Industry Day – June 1st, 2026
Room: TBD (Polytechnique Montréal)
| 8:30 – 9:00 | Coffee and assorted pastries |
| 9:00 – 9:15 | SEMLA 2026 Opening Session |
| Session I: TBD – Session chair: TBD | |
| TBD | Lovedeep Gondara (Vanguard) – TBD |
| TBD | Gustavo Pinto (Zup Innovation) – TBD |
| TBD | Nikita Dvornik (Borealis AI) – TBD |
| TBD | Patrice Béchard (ServiceNow) – TBD |
| TBD | Peter Rigby (Concordia University and Meta) – TBD |
| TBD | Suhaib Mujahid (Mozilla) – TBD |
| TBD | Vincent Fortier (Databricks) – AI Deployment, Governance, and Lakewatch |
| TBD | Coffee break |
| TBD | Panel Discussion Moderator: TBD |
| TBD | Lunch break |
| TBD | Reception & Poster Session |
Research Day – June 2nd, 2026
Room: TBD (Polytechnique Montréal)
| 8:30 – 9:00 | Coffee and assorted pastries |
| Session I: TBD – Session chair: TBD | |
| TBD | Zhou Yang (University of Alberta) – Engineering Trusted Reinforcement Learning Agents |
| TBD | Tushar Sharma (Dalhousie University) – Sustainability in AI Systems: Challenges and Opportunities |
| TBD | Boqi (Percy) Chen (University of Ottawa) – Reliable Generation of Software Artifacts with LLMs: From Ad-Hoc Validation to Semantics-Aware Generation |
| TBD | Orlando E. Marquez (ServiceNow) – TBD |
| TBD | Yu Huang (Vanderbilt University) – Decoding and Encoding Expertise: Toward Human-Centered AI for Software Engineering |
| TBD | Tanja Tajmel (Concordia University) – Social Dimensions of AI: Challenges and Opportunities for Software Engineering Education |
| TBD | Nafiseh Kahani (Carleton University) – Testing Multi-Agent AI Systems |
| TBD | Coffee break |
| TBD | Panel Discussion Moderator: TBD |
| TBD | Lunch break |
| TBD | Closing Remarks |
SEMTL and Tutorials – June 3rd, 2026
Room: TBD (Polytechnique Montréal)
| 8:30 – 9:00 | Coffee and assorted pastries |
| SEMTL Meeting – TBD | |
| TBD | Coffee break |
| Tutorials | |
| TBD | Tutorial 1: Software Engineering for Foundation Models (SE4FM) – Gopi Krishnan Rajbahadur (Huawei Canada) |
| TBD | Tutorial 2: Agentic Software Engineering: A Roadmap to Software Engineering 3.0 – Hao Li (Queen’s University) |
| TBD | Coffee break |