July 23, 2025—The SEI this week announced the keynote speakers for Secure Software by Design 2025. The two-day, on-site event will take place August 19 and 20 at the Cooperative Plaza Conference Center in Arlington, Virginia.

Presented in collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University’s CyLab Security and Privacy Institute, the third annual Secure Software by Design event seeks to promote deliberate, intentional engineering processes that integrate security into the entire software lifecycle, rather than addressing security in individual stages as one-off activities. The lifecycle approach to security is especially important for software deployed in national security contexts, and it speeds delivery of more secure software to warfighters and other end users.

The 2025 event will feature two keynote speakers with deep industry experience. N. Luke Thomas, chief product security engineer for the Rolls-Royce Group, will deliver the presentation "Cheap Complexity, Classic Videogames, and Binary Sandcastles." Scott Dietzen is the CEO of Augment Code and former CEO of Pure Storage. Dietzen’s presentation will be "The Impact of AI on Software Engineering."

There are still openings to participate in the event’s workshops, beginning August 18 and led by SEI researchers:

• Data Science for Cybersecurity—Devin Cortese, Emil Mathew, David Schulker, Ed Wang
• Secure Coding in C/C++—David Svoboda
• Zero Trust and DevSecOps—Tim Morrow
• Designing Cybersecurity Using Model-Based Systems Engineering—Natasha Shevchenko
• Open Source Software Transparency—Scott Hissam, Carol Woody
• APIs and Zero Trust—McKinley Sconiers-Hasan, Alex Vesey

To register to attend the event or sign up for workshops, visit the Secure Software by Design 2025 website.