Veranstaltung 2024: SI-SE Fachabend mit Vorträgen und Apéro

Anlass: Fachabend: Will AI Replace Software Engineering
Organisiert zusammen mit: JUG.CH

Donnerstag 19. September 2024 ab 17:00

Campus der Pädagogischen Hochschule Zürich,
Lagerstrasse 2, 8090 Zürich,
Room LAA-J002a

Impressionen

Audience ca. 120 Teilnehmer	Betrand Meyer Vortrag
Dylan Beattie Vortrag	Panel Diskussion

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Programm

17:10-17:15	Opening by Karl Rege (ZHAW) and Dominik Wotruba (Red Hat) SI-SE Chairs
17:15-18:00	Where is Software Engineering Heading? Bertrand Meyer (former head of Software Engineering ETH currently at CIT) Where is software headed? The CrowdStrike event highlighted – in an even more dramatic way than earlier catastrophes – the risks of not paying enough engineering attention to software production and evolution. Will AI save the day? In fact LLMs have a role to play but are unlikely to change the basic game. The talk will reflect on the state of the art in software engineering and present some fresh perspectives on how better to get a grasp on the technology that lies at the heart of so many of the modern world’s processes.
18:00-18:45	Is AI a Useful Tool or an Existential Threat to Humanity? Dylan Beattie (Head of Ursatile, Inventor of Rockstar) With the benefit of hindsight, it’s easy to see the tipping points, to identify the moments when a particular technology or idea achieved critical mass, when something went from being an interesting prototype to a viable product – but for people who were there at the time, it often wasn’t nearly so obvious. In an industry that’s perpetually excited about the “next big thing”, how do developers and technologists decide what to focus on? Should we be thinking about augmented reality? Will machine learning replace developers? Is AI a fun toy, a useful tool – or an existential threat to humanity? Join Dylan Beattie for an entertaining look at the innovations that really did change the world (and a few that didn’t!), and how understanding our history can help us make sense of the next digital revolution – whatever that turns out to be.
18:45-19:00	Break
19:00-20:00	Panel Discussion Bertrand Meyer, Dylan Beattie, Daniel Zeiter, Patrick Schnell, Dimitris Andreadis MODERATOR: Martin Glinz With the advent of large language models and generative AI tools such as ChatGPT or Github Copilot, the old dream of automated programming seems to come true: stakeholders describe their problem and a machine generates the code that solves the problem. So, are we at the edge of a revolution, where generative AI is making software engineering obsolete? Or are we currently experiencing a wave of hype that will leave us disillusioned when the wave is over? We have invited experts in the field to discuss this topic. In two keynotes and a panel, they will discuss the impact of generative AI on the future of software engineering.
Ab 20:00	Apéro Foyer

Speakers

Betrand Meyer He is a professor emeritus at ETH Zurich and also professor of Software Engineering and Provost at Constructor Institute of Technology. He is among the leading experts in software engineering. He invented the programming language Eiffel and contributed numerous influential papers and textbooks. From 2001 to 2016, he was professor of software engineering at ETH Zurich, where he pursued research on building trusted components (reusable software elements) with a guaranteed level of quality. He was Chair of the ETH Computer Science department from 2004 to 2006. For thirteen years, he taught the Introduction to Programming course at ETH Zurich. He is an ACM and an IFIP fellow, holds an honorary doctorate from the University of York and numerous other awards, including the Dahl-Nygaard prize, the ACM Software Systems Award and the IEEE Harlan D. Mills Award.

