The software world is changing radically. New agentic development methods and tools use AI agents that plan and carry out development work, such as writing, reviewing, testing, and maintaining code, with human oversight. E4A is a working summit to exchange practices on deploying and using agentis SE in industry. We discuss methods and tools used, what works, what fails, and what does not yet scale. We aim to bring together practitioners, tool builders, and researchers and strengthen the European community.
Participating allows you to hear what peers are really doing and see where you stand. Compare your agentic SE adoption against peers in other companies and sectors. The event is organiized and moderated by researchers, who can contrast practices with the state-of-the-art.
Shape the agenda by proposing opics in a pre-summit survey..
Each day opens with two morning keynotes, followed by experience-report talks and discussion sessions. Before the summit, participants answer a short survey to propose concrete topics, so the agenda reflects the challenges practitioners actually face. Talks are short and practice-focused; most of the time is open exchange. Timing is preliminary and will be finalized with invited speakers and participants.
Themes we expect to discuss:
The organizing team spans Ruhr University Bochum, Chalmers University of Technology, and the University of Gothenburg, with expertise across software quality, AI engineering, requirements engineering, empirical software engineering, and industrial collaboration.
Professor of Computer Science at Ruhr University Bochum and Affil. Prof. at Chalmers • University of Gothenburg, working across software and AI engineering.
Professor at Ruhr University Bochum and head of the Software Quality group, with work on automated testing, repair, and software quality.
Associate Professor in software engineering at Chalmers and the University of Gothenburg, with expertise in empirical software engineering and cloud systems.
Associate Professor in software engineering with work spanning requirements engineering, conceptual modeling, and AI engineering.
Professor of Software Engineering focused on AI engineering, software architecture, software metrics, and long-running collaboration with industry.
Professor and head of division in Interaction Design and Software Engineering, researching requirements management, traceability, and high-level architecture within large-scale software and AI development.
Assistant Professor in Software Engineering, specializing in secure ML-enabled systems, threat modeling, and verification of design and implementation.
Professor of Software Engineering at Chalmers and founder of Software Center, with long-standing ties between industry and academia in software engineering and product development.
Bochum, Germany
Building MC, Ruhr University Bochum.
3-4 December 2026
Thursday and Friday
By invitation, industry-heavy
Roughly 25-40 participants, selected across domains, roles, company sizes, and adoption maturity.
Vision paper
The summit works toward a shared vision paper on agentic software engineering in Europe, including practices, barriers, research needs, and priorities.
E4A is by invite, but you can register interest via the form. We are especially keen to hear from practitioners working on agentic software engineering in industry.
