ESEC / FSE Conferences

02/05/2026

What a milestone — is approaching 600 registrations! 🎉
Thank you to the global software engineering community for making this year's conference in Montreal one to remember. We can't wait to host you July 5–9.
One quick note before you finalize your plans: fewer than 80 banquet seats are left. The conference banquet is always one of the most memorable evenings — great food, great conversations, and the rare chance to catch up with colleagues from every corner of the SE world in one room.
If the banquet is on your wishlist, please book your ticket soon. 🍽️
📅 July 5–9, 2026 · 📍 Montreal, Canada

25/04/2026

📣 NSF Student Travel Support for FSE 2026 — Applications Open!

We're excited to announce that the U.S. National Science Foundation is providing student travel support for FSE 2026. If you're a US-based student hoping to attend, this is for you.

🎓 WHO CAN APPLY
Doctoral students, master's students, and undergraduates considering a PhD in Software Engineering — all enrolled at US institutions.

⭐ PRIORITY CONSIDERATION
- Applicants who could not attend without a travel award
- Students participating in the Doctoral Symposium or Student Research Competition
- Authors of accepted papers (technical program, workshops, or co-located events)
- U.S. citizens and permanent residents

💰 WHAT'S COVERED
The award is provided as travel reimbursement and helps offset airfare, transportation, lodging, meals, and main conference registration. Funds are limited, so each awardee may only receive partial support.

📋 WHAT YOU'LL NEED
- Current CV
- 1-page cover letter
- 1-page recommendation letter from your advisor

🗓 KEY DATES
- Application deadline: Saturday, May 16, 2026 (AoE)
- Notification of awardees: by Saturday, May 30, 2026

🔗 APPLY HERE
https://forms.gle/JkhAuVbPs5dApL117

📖 FULL DETAILS
https://conf.researchr.org/attending/fse-2026/NSF+Student+Travel+Support

Questions? Email Clay Stevens at [email protected]

We gratefully acknowledge the support of the U.S. National Science Foundation for making these travel awards possible. Please share with students who might benefit — the timeline is tight!

15/04/2026

FSE 2026 Early Bird Registration Closing Soon!
The ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE 2026) will take place in Montreal, Canada on July 5–9, 2026 — co-located with AIware, ACM SecDev, SSBSE, PROMISE, and the SIGSOFT 50th Anniversary Celebration!
Early bird registration closes on April 24, 2026 (EST). Don't miss out on the discounted rates!
Highlights:

14 workshops, 4 competitions, Doctoral & New Faculty Symposia
FSE banquet on a private cruise in Montreal
SIGSOFT 50 Celebration Pass available

Register now: https://cvent.me/2mOAgq
Full details: https://conf.researchr.org/attending/fse-2026/registration
See you in Montreal this summer!

The ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE) is an internationally renowned forum for researchers, practitioners, and educators .

05/04/2026

📣 FSE 2026 Travel & Child Care Support Grants — Apply by April 10!
Planning to attend ACM FSE 2026 in Montreal, Canada (July 5–9)? SIGSOFT CAPS is offering travel support grants for both students and professionals!
🔹 What: Travel funding to attend FSE 2026 and its co-located events
🔹 Who: Students and professionals in the software engineering community
🔹 Deadline: April 10, AoE
🔹 Notification: April 20 — in time for early registration!
🔹 Child care support is also available — contact [email protected] (flexible deadline)
👉 Apply here: https://forms.gle/w2FoZP2aa9oPe2b87
Don't miss this opportunity — and please share with anyone who might benefit!

SIGSOFT is pleased to announce that the CAPS program offers reimbursement for students and professional who attended the FSE 2026 conference. CAPS travel support can be used for reimbursing flight, hotel, taxi / cab, shuttle, meals, mileage, and parking, and shall NOT be used for reimbursing other e...

18/02/2026

FSE 2026 is opening a “Re-routed Presentations from Past Years” track for authors who couldn’t present at a top SE venue due to unforeseen circumstances (e.g., visa issues, illness). If your paper was accepted in the main research track of ICSE 2025, FSE 2025, ASE 2025, or ICSE 2026 and hasn’t been presented on-site by any author attending FSE (virtual presentations remain eligible), this is your chance to share it in person in Montreal (July 5–9, 2026). Submit a short HotCRP form by Feb 25, 2026 (AoE).

https://conf.researchr.org/track/fse-2026/fse-2026-rerouted-presentations-from-the-past-year

The ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE) is an internationally renowned forum for researchers, practitioners, and educators to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, experiences, and challenges in the field of software engineering. FSE bring...

