Conference Speakers
Sr Solutions Architect Sauce Labs
Concurrent SessionsNikolay Advolodkin is a self-driven SDET on a lifelong mission to create profound change in the IT world. Today, he serves as the founder and Test Automation Instructor at UltimateQA.com and a Solutions Architect at Sauce Labs. He was also voted as one of the top automation engineers in the...Read more |
Agile Coach & Scrum Master Thomson Reuters
Concurrent SessionsChristina Ambers is a certified Scrum Master, Agile, and Kanban Coach with over 14 years of experience in software development and team transformations. She leads distributed teams through an Agile Dojo every six weeks, focusing on agile principles and values. In addition, she co-leads her company's Agile Guild. Christina enjoys...Read more |
Application Transformation Principal Asperitas Consulting
Concurrent SessionsDerek Ashmore is the Application Transformation Practice Lead at Asperitas Consulting. He helps companies leverage AWS and Azure cloud platforms to gain a competitive advantage with a focus on DevSecOps, infrastructure code, cloud computing, containerization, making applications cloud-native, and migrating applications to the cloud. Derek routinely speaks at technical conferences...Read more |
Founder and CEO LitheSpeed LLC
Concurrent SessionsSanjiv Augustine is the Founder and CEO of LitheSpeed, LLC and the Agile Leadership Academy. Sanjiv is an entrepreneur, industry-leading Agile and Lean expert, author, speaker, management consultant, and trainer. With 30 years in the industry, Sanjiv has served as a trusted advisor to executives and management at leading firms,...Read more |
Director of Engineering mParticle
Melissa Benua has worked in nearly every software development role—dev, test, DevOps, and program management—at companies big and small and somewhere in-between. She's created and run high availability, high-quality services for PlayFab, Bing, Cortana, and Xbox One, and now for mParticle's enormous data platform. Melissa discovered her love of massively-scaled...Read more |
Senior Software Engineer Compassion International
Concurrent SessionsPaul Borlin has been in software development as an engineer and architect since the late 1990's at premier companies, like Philips. He has a passion for best practices, and helping organizations deliver great value. Paul has worked in several flavors of agile to include Scrum, Kanban, Lean, SAFe, and XP....Read more |
Sr. Vice President, Product Delivery Goldman Sachs
Concurrent SessionsMariya Breyter is a business and IT executive with a passion for leading enterprise-level agile adoptions and culture changes. As an Agile Delivery Leader for Goldman Sachs consumer business, Mariya led a team of Agile practitioners in building the first consumer business at the firm, with a goal of helping...Read more |
Principal & Founder Ignite Insight and Innovation
KeynotesTricia Broderick is a leadership and organizational advisor. Tricia has more than twenty years of experience in the software development industry. Her transformational leadership, at all levels of an organization, ignites the growth of leaders and high-performing teams to deliver quality outcomes. As a result, she is a highly-rated trainer,...Read more |
Head of QA MANGOPAY
Concurrent SessionsAfter successfully completing her master's degree in computer science from The University of Pierre et Marie Curie, Farah Chabchoub became particularly interested in innovation and service improvement. She began to take an interest in quality assurance from her internship experiences by testing products and services for INFOTEL, then for Groupama....Read more |
Digital Consulting Leader (Agile/Devops) Cognizant
Concurrent SessionsPranay Chanda is Digital Consulting Leader in Cognizant, a seasoned Lean Agile strategist, with proven experience in implementation of organization and behavior change in large and complex digital transformation engagements in insurance, banking, financial services, and Healthcare. His primary focus areas have been Agile Organization Design, Agile Way of Working,...Read more |
Global Application Security Evangelist HCL
Concurrent SessionsRob Cuddy is a Global Application Security Evangelist for HCL providing thought leadership for the application security space. Prior to this role, Rob was with IBM for 14 years with roles in Application Security Evangelism, Worldwide Sales Enablement, Tiger Teams and Field Services. Rob has spoken at numerous events and...Read more |
General Manager of Central and West Regions C-prime
