The Canadian University Software Engineering Conference (formerly Canadian Undergraduate Software Engineering Conference), or CUSEC, is a conference held yearly in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, around mid-January since 2002. The conference promotes software engineering around a unique theme each year. Its audience is mostly the undergraduate students from different parts of Canada, with occasional participants from the academia or from the industry. Keynote speeches, tutorials, and corporate and academic presentations are given by the top figures and personalities in software engineering.
In 2000, John Kopanas, then an undergraduate student in the new software engineering program at Concordia University, envisioned the creation of a conference "by students, for students" in the field of software engineering. He and fellow students in the same program then put together plans and set them in motion. The result of their effort was the first edition of the conference, CUSEC 2002, which took place in Montreal, lasted 2 days, and attracted an audience of over 150 students from across Canada.
Witnessing the success of the first conference, Kopanas decided to continue the tradition and expand the conference. By 2007, the number of attendees had grown to over 350 students and professionals. The number of keynote speeches had also increased to five and the conference now lasts three days instead of two.
Timothy Lethbridge.
Peter Grogono, Professor and Associate Chair, Concordia University
Morven Gentleman.
Ahmed Seffah.
Jacob Slonin.
Kent Beck, Founder and Director, Three Rivers Institute and creator of Extreme Programming.
Peter Grogono, Professor & Software Engineering Program Director, Department of Computer Science, Concordia University.
Hal Helms, Co-Creator of Fusebox.
Dr. Philippe Krutchen, Director of Process Development (RUP), Rational Software.
Craig Larman.
Pierre N. Robillard, Chair of Computer and Software Engineering Department, École Polytechnique de Montréal.
Joel Spolsky, Founder, Fog Creek Software.
Lionel C. Briand, Canada Research Chair in Software Quality Engineering, Carleton University.
Krzysztof Czarnecki, Assistant Professor, University of Waterloo.
David Lorge Parnas, Professor of Software Engineering, SFI Fellow and Director of the Software Quality Research Laboratory, University of Limerick.
Branislav Selic, Distinguished Engineer, IBM Rational Software Canada.
Alistair Cockburn, President, Humans and Technology.
Alan Wassyng, Associate Professor, McMaster University.
J. B. Rainsberger.
Gregory V. Wilson, University of Toronto.
Chad Fowler, Author, My Job Went To India (And All I Got Was This Lousy Book).
Peter Grogono, Professor and Associate Chair, Concordia University.
Connie Heitmeyer, Head of the Software Engineering Section of the Naval Research Laboratory's Center for High Assurance Computer Systems and Chief Designer of the Software Cost Reduction toolset.
Kathy Sierra, Co-Creator of Head First Series, Co-Winner for a 15th Annual Software Development Jolt and Productivity Award, founder of Javaranch.com and blogger at Creating Passionate Users.
Dave Thomas, Author, The Pragmatic Programmer.
Pete McBreen, President, Software Craftsmanship Inc.
Ralph E. Johnson, Research Associate professor, University of Illinois.
James R. Cordy, Professor and Director, School of Computing, Queen's University.
Venkat Subramanian, Founder of Agile Development, Inc. and Adjunct Professor & Director of Undergraduate Studies CS, University of Houston.
Jeff Atwood, Founder of Coding Horror.
Dr. Jeffrey Ullman, Author, Dragon Book, Professor, Stanford University.
Zed Shaw, Author of the Mongrel web server.
Tim Bray, Co-invented XML 1.0, Director of Web Technologies at Sun Microsystems.
Jon Udell, Author, Information Architect, Software Developer, Technical Evangelist at Microsoft.
Peter Grogono, Professor and Associate Chair, Concordia University.
Avi Bryant, Creator of Seaside.
Dan Ingalls, Designer of the language Smalltalk.
Giles Bowkett, Creator of Archaeopteryx.
Richard Stallman, creator of the GNU Project and pioneer of Copyleft.
Leah Culver, co-creator of Pownce.
Francis Hwang, founder of Ruby-NYC, software engineer at Diversion Media.
Matt Knox, Evil Genius, Twitter.
Reginald Braithwaite: "Beautiful Failure"
Gregory V. Wilson, Professor at University of Toronto: "Bits of Evidence: What We Actually Know About Software Development, and Why We Believe It’s True"
Douglas Crockford, Senior JavaScript Architect at Yahoo!
Thomas Ptacek, co-founder of Matasano Security.
Jacqui Maher: "Saving the World with Ruby" (slides (pdf))
Drew Conway
Yehuda Katz
Michael Lopp, author of Rands in Repose blog
Mike Shaver, Vice President of Engineering at Mozilla Corporation
Julie Steele
Alexis Ohanian
Jeremy Ashkenas
Gayle Laakmann McDowell ([1])
Bret Victor ([2])
Andrew Rothbart, Software Engineer at Facebook
Manveer Heir, Bioware
Benjamin Fry
Maciej Cegłowski ([3])
Benjamin Black, CEO at Boundary([4])
Ian Goldberg
Michelle Levesque
Jessica McKellar
Bruce Eckel
Gary Bernhardt
Kelsey Gilmore-Innis
Michelle Zatlyn
Zach Holman
Don Olmstead
Aaron Patterson ([5])
Bruce Schneier
Camille Fournier
Dr. Jeff Chastine
Julie Pagano ([6])
Sandi Metz ([7])
Carina C. Zona
Kate Heddleston
Michael Bernstein
Jeff Hodges
Julia Evans
Amar Shah
Liz Abinante
David Nolen
Lynn Root
Sarah Mei
Tracy Osborn