SPLASH 2026
Sun 4 - Fri 9 October 2026 Oakland, California, United States
co-located with SPLASH/ISSTA 2026

Information on SPLASH Keynotes can be found below. We are currently working on making the official schedule, but for your interest in the meantime, The Augmented Forest will be held on Wednesday jointly with ISSTA.

Keynotes

Title
In the Age of AI Coding Agents, Keeping the Engineer in Software Engineering
SPLASH Keynotes
Mojo: Towards One Systems Language for All Hardware
SPLASH Keynotes
The Augmented Forest
SPLASH Keynotes
Dates
Tracks
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Mon 5 Oct

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08:30 - 10:00
SPLASH KeynoteSPLASH Keynotes at East Hall 1
08:30
10m
Other
Opening Remarks
SPLASH Keynotes
S: Frank Tip Northeastern University and Amazon Web Services, S: Sverrir Thorgeirsson ETH Zurich
08:40
60m
Talk
In the Age of AI Coding Agents, Keeping the Engineer in Software Engineering
SPLASH Keynotes
K: Elena Glassman Harvard University
10:30 - 12:00
10:30
30m
Talk
Normalization by Origin, Not by Shape
Onward! Papers
Marco Servetto VUW, Colin S. Gordon Drexel University
11:00
30m
Talk
The Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Calculus
Onward! Papers
Tomas Petricek Charles University, Jan Liam Verter Charles University, Mikoláš Fromm Charles University
Pre-print
11:30
40m
Talk
The Spreadsheet Was the Constitution
Onward! Essays
Abutalib Namazov Massachusetts Institute of Technology
13:30 - 15:00
13:30
40m
Talk
Programs Should Be Comics, Their Execution — Animation
Onward! Essays
Maciej Godek Gdynia Maritime University
14:10
40m
Talk
Towards Critical Abstraction for Software
Onward! Essays
Alice Chung University of California, San Diego, Devamardeep Hayatpur University of California, San Diego, Philip Guo University of California San Diego, Tomas Petricek Charles University
DOI
15:30 - 17:00
15:30
40m
Talk
Objects and classes will do
Onward! Essays
Ole Lehrmann Madsen Aarhus University, Birger Møller-Pedersen University of Oslo
16:10
40m
Talk
(This is Not a Paper About) Mutation Driven Development
Onward! Essays
Alex Groce Northern Arizona University

Tue 6 Oct

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08:30 - 10:00
SPLASH KeynoteSPLASH Keynotes at East Hall 1
08:30
60m
Talk
Mojo: Towards One Systems Language for All Hardware
SPLASH Keynotes
K: Chris Lattner Modular, a Qualcomm company
10:30 - 12:00
10:30
40m
Talk
Agents as Software: A Programming Languages Agenda for Agent Reliability
Onward! Essays
Shraddha Barke Microsoft Research, Redmond, Adithya Murali University of Wisconsin-Madison
11:10
40m
Talk
The Conversation We're Not Having About AI in Peer Review
Onward! Essays
Emerson Murphy-Hill Microsoft, Christian Bird Microsoft Research
13:30 - 15:00
13:30
30m
Talk
Proxies All the Way Down: Bootstrapping a Userland Speculative Optimizer for the OpenSmalltalk VM
Onward! Papers
Christoph Thiede Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, Marius Dörbandt Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, Eliot Miranda Cadence Design Systems, Marcel Taeumel University of Potsdam; Hasso Plattner Institute, Robert Hirschfeld Hasso Plattner Institute; University of Potsdam
DOI Media Attached File Attached
14:00
30m
Talk
Escaping the DAG Dogma: Toward Modular Reactive Architectures
Onward! Papers
Rivka Altshuler Open University of Israel, David H. Lorenz Open University of Israel
14:30
30m
Talk
Glassbox Debugging: Code as Interface for No-Code
Onward! Papers
Niv Benaloul Open University of Israel, David H. Lorenz Open University of Israel
15:30 - 17:00
15:30
30m
Talk
Relational Agenda Programming: A Uniform Execution Model for Embedded Reasoning Systems
Onward! Papers
Andrew Shi-hwa Chen Minnesota State University Moorhead
16:00
30m
Talk
Croquetify: Transforming Single-User Functional Reactive Programs into Multi-User Applications
Onward! Papers
Yoshiki Ohshima Independent Contractor, Shizuoka University, Aran Lunzer Independent Software Engineer, David A Smith Independent Software Engineer
16:30
30m
Talk
The Developer as Curator: A Canvas for Coding Agent Context
Onward! Papers
Lukas Böhme Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany, Tom Beckmann Kyoto University of Advanced Science, Michael Perscheid SAP Innovation Center Potsdam, Robert Hirschfeld Hasso Plattner Institute; University of Potsdam

Wed 7 Oct

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08:30 - 10:00
SPLASH/ISSTA KeynoteSPLASH Keynotes at East Hall 1
08:30
60m
Talk
The Augmented Forest
SPLASH Keynotes
K: Kent Beck Gusto, Inc.