The 1st Practical Product Lines conference takes place from 20-21 October in Amsterdam.

The conference has 4 great keynote speakers lined up:

Jan Bosch (Intuit) – well-known software product line practitioner and researcher will talk about Software Product Lines: What got us here, won’t get us there - describing how companies using software product lines must adapt to changes in the development landscape in order to continue to have success with software product lines.

Markus Voelter (independent / itemis) – Model-Driven Software development guru and all-round nice guy will give a forward-looking talk on Language Workbenches and Software Product Lines - showing how these two concepts can come together in a way that will lead to Product Line Engineering for programming languages.

Dieter Rombach  executive and founding director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering (IESE) – will describe his organisation’s leadership in applying product line methods in industrial settings in his talk  Software Product Lines in Practice – A Fraunhofer Experience Report.

Dirk-Jan Swagerman of FEI presents a new (to me at least) experience report - Platform diversity and Innovation in electron microscopes - I’m hoping to learn a lot from this session, particularly around supporting product lines over a long time span – up to 20 years in this case.

There are 12 other sessions at the conference and I’ll comment on what I’m planning to attend later.

The early-bird booking period for the conference closes on 31st August – save 100 Euro by booking now. OMG and SPIder members get 10% off conference participation.