Participation:
This workshop is open for all Software Center partners and for others who are interested.
Registration:
Register by sending an email to Helena Holmström Olsson: helena.holmstrom.olsson@mau.se

Quantum computing software research day
2025-11-25 | Tampere, Finland, Tampere, Finland
On November 25th, Software Center is attending the quantum computing software research day in Tampere, Finland.
To know more, contact Malvina Latifaj at Mälardalen University, post doc in the CoDig competence center.
https://www.businessfinland.fi/en/whats-new/events/2025/quantum-computing-software-research-day

Hackathon
2025-11-25 | Sweden

Deadline for NEW project proposals
2025-11-28 12:00 - 14:00 | Virtual meeting, Sweden

Deadline sprint 30 project proposals
2025-12-05 12:00 - 14:00 | Virtual meeting, Sweden

Software Center/CoDig Sustainability Workshop
2025-12-10 10:00 - 15:00 | Lindholmen, building Jupiter, room 520, Hörselgången 5, Göteborg, 41756, Sweden
Purpose: To create awareness and exchange ideas of sustainability aspects of the research in the competence center.
Background: As the demand for digital services grows, so does the environmental and social impact of the technologies we build and maintain. The CoDig Competence Center is dedicated to integrating sustainability into software engineering through awareness-building, research, and collaboration with industry. The sustainability strategy is considering relevant aspects of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), ensuring relevance to both global and regulatory frameworks. The center recognizes the dual role of digitalization—as both an enabler of sustainable transformation and a potential source of unintended consequences.
Registration: Please register at this link: Software Center/CoDig Sustainability Workshop 10 December 10-15 – Fyll i formulär
Agenda:
10:00-10:40 Presentation of goals and rationale of the CoDig sustainability plan (Kristian Sandahl, LiU)
10:40-11:00 Frameworks for sustainable software engineering (Birgit Penzenstadler, Chalmers/GU)
11:00-12:00 Leading Sustainability in a disruptive world. Keynote address by James Lundström, Head of Sustainable Products and Governance, Volvo Car Cooperation
12:00-13:00 Lunch at your own expense
13:00-13:20 Risk assessment of mental health conditions for personnel and users (Barbara Gallina, MdU)
13:20-13:40 Sustainability and Waste in AI-Assisted Test Engineering: Patterns and Checklists (Eduard Enoiu, MdU)
13:40-14:00 A sustainability perspective on Software Engineering using AI (Miroslaw Staron, Chalmers/GU)
14:00-15:00 Discussion(s): Sustainability vs AI, trade-offs for responsible use of AI.
Teams access will be possible, this is an open seminar.

A quantum afternoon: study visit to Chalmers Next Labs
2025-12-10 16:00 - 18:00 | Sweden
As part of the December Software Center Reporting Workshop we make study visit to Chalmers Next Labs where we have the opportunity to discuss quantum development and how we can form collaboration that includes software and quantum. Software Center partners and others who are interested in this development are welcome.
Chalmers Next Labs is a semi-commercial research institute that conducts both grant-funded and commercial activities. A non-profit company within the Chalmers Group, established in 2023 with the mission to make research results, cutting-edge expertise and technical infrastructure from Chalmers University of Technology available to business and society.
Registration for study visit and informal get-together:
Please register at this link: https://forms.gle/A7RFToUhFRkV6Q3U6
Place:
Chalmers Next Labs, Hugo Grauers gata 5, 412 96 Göteborg
Agenda:
16.00: Welcome and introduction to Chalmers Next Labs: Mårten Skogh, Project Lead for the Quantum Lab
16:10: Quantum demo: Pontus Vikstål, Development Engineer, Quantum Lab
16.30: Quantum-Inspired Software Development and Optimization: Miroslaw Staron, Professor, Chalmers, and Pingal Pratyush Nath, Postdoc at Chalmers
16.50: Lab visit
17.20: Discussion and summary
18.00: End

Informal evening get-together
After the visit to Chalmers Next Labs we will continue with informal mingle and continued discussion, warming up for the Reporting Workshop on Dec 11. This is a pay-yourself event and you do not have to register to join – but it would be great to know how many seats to book! We will go together from Chalmers Next Labs to Foxes:
Time: 18.00 –
Place: Foxes
Address: Gibraltargatan 8, 41132 Göteborg

