DOI: 10.1145/3844691.3844711 ISSN: 0163-5948
SWEBOK Summit 2026 Report
Hironori Washizaki, Steve Tockey, Maria-Isabel Sanchez-Segura, Kenneth E. Nidiffer, Daniel S. Katz, Joaquim JorgeThe SWEBOK Summit is a premier industry-focused event, bringing together practitioners, researchers, and educators from the Software Engineering (SE) communities to collaborate, share experiences and challenges, and provide future research directions on the body of knowledge (particularly the IEEE Computer Society's Guide to the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge; SWEBOK Guide), skills, and competencies required for current and future SE professionals, as well as related professional training and certifications. The 2nd SWEBOK Summit was successfully held on April 18th in Rio de Janeiro, in conjunction with IEEE/ACM ICSE 2026. This report summarizes the Summit, particularly the topics presented and discussed during the event.