Software Center Reporting Workshop and 10 years´ anniversary

Agenda and links:

10:00-10:30: Opening: Jan Bosch
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10:30-11:00: Keynote presentation: Erik Ekudden, CTO of Ericsson

11:00-12:00: Community updates in parallel

• Software engineering, chairs: Miroslaw Staron, Wilhelm Meding, Jan Carlson and Kristian Sandahl
  11.00 – 11.30: SE Challenges and opportunities at Volvo Cars, Jonn Lantz and Kent Niesel
  11.30 – 12.00: Who needs manual testing, anyway? Daniel Ståhl, Ericsson
• Product management, chair: Helena H Olsson
  The value of having a loyal Ecosystem and how to transition it in disruption: Anders Görtz, Global Product Manager Service Platform and IoT, Axis Communications
• AI engineering, chair: Jan Bosch
  Deep learning for autonomous driving – applications and development flows: Mikael Johansson, acting Head of AI Technologies, Autonomous Driving at Scania CV AB

12:00 – 13: 00 Lunch break

13:00 – 15:00: Up-dates from Software Center projects – parallel tracks (detailed up-date closer to the event):

• Theme 1: Continuous delivery
  • 13:00-13:30 Mob Programming: From Avant-Garde Experimentation to Established Practice (project 6, Daniel Ståhl)
  • 13:30-14:00 Timing Properties and Scheduling in Distributed Systems (project 29, Marjan Sirjani)
  • 14:00-14:30 Automated Root Cause Analysis for Flaky Tests produced by Randomness and Asynchronous Calls (project 30, Azeem Ahmad)
  • 14.30-15:00 AI for Testing / Testing for AI: Where do investigated software center companies stand? (project 30, Azeem Ahmad)
• Theme 2: Architecture
  • 13:00–13:30 Managing Inconsistent Development Artefacts (project 35, Robbert Jongeling and Jan Carlson)
  • 13:30–14:00 Machine Learning-based Characterization of Software Performance Regression (project 43, Masud Abu Naser)
  • 14:00–14:40 Managing Architectural Technical Debt and Process Debt (projects 2 and 42, Antonio Martini, Terese Besker and Jan Bosch)
  • 14:40–15:00 Q&A and group discussion

Theme 3: Metrics

• • 13.00 – 13.30: Class and attribute noise reduction techniques: Khaled Al Sabbagh, Miroslaw Staron
  • 13.30 – 14.00: Stakeholder mapping: Dina Koutsikouri, Nataliya Berbyuk Lindström
  • 14.00 – 14.30: Software Development Productivity Metrics: Miroslaw Staron
  • 14.30 – 15.00: Metric teams assessment and maturity visualization: Wilhelm Meding
• Theme 4: Customer Data and Ecosystem Driven Development
  • 13:00 – 13:30: Accelerating Digitalization Through Data (project 5): Helena H. Olsson and Jan Bosch
  • 13:30 – 14:00: Ecosystem Driven R&D Management (project 9): Helena H. Olsson and Jan Bosch
  • 14:00 – 14:30: RE for Large-Scale Agile Systems Development (project 27): Eric Knauss, Jennifer Horkoff and Jan-Philipp Steghöfer
  • 14:30 – 15:00: Q&A and group discussion
• Theme 5: AI Engineering
  • 13:00 – 13:20: Experimentation in software intensive systems: David Issa Mattos
  • 13:20 – 13:40: Semi-supervised learning: Teodor Fredriksson
  • 14:30 – 14:00: Data pipelines for AI: Aiswarya Raj
  • 14:00 – 14:20: Federated learning using AF-DNDF: Hongy Zhang
  • 14:20 – 14:40: Towards MLOps: Meenu John
  • 14:40 – 15:00: A/B testing with small sample sizes: Yuchu Liu

Afternoon plenary sessions:

15:15 – 15:45: Keynote presentation: Software, Data and AI: from research to industrial deployment
Sara Mazur, Director Strategic Research at Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation and Chair Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program, WASP

15:45 – 16:15 Plans, reflections & closing: Jan Bosch
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Erik Ekudden, CTO Ericsson Recording of the presentation >> As Ericsson’s CTO, Erik Ekudden is responsible for setting the overall strategy and direction of technology leadership for Ericsson. In 2017 he re-located to Kista, Sweden, after nearly seven-years in Santa Clara, California.His focus for the group is on strategic decisions and investments in mobility, cloud, artificial intelligence and Internet of things. This builds on his decades-long career in technology strategies and industry activities with leading customers and partners from 2G to 5G and beyond. Ekudden first joined Ericsson in 1993 working on mobile systems,but rapidly moved into leadership within research and technology. He has served as research area director and vice president of technology strategy, standardization and industry.He holds a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. He is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA).
Sara Mazur, Director Strategic Research at Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation and Chair Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program, WASP Recording of the presentation >> Sara Mazur is Director Strategic Research at Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation and Chair Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program, WASP.Prior to taking up these positions, Mazur was Vice President and Head of Research at Ericsson, responsible for all research at Ericsson globally and leading the global research organization Ericsson Research, a position she held 2012-2018. Mazur worked 23 years for Ericsson on advanced technology and research to strengthen Ericsson’s technical excellence and has held many management positions in the group. Mazur is since 2013 member of the Board of Directors of Saab AB and since 2018 member of the Board of Directors of Investor AB. She is also member of the boards of Combient AB and Nobel Prize Outreach AB. Mazur holds a Master’s of Science degree and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden. She is also an appointed Associate Professor in Fusion Plasma Physics in the same institute. 2015 she was appointed Honorary Doctorate Luleå Tekniska Universitet. Mazur is the inventor of 69 granted patents and has authored several journal articles in international physics journals and conference papers on international conferences. She is the co-author of the book Handbook of antennas in wireless communication. Mazur maintains close ties with academia and research institutes.She is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA), department XI, Education and Research, and previously member of the boards of Research Institutes of Sweden (RISE), Chalmers Technical University, and the School of Electrical Engineering at KTH, the Royal Institute of Technology.