Concurrent SessionsJean Dahl is a collaborative, outcomes-driven senior executive, author, recognized thought leader, speaker, and serial entrepreneur who is passionate about building adaptive and responsive Lean enterprises that exploit change to seize greater and greater levels of agility. She regularly consults with her clients, ranging from Lean startups to corporate giants,...Read more |
Director of Digital Branch Experience Edward Jones
Leadership Summit SessionsLee Eason is currently the Director of Digital Branch Experience at Edward Jones. Prior to this, Lee was CEO of Takata, an organization that helps teams reach its peak potential and the CTO of SoftPro, the number one provider of mortgage title and closing software in the US. After finishing...Read more |
Chief People Officer AgileThought
Concurrent SessionsChristy Erbeck, former Chief People Officer at AgileThought, has over 25 years’ experience in domestic and international speaking, consulting, training, and coaching, working in both software development and non-product-focused environments, including manufacturing, distribution, and sales & marketing. She has trained and worked with thousands of individuals worldwide, from nontechnical roles,...Read more |
Sr Director Marketing & Innovation BCforward
Concurrent SessionsSr. Director Digital Marketing & Innovation Michael Faulise is an Executive Leader who focus includes Sales, Marketing, Business Development, Innovation & Solutions. Michael has over 20 years in Consulting Services with his focus on Marketing/Sales & Client Business Development. Including working with the Allianz, NASDAQ, Amazon, United Heath, Boeing, Microsoft,...Read more |
Agile Delivery Lead Capital One
Concurrent SessionsKathleen Flax has been helping organizations and teams implement Agile practices since 2013 as a Scrum Master, Product Owner and Internal Coach. Prior to becoming Agile certified, she was a Waterfall Project Manager for 10 years. Kathleen believes that helping organizations and teams is less about the practices, and all...Read more |
Technical Manager Coveros
Bob Foster is a Technical Manager with over 20 years experience as a senior software engineer and team lead. Bob has proven experience in all aspects of software development and delivery (including DevOps, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code). He is a firm believer in the benefits gained by software teams...Read more |
DevOps Advocate Redgate Software
Concurrent SessionsGrant Fritchey is a Data Platform MVP and AWS Community Builder with over 30 years' experience in IT, including time spent in support and development. Grant's primary focus is database development, administration and automation. He also has experience developing software in .NET, C#, and Java. Grant has written books for...Read more |
Principal Agile Coach Vaco
Bob Galen is an agile practitioner, trainer & coach based in Cary, NC. In this role, he helps guide companies and teams in their pragmatic adoption and organizational shift towards Scrum and other agile methodologies and practices. He is a Principal Agile Coach at Vaco Agile, a leading business agility...Read more |
DevSecOps Senior Engineer Steampunk
Concurrent SessionsGene Gotimer is a DevSecOps engineer at Steampunk, often working with federal government clients. He considers himself a developer, but he usually focuses on DevSecOps practices such as continuous integration, repeatable builds, unit testing, automated testing, security tools, and automated deployments. Gene feels strongly that repeatability, quality, and security are...Read more |
Vice President, Transform Practice AgileThought
Steven Granese has been building innovative teams and solutions for his entire nineteen-year career in the technology industry. His expertise lies in transforming organizations to deliver their desired business outcomes by adopting an agile way of working. He holds multiple agile certifications (CSM, CSP, PMI-ACP) and is an avid speaker...Read more |
Senior Agile Coach Accenture
Concurrent SessionsBrian Holt started his career as a software developer. Just before becoming a manager, he volunteered his team to be a pilot for scrum. When he moved into management, Agile and DevOps were the key to his success, which ultimately led Brian into coaching. He relates with technical teams and...Read more |
Director - Quality Engineering Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company
Sujay Honnamane is an information technology leader with two decades of experience in software delivery. Sujay possesses rich global experience working across several industry verticals such as Insurance, Financial Services, Retail, Logistics & Media-Entertainment-Communications. He is an international speaker on Continuous Testing in DevOps & Quality Engineering, has authored whitepapers...Read more |
