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                       IEEE SWEBOK Summit 2025: 

      1st IEEE International Summit on Bodies of Knowledge, Skills, 

       Competencies, and Certifications in Software Engineering

                     April 29th, 2025, Ottawa, Canada

    Co-located with the 47th IEEE/ACM International Conference on 

                            Software Engineering (ICSE 2025)

*Key dates*

- Submission deadline: February 10th, 2025

- Notification of acceptance: February 14th, 2025

- The Summit date: April 29th, 2025

*About the Summit*

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.html

Submission 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. If you wish to participate in other sessions and events of ICSE, you need to register for them additionally.

*Organizers* 

Hironori Washizaki, IEEE CS President / Waseda University, Japan (Chair)

Alain April, École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS), Canada

Eric Berkowitz, IEEE CS Director of Membership, USA

Juan Garbajosa, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain

Maria Isabel Sánchez Segura, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain

Yatheendranath TJ, DhiiHii Labs Private Limited, India

Steve Tockey, Construx Software, USA

*Contact*

If you have any questions, please contact the organizers at swebok_summit@list.waseda.jp

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