We are excited to host the  International Software Engineering Winter School on Hybrid and Generative Intelligence next week on 24^th – 28^th November 2025 here in Bern, where  Sebastiano Panichella serves as General Chair and  Yael van Dok serves as Web Chair. The Winter School is part of the EU-funded  InnoGuard project.

This inaugural Winter School brings together academic and industrial researchers, along with Ph.D. students, to explore cutting-edge topics at the intersection of Software Engineering, Hybrid Intelligence, and Generative AI, with a special focus on Large Language Models (LLMs) and their transformative role in next-generation software systems.

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At this year’s FSE 2025 conference in Trondheim, we presented our vision paper  “Beyond Software Families: Community-Driven Variability”. It’s about the beautiful chaos in open-source, decentralized software ecosystems – such as Bitcoin – that exhibit multi-dimensional variability, yet strive for interoperability. We discuss this phenomenon of Community-Driven Variability (CDV), highlight emerging problems, and outline research goals to tackle them.

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 Roman Bögli and  Thomas Sutter are organizing the workshop  Cryptographic Agility in the realm of PQS Algorithms + Security and Privacy Concerns on Android Phones in collaboration with the  University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW) and the  Competence Centre Digital Trust. The workshop will take place on 29^th July 2025, 14:30 - 15:30, in person or online.

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We are happy to announce that our paper titled Decades of GNU Patch and Git Cherry-Pick: Can We Do Better? by  Alexander Schultheiß,  Alexander Boll, Paul Maximilian Bittner,  Sandra Greiner, Thomas Thüm, and  Timo Kehrer has been accepted to the  IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) 2026.

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We are organizing the  Software Engineering (SE) conference 2026 here in Bern! It will take place from 23^rd - 27^th February 2026 in various locations around the city. The main conference will be held at the  Wankdorf Stadium.

The Software Engineering (SE) conference of the  Software Engineering Division (SWT) of the  German Informatics Society (GI) is the reference conference series on Software Engineering in the German-speaking regions of Europe with an established record of engaging with Academia and Industry. It is held annually, and it serves as a platform for both software engineers from industry and researchers from academia to share their experiences and knowledge and to foster community building.

You can find all information on the  SE2026 website.

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