Reporting workshop for all companies and other interested parties
2025-12-11 10:00 - 17:00 | A Working Lab (AWL), Sven Hultins plats 5, Gothenburg, 41258, Sweden
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.
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:
Please register at this link: https://forms.gle/9wfswsosWr3Ji51C8
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.
https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_MmZhMzY2ZjYtZjViNS00ZjY1LTg2NzktODBiN2IyYmQ4NzZh%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22a1795b64-dabd-4758-b988-b309292316cf%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%2269eaaca6-a6e9-4d83-8d28-9ed44ef2646e%22%7d
Pre-reporting-workshop study visit, Dec 10 at 16.00:
As part of the December Software Center Reporting Workshop we make study visit to Chalmers Next Labs where we have the opportunity to discuss quantum development and how we can form collaboration that includes software and quantum. Software Center partners and others who are interested in this development are welcome. Read more and register here >>
Informal evening get-together, Dec 10 at 18.00:
After the visit to Chalmers Next Labs we will continue with informal mingle and continued discussion, warming up for the Reporting Workshop on Dec 11. This is a pay-yourself event and you do not have to register to join – but it would be great to know how many seats to book! We will go together from Chalmers Next Labs to Foxes:
Place: Foxes
Address: Gibraltargatan 8, 41132 Göteborg
Agenda, Reporting workshop, Dec 11th:
09.30 – 10.00: Registration and coffee
10:00-10:30: Opening: Jan Bosch
10:30-11:00: 6G as part of the AI compute continuum: Industrial keynote presentation by Catrin Granbom, Research Director Compute & Software, Ericsson Research
11:00-11:30: Community updates and 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 Holmström Olsson, Malmö University

11.30 – 12.30: Poster & mingle session
12:30 – 13:15 Lunch break (lunch at own expense)
Recommended lunch restaurant: https://www.facebook.com/wastegbg/
13:15 – 13.25: Regulations and continuous compliance – and overview: Jan Bosch and Mikael Sjödin
13.25-13.35: The NextG2Com competence center – a short introduction: Emelie Engström, Emma Söderberg and Per Runeson, Lund University
13.35 – 13.45: Systems engineering in Software Center: Magnus Timmerby, Digitalization Champion & FSM Supplier Management at Tetra Pak
13:50 – 15.10: Parallel tracks (incl coffee break)

RADICAL/AI: Towards an AI-driven product-centric paradigm – Organizers: Helena Holmström Olsson and Jan Bosch (Room: Studion – plenary)
Teams link: this session is taking place in the plenary room, teams link as above!
Multi-Agentic Software Engineering: Building Software that Builds Software – Organizer: Miroslaw Staron (Room: Workshoprummet, 2nd floor)
Teams link: Join the meeting now
Meeting ID: 323 609 094 046 9, Passcode: [REDACTED]
Evolving models and architecture and the role of AI in the process – organizers: Jan Carlson, Mälardalen university, and Kristian Sandahl, Linköping university (Room: Leya, entrance floor)
Extra meeting room: Batman (16 pers, plan 5)

15.15: Past, Present, and Potential Perspectives on Software Engineering – Industrial keynote presentation by Frances Paulisch, Independent Software Engineering Expert
16.00: The future of Software Engineering
Presentation and fishbowl discussion
16.30 – 16:45 Plans, reflections & closing: Jan Bosch

Keynotes:
6G as part of the AI compute continuum
This talk will sketch the current 6G vision by deriving an updated set of network capabilities from expected society needs. As the main theme, we highlight the role of compute in 6G. This includes compute and AI related services that would be offered by future networks.
Past, Present, and Potential Perspectives on Software Engineering
In 2018 the International Conference of Software Engineering celebrated “50 years of Software Engineering” in Gothenburg. This keynote will reflect on the past history of software engineering, highlight key activities of the present, and address the potential of key software engineering topics for the future. The focus will be on long-living cyberphysical systems with stringent quality attributes where understanding the stakeholder’s needs, having an architecture that is able to evolve, and establishing a sustainable business model are key.
Dr. Frances Paulisch is an independent software engineering expert. Until recently, she was the head of the “Software Initiative” activities of Siemens Healthineers AG. Prior to that she had a similar role at Siemens AG and initiated their joining the Software Center. One of her achievements at Siemens / Siemens Healthineers was the establishing a set of company-wide learning programs for software and system development which addresses especially the architecture for long-living, mission-critical systems. She has extensive experience in both technical software engineering topics as well as the management of them.
Parallel sessions:
RADICAL/AI: Towards an AI-driven product-centric paradigm – Organizers: Helena Holmström Olsson and Jan Bosch
Modern businesses need an AI-driven product-centric model to break organizational barriers, accelerate innovation, achieve strategic alignment and deliver continuous value to customers at a pace and scale that current agile practices simply cannot match.

