Keynotes

Wednesday, 09:00 to 10:00

Since the day Booking.com started in 1996 we have built and optimised for growth, which has taken us rapidly from a small start-up to one of the world’s leading technology companies. To keep up with this growth we have made some very explicit architecture choices early-on which proved highly effective. We can call the top computer hardware companies and they are happy to provide us with as much iron as we want. However finding talented, data driven engineers is much more difficult. For the technology teams to keep up with our business growth, we needed to scale our architecture and technical infrastructure much faster than what Moore’s Law could give us in terms of improvements in compute power and data storage. Our architectural focus has been not to make it “pretty” but to make it work quickly and pragmatically, following the needs of our customers which always come first. This resulted in an architecture that allowed our business to grow into one of the most successful global eCommerce companies. This keynote discusses the evolution of the Booking.com software architecture over the last 20 years, the major design decisions that we have made to support the phenomenal business growth and provides an insight into the key software architecture concerns that we face going forward.

Bio

Bio

Martin Hiller is Technical Leader in Logical Design Elements and Software Architecture at Volvo Cars, Gothenburg, Sweden. Before joining Volvo Cars in 2015, he worked in the Flight Software section at ESA's technological heart, ETSEC, in Noordwijk, The Netherlands, coordinating ESA's efforts to introduce IMA (Integrated Modular Avionics) principles from the aeronautical domain to the space domain. Prior to ESA, he worked at Volvo Technology, a research and advanced engineering unit within the Volvo Group now known as Advanced Technology & Research, focusing on dependable embedded systems, AUTOSAR, and automotive electronic architectures.
Martin has worked in the area of embedded distributed systems & software for over 20 years and received a MSc degree in Computer Science & Engineering in 1996, and a PhD in Computer Engineering in 2002, both from Chalmers University of Technology.
Martin is currently working with future generations of the automotive electronic architecture at Volvo Cars. The future of the automobile and the automotive industry is moving towards more integrated computerisation, autonomy, and interconnection across vehicles, infrastructure and cloud. Martin does what he can to ensure that Volvo Cars is prepared for this transformation.

Thursday, 09:00 to 10:00

The world around us is changing rapidly and has become much harder to predict. Having the right balance between traditional and more modern approaches becomes key, e.g. discipline vs. agility, up-front planning vs. more continuous approaches, and centralized vs. decentralized decision making. It is increasingly essential to enable the benefits of speed and flexibility while continuously delivering customer value and do so without compromises on quality. This keynote focuses on multiple topics, including software architecture and the right mindset, that enable us to accelerate change in our systems to keep pace in today’s dynamically changing and software-driven world. In particular they allow for a more “continuous” approach, in both development and operations (DevOps), in a broad range of industrial domains.

Bio

Frances Paulisch is a senior principal key expert for software and digitalization at Siemens Corporate Technology. She drives cross-company activities that help address rapidly changing markets and the shift towards digitalization. A main focus of her work is empowering cross-functional teams to work together well over the whole development lifecycle to achieve speed and flexibility while ensuring quality.  This is done through systematic best practice sharing on a broad range of topics. This includes a strong focus on rapid continuous software engineering and on the associated culture change.

She has driven the development of a role-based architecture qualification programs which are established as global core learning programs at Siemens. Frances is also active member of the global software engineering community, playing an active role in various major software conferences such as the International Conference on Software Engineering and has served as the Chair of the Advisory Board of the IEEE Software magazine.

Friday, 09:00 to 10:00

Extensive support for architecture-based software development in Android has played a key role in its success as the dominant mobile platform. Architectural constructs, such as reusable software components and domain-specific architectural styles, provisioned by the Android development framework, have dramatically improved app developer productivity, enabled the platform to overcome resource constraints, and generally contributed to the realization of a vibrant app ecosystem. In parallel with Android’s meteoric rise in popularity, however, we have been witnessing an alarming escalation in the number and sophistication of the security threats targeted at Android. In this talk, I will demonstrate how misconceived architectural principles are the root cause of a broad set of security vulnerabilities in Android. I will then describe a variety of techniques developed over the past few years to mitigate these issues. Finally, I will conclude the talk with an overview of the lessons learned and the opportunities for future research.

Bio

Sam Malek is an Associate Professor in the School of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Irvine. He is also a member of the Institute for Software Research and the director of Software Engineering and Analysis Laboratory at UCI. Malek's general research interests are in the field of software engineering, and to date his focus has spanned the areas of software architecture, mobile computing, program analysis and testing, and software dependability and security. Malek received his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Southern California and his B.S. degree in Information and Computer Science from the University of California, Irvine. He is recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER award, GMU Emerging Researcher/Scholar/Creator award, and GMU Computer Science Department Outstanding Faculty Research Award. Malek is on the editorial board of the IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering and the Springer Journal of Computing.