University of Colorado Boulder
Summer 2026 Seminar Series

Frontier in Software
Engineering

How AI is changing the way software gets built in 2026 — told firsthand by the practitioners living it.

8 Thursdays May 28 – Jul 23, 2026 3:00–3:45 PM MT Live on Zoom Free & open to the public
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Registration link coming soon.

Why Now

Software engineering has been transformed this year. Not gradually, suddenly. Claude Code, Cursor, and agentic workflows no longer just autocomplete lines; they write entire features, debug across codebases, and ship pull requests. Junior engineers produce at senior-level velocity, senior engineers operate at staff-level scope, and small teams now ship what once took thirty people.

This is not a future trend. It has already happened. Each week this summer, one practitioner who is living that change joins us to share how their day-to-day engineering work has shifted, because the field our students are entering has already changed.

Schedule

Eight sessions on Thursdays between May 28 and July 23. Each session is a 30-minute talk followed by 15 minutes of Q&A.

#DateCompany
1May 28Superlinked
2June 11OneFourTwentyFour
3June 18To be announced
4June 25Ollama
5July 2SingleStore
6July 9Stealth startup
7July 16Nuro
8July 23Google

Who You'll Hear From

Engineers in the trenches

Shipping production code daily with AI tools.

Founders who build

Hands-on technical founders, not just vision people.

Researchers turned builders

Applying frontier research to real products.

Speakers are practitioners from the SF Bay Area, including engineers and founders from companies such as Ollama, Superlinked, SingleStore, OneFourTwentyFour, Anthropic, and Google. Every speaker is personally invited; there is no open call. Names and talk titles will be announced in the coming weeks.