Founder We Hack Purple
KeynotesTanya Janca, also known as SheHacksPurple, is the best-selling author of Alice and Bob Learn Application Security. She is also the founder of We Hack Purple, an online learning academy, community and podcast that revolves around teaching everyone to create secure software. Tanya has been coding...Read more |
Sr Member of Technical Staff Salesforce
Concurrent Sessions"Curiosity" is one word that can describe Ratna accurately. She is forever exploring the software or asking thought provoking questions related to testing processes and strategy.A Strong Product Quality and Test Automation engineer with a proven track record of delivering high quality products by ensuring teams follow Agile delivery best...Read more |
Coveros
Byron Katz has been in love with computers since his father bought the family a Commodore 64. A degreed architect, he found his way back to software development in 2010, and his career has included roles as a quality assurance lead, a full-stack developer, consultant, and sales engineer. Byron has...Read more |
Chief Evangelist, Author Perfecto by Perforce
Concurrent SessionsEran Kinsbruner is the author of the 2016 Amazon bestseller ‘The Digital Quality Handbook’, the Book Authority award-winning ‘Best New Software Testing Books’, ‘Continuous Testing for DevOps Professionals’, and ‘Accelerating Software Quality – ML and AI in the Age of DevOps’. He is Chief Evangelist and senior director at Perforce...Read more |
Scrum Master Capital One
Concurrent SessionsSoni Lee is a Scrum Master/ Product Manager at Capital One for the past 10 years. Work with teams to facilitate and support enhanced delivery and efficiency of timelines. Partner with teams to identify impediments and get them resolved quickly. A Servant leader and coach for Agile/Scrum teams with experience...Read more |
Director of Test Engineering Equinox Media
Janna Loeffler has more than fifteen years of software quality experience. She holds a bachelor's degree in computer engineering and a master's degree in business administration. Working in a variety of software engineering roles, including development, testing, quality assurance, and DevOps, has provided her with a holistic view of software...Read more |
Senior Project Leader Demant
Concurrent SessionsAdam Matłacz have spent his whole professional life in the IT in different roles - tester, consultant, pre-sales engineer, business analyst, scrum master and Agile Coach. Now he works as full-time Senior Project Leader at Demant. Outside the office, he passionately shares his experience with community by giving talks and...Read more |
Coveros
Concurrent SessionsTutorialsRichard Mills has more than 25 years of experience in software engineering with a concentration on pragmatic software process and tools. Rich has a specific focus in Agile development methods and is passionate about DevOps, Continuous Integration, and Continuous Delivery. As the Solution Architect for DevOps at Coveros, Rich is...Read more |
Senior Developer Advocate Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Concurrent SessionsTalia Nassi is an international keynote speaker who delivers content on all things testing and quality. She is currently a Senior Development Advocate at Amazon Web Services (AWS). Previously, she worked at Split Software as a developer advocate and at WeWork as an engineer, and implemented Testing in Production from...Read more |
Software Principal Engineer Dell Technologies
Concurrent SessionsWith passion of lifelong learning, Prashant Patil has been leading his life by setting examples, adapting to situations and solving technical challenges. He completed his Masters from Southern Methodist University in 2006 and started working at AT&T as a Performance Test Engineer after graduation. His keen eye for detail, efforts...Read more |
CEO and Founder Coveros
Leadership Summit SessionsTutorialsJeffery Payne is CEO and founder of Coveros, Inc., a consulting company that helps organizations accelerate delivery using agile methods. Since its inception in 2008, Coveros has become a market leader in agile and DevOps engineering while being recognized by Inc. Magazine as one of the fastest growing private companies...Read more |
ScrumMaster SimCorp
Concurrent SessionsYulia Pieskova is a ScrumMaster at SimCorp with over 7 years of experience in IT. She started in sales and marketing and then received a Master's Degree in management and coaching. At scoutbee she evolved from ScrumMaster to Agile Coach, introducing scrum to a team of 3 people to then...Read more |
