Arie van Bennekum, Co-Author of the Agile Manifesto

Agile is everywhere these days. Most organisations claim some sort of Agile but the benefits often are far what is from expected. People hide in roles, stick to some rituals but integrated delivery per sprint in an efficient, high value, high quality way seems still far away. Arie will talk about the next step in which delivery is integrated work of all disciplines getting to that sprint delivery that means production and extends that even outside the company, changing potentially the coding practices that not only create speed but value as well.

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Sarah Saunders, Managing Software Engineer, Cloud and Custom Applications, Capgemini UK

The platform engineering discipline has come a long way in the past few years. Let’s step back and take a look at where we are, what drivers got us here, and where we are going next when creating platforms to support development.

Dave Snowden, Director & Founder – The Cynefin Centre, CSO – The Cynefin Company

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Greg Thomas, Security Researcher, Intel Corporation

The success of security testing is proportional to the security mindset of your development team, limited knowledge of security concepts equals less bugs found. In this talk I will share the methods used to help improve our team’s knowledge of security and in turn enable them to find more issues before product release

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Carlos Gutiérrez, Application Delivery Product Group Leader, OpenText

For most organizations, test automation is no longer an option—it’s a requirement.

But automation brings its own challenges, including false positives and script maintenance. How do you increase test automation coverage without increasing the effort to manage it?

It’s tempting to think you just need to train more people on test automation. But your automation technology must also evolve to facilitate high-quality, resilient script authoring.

Join this session to discover:

• How to consolidate and correlate test automation with the rest of the lifecycle.
• How AI can help build test plans, to diminish risk and increase coverage.
• How to leverage the cloud to accelerate test automation.
• How to onboard different personas into the test automation process.
• By the end, you’ll know how to increase test automation, without increasing automation management.

TABLE 1: Follow Through of the Keynote: The Critically of Managing Tacit Knowledge and Why AI is Not the Answer
Dave Snowden, Director & Founder – The Cynefin Centre, CSO – The Cynefin Company

TABLE 2: Software Testing as a Profession
Geoff Thompson, Chair and Mike Smith, Vice Chair, UK & Ireland Testing Board

TABLE 3: KPIs and Metrics for KM Teams
Helene Russell, KM Specialist, The Knowledge Business

TABLE 4: Neurodiversity in Testing – Why is It So Important?
Jonathon Wright and Andy Shaw, BCS Specialist Interest Group in Software Testing (SIGiST)

TABLE 5: Ask Me Anything
Paul Gerrard, Principal, Gerrard Consulting

TABLE 6: Preserving Wisdom: Strategies and Solutions for Preventing Knowledge Loss
Ivett Bene, Founder, CEO and Andrej Rácz, Podcaster, Content Creator, C-SYNC LTD

TABLE 7: Getting to First Base: Attracting Leaders of Small-medium Enterprises Attention to KM
Janine Weightman, Founder, Knovolution Ltd

Paul Gerrard, Principal, Gerrard Consulting

As a professional institution representing the interests of test engineers, the Test Engineering Society intends to become licensed to award three grades of professional registration (and post-nominals). It will adopt the Engineering Councils UK-SPEC, Standard for Professional Engineering Competence.

UK-SPEC identifies five areas of competence: A – Knowledge and understanding, B – Design, development and solving engineering problems, C – Responsibility, management and leadership, D – Communication and interpersonal skills and E – Professional commitment.

This talk will explain how UK-SPEC ‘works’ in the context of test engineering and how generic definitions of competence can be defined.

Richard Bishop, Lead Quality Engineer, Lloyds Banking Group

Testing for Tomorrow: Embracing Sustainability in Software Testing, in this presentation Richard will discuss steps that all testers can take to make testing more sustainable, reducing carbon footprint, lowering costs and improving quality. This interactive session will encourage the audience to consider improvements that they can make within their organisations.

Bill Watson, Test Manager, BBC

Moderator:
Bill Watson, BBC

Panellists:
Arie van Bennekum, Co-author of Agile Manifesto
Sarah Saunders, Capgemini UK
Greg Thomas, Intel Corporation
Carlos Gutiérrez, OpenText
Paul Gerrard, Gerrard Consulting
Richard Bishop, Lloyds Banking Group