Five members from the LIT CPS Lab and 4 from the CD lab VaSiCS attended the Software Engineering Conference, opens an external URL in a new window at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology between Feb 24 - 28, 2025. In addition to expanding on contacts and networking, Rick Rabiser gave a keynote speech at the SECPPS Workshop, opens an external URL in a new window focusing on Software Engineering in Cyber-Physical Systems: A Story of Variability and Complexity, opens an external URL in a new window. He also presented a paper by Martin Becker, Rick Rabiser, Goetz Botterweck titled: Not Quite There Yet: Remaining Challenges in Systems and Software Product Line Engineering as Perceived by Industry Practitioners, opens an external URL in a new window. Lisa Sonnleithner served as one of the workshop chairs.