PROGRAM

Digital hållbarhet – ABBs approach By Ola Appelros

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Workshop // Let’s Play DecidArch! An architectural decision making card game By Remco de boer

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Workshop // AI Ethics for digital architects By Eltjo R. Port

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Europeisk digital suveränitet i tider av stor oro By Daniel Melin

I denna session tar Daniel Melin upp ett antal avgörande frågor kring Sveriges säkerhet och teknologiska självständighet. Han diskuterar vilka konsekvenser det kan få att Sverige befinner sig i ett krigsliknande tillstånd och hur vår position förändras i och med att USA inte längre är en självklar allierad. Vidare lyfter han vikten av att Sverige i alla lägen behåller kontroll över kritisk information, samt frågan om EuroStack kan utgöra en möjlig lösning på dessa utmaningar.

Ethics and Data Security in the Age of AI By Robert Folkesson, Jakob Ehn

Building a public-facing chatbot powered by Large Language Models (LLMs) comes with some unique challenges, ensuring responses are accurate, grounded, and aligned with ethical guidelines and business regulations.

In this session, we’ll explore how we leveraged Azure OpenAI to create a customer chatbot that ”plays nice” taking into account aspects like EU AI Act and highly regulated business requirements.

Some key takeaways:

– Grounding responses with confidence: How we leveraged external data sources, content moderation, and prompt engineering to ensure the chatbot consistently delivers accurate and grounded responses.

– Preventing harmful interactions, techniques for mitigating risks of the chatbot engaging in inappropriate or harmful conversations, including ethical considerations.

– Automating Evaluation Pipelines: How we developed automated systems to evaluate chatbot responses, ensuring measurable improvements and avoiding regressions when updating prompts or models.

– Architectural decisions and Azure services that we used to create a scalable and resilient chatbot solution.

– Lessons learned from real world usage

Evaluating Software Architecture for Sustainability By Iffat Fatima

As sustainability becomes a key concern for organizations, evaluating its impact through software architecture is crucial for long-term success. This talk introduces a Software Architecture Evaluation Method designed for assessing 4D sustainability (economic, environmental, social, and technical), providing participants with practical techniques to assess and prioritize design decisions based on sustainability criteria. Attendees will learn how to perform trade-off analysis, calculate a Sustainability Impact Score, and interpret it, enabling a holistic evaluation of architectural choices. The talk will also share results and lessons learned from our case studies, equipping participants with actionable insights for conducting in-house sustainability evaluations within their software organizations.

Why Governance Matters: The Key to Reducing Risk Without Slowing Down By Sarah Wells

When you hear “governance,” you might think of red tape, bureaucracy, or someone telling you what you can’t do. But real governance is about alignment and reducing technical risk. And that matters more than ever.

In most cases, engineers aren’t deliberately making risky decisions—they just don’t have clear expectations. That’s where good governance comes in. It ensures everyone understands what “good” looks like, gives teams the autonomy to move fast while staying on course, and provides built-in mechanisms to self-correct before small missteps become big problems.

In this talk, I’ll break down how to implement governance that actually helps, not hinders, including:

Understanding what’s in your software estate

Building guardrails and policies that work – and automating them!

Aligning technology decisions across teams

Making smart technology choices – and why “boring” is often best

If you want to reduce risk, improve decision-making, and keep your organization running smoothly—without slowing your teams down—this session is for you.

Architecting for Sustainability with the SAF Toolkit By Markus Funke

Including sustainability concerns in software architecture design decision-making is becoming imperative. In this hands-on tutorial, we will explain the notion of software sustainability and how software architecture can be pivotal to design for sustainability, setup up metrics and measures, and ultimately create an incremental process of design, measurement, and monitoring, and reassess past decisions so that the target sustainability goals can be achieved. To this aim, the tutorial will teach the sustainability assessment framework (SAF) toolkit, an open source toolkit for software sustainability design and sustainability-quality assessment.