In April next year, software performance engineering experts from around the world will gather in Berlin for the 9th International Conference on Performance Engineering, ICPE2018. The conference will have a great industry track program with contributions from many companies, such as Cisco, IBM, Oracle, Bosch, and LinkedIn. Topics range from energy consumption benchmarking, microservices, virtualization, software containers, distributed profiling, and software-defined networks. It should be an exciting conference with the opportunity to share experiences across companies and between academia and practice. So, book your trip to Berlin!

Together with Ian, Jenny, Anne, and Mazeiar, I am organizing SE4SG’13, the 2nd International Workshop on “Software Engineering Challenges for the Smart Grid” at the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) 2013 in San Francisco, US. This 2nd workshop will focus on understanding and identifying the unique challenges and opportunities for SE to contribute to and enhance the design and development of the smart grid. Thanks to all members of the program committee for providing great reviews to the paper submissions. The workshop will be held on May 18th and will feature five paper presentations and a working session.

This week, Jens, Steffen, Petr and me conducted a GI-Dagstuhl Seminar on the topic of “Multicore Software Performance Engineering“. We had productive discussions with around 20 junior researchers and plan to publish a summarizing workshop report soon.

Last Monday, Paul, Steffen, and me chaired the 2nd Int. Workshop on the Quality of Service-oriented Software Systems (QUASOSS’10) at this years MoDELS 2010 conference in Oslo. About 20 participants listened to the invited talk by Prof. Dorina Petriu and 6 paper presentations. The papers and presentations will soon be hosted at the QUASOSS website.