PanelMODELS 2025

About

Traditionally, MODELS hosts a plenary panel on a trending topic, bringing together experts for an in-depth discussion of a particular topic.

Summary

Fostering communication and collaboration between academia and industry could benefit both parties as well as the new generations of software engineers. However, there are numerous difficulties encountered that need to be overcome when initiating and maintaining these collaborations.

In this edition, panelists from both academia and industry will address and discuss the following topic: “How can we better bridge the gap between academia and industry? Success stories and failures”.

Panelists

- Benno Beuting

Benno Beuting is the CEO of Cordis SUITE, a low-code platform for structured, flexible, and future-ready control software for mechatronic systems in operational technology — tested and proven for over 25 years in industrial machines across high-tech, pharma, food, and smart buildings.

- Steven Kelly

Steven Kelly is the CTO of MetaCase and co-founder of the DSM Forum. Three decades of experience of building language workbenches and acting as a consultant on their use in domain-specific modeling. Architect and lead developer of MetaEdit+, MetaCase’s domain-specific modeling tool. Ever-present on the program committee of the OOPSLA workshops on Domain-Specific Modeling, co-organized the first workshop in 2001 and tenth in 2010. Author of over 50 articles, most recently in journals such as SoSyM and IEEE Software, and a member of the editorial board for the Journal of Database Management.

- Dimitris Kolovos

Dimitris Kolovos is a Professor of Software Engineering in the Automated Software Engineering Group of the Department of Computer Science at the University of York, where he researches and teaches model-driven software engineering. He’s an Eclipse Foundation committer, leading the development of the open-source Epsilon model-driven software engineering platform, which is used in companies such as Rolls-Royce, Bosch and IBM.

- Pedro J. Molina

Pedro J. Molina is the founder of Metadev, a company devoted to creating tools for developers using web-based DSLs and code generation techniques. He holds a PhD in Computer Sciences specialized in Conceptual Modeling and Code Generation for User Interfaces (Technical University of Valencia, 2003). He has published more than 20 research publications, 2 books and 3 patents in the USPTO. With +25 years working in software he has experience as CTO, R&D, Software Architect and as a developer working for companies like Icinetic and Capgemini.

- István Ráth

István Ráth has over 20 years of experience in software and systems engineering, EU research, and academic publishing. As co-founder and CEO of IncQuery Labs, he led the company in MBSE, partnering with Dassault Systèmes, Ericsson, Thales, and others, earning Deloitte Fast50 and Cameo Excellence awards. Following its successful acquisition, he is now Vice President at PTC.

Accepted Papers

	Title
	How can we better bridge the gap between academia and industry? Success stories and failures. Panel P: Dimitris Kolovos, P: Steven Kelly, M: Lola Burgueño, P: Benno Beuting, P: István Ráth, P: Pedro J. Molina