Lead QA QualityWorks Consulting Group
Concurrent SessionsJulia Pottinger is a Lead QA Consultant at QualityWorks with expertise in manual, automated and API testing and training which has helped companies enhance the quality of their software through improved test coverage, faster time to market, increased process efficiency and optimized use of resources. Julia is passionate about sharing...Read more |
Senior QA consultant Deloitte
Concurrent SessionsLaveena Ramchandani is an experienced Testing Consultant with a comprehensive understanding of tools available for software testing and analysis. She is energetic, technical-minded professional seeking a position as a Product Experience Analyst. She would really like testers out there to get involved with data science testing as there is a...Read more |
Director of Agile Practices Edward Jones
Leadership Summit SessionsPerry Riggs is currently an Enterprise Agile Coach with the Digital Product Management team at Edward Jones. In this role he guides the adoption of lean and agile practices at the portfolio and product levels in order to improve value, quality, and throughput. Prior to the Edward Jones he was...Read more |
Consultant Independent
Linda Rising is an independent consultant who lives near Nashville, Tennessee. Linda has a Ph.D. from Arizona State University in object-based design metrics. Her background includes university teaching as well as work in telecommunications, avionics, and tactical weapons systems. She is an internationally known presenter on topics related to agile...Read more |
President, Healthy Agile Leon Sabarsky excels at building high performing software development teams for all types of organizations. He has 20 years of IT experience and has been an Agilist for the past 10 years, primarily in the health care and government sectors. He initiated the first Agile transition at Blue Cross Blue...Read more |
Director Inflectra
Adam Sandman was a programmer from the age of 10 and has been working in the IT industry for the past 20 years in areas such as architecture, agile development, testing and project management. Currently Adam is a Director of Technology at Inflectra Corporation, where he is interested in technology,...Read more |
Director of Engineering test.ai
TutorialsDionny Santiago is a Director of Engineering at test.ai, where he leads the development of the core AI-driven testing platform. Dionny's goal is to advance the current state of the art in software testing through the application of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. Dionny holds a M.S. degree and...Read more |
Technical Sales Consulting Manager Steampunk
Concurrent SessionsMax Saperstone has been working as a Software and Test Engineer for almost fifteen years. He is the Vice President of Testing Solutions at TestPros, where he works as a test strategist and architect. Max's focus is on Test Automation and Continuous Testing, with the goal of having organizations understand...Read more |
Director of DevSecOps VillageMD
Concurrent SessionsDJ Schleen is a DevOps pioneer, and DevSecOps Advocate in the Healthcare industry and provides thought leadership to organizations looking to integrate security into their DevOps practices. He comes from a practitioner background and specializes in architecting DevSecOps pipelines, automating security in DevOps environments, and breaking down organizational silos that...Read more |
CEO IncrementOne
Concurrent SessionsDave Sharrock is the visionary behind IncrementOne, a consulting and training practice focussed on building organizations that use their agile delivery capability to respond quickly to fast-moving, uncertain environments. He has led transformations in numerous industries in the private sector, from financial services to gaming to manufacturing, as well as...Read more |
Software Engineer Disney Streaming Services
Concurrent SessionsDrew Shefman has been professionally developing interactive experiences since 1996. He is a software craftsman, agile evangelist, mentor, and scrum master. He has served as technical lead or architect on projects that have included virtual simulation training for the cell phone industry, performance testing engines for the airline industry, mission-critical...Read more |
Director of Product Development Synerzip
Concurrent SessionsRohit Sinha is a tech-savvy experienced professional offering 20+ years of success in leading all phases of diverse technology products/projects and teams. He is currently working as Director of Product Development with Synerzip. In this role, he works with technology companies. Rohit helps companies in accelerating their product roadmaps with...Read more |
