Keynote

Hironori Washizaki
2025 IEEE President & CEO

Hironori Washizaki is the 2025 IEEE Computer Society (CS) president. He is a professor and the associate dean of the Research Promotion Division at Waseda University. He is a visiting professor at the National Institute of Informatics and an advisor at the University of Human Environments. He also works in the industry as an outside director and advisor at eXmotion and SI&C. He has led professional and educational activities at the IEEE CS, including the evolution of the Guide to the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBOK) and the CS Juniors program. He has led many academia-industry joint research and large-funded projects in systems and software requirements, design, reuse, quality assurance, and AI software engineering. He leads a professional IoT/AI/DX education project called “Smart SE.” Since 2015, he has been the convenor of ISO/IEC/JTC1/SC7/WG20 to standardize bodies of knowledge and certifications in systems and software engineering. He has been the IPSJ SIG Software Engineering (SIGSE) chair since 2021.

Keynote

Yale Patt
Professor
Virginia H. Cockrell Centennial Chair in Engineering

Yale Patt is a teacher at The University of Texas at Austin and the Virginia
Cockrell Centennial Endowed Chair in the Cockrell School of Engineering. He earned obligatory degrees from reputable Universities and has received more than his share of awards for his research and teaching. More information is available on his website Yale Patt for those who want
it.