The 17th International Conference on Software Business (ICSOB 2026)

Program

ICSOB 2026 runs October 26–28, 2026, in Gothenburg, Sweden. The program is a preliminary. Times, rooms, keynote speakers, session chairs, and the Poster & Demo and PhD Retreat schedules may change.

Monday, 26 October 2026

Time TBC — PhD Retreat — room TBC

Time TBC — Workshop: Software Startups Research Agenda in the Era of AI — room TBC

The PhD Retreat and Workshop run in parallel on Monday. Detailed timing will be published here once confirmed.

Tuesday, 27 October 2026

08:30–09:00 — Walk-in and registration — foyer / venue TBC

09:00–09:15 — Opening and introduction — main hall

09:15–10:00 — Keynote 1 — speaker and title TBC

10:00–10:15 — Coffee break

Parallel paper sessions 1

Room A (TBC) • Digital Sovereignty, Identity and Governance

10:15–10:45 · Full

Digital Sovereignty and European Companies: Awareness, Technological Dependence, and Governance Gaps

Damian Kedziora, Krzysztof Wnuk, Yuriy Bilan, Kari Smolander and Miroslaw Staron

10:45–11:05 · Short

Toward an Integrated Reference View for Security and Privacy Engineering and Assurance Across the AI Stack

Iraklis Symeonidis

11:05–11:35 · Full

Ambiguous Nature of Digital Identity: Positive and Negative Effects

Eerika Peltonen, Sonja M Hyrynsalmi and Kari Smolander

11:35–11:55 · Short

From Dependence to Sovereignty: A Design Science Research Agenda for Governing Mission-Critical GenAI Dependencies

Jiri Härmä and Pekka Abrahamsson

Room B (TBC) • AI-Native Product Management, Operations and Ideation

10:15–10:45 · Full

Beyond Code Generation: Organizational Conditions for Sustainable AI Use in Software Development

Lars Hansen, Henrik Trucksess, Stefan Fleischmann, Sathwik Amburi, Judith Strussenberg and Ulrike Lechner

10:45–11:05 · Short

When Does Product Ops Become Plausible? A Configurational Framework for Product Ops Emergence

Guilherme Moretti and Brenno Buarque

11:05–11:35 · Full

AI-Native Product Management: A Vision

Ricardo Britto

11:35–11:55 · Short

‘Decontaminating’ Software Ideas from Solution Framing

Xiaofeng Wang, Daniel Planötscher and Silvia Cortesia

11:55–12:55 — Lunch

Parallel paper sessions 2

Room A (TBC) • Platforms and Software Ecosystems

12:55–13:25 · Full

Towards Actionable Typification of Platform Ecosystems

Shady Hegazy, Christoph Elsner, Ambra Cala, Jan Bosch and Helena Holmström Olsson

13:25–13:55 · Full

Hybrid Ecosystems: Rethinking Software Ecosystems in the Age of Data and AI

Helena Holmström Olsson and Jan Bosch

13:55–14:25 · Full

Rogue Apps and Fragmented Governance in Software Ecosystems: A Supply-Network Analysis of Mobile App Distribution

Elena Baninemeh and Slinger Jansen

Room B (TBC) • AI-Enabled Software Work and Cross-Organizational Coordination

12:55–13:25 · Full

When Decision Context Does Not Travel with the Artifact: A Framework for Microdecision Governance in Agentic Software Work

Sergio Rico

13:25–13:55 · Full

Digitalization and Automation Reshaping AI-Enabled Systems Development, Lessons Learned

Hina Saeeda

13:55–14:25 · Full

Beyond Ticket Synchronisation: A Canonical Aggregate Pattern for Coordinating Incidents Across B2B Service Ecosystems

Salif Faustino, Xiaofeng Wang and Jorge Melegati

14:25–14:55 — Coffee break, posters and demos — details TBC

Parallel paper sessions 3

Room A (TBC) • AI-Enabled Procurement and Public-Sector Digitalization

14:55–15:25 · Full

TenderIntell: Designing and Evaluating Multi-Agent Support for Tendering

Muhammad Waseem, Abrar Morshed, Janne Harjamäki and Pekka Abrahamsson

15:25–15:55 · Full

Analyzing the Use of Benefits Management Concepts in Public-Sector Digitalization Projects