Dylan Beattie He is a consultant, software developer and international keynote speaker. He’s has been building data-driven web applications since the 1990s; he’s managed teams, taught workshops, and worked on everything from tiny standalone websites to complex distributed systems. He’s a Microsoft MVP, and he regularly speaks at conferences and user groups all over the world. Dylan is the creator of the Rockstar programming language, the director of Ursatile, and the founder of The Linebreakers, the world’s greatest tech comedy party rock band. His web site you'll find here and his talk about Rockstar you'll find here

Panelists (in addition to speakers)

Martin Glinz (MODERATOR) He is a full professor emeritus at the University of Zurich (UZH). From 1993 until July 2017, he was a professor of Informatics at UZH’s Department of Informatics. From 2007-2016, he also was the department head. His interests include requirements and software engineering – in particular modeling, validation, quality, and evolution. He received a Dr. rer. nat. from RWTH Aachen University in 1983. Before joining the University of Zurich, he worked in industry for ten years where he was active in software and requirements engineering research, development, training, and consulting. He is on the board of the Swiss Informatics Society SI and of the SI-SE SIG. He also is past president of the Swiss Informatics Research Association (SIRA).

Daniel Zeiter He graduated as a MSc ETH in Computer Science. He is the Head of Technology & IT at Ergon Informatik AG. He has years of experience as a software engineer and architect. Technology and trends are his passion. Among many topics, in recent years his focus was DevSecOps and the cloud. These two shifts enabled real continuous deployment by treating infrastructure as code. He is always up for a technical discussion and likes to explore the latest technologies.

Patrick Schnell He is a computer-scientist and the CEO of schnell.digital, an innovative software agency. With over 17 years of experience, he develops tailor-made solutions for various industries. His passion lies in new technologies such as NoSQL databases, hybrid app development, and especially artificial intelligence. For years, he has been deeply involved with AI and is recognized as an expert author in this field. As a writer and speaker, he shares his extensive knowledge and inspires other developers through professional articles, books and presentations. His book will be available end of September.

Dimitris Andreadis He has 25 years of experience in IT and he is currently Director of Engineering at Red Hat in charge of the Quarkus team and the Cloud Native Runtimes group. Before that he was running the WildFly/JBoss Enterprise Application Server team for several years. He also served as the JBoss AS project lead and he has been a JBoss addict and contributor from the early start-up days

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Dienstag 30. August 2022 ab 17:00

Red Hat Switzerland, Europaallee 41, 8021 Zürich

Programm

17:00-17:45	Safer C++: MISRA-C++ 202x Peter Sommerlad (Independent Consultant and Trainer) New MISRA C++ 202x guidelines are coming. This release will address modern C++ 17 and thus is relevant not only for safety critical code in the automotive sector, but also for day-to-day C++ development. Expect the new MISRA rules to be less "miserable" for your day-to-day coding and use static analysis tooling to enforce them. The talk briefly introduce the development of safety critical software, highlight some of the modern MISRA C++ rules applicable to all kinds of code and will also show corners of the rule set, better avoided for "normal" C++ code. The latter is important to know, when you are asked to retrofit your code to the output of a static analyzer tuned to MISRA-C++. Remote Talk
17:45-18:30	Beyond Container Technology - A Business Perspective Thomas Bryner (Head of Cloud, Red Hat) Container technology and orchestration has long become a commodity and is seen as an enabler in various dimensions in the IT space. What often goes somewhat unnoticed is that the technology itself and IT organizations are only the tip of the iceberg of a bigger change momentum that is plowing the business world. In this talk I'd like to connect a few dots to open the perspective and discussion.
Ab 18:30	Apéro YNOS Kitchen Bar, Europaallee 42 (neben Red Hat Switzerland)

Speakers

Peter Sommerlad Peter Sommerlad is a consultant and trainer for C++ and agile software development. He was professor and founder of the IFS Institute for Software at HSR Rapperswil. Peter is co-author of the books POSA Vol.1 and Security Patterns and contributed to "97 things every programmer should know". Peter is an ACM Senior Member and member of ACCU, IEEE CS, and the ISO/IEC JTC1-SC22 WG21 (C++) and WG23 (vulnerabilities) committees and contributed to the upcoming C23 ISO standard. Peter participates in the creation of MISRA C++202x.

Thomas Bryner Head of Cloud, Red Hat