Prof. Hironori Washizaki

Waseda University, Japan

IEEE Computer Society 2025 President
Professor and Associate Dean of Research Promotion Division
National Institute of Informatics, Visiting Professor
eXmotion, Outside Director. University of Human Environments, Advisor

Bio: Hironori Washizaki is a Professor and the Associate Dean of the Research Promotion Division at Waseda University in Tokyo and a Visiting Professor at the National Institute of Informatics. He also works as an Outside Director of eXmotion. He is the immediate past president of the IEEE Computer Society. He has led software engineering research and ICT professional and educational activities, including the development of IEEE-CS's Guide to the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBOK Guide). He has led many academia-industry joint research projects and large-scale funded projects in software design, reuse, traceability, quality assurance, and machine learning engineering. Recent achievements include IoT design patterns and machine learning design patterns. He leads a professional IoT/AI/DX education project called SmartSE.

Title: SWEBOK Guide and AI-empowered Software Engineering

Abstract: The IEEE Computer Society has been strategically providing activities and products related to emerging technologies and professional and educational activities, including Technology Predictions and the Guide to the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBOK Guide). This talk first explains the latest version of the Technology Predictions 2026, which foresees 26 breakthrough technologies (incl. AI and Future of Work and Future of Coding) to shape the future of our world for decades to come, and the SWEBOK Guide V4, which reflects contemporary engineering paradigms and emerging areas, including Agile and DevOps, software architecture, security, and AI. Then, as part of AI and SE, the talk provides an overview of Generative and Agentic AI-empowered software engineering, including LLM-supported requirements engineering, software architecting, coding agents, and software security engineering. The talk highlights how these approaches align with and extend the evolving body of knowledge represented in SWEBOK, pointing toward the future of AI-augmented software engineering.

Prof. Koen Smit

HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht, Netherlands

Bio: Koen Smit is a University of Applied Sciences professor focusing on Digital Ethics at the HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht, in the Netherlands. He obtained his PhD in Computer Science in 2018 at the Open Universiteit. His research primarily focuses on the combination of Business Process Management, Business Rules Management, Decision Management, Decision Mining, Digital Twin technology, Social Robotics and Value-Oriented Design methods and techniques. His interest also leans towards how technological innovations can be designed and implemented in such a way that human and public values are explicitly and adequately considered. He regularly reviews and/or publishes and presents his research contributions at conferences and journals (e.g., HICSS, ICIS, PACIS, AMCIS, PJAIS, JITTA, JMIR, IST, and BPM). Furthermore, he is part of the management team of the Institute for ICT of the same university. He supervises several PhD and Professional Doctorate students on his focus areas.

Title: Digital Ethics in the Age of Generative AI: New Challenges and Solutions?

Prof. Morten Bennedsen

University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Bio: Morten Bennedsen is Niels Bohr Professor at the University of Copenhagen and André and Rosalie Hoffmann Chaired Professor of Family Enterprise at INSEAD and the Academic Director of the Wendel International Centre for Family Enterprise INSEAD.

He obtained his PhD in Economics from Harvard University in 1998, a Master’s degree with distinction from London School of Economics, and a Bachelor Degree from the University of Copenhagen. His area of teaching includes family business governance, corporate governance, applied microeconomics, and firm theory.

Morten Bennedsen’s main research area is the governance of family firms and other closely held corporations in a global context. His work has been published in top finance and economics journals, such as Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Political Economics and Quarterly Journals of Economics and he is the author of the book “The Family Business Map: Assets and Roadblocks in Longterm Planning”. Morten Bennedsen has won a number of research and teaching prices including the biggest Danish individual research price from the Ministry of Science. More: https://researchprofiles.ku.dk/en/persons/morten-bennedsen/