ICSE 2028 — 50th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering

ICSE 2028, the 50th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering, runs 30 April to 6 May 2028 at the Hilton Waikoloa Village in Waikoloa Village, Hawaii, with Rick Kazman of the University of Hawai'i at Manoa as general chair. ICSE is the premier software engineering research conference and this is its golden-anniversary edition. Its structure is an umbrella week: a main Research Track alongside Software Engineering in Practice, New Ideas and Emerging Results, education and society tracks, tool demonstrations, formal artifact evaluation and a doctoral symposium, plus a set of co-hosted conferences and dozens of workshops. AI for software engineering now runs through most of the programme, including the co-hosted FORGE conference on AI foundation models and software engineering and CAIN on AI engineering.

Date

April 30 – May 6, 2028

Location

Hilton Waikoloa Village, Hawaii

Format

In-Person

Event Type

Conference

Status

Upcoming

Pricing

Paid

Organizer

IEEE Computer Society and ACM SIGSOFT

Added

Aug 26, 2026

Updated

Aug 26, 2026

• ✓VPs of Engineering and heads of developer productivity
• ✓Software engineering researchers and academics
• ✓Platform and developer-tooling teams
• ✓Engineering managers evaluating AI coding assistants
• ✓Quality, testing and reliability leads
• ✓PhD students and new faculty in software engineering

Almost every claim a vendor makes about AI coding assistants — acceptance rates, defect density, review burden, long-term maintenance cost — traces back to work published here or at its co-hosted conferences. A VP of Engineering or head of developer productivity comes away with the measured evidence rather than the marketing version, plus direct access to the researchers who ran those studies. The co-hosted FORGE and CAIN conferences are specifically about foundation models in software engineering and about engineering AI systems, which is where the practical questions on coding agents, verification and technical debt are actually being answered.

• ✓Main Research Track — the field's flagship peer-reviewed venue
• ✓Software Engineering in Practice (SEIP) — industrial experience papers
• ✓New Ideas and Emerging Results (NIER) and Journal-First paper tracks
• ✓FORGE, the co-hosted conference on AI Foundation Models and Software Engineering
• ✓CAIN (AI Engineering), MSR (Mining Software Repositories) and ICPC among the recurring co-hosted conferences
• ✓Tool Demonstrations, Data Showcase and formal Artifact Evaluation
• ✓Doctoral Symposium, New Faculty Symposium and the ACM Student Research Competition
• ✓A large associated workshop programme; recent editions have included LLMSC, AGENTVERIFY, ReCode and IDE

• ★The 50th edition — ICSE's golden anniversary, and its first time in Hawaii
• ★The field's top-ranked software engineering venue: what is accepted here becomes the evidence base that tool vendors later cite
• ★An umbrella week — co-hosted conferences and a large workshop programme run alongside the main track, including FORGE on AI foundation models and software engineering
• ★From ICSE 2027 onwards the research track moved to a single summer submission cycle, so the 2028 programme is drawn from one deadline rather than two

Registration for ICSE 2028 is not yet open and no rates are published; the call for papers for the 2028 research track has not been issued. ICSE normally posts IEEE/ACM member, non-member and student tiers with an early-bird cut-off roughly two months before the conference.

When is ICSE 2028?

ICSE 2028 takes place April 30 – May 6, 2028 in Waikoloa Village, Hawaii.

Where is ICSE 2028 held?

ICSE 2028 is held in Waikoloa Village, Hawaii. The event format is in-person.

How much does ICSE 2028 cost?

ICSE 2028 is paid. Registration for ICSE 2028 is not yet open and no rates are published; the call for papers for the 2028 research track has not been issued. ICSE normally posts IEEE/ACM member, non-member and student tiers with an early-bird cut-off roughly two months before the conference.

Who should attend ICSE 2028?

ICSE 2028 is aimed at VPs of Engineering and heads of developer productivity, Software engineering researchers and academics, Platform and developer-tooling teams, Engineering managers evaluating AI coding assistants, Quality, testing and reliability leads, PhD students and new faculty in software engineering.

What topics does ICSE 2028 cover?

ICSE 2028 covers Software engineering, AI for software engineering, LLM code generation, Foundation models and developer tooling, Coding agents and verification, Software testing and program analysis, Mining software repositories, Empirical software engineering, AI engineering practices, Developer productivity.

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