An AI-driven product-centric paradigm fundamentally transforms how organizations create, deliver and evolve products, shifting from traditional product management to dynamic data-driven approaches powered by artificial intelligence. With a product-centric approach, companies move away from the short-term thinking and fragmentation inherent in project-based approaches to instead focus their efforts on innovation and long-term product value.

In this session, we introduce RADICAL/AI – an AI-driven paradigm that focuses on the capabilities that GenAI and Agentic AI brings to organizations, to R&D processes and to products. To address the limitations of agile practices and to accelerate continuous value delivery to customers, RADICAL/AI helps companies to harness the power of AI for:

Continuous learning loops and real-time insights

Automation of tasks and entire workflows

Monitoring, optimization and personalization of outcomes

Rapid and continuous generation, testing and deployment

Experimentation and hypothesis testing at scale

Alignment around business KPIs, outcomes and customer value

The session is open for everyone interested in how to accelerate product development and how to adopt and use AI technologies to significantly improve the effectiveness of R&D.

We aim for an interactive session with presentations from research and from industry and with an emphasis on discussions and next steps.

Panel:

Peter Härslätt (Global Technology Manager AI Strategy and Governance, AB Volvo)

Catrin Granbom (Research Director Compute & Software, Ericsson Research, Ericsson)

Lars Kruckow (System Architect, Tetra Pak)

Raffaele Gallina (Engineering Manager, Axis Communications)

Sabina Edenlund (Technical Leader and Specialist Automotive SW Test Driven Development, Volvo Cars)

Multi-Agentic Software Engineering: Building Software that Builds Software – Organizer: Miroslaw Staron
Software engineering is evolving at warp speed. With the rise of agentic AI, we’re no longer just writing software – we’re engineering the software that engineers the software. Our role is shifting from creators to orchestrators: governing fleets of autonomous agents, validating their outputs, and ensuring that machine-crafted code meets the standards and regulations of real-world products.

In this session, we’ll mix short presentations with interactive Mentimeter-supercharged debates to explore the emerging discipline of multi-agentic AI: what it is, why it matters, and how it will reshape our craft. We’ll dive into the tech, the tooling, and the future trajectory of this rapidly growing paradigm.

We’ll explore:

Real-world applications of multi-agent systems — What’s hype, what’s real, and what’s already running in production.
AI-friendly code — How to write code that agents can reason about, extend, and refactor without losing their synthetic minds.
Architectures & frameworks for agent swarms — like Crew.ai and its the latest multi-agent orchestration stacks.
The future of the software engineer — Which skills survive, which evolve, and which get gracefully retired in an AI-accelerated ecosystem.

Join us if you want to nerd out on agentic workflows, debate the future of our profession, and catch a glimpse of the coming era where IDEs feel more like control towers for digital engineering teams.
13.50 – 14.00: Multiagentic frameworks and AI-friendly code, Miroslaw Staron
14.10 – 14.30: Agentic 3GPP standards, Wilhelm Meding (Ericsson)
14.30 – 14.50: From Zero to Working Function: Multi-Agent Assistance for Developers, Simin Sun (Chalmers/GU) and David Friberg (Zenseact)
14.50 – 15.10: Agentic conversation topics – towards a common communication protocols, Srijita Basu (Chalmers/GU)
Evolving models and architecture and the role of AI in the process – organizers: Jan Carlson, Mälardalen university, and Kristian Sandahl, Linköping university
Architecture and system models play a significant role in evolving and validating software. Yet there is a wide spectrum of different approaches being used in the companies in parallel. For this workshop we will focus on formal vs. informal models and the role of AI in artefacts and processes: In the agenda we will provide both research presentations and openings for discussion:

