ECOOP 2026
Mon 29 June - Fri 3 July 2026 Brussels, Belgium

The ECOOP 2026 Academy is a summer school which aims to encourage graduate students and senior undergraduate students to pursue careers in research on topics related to the conference. The Academy brings together leading researchers in programming languages, object-orientation, software testing, analysis, and teaching from academia and industry to provide technical sessions on important research and on the skills needed for a research career.

The Academy also aims to engage students in a process of imagining how they might contribute to our research community. We especially encourage women and under-represented minority students to attend. Consider applying for the Student Volunteer program, which offers travel and attendance support grants by ECOOP and AITO.

Note also that there are several other tracks focused on students at ECOOP 2026, in particular the Student Research Competition and the Doctoral Symposium. Please check out these opportunities to maximise your ECOOP 2026 experience!

Invited Speakers

Dates
Plenary

This program is tentative and subject to change.

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Wed 1 Jul

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10:30 - 11:00
Coffee breakCatering at I.2
10:30
30m
Coffee break
Break
Catering

11:00 - 12:30
ECOOP Academy Lecture 1ECOOP Academy at I.aaa
11:00
90m
Talk
TBD - Tomas Petricek
ECOOP Academy
Tomas Petricek Charles University
12:30 - 14:00
12:30
90m
Lunch
Lunch
Catering

14:00 - 15:30
ECOOP Academy Lecture 2ECOOP Academy at I.aaa
14:00
90m
Talk
Getting Started with Quantum Software Engineering
ECOOP Academy
Shaukat Ali Simula Research Laboratory and Oslo Metropolitan University
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee breakCatering at I.2
15:30
30m
Coffee break
Break
Catering

16:00 - 17:30
ECOOP Academy Lecture 3ECOOP Academy at I.aaa
16:00
90m
Talk
Can WebAssembly Be the Universal Software Substrate?
ECOOP Academy
Ben L. Titzer Carnegie Mellon University

Thu 2 Jul

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10:30 - 11:00
Coffee breakCatering at I.2
10:30
30m
Coffee break
Break
Catering

11:00 - 12:30
ECOOP Academy Lecture 4ECOOP Academy at I.aaa
11:00
90m
Talk
Safe Autonomous Agents via Shielding
ECOOP Academy
Bettina Könighofer Graz University of Technology
12:30 - 14:00
12:30
90m
Lunch
Lunch
Catering

14:00 - 15:30
ECOOP Academy Lecture 5ECOOP Academy at I.aaa
14:00
90m
Talk
The challenge of data sharing while respecting privacy
ECOOP Academy
Alejandro Russo Chalmers University of Technology; University of Gothenburg
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee breakCatering at I.2
15:30
30m
Coffee break
Break
Catering

16:00 - 17:30
ECOOP Academy Lecture 6ECOOP Academy at I.aaa
16:00
90m
Talk
Modelling, Verifying & Implementing database backends
ECOOP Academy
Marc Shapiro Sorbonne-Université (LIP6) & Inria

Fri 3 Jul

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10:30 - 11:00
Coffee breakCatering at I.2
10:30
30m
Coffee break
Break
Catering

12:30 - 14:00
12:30
90m
Lunch
Lunch
Catering

14:00 - 15:30
ECOOP Academy Lecture 8ECOOP Academy at I.aaa
14:00
90m
Talk
Formal Methods Meet Legal Implementations
ECOOP Academy
Raphaël Monat Inria and University of Lille
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee breakCatering at I.2
15:30
30m
Coffee break
Break
Catering

16:00 - 17:10
ECOOP Academy Lecture 9ECOOP Academy at I.aaa
16:00
70m
Talk
TBD - Sophia Drossopoulou
ECOOP Academy
Sophia Drossopoulou Imperial College London