Monday, November 10, 2025
Registration - CASCONBuilding on the success of our inaugural workshop, the 2nd SENGEC workshop continues to explore the intersection of software engineering and economics. In today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, understanding the economic implications of software development decisions is more critical than ever. This workshop brings together industry experts and academic researchers to share insights on optimizing software investments, measuring ROI, managing technical debt, and implementing cost-effective development practices.
In this talk, Michael Harrison explores how process automation and workflow optimization transformed offering onboarding at enterprise scale. By automating key friction points across compliance and operational readiness gates, his team reduced manual effort and decision latency, enabling accelerated delivery and unlocking substantial new revenue. The presentation examines the challenge, the process improvements implemented, and lessons for balancing speed with governance.
In this talk, Jimmy Yan presents an AI-enabled Slack Bot, powered by Large Language Models (LLMs), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and a tool-box orchestration approach, designed to streamline vulnerability management. By automating ticket triage, fix assignment, exception identification, and documentation drafting, the bot significantly reduces manual effort and accelerates resolution timelines, offering tangible business value through reduced developer headcount needs and enhanced compliance efficiency.
In this interactive workshop, Kajanth from Atomic Build helps innovators and product teams bridge the gap between ideas and real customer needs. Participants will learn practical techniques for identifying and validating customers, uncovering pain points, and rapidly testing solutions. The session introduces key product strategy frameworks, such as Jobs to Be Done and MoSCoW prioritization, to turn customer insights into focused, actionable product roadmaps.
In this talk, Professor Marin Litoiu shares the journey of Bitnobi, a data sharing platform founded at York University in 2016. The company combined centralization and data partitioning to support distributed data science projects without compromising data privacy. Supported by York Innovation, TIAP, NSERC and OCI, Bitnobi transformed academic innovation into entrepreneurial success, serving clients in government, health, and financial sectors before being acquired by Myant in 2025 to accelerate precision healthcare.
In this talk, Professor Kontogiannis shares his extensive experience in commercializing software research projects. As an expert in distributed architectures and cyber-physical systems with long-standing collaborations with IBM and Ulysses Systems, he discusses the opportunities and challenges in transforming research into successful software products. His team's tools are now integrated with state-of-the-art platforms including IBM Watson, IBM Websphere, and IBM DevOps.