System-as-Code-Fest - Digital Engineering with SysML v2

System-as-Code-Fest 2026

Following the success of our virtual conference last year (over 300 participants registered, and close to 2000 viewed the Youtube presentations afterwards), we are inviting you to join the "System-as-Code" community again. Do it virtually – or in person in Detroit, where you will meet our co-hosts from System Strategy, Inc.

The registration for SaCF 2026-H1 is open!

Join the morning session, the hybrid mini-conference, to learn from 10 systems engineering practitioners & thought leaders about how they are taking advantage of SysML v2 and System-as-Code paradigm today, in the AI age (open to virtual and on-site participants).

Additionally: after the mini-conference, join the hands-on training (afternoon session) led by Kestutis Jankevicius from Sensmetry to start using SysML v2 (on-site participants only).

Event Information

When?

June 5th, 2026 | 14:00 – 17:00 UTC
(10:00 – 13:00 EDT)

Where?

This is a hybrid event. It will be streamed live on Zoom and take place in Detroit area:

OU INC Main Conference Room/IRC
Shotwell-Gustafson Pavilion
Oakland University Campus
Rochester, MI

Price?

Participation in the event is free and open to all.

Event Program

09:00 – 10:00 EDT

Coffee & Discussions (onsite participants)

14:00 – 15:15 UTC (10:00 – 11:15 EDT)

Session 1

10:00 – 10:15 EDT

Executable Ontology in SysML: Financial market use cases using the Sysand FiBO2SysMLv2 Package

Max Cramer and Hugo Ormo

10:15 – 10:30 EDT

Apollo 11 in SysML v2: A Mission for the Open-Source Community

Philipp Helle, Expert Digital Technologies for MBSE
Airbus

10:30 – 10:45 EDT

Modeling with Clarity: Comparing SysML v2 and Java Readability

Catie Haggerty, Software & Systems Engineer
System Strategy

10:45 – 11:00 EDT

Teaching SysML 2.0: A Dual-Tool Educational Approach

Michael Vinarcik, President
INCOSE Michigan Chapter

11:00 – 11:15 EDT

MEMO: Medical Device Architecture Modeling as Code for Ontology-Backed Safety Assurance

Somesh Kashyap, Senior Principal Software Systems Architect
Medtronic

14:15 – 15:30 UTC (11:15 – 11:30 EDT)

Break

15:30 – 16:45 UTC
(11:30 – 12:45 EDT)

Session 2

11:30 – 12:00 EDT

Move Fast, Don't Break Things: AI Is Fast... Istari makes it Safe

Christopher Benson, Co-Founder & CTO
Istari Digital

12:00 – 12:15 EDT

Models as code. MBSE at the speed of software

Dmitri Shockey, Systems Engineer
Deloitte

12:15 – 12:30 EDT

TBA

Mike Nash and Aldo Fabregas, PhD
General Dynamics Information Technology

12:30 – 12:45 EDT

Modernizing Model-Based Workflows: Automated feedback for all stages of system development/integration

Cole Smith, Engineer
Anduril Industries

12:45- 13:00 EDT

Thirty Years of Systems Modeling, Now Signed by a Theorem Prover

Joseph Kiniry, Founder, CEO and Chief Scientist
Sigil Logic

13:00 – 13:30 EDT

Lunch

13:30 – 16:30 EDT

Hands-On SysML v2 Training

Kestutis Jankevicius
Sensmetry

SysML v2 is here, and the fastest way to get value from it is to start using it. This hands-on training covers just enough theory to ground participants, then takes them directly into Syside Cloud to build working models across the four use cases that matter on day one — requirements, structure, behaviour, and architectural synthesis. Led by Kestutis Jankevicius from Sensmetry, the session is engineered for engineers who want practical fluency they can apply to their own work straight away.

Event Moderators: Juozas Vaicenavicius, PhD, CEO & Co-Founder of Sensmetry, and Mark Petrotta, Principal Engineer at System Strategy Inc. (SSI)

PAST EVENTS

System-as-Code-Fest 2025

Global virtual conference for systems and software engineering leaders adopting or curious about the System-as-Code paradigm with SysML v2 revolutionizing  Product & Systems Engineering in the age of AI.

Thank you for being part of System-as-Code-Fest 2025!

The event has successfully concluded — and it’s all thanks to your participation and energy.

We hope to see you again next year for System-as-Code-Fest 2026, where we’ll continue showing how SysML v2 and AI are shaping the future of systems engineering.

All speaker sessions are now available for replay on our YouTube channel.

The in-person part of the event in Vilnius, Lithuania

Event Program

Thought Leaders’ experiences and insights about embracing the System-as-Code paradigm with SysML v2.

