| Year | Conference | City, Country | General Chair | Program Chair | Notes |
| 2029 | ICSE 51 | Tokyo, Japan | Hironori Washizaki, Waseda University, and Jianjun Zhao, Kyushu University | | |
| 2028 | ICSE 50 | Hawaii, USA | Rick Kazman, University of Hawaii | | |
| 2027 | ICSE 49 | Dublin, Ireland | Brian Fitzgerald, University of Limerick | | |
| 2026 | | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | Marcos Kalinowski, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro | | |
| 2025 | | Ottawa, Canada | Tim Lethbridge, University of Ottawa, and Lionel Briand, University of Ottawa and LERO (Ireland) | | |
| 2024 | | Lisbon, Portugal | Rui Maranhao Abreu and Ana C. R. Paiva, University of Porto | | |
| 2023 | | Melbourne, Australia | John Grundy, Monash University | | |
| 2022 | | Pittsburgh, US | Matthew Dwyer, University of Virginia | | |
| 2021 | | Online due to pandemic, instead of Madrid, Spain | Natalia Juristo, Technical University of Madrid | | |
| 2020 | | Online due to pandemic, instead of Seoul, South Korea | Gregg Rothermel, North Carolina State University and Doo-Hwan Bae, KAIST | | |
| 2019 | | Montreal, Canada | Joanne M. Atlee, University of Waterloo | | |
| 2018 | | Gothenburg, Sweden | Ivica Crnkovic, Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg | | |
| 2017 | | Buenos Aires, Argentina | Sebastián Uchitel, University of Buenos Aires | | |
| 2016 | | Austin, US | Laura K. Dillon, Michigan State University | | |
| 2015 | | Florence, Italy | Antonia Bertolino, Italian National Research Council (CNR), Pisa | | |
| 2014 | | Hyderabad, India | Pankaj Jalote, IIIT Delhi | | |
| 2013 | | San Francisco, US | David Notkin, University of Washington | | |
| 2012 | | Zürich, Switzerland | Martin Glinz, University of Zürich | Gail Murphy, Mauro Pezzè | |
| 2011 | | Honolulu, US | Richard Taylor, University of California, Irvine | | |
| 2010 | | Cape Town, South Africa | Judith Bishop, University of Pretoria, South Africa and Jeff Kramer, Imperial College London, UK | Prem Devanbu, Sebastián Uchitel | |
| 2009 | | Vancouver, Canada | Stephen Fickas, University of Oregon, US | | |
| 2008 | | Leipzig, Germany | Wilhelm Schäfer, Paderborn University, Germany | | |
| 2007 | | Minneapolis, US | John Knight, University of Virginia, US | | |
| 2006 | | Shanghai, China | Leon Osterweil, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, US | Dieter Rombach, Mary Lou Soffa | |
| 2005 | | St. Louis, US | Gruia-Catalin Roman, Washington University in St. Louis, US | | |
| 2004 | | Edinburgh, UK | Anthony Finkelstein, University College London, UK | | |
| 2003 | | Portland, US | Lori Clarke, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, US | Laurie Dillon, Walter Tichy | |
| 2002 | | Orlando, US | Will Tracz, Lockheed Martin Systems Integration, Owego, US | | |
| 2001 | | Toronto, Canada | Hausi A. Müller, University of Victoria, Canada | | |
| 2000 | | Limerick, Ireland | Carlo Ghezzi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy | | |
| 1999 | ICSE 21 | Los Angeles, US | Barry Boehm, University of Southern California, US | | |
| 1998 | ICSE 20 | Kyoto, Japan | Koji Torii, NAIST, Japan | Richard Kemmerer, Kokichi Futatsugi | |
| 1997 | | Boston, US | W. Richards Adrion, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, US | | |
| 1996 | ICSE 18 | Berlin, Germany | , University of Kaiserslautern, Germany | | |
| 1995 | | Seattle, US | Dewayne Perry, Bell Labs, US | | |
| 1994 | ICSE 16 | Sorrento, Italy | Bruno Fadini, Università degli Studi di Napoli Frederico II, Italy | | |
| 1993 | ICSE 15 | Baltimore, US | Victor R. Basili, University of Maryland, US | | |
| 1992 | ICSE 14 | Melbourne, Australia | Tony Montgomery, RMIT University, Australia | | |
| 1991 | ICSE 13 | Austin, US | Les Belady, Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation, US | | |
| 1990 | ICSE 12 | Nice, France | François-Regis Valette, ONER-CERT, France | | |
| 1989 | ICSE 11 | Pittsburgh, US | Larry Druffel, Software Engineering Institute, US | | |
| 1988 | ICSE 10 | Raffles City, Singapore | Tan Chin Nam, Infocomm Media Development Authority, Singapore | Larry Druffel, Software Engineering Institute, US, Bertrand Meyer, Eiffel Software, US | - |
| 1987 | ICSE 9 | Monterey, US | William E. Riddle, Software Productivity Consortium, US | | |
| 1985 | ICSE 8 | London, UK | Manny M. Lehman, Imperial College, London, UK | | |
| 1984 | ICSE 7 | Orlando, US | T. Straeter, General Dynamics Electronics, San Diego, US | | |
| 1982 | ICSE 6 | Tokyo, Japan | Yutaka Ohno, Japan; Koji Kobayashi, Japan; Raymond T. Yeh, University of Maryland, US | | |
| 1981 | ICSE 5 | San Diego, US | Seymour Jeffrey, National Institute of Standards and Technology, US | | |
| 1979 | ICSE 4 | Munich, Germany | Friedrich (Fritz) L. Bauer, Technische Universität München, West Germany | | Sponsors: ACM SIGSOFT, European Research Office, German Informatics Society, and IEEE Computer Society. |