IEEE Software magazine offers pioneering ideas, expert analyses, and thoughtful insights for software professionals who need to keep up with rapid technology change. We are the authority on translating software theory into practice. Our annual Software Expert Summit event showcases thought leaders associated with the magazine or part of the local software community, who are helping to define the future of software engineering during a day of presentations, panel discussions, and networking. Our theme this year is "Software Engineering for the 21st Century," and we’ll be featuring a variety of speakers to cover the latest important technologies that are transforming our field. Our goal is to provide attendees with the information and resources to ride the wave of the latest changes in software engineering and keep up to date with the tools they need as practicing software engineers. The venue for this year's Software Experts Summit, Bangalore, could not be more appropriate. Home to a vibrant and vital software development community of more than 350,000 IT professionals and more than 2,500 IT companies, Bangalore is one of the epicenters of the ongoing software revolution. In addition to discussing specific technologies, this year’s speakers and panelists will look at what it means to be developing software for the 21st Century: What have we learned from successes and failures in the 20th century? Which new technologies and new domains are challenging the way we build software today? How do we build software so that it can adapt and scale to the needs of future systems of systems?