Benefits from more systematic modeling and versioning practices.
Incremental introduction of minimal structure in informal models
Modeling and AI – What is the role of formal and informal modeling when AI has a more central role in the development?
Software Architecture Recovery Approaches with LLM

Task force meeting for planning sprint 30
2025-12-12 10:00 - 12:00 | Virtual meeting, Sweden

Steering committee meeting
2025-12-15 09:30 - 12:00 | Virtual meeting, Sweden

AI output evaluation: cross-company workshop
2026-01-14 13:00 - 17:00 | Ericsson, Linkoping, Datalinjen 3, Linköping, Sweden
Dear Software Center members,
You are invited to a cross-company workshop on AI output evaluation.
We are all busy thinking about or already applying AI assistants and agentic AI workflows to improve and automate every applicable process in our companies. But how do we know if it’s good enough? Which AI model works best? How to compare them, how to choose? How to monitor and control the quality over time? This is a fundamental problem for any application of AI in processes, and what often keeps us from maturing from prototypes to production.
In this workshop we invite you to:

Share your experiences, challenges and solutions
Learn from Chi Xiao about current state of the art in practically evaluating AI performance
Together identify and discuss top opportunities, challenges and topics of interest

Chi Xiao is a developer at Ericsson who specializes in requirements engineering and the application of AI in that field. She recently published at ICSE 2025 on UML Sequence Diagram Generation using AI.
You are welcome attend in person at Ericsson in Linköping, Datalinjen 3, or via Teams.
Please forward to anyone in your organization to whom this may be of interest, and RSVP to this invite by Jan 7 so that we may gauge interest and plan accordingly.
Best regards,
Daniel Ståhl, Chi Xiao and Jan Bosch

Coordination team meeting
2026-01-19 11:00 - 12:00, 2026-02-16 11:00 - 12:00 | Virtual meeting, Sweden

Swiss-Swedish Innovation Initiative event 2026
2026-02-04 | Sweden
SWII in partnership with Germany & Austria: Transformational Technologies for Resilient Industries & Societies
Thematic focus 2026: digitalisation, AI, machine learning, and quantum technologies
The conference will take place in Switzerland.
Date and more details will be available within soon.

SC workshop Non-functional quality of LLM-generated code
2026-02-23 09:00 - 11:00 | MS Teams
Dear Software Center members,
We invite you to a follow-up workshop on quality assurance of LLM-generated code, with a particular focus on Non-Functional Quality Characteristics (NFQCs).
Agenda:
9:00 – 9:15       Welcome and Introduction
9:15 – 9:45       Xin Sun presents the results of the non-functional quality characteristics in generated code
9:45 – 9:55       Vasili Mankevich gives an overview of project 69: Work Activities leveraging AI in Software Engineering
9:55 – 10:00      Short break
10:00 – 10:30     Discussion, and feedback on practical experience, challenges, and opportunities
10:30 – 10:50     Future roadmap and Open discussion
10:50 – 11:00     Summary and closing
In last year’s workshop, we discussed concerns and experiences about NFQC issues in LLM-generated code, explored practical challenges observed in real development settings, and considered possible solutions. Questions such as which NFQC to prioritize, how to evaluate them in practice, and the possible trade-offs among these NFQCs were central to that discussion. Building on this, we conducted an empirical study of Security, Maintainability, and Performance (time and memory) using three common LLMs.
During the workshop, we will:

Present findings from our empirical study on NFQC trade-offs in LLM-generated code, highlight patterns across models and tasks, and introduce new ideas for agent-based automated refactoring.
Discuss how our observations relate to your systems and workflows, and how similar issues have been addressed.
Identify key opportunities, open challenges and practical insights that can guide future research and prototype tool development.

We would be delighted if you could join us and contribute to the discussion. Feel free to invite more colleagues; participating in the first workshop is not required.
This is a Software Center internal event and the common NDA applies. Project number: 61.
The workshop will be recorded for use by the undersigned researchers only.
Welcome!
Kristian Sandahl, Xin Sun, Daniel Ståhl, and Christoph Kessler
For a calendar invite with a MS Teams link, send a mail to kristian.sandahl@liu.se
