social functions/meetings

New Horizons in Software Tools, Techniques and Data Event and an African Extravaganza with evening meal sponsored by Microsoft Research at the CTICC

Wednesday, 5 May 2010
18:00 — 21:00

All Delegates are invited free

Multiple challenges face the software engineering community in the realm of software engineering education, research, and tools. For this session, some of the top engineers and scientists from Microsoft Research, Redmond will fly out specially to discuss and demonstrate how they support bug finding and testing tools, programming languages, static analysis/program verification, security, run-time analysis among others. Talk to the experts and engage with other users, students and professionals in Birds of Feather Sessions. Midway, there will be a keynote address and announcement of the 20 Software Engineering Innovation Foundation Awards for 2010 (see here). For further details contact Nachi Nagappan. The evening rounds off with typical South African music, dancing and food.

Awards Banquet at the CTICC

Thursday, 6 May 2010

This is included in the congress fee for delegates but is an optional extra for accompanying partners @ R400 per person.

Dress is smart casual.

Workshop Dinners

Workshop dinners have been planned for some of the workshops and can be booked as an optional extra at a costs of R300.

Sunday, 2 May 2010:

W5 (SESS)

W6 (CHASE)

W7 (SHARK)

W8 (PLEASE) - Sevruga, V & A Waterfront 19:30

W9 (FlexiTools) - African Cafe 18:30

MSR - African Cafe 19:00

Monday, 3 May 2010:

W12 (SEAMS) - African Cafe 19:30

W15 (SEHC) - African Cafe 18:30

Tuesday, 4 May 2010:

W11 (AST) - Sevruga, V & A Waterfront 19:00

W18 (WETSoM)

W19 (RESER) - African Cafe 19:30

Saturday, 8 May 2010:

W22 (IWSC) - Sevruga, V & A Waterfront 19:30

Women in Software Engineering  - Network Luncheon

This by-invitation-only luncheon aims to bring together a group of women software engineering professionals and faculty to learn about and brainstorm on the issue of the lack of participation by women in computing and more specifically in software engineering.

Women drop out of computing at various times in different countries – why does it happen at certain places in one country but not at another? What can we do to better identify these roadblocks and how can we help ameliorate this? A discussion summary will be issued after this event.

ICSE 2011 Organisers Meeting

Friday, 7 May

Venue to be announced on the Meetings Board at ICSE 2010 registration in Cape Town