Keynotes

Prof. Dr TONY GORSCHEK

(Gen)AI-powered Software Intensive Products - the future, Implications and Opportunities

Abstract: The future of Software Intensive Products and Services (SIPS) is both bright and uncertain. The advent of large-utilisation of GenAI does impact how we do requirements engineering (any engineering task) (AI4SE), but few realise that SIPS will actually be powered by, and contain AI-components. This has huge implications on software engineering as a whole, and promises new capabilities, but also new challenges that will require the engineering discipline to evolve (SE4AI). How do we meet these challenges, and capitalise on the opportunities. Do we let tradition and over-regulation strangle innovation via compliance or do we meet the future with new and improved engineering principles and practices? This talk sadly does not offer solutions, rather highlights challenges and opportunities- and hopefully can inspire our community to meet new capabilities as enablers.

BIO:

Dr. Tony Gorschek is a Professor of Software Engineering at the Software Engineering Research Lab (SERL) at Blekinge Institute of Technology (Sweden) and senior researcher at fortiss Germany. He has over ten years of industrial experience as a CTO, senior executive consultant and engineer, but also as chief architect and product manager. In addition, he has built up six startups. His research interests include empirical software engineering, applied AI in Software Engineering (AI4SE and SE4AI), technology and product management, and value based lean development of software intensive products and services. Application areas going forward will be the use of generative AI as part of engineering, but also how future software intensive products and services are incorporated with non-deterministic components.

E-mail, web: tony.gorschek@bth.se www.gorschek.com

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