J. David Patón-Romero, Jo E. Hannay and Magne Jørgensen

15:55–16:15 · Short

Artificial Intelligence in EU Public Procurement: A Preliminary Multilingual Measurement Study, 2020-2026

Lars Malmqvist

Room B (TBC) • Operational Decisions and Secure Systems

14:55–15:25 · Full

Adaptive Routing as Operational Insurance: A Training-Free Mechanism for Business-Process Decisions under Changing Costs

Matheus Oliveira Jagi, Jugurta Montavão Filho and Mateus Barcellos Costa

15:25–15:55 · Full

Towards Trustworthy AI-Enabled Emergency Medical Dispatch: Uncertainty-Aware Ambulance Travel Time Estimation

Muhammad Adil Abid, Johan Holmgren, Fabian Lorig and Jesper Petersson

15:55–16:15 · Short

Security-by-Design for Collaborative Multi-Digital-Twin Systems-of-Systems in Software-Defined Electric Vehicles: A Research-in-Progress Problem Landscape

Iraklis Symeonidis, Efi Papatheocharous, Rodi Jolak and Pontus Svenson

Wednesday, 28 October 2026

09:00–09:15 — Opening and introduction — main hall

09:15–10:00 — Keynote 2 — speaker and title TBC

10:00–10:30 — Coffee break, posters and demos — details TBC

Best Paper Session — Preliminary Nominees

10:30–11:00 · Full

Towards a framework on success dimensions in public IS acquisition

Sanni Marjanen

11:00–11:30 · Full

Digital Sovereignty under Pressure in Consumer Ecosystems

Quirin Trimborn and Paul van Vulpen

11:30–11:50 · Short

Position: Human-in-the-Loop Is Not Accountability

Mohit Nayak, Asutosh Hota and Priyanka Mishra

11:50–12:10 · Short

The Criticality Gap in AI-Native Software Businesses: A Position on Moral Self-Efficacy and AI Governance

Ismail Zahoor and Annika Wolff

12:10–12:30 — Joint discussion with the best-paper nominees

12:30–13:30 — Lunch

Parallel paper sessions 4

Room A (TBC) • Civic Tech, Data and Learning

13:30–14:00 · Full

Grassroots Civic Tech Software Development and Sustainability: The Role of Generative AI

Sreman Chandio, Yishak Gebremichael, Viktoriia Olshanskaia, Dominik Siemon and Antti Knutas

14:00–14:30 · Full

Civic Tech and Data Sensemaking: The Impact of LLMs

Viktoriia Olshanskaia, Andrea Hamm, Sreman Chandio, Jiri Musto, Annika Wolff and Antti Knutas

14:30–15:00 · Full

Designing LLM-Based Learning Assistants in Higher Education: A Systematic Literature Review of Design Themes

Eero Suomalainen, Erno Vanhala, Janne Parkkila and Najmul Islam

Room B (TBC) • Responsible AI Governance, Explanations and Ethics

13:30–14:00 · Full

Governance-by-Design for Responsible AI: An Industrial Case Study of Ethical Requirements Traceability

Eko K. Budiardjo and Sandfreni Sandfreni

14:00–14:30 · Full

TESSA: A Governance-Oriented Custom GPT for SME Guidance under the EU AI Act: Design, Implementation, and Evaluation

Chalisa Veesommai Sillberg, Kai-Kristian Kemell, Pekka Sillberg, Katri Harjuvetelainen, Mika Saari and Pekka Abrahamsson

14:30–15:00 · Full

An Aristotelian End User Perspective on AI Explanations

Dorthea Mathilde Kristin Vatn, Rasmus Ulfsnes, Nils Brede Moe and Patrick Mikalef

15:00–15:30 · Full

Spectrum of Agreement: Stances on Ethical Issues across Software Domains

Tom Humbert and Emitzá Guzmán

15:30–15:45 — Coffee break

15:45–16:15 — Awards, next edition and closing — details TBC