Track 1
Track 2
Plaza Suites 1-2
Track 3
Plaza Suites 3-4
Day 1
Registration
8:30 – 8:55
Welcome
9:00 – 9:05
Welcome from Barnaby Dracup, Head of Content
Keynote
9:05 – 9:30
Shay Weiss
VP of Engineering
Goldman Sachs
Breakout Sessions
9:35 – 10:00
Setting up a QA Centre of Excellence
Dileep Marway
Head of QA
The Economist
9:35 – 10:00
Hima Bindu Peteti
Tech Manager
Independent
9:35 – 10:00
DevOps Transformation – A Case of History Repeating
Andy Burgin
Platform Engineer
Sky Betting and Gaming
10:05 – 10:30
Crystal ball gazing: Marrying capacity models and load testing
Matthew Clarke
Senior Performance Engineer & Test Specialist
Edge Testing Solutions, part of Eurofins Digital Testing
10:05 – 10:30
Don’t hide your flaky test, embrace them!
Suman Bala
QA Lead
Sky
10:05 – 10:30
Metrics Mania. When our obsession with measurement can harm our software teams
Jonathan Rigby
Director, Technology
Expedia
Break
10:30 – 11:00
Coffee, networking, exhibition
Keynote
11:00 – 11:25
Starting from scratch (Outside looking in.)
Mark Bland
Senior Test Manager
Premier Farnell
Breakout Sessions
11:30 – 11:55
Ronald Cummings-John
Co-Founder and Author
Global App Testing
11:30 – 11:55
Embracing DevOps practices to create a culture of quality.
Nayana Shetty
Technical Lead
Financial Times
11:30 – 11:55
Need to Integrate Your Database Change Management into DevOps?
John Pocknell
Database Solutions Evangelist
Quest
12:00 – 12:25
Testing for Microservices, New Pyramids for a New Generation
Dan Smart
Test Engineering Lead
BookingGo
12:00 – 12:25
On The Shoulders of Giants – How to Find, Build and Lead Effective Communities of Practice
Drew Pontikis
Practice Manager – Testing and Quality
DisplayLink
12:00 – 12:25
A Journey to a Centralized, Globally Distributed Platform
Katie Gamanji
Cloud Platform Engineer
Condé Nast International
Break
12:25 – 13:25
Networking, lunch, exhibition
Keynote
13:25 – 13:50
A decade (and a bit) of DevOps
Ian Watson
Senior Manager, DevOps
Burberry
Breakout Sessions
13:55 – 14:20
Unleash DevOps with Serverless
Jon Vines
Software Development Team Lead
AO.com
13:55 – 14:20
Automated Testing and DevOps – Test automation is dead. Long live automated testing
AI Lines
QA Manager
Moody’s
13:55 – 14:20
DevOperability – Putting the Ops back into DevOps
Alexandra Moore
System Build Engineer
TransUnion UK
14:25 – 14:50
Using AI to drive Smart Test Execution and Reduce Test Times
Scott Dainty
Lead Consultant UK
SeaLights
14:25 – 14:50
Adapt and Adopt a tester: (r)evolutionary story
Miro Barsocchi & Annarita De Biase
Software Engineer in Test II
Hotels.com
14:25 – 14:50
Terry Brown
Director of Software Engineering
GSK
Break
14:50 – 15:20
Coffee, networking, exhibition
Keynote
15:20 – 15:45
Philip Curran
Head of Quality
eShopWorld
Q&A panel
15:50 – 16:30
Dileep Marway, Head of QA, The Economist
Terry Brown, Director of Software Engineering, GSK
Mark Bland, Senior Test Manager, Premier Farnell
Ian Watson, Senior Manager, DevOps, Burberry
Day 2
Registration
8:30 – 8:55
Welcome
9:00 – 9:05
Welcome from Barnaby Dracup, Head of Content
Keynote
9:05 – 9:30
Beyond the Spotify Model: using team topologies for fast flow and organisation evolution
Matthew Skelton
Founder And Head Of Consulting
CONFLUX
Breakout Sessions
9:35 – 10:00
Be a super smart QA team with TPI Next* Test Process Improvements!
Narayanan Palani
Chapter Lead – Quality Engineering
Lloyds Banking Group
9:35 – 10:00
Performance Success Criteria – How Test Results are Evaluated and Rated
René Schwietzke
CEO
Xceptance
9:35 – 10:00
Agile is dead…… long live agile
Paul Pilling
Agile Delivery Manager
BPDTS
10:05 – 10:30
AI can give your automation framework some brains. The question is: “where, and how?”
James Walker
Director
Curiosity Software Ireland
10:05 – 10:30
Agile Tester in making: mixing real life with transferable skills
Yong Yuen He
Software Test Engineer
Rentalcars.com
10:05 – 10:30
Continuous Delivery in the Real World
Rob Devany
Squad Lead
AND Digital
Break
10:30 – 11:00
Coffee, networking, exhibition
Keynote
11:00 – 11:25
Challenger Why do bad things still happen to good teams?
Andrew Fullen
Head of Technology and Innovation
Sogeti UK
Breakout Sessions
11:30 – 11:55
Web Accessibility Testing with Axe
Aparna Gopalakrishnan
Test Automation Consultant
11:30 – 11:55
Anatomy of an Academy: Coaching Teams to Embrace Left-Shifting and Quality Advocacy
Taheerah Atchia
Head of Testing
CDL
11:30 – 11:55
Nought to Tester in 20 Minutes
Bethany North
Senior Test Engineer
Sky Betting and Gaming
12:00 – 12:25
The challenges in recruiting Testing professionals and how to overcome them
Eyal Geva
Release & QA Manager
Tech IT Recruitment
12:00 – 12:25
Software Testing Imperatives for AI and Machine Learning systems
Richard Self LLM
Senior Lecturer in Governance of Advanced and Emerging Technologies
University of Derby
12:00 – 12:25
The Future of Enterprise Computing
Edson Ferreira
Head of Engineering
Lloyds Banking Group
Break
12:25 – 13:25
Networking, lunch, exhibition
Keynote
13:25 – 13:50
iPlayer – Keeping the promise alive.
Olu Oyadare
Senior Product Manager
BBC
Q&A panel
13:55 – 14:30
Edson Ferreira, Head of Engineering, Lloyds Banking Group
René Schwietzke, CEO, Xceptance
Taheerah Atchia, Head of Testing, CDL
James Walker, Director, Curiosity Software Ireland
Break
14:30 – 15:00
Coffee, networking, exhibition