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.
Each paper in the parallel and best-paper sessions has a short audio teaser of about two minutes. Press play to listen. The teasers are AI-written summaries read by a synthetic voice; if the schedule changes, the program on this page takes precedence over the times and rooms spoken in the audio.
Monday, 26 October 2026
PhD Retreat — Room 520, Plan 5, Jupiter Building, Chalmers
09:15–10:00 — Keynote 1 — “How Much Is Intelligence Worth?” Slides
Ricardo Britto (Ericsson AB, Sweden)
Abstract. In software products that rely heavily on AI, intelligence combines models, domain knowledge, and agent execution. Improving these capabilities creates competing pressures. External model services may improve customer outcomes but increase costs, deepen vendor dependencies, or require access to knowledge that customers need to control. Developing capabilities in-house can provide greater control, but demands investment that rapidly improving alternatives may undermine. To guide these choices, this keynote presents an intelligence evaluation and decision framework within AI-native product management. It connects evaluations of product capabilities and sovereignty requirements with customer evidence and delivery economics. Persistent product management agents use linked decision records to connect new evidence to earlier commitments and support reassessment. We illustrate the framework through a hypothetical telecommunications subscriber-retention product, following a decision prompted by stricter customer sovereignty requirements. Participants will learn to state product promises as measured outcomes against a baseline, separate capability gains from commercial value, select and test the control a decision depends on, and name the conditions that would reopen it.
10:00–10:15 — Coffee break
Parallel paper sessions 1
Room Pascal • Digital Sovereignty, Identity and Governance
Session Chair: Oleksandr Adamov
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 Tesla • AI-Native Product Management, Operations and Ideation
Session Chair: Slinger Jansen
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 · ShortOnline
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 · ShortOnline
‘Decontaminating’ Software Ideas from Solution Framing
Xiaofeng Wang, Daniel Planötscher and Silvia Cortesia
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 Tesla • AI-Enabled Software Work and Cross-Organizational Coordination
Session Chair: Mateus Costa
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 · FullOnline
Digitalization and Automation Reshaping AI-Enabled Systems Development, Lessons Learned
Hina Saeeda
13:55–14:25 · FullOnline
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 — Room Pascal
Parallel paper sessions 3
Room Pascal • AI-Enabled Procurement and Public-Sector Digitalization
Session Chair: Sergio Rico
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 · 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
Room Tesla • Operational Decisions and Secure Systems
Session Chair: Eko Budiardjo
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 · FullOnline
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
Conference Dinner and Awards
17:00 — Travel from Lindholmen to World of Volvo via Tram 12 (Lindholmen to Almedal)
17:00 — World of Volvo Exhibition, free entry for conference attendees
09:15–10:00 — Keynote 2 — “Crafting Quality Software: Design-Level Intelligence of Agentic AI systems”
Miroslaw Staron, Chalmers University
Abstract. Agentic AI offers new possibilities for developing large software systems. However, software-developing agents are not bound by the same laws as human software engineers because of their inherent nature. The resulting software has structure, but not the structure we are used to. In this talk, I will show how software systems designed and developed by autonomous agents differ from those developed by human software engineers. We discuss design-level intelligence and what it means for software engineers and product managers.
10:00–10:30 — Coffee break, posters and demos — Room Pascal
Best Paper Session
Session Chair: Krzysztof Wnuk
10:30–11:00 · FullBest paper (runner up)
Towards a framework on success dimensions in public IS acquisition
Sanni Marjanen
11:00–11:30 · FullBest paper
Digital Sovereignty under Pressure in Consumer Ecosystems
Quirin Trimborn and Paul van Vulpen
11:30–11:50 · ShortBest short paper
Position: Human-in-the-Loop Is Not Accountability
Mohit Nayak, Asutosh Hota and Priyanka Mishra
11:50–12:10 · ShortBest short paper (runner up)
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