Dear CHOOSE Members, We have finalised the lineup for this year's CHOOSE Forum. The five invited talks will give insight into some of the most interesting trends and advances in Software Engineering at the moment. We hope to see many of you in Bern on the 29th of November. The official announcement follows at the end of this message. Best regards, Michele Lanza (University of Lugano) Tudor Girba (Compugroup Medical/netstyle) Mircea Lungu (University of Bern) Thomas Fritz (University of Zurich) Jorge Ressia (Sw-Eng Gmbh) -- CHOOSE, the Swiss Group for Object-Oriented Systems and Environments, kindly invites you to attend its annual forum, to be held in Bern, Switzerland on November 29 2013. This year's topic is "Software Engineering: Between Wishful Thinking and Thinkable Wishes". The full day event features five talks and a panel. The speakers are: - Erich Gamma, Microsoft: Surviving Application Scale JavaScript - TypeScript in the Trenches - Andreas Zeller, Saarland University: A Thousand Testers in a Box: Advances in Automated Test Generation - Iulian Dragos, Typesafe: Object-Oriented Meets Functional: The Scala Programming Language - Schahram Dustdar, Technical University of Vienna: Can we Design & Engineer Elastic Systems? - Massimiliano di Penta, University of Sannio: It Isn't Just Structure: Different Views to Identify Source Code Smells More details together with the registration form can be found on the Forum webpage: http://choose.s-i.ch/events/forum2013 -- Mircea Lungu, PhD. Researcher Software Composition Group University of Bern