Founder and Head of Consulting Conflux
Matthew Skelton is co-author of Team Topologies: organizing business and technology teams for fast flow. Recognised by TechBeacon in 2018, 2019, and 2020 as one of the top 100 people to follow in DevOps, Matthew curates the well-known DevOps team topologies patterns at devopstopologies.com....Read more |
UX Designer & Sr. Test Consultant Capgemini/Idean
Concurrent SessionsKimberly Snoyl is a senior software tester with 7 years of experience in Testing, and recently added the role UX Designer to her skillset. With a Masters in Human Media Interaction, she focuses on UX Testing, and gives a Usability Testing course to her colleagues. She is leader of the Usability Testing...Read more |
Sitecore
Concurrent SessionsJason St-Cyr is a Technical Evangelist with 20 years of experience in the software development field using a variety of technologies. His primary focuses are in DevRel, DevOps, Sitecore, solution architecture, and product marketing. Having spent his career delivering digital solutions with a focus on quality assurance, deployment processes, and...Read more |
Software Engineer Pulumi
Concurrent SessionsPaul Stack is a UK-based infrastructure engineer. Paul has spoken at various events throughout the world about his passion for continuous integration and continuous delivery and why they should be part of what developers do on a day to day basis. He believes that reliably delivering software is just as...Read more |
Sr. Agile Trainer NextUp Solutions
Concurrent SessionsJill Stott is a seasoned Agile professional, having held many roles in IT over that past two decades. She is passionate about teaching Agile concepts and frameworks. Jill has a background in teaching and she makes each class she teaches informative, eye-opening, interactive, and fun. Jill curates a psychologically safe...Read more |
CTO Ariel Partners
Concurrent SessionsCraeg Strong is the CTO of Ariel Partners, a small IT consulting company based in Times Square. He is currently teaching public Kanban classes and coaching teams to adopt and mature Agile/Kanban practices in the NYC area. He has 25 years of experience in information technology, starting at Project Athena...Read more |
Solution Train Engineer Chevron Corporation
Concurrent SessionsRochelle Tan is a seasoned Digital Consultant and Agile Coach. She has been a key driving force behind the Digital Transformation initiative within Chevron Corporation. Drawing from 20 years of experience as a Solution Train Engineer, Innovator, Agile Coach, and Digital Consultant, Rochelle successfully spearheaded the Digital Incubation program within...Read more |
Vice President of IT Strategy and Transformation S&P Global Market Intelligence
During her more than 20 years of experience with financial, health care, and SaaS-based products, Mary Thorn has held VP, director, and manager-level positions in various software development organizations. A seasoned leader and coach in agile and testing methodologies, Mary has direct experience building and...Read more |
Chief Technology Officer LeadingAgile
Concurrent SessionsMatt Van Vleet is an innovator with 25+ years of experience in the technology space and who brings a unique blend of technical ingenuity and business entrepreneurship to everything he does. After cutting his teeth as a consultant for six years, Matt went on to become the CTO of Solstice...Read more |
Principal Technology Strategy Research
Concurrent SessionsPeter Varhol is a software strategist and evangelist who closely observes the testing industry and uses his knowledge and experience to identify new technologies and help companies respond to those trends. His diverse technical background enables him to seamlessly integrate new technologies into his practices and provides him with a...Read more |
President TechWell Corp.
Alison Wade is the President of TechWell and an accomplished executive dedicated to the business of software. For the past fifteen years, she has worked with industry leaders developing programs for software development and testing professionals. She currently serves as the Program Chair for EPIC Experience, STAREAST, and STARWEST. She plays a...Read more |
Senior Engineering Manager Developer First
TutorialsKate Wardin is a currently a Senior Engineering Manager at Target Corporation in Minneapolis, MN. She leads a team of amazing engineers who build front end applications for Supply Chain HQ and Field users. Outside of her day job, she enjoys organizing events that enable young women to develop a...Read more |