18/02/2026

Have an exciting work-in-progress, a bold new idea, or an experience report you’d like to discuss with the community? The FSE 2026 Poster Track is open for submissions and is designed for focused, in-depth interaction beyond a short talk—perfect for getting targeted feedback and starting hallway conversations.

Submit a 2-page, two-column extended abstract (double-anonymous review). If accepted, you’ll present your 24×36 in. poster during the main conference in Montréal (July 5–9, 2026).

https://conf.researchr.org/track/fse-2026/fse-2026-posters
Submission deadline: Feb 28, 2026 (AoE).

The ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE) is an internationally renowned forum for researchers, practitioners, and educators to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, experiences, and challenges in the field of software engineering. FSE bring...

11/02/2026

HumanAISE 2026 (the 2nd Workshop on Human-Centered AI for Software Engineering) is co-located with FSE’26 in Montreal. We’re inviting research and practitioner perspectives on AI that augments developers—human-AI collaboration, explainable AI for SE, ethics/fairness/bias, SE education with AI, and evaluation of human-AI systems.

Submission types include full, short, and position papers, plus *new* extended abstracts (≤5 pages, no APC). If you’re building or studying AI dev tools, join the conversation. Submit by Feb 12, 2026 via HotCRP: https://humanaise2026.hotcrp.com

More details: https://humanai4se.github.io/

Welcome to the The 2nd Workshop on Human-Centered AI for Software Engineering (HumanAISE 2026) submissions site. For general information, see https://humanai4se.github.io/.

28/01/2026

LLMs for code can “memorize” more than we expect. When evaluation files show up in training data, leaderboard gains can be misleading.

The Poisoned Chalice of LLM Evaluation (co-located with FSE/AIWare 2026 in Montréal) invites participants to turn membership inference into a practical audit tool: given a mixed dataset of code files, classify which ones likely appeared in a target model’s training set—then evaluate accuracy and generalization.

If you work on LLM security, privacy, or robust evaluation, this is a great place to contribute. Learn more and get involved: https://razvain.github.io/miacomp/

27/01/2026

If you’re building coding agents, this is a practical benchmarked challenge: add a memory layer that persists across development sessions and prove its impact. The FSE-AIWare 2026 “Intelligent Coding Assistant Enhanced with Memory” competition ranks systems on success rate, efficiency (tokens/turns), and measured memory utility.

Selected teams will be invited to present during the dedicated competition session at FSE-AIWare 2026 in Montreal (July 2026). Paper + Docker due late March 2026 (date TBA). Get started: https://mem-comp.github.io/

The competition of Intelligent Coding Assistant Enhanced with Memory at FSE-AIWare 2026 invites participants to design and evaluate AI coding assistants with persistent memory across development sessions.

27/01/2026

Bring your best prompting, fine-tuning, RAG, program synthesis, or multi-agent architecture to ODAI-LIB—the FSE/AIWare 2026 competition on generating software libraries on demand. Instead of a benchmark-only setting, you will demonstrate end-to-end feasibility: generation, testing, and maintenance, with quantitative comparisons to human-written libraries.

Submit a short abstract plus a ≤5-minute demo video during the rolling abstract period (Jan 9–Feb 27, 2026). Full papers (2–4 pages) are due Mar 21, 2026. Finalists present posters and open demos in Montreal, with a live “unseen library” round on July 6.

More info: https://odai-lib.github.io/

The ODAI-LIB Challenge 2026 (On-Demand Libraries: Prompting to Generate an Ecosystem Library) is a competition held as part of the FSE-AIWare 2026 Competition Track. The challenge explores how generative AI techniques can be used to dynamically generate software libraries on demand, addressing chall...

26/01/2026

Dependency conflicts still derail real projects—and they’re a perfect target for LLM agents. The Agentic Python Dependency Resolution Challenge (FSE–AIWare @ FSE 2026) invites you to build an open-source tool that can automatically resolve hard Python dependency conflicts.

You’ll get a baseline (PLLM) and the HG2.9K dataset (2,900+ “hard” files). Tools run in Docker and are evaluated under a 10GB VRAM constraint, including a held-out test set. Submit your tool + a short (max 4-page) paper by Feb 28, 2026 (AoE), and present results on July 6 in Montreal.

Details: https://github.com/checkdgt/fse-aiware-python-dependencies

Competition guidelines for the Python dependency resolution tools using Agentic methods, at the inaugural FSE-AIWare join competition. - checkdgt/fse-aiware-python-dependencies