16:00 – 17:30 GMT

Session 1

The Convergence We’ve Been Asking For: What Software-Scale Brings to Systems

Mark Petrotta, Principal Engineer, System Strategy Inc., USA

Automating MBSE for Speed: Achieving Product Velocity with System-as-Code

Michael Jastram, CEO, Formal Mind GmbH, Germany

System-as-Code for AI Reasoning

Adam Nagel, Head of Engineering, P-1, USA

Accelerating Space System Engineering: Let's Close the Loop!

Marcel Verhoef, System Engineer, ESA, the Netherlands

Starkit - A Design Language for Space

Johannes Gross, CEO, Planetary Utilities, USA

Systems Engineering at a Planetary Scale using SysML v2 as a Foundation

Robert P. Mueller, Chief Systems Architect / Engineer, Open Solar System Foundation (OSSF), USA

17:30 – 17:45 GMT

Break

17:45 – 19:00 GMT

Session 2

Systems-as-Code for Optimizing System Architectures

Jasper Bussemaker, Researcher, German Aerospace Center, Germany

PMT – People, Methods, Tools: Observations from the First Scaling and Migration Steps towards SysML v2

Simon Roth, Consultant for Software Architecture, Bosch, Germany

Advanced Modelling Capabilities with SysML2 Textual Notation

Hans Peter de Koning, CEO, DEKonsult, the Netherlands

Teaching MBSE with SysMLv2 Textual Notation: Simplicity, Transparency, and Focus

Hugo Ormo, Senior Managing Technical Consultant, NTT DATA, Germany

SysML v2 - Adoption in Organizations

Tim Weilkiens, CEO, OOSE, Germany

Event Moderator: Juozas Vaicenavicius, Sensmetry, CEO

The event is co-funded by Lithuania’s Economic Recovery and Resilience Plan “New Generation Lithuania” (project code: 08-004-K-0040). Project partners: Sensmetry, UAB, Vilnius Economics, UAB, Rubedos sistemos, UAB, Visionary Analytics, UAB

System-as-Code-Fest 2026

The registration for SaCF 2026-H1 is open!

Event Information

When?

Where?

Price?

Event Program

Coffee & Discussions (onsite participants)

Session 1

Executable Ontology in SysML: Financial market use cases using the Sysand FiBO2SysMLv2 Package

Apollo 11 in SysML v2: A Mission for the Open-Source Community

Modeling with Clarity: Comparing SysML v2 and Java Readability

Teaching SysML 2.0: A Dual-Tool Educational Approach

MEMO: Medical Device Architecture Modeling as Code for Ontology-Backed Safety Assurance

Break

Session 2

Move Fast, Don't Break Things: AI Is Fast... Istari makes it Safe

Models as code. MBSE at the speed of software

TBA

Modernizing Model-Based Workflows: Automated feedback for all stages of system development/integration

Thirty Years of Systems Modeling, Now Signed by a Theorem Prover

Lunch

Hands-On SysML v2 Training

PAST EVENTS

System-as-Code-Fest 2025

Global virtual conference for systems and software engineering leaders adopting or curious about the System-as-Code paradigm with SysML v2 revolutionizing Product & Systems Engineering in the age of AI.

Thank you for being part of System-as-Code-Fest 2025!

Event Program

Thought Leaders’ experiences and insights about embracing the System-as-Code paradigm with SysML v2.

Session 1

The Convergence We’ve Been Asking For: What Software-Scale Brings to Systems

Automating MBSE for Speed: Achieving Product Velocity with System-as-Code

System-as-Code for AI Reasoning

Accelerating Space System Engineering: Let's Close the Loop!

Starkit - A Design Language for Space

Systems Engineering at a Planetary Scale using SysML v2 as a Foundation

Break

Session 2

Systems-as-Code for Optimizing System Architectures

PMT – People, Methods, Tools: Observations from the First Scaling and Migration Steps towards SysML v2

Advanced Modelling Capabilities with SysML2 Textual Notation

Teaching MBSE with SysMLv2 Textual Notation: Simplicity, Transparency, and Focus

SysML v2 - Adoption in Organizations

The event is co-funded by Lithuania’s Economic Recovery and Resilience Plan “New Generation Lithuania” (project code: 08-004-K-0040). Project partners: Sensmetry, UAB, Vilnius Economics, UAB, Rubedos sistemos, UAB, Visionary Analytics, UAB

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Global virtual conference for systems and software engineering leaders adopting or curious about the System-as-Code paradigm with SysML v2 revolutionizing  Product & Systems Engineering in the age of AI.