A ICSE 2026 acontecerá entre os dias 12 e 18 de abril, no Rio de Janeiro
O Professor Silvio Meira, emérito da Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE) e docente aposentado do Centro de Informática (CIn) da UFPE, será keynote (palestrante de destaque) da International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2026), a maior conferência de software do Mundo. O evento vai acontecer de 12 a 18 de abril, no Rio de Janeiro (RJ), reunindo pesquisadores, profissionais e educadores para apresentar e discutir pesquisas, inovações e tendências no campo da engenharia de software.
O pesquisador vai ministrar a palestra “Adaptive Interventionist Method (AIM): Rethinking Research Methodologies for Software Engineering and Interventionist Sciences in the Phygital Age”, que apresenta o Adaptive Interventionist Method (AIM), uma estrutura filosoficamente fundamentada, eticamente integrada e pragmaticamente validada, adaptada para investigação aplicada rigorosa e intervenção sistêmica na área de Engenharia de Software.
O AIM adota um ciclo interativo de modelagem, intervenção, observação incorporada, avaliação multidimensional e teorização adaptativa que integra explicitamente a ética como um requisito central do design. Os participantes obterão informações sobre por que as ciências intervencionistas exigem novos métodos e como o AIM oferece um caminho robusto para gerar conhecimento responsável, contextualizado e acionável no domínio físico-digital dinâmico e interconectado.
“É uma honra estar presente como palestrante de destaque na principal conferência de Engenharia de Software do mundo, principalmente na primeira edição em que o evento acontece no Brasil”, afirma Silvio Meira. Ele acrescenta que a conferência é uma oportunidade essencial para discutir novas formas de gerar conhecimento e avanço tecnológico de maneira ética e responsável na área.
Sobre o professor
Silvio Meira é um dos principais colaboradores para o desenvolvimento tecnológico do Recife e do Brasil. Ele é professor emérito da UFPE, professor aposentado do Centro de Informática (CIn) da UFPE; ex-presidente da Sociedade Brasileira de Computação (SBC); um dos fundadores do Porto Digital e presidente do conselho e criador do CESAR e da CESAR School. Silvio também é cientista-chefe da TDS Company, iniciativa que visa criar soluções tecnológicas e estratégicas para organizações de diversos setores.
Resumo completo da palestra:
Title: Adaptive Interventionist Method (AIM): Rethinking Research Methodologies for Software Engineering and Interventionist Sciences in the Phygital Age
Abstract: This talk addresses a foundational crisis confronting software engineering and related interventionist disciplines, which actively create and shape new socio-technical realities rather than merely observing them. Classical scientific methods, grounded in detached observation and universal truth, are fundamentally misaligned with the performative, constructivist, and context-dependent nature of these fields operating within complex phygital environments, the ever more common hybrid spaces where physical, digital, and social dimensions are inseparably intertwined.
Conventional approaches like Action Research, Design Science Research, and Lean methodologies, while valuable, fall short in fully grappling with this complexity and ethical responsibility.
To overcome these challenges, this talk introduces the Adaptive Interventionist Method (AIM), a philosophically grounded, ethically integrated, and pragmatically validated framework tailored for rigorous applied inquiry and systemic intervention. AIM embraces an iterative cycle of modeling, intervention, embedded observation, multi-dimensional evaluation, and adaptive theorization that explicitly integrates ethics as a core design requirement. It advances a model-centric epistemology suited for uncertainty and complexity, operationalized through a novel bootstrapping validation protocol where AIM itself evolves iteratively through its application.
Attendees will gain insight into why the interventionist sciences demand new methods and how AIM offers a robust pathway to generate responsible, contextualized, and actionable knowledge in the dynamic and interconnected phygital realm.
Bio: Silvio Meira is a professor and entrepreneur with a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Kent (1985). He is Professor Emeritus at the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE, Brazil), where he supervised more than 170 master’s and doctoral theses, with research spanning software engineering, digital ecosystems, innovation, and technology strategy. Meira is founder and Chief Scientist at TDS.company and Extraordinary Professor at cesar.school, both at Porto Digital. Meira is also a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Asia School of Business in Kuala Lumpur and a former fellow and faculty associate at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center. He has received several distinguished honors, including Brazil’s National Order of Scientific Merit.
He is best known as the founder and Chair of the Board of Porto Digital, one of Latin America’s most successful innovation hubs, home to some 500 companies and responsible for generating tens of thousands of jobs and substantial economic impact in Brazil’s Northeast. Meira is also the founder and former chief scientist of CESAR, an innovation institute that serves as one of Porto Digital’s intellectual and operational pillars and employs more than 1,400 people in Brazil and abroad. He serves on the boards of several major companies and institutions and on Brazil’s Presidential Council for Economic and Social Development. He was named Brazilian Economic Personality of the Year by O Globo, Brazil’s most influential national newspaper. Meira received the title of Eminent Engineer of the Year 2023 from Brazil’s Institute of Engineering.
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