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Byte an Atom Research

Noble Ackerson is co-founder and CEO at Byte an Atom Research. This research and development company is based in Virginia and focuses on big data and health fitness software called LynxFit for wearable computers like Google Glass and Android Wear. LynxFit enables exercise content creators and owners to publish on wearable electronics. Noble is recognized as a thought leader and an award-winning influencer in the wearable technology space.

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Josh Anderson loves software. A beat-up TRS-80 changed his life, and Josh now spends almost every moment that he is away from his family figuring out how to better the craft of software. Solving hard problems and sharing those solutions with the community fuel his passion. Josh spent the past fifteen years in the trenches, learning how to build and lead effective and efficient software engineering teams. In an effort to pass his learnings on to others, he now co-hosts a podcast with fellow agile evangelist Bob Galen.

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Jason Arbon is the CEO of AppDiff.com, focused on automagically identifying differences in mobile app UI, UX, and performance. Jason is also the creator of the new mobile web search and discovery app mobo (herecandy.com). Jason was formerly the director of engineering and director of product at Applause.com/uTest.com, where he created the App Store data analytics service and led overall product strategy to deliver crowdtesting to top app teams via more than 100,000 community members.

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Chief strategy officer Wayne Ariola leads the development and execution of Parasoft’s long-term strategy. Wayne has contributed to the design of core Parasoft technologies and has been awarded several patents for his inventions. He is a recognized leader on service virtualization, API quality, quality policy governance, and application security. Wayne brings more than twenty years of strategic consulting experience in the technology and software development industries.

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LitheSpeed

Sanjiv Augustine is an industry-leading agile and lean expert, author, speaker, management consultant, trainer, and founder of the Agile Leadership Network. He is the president of LitheSpeed, an agile consulting, training, and product development company. For more than fifteen years, Sanjiv has managed agile projects from five to more than 100 people, trained thousands of agile practitioners through workshops and conference presentations, and coached numerous project teams.

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Living in the craft beer haven of New York City, Greg Avola is the co-founder and CTO of Untappd, a mobile beer check-in service. Some people enjoy reading books, others enjoy watching movies, but Greg’s passion is to code. Being able to combine his passion for development and craft beer allowed Untappd to be born. To date Untappd has had more than 1.6 million users. In NYC Greg works full-time for ABC News on the technology team, which is responsible for ABCNews.com both on desktop and mobile.

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An app developer since the first iPhone SDK was introduced, Chris Beauchamp lives, eats, and breathes mobile. Chris has published to both iTunes and Google Play a number of apps that have accumulated more than 25MM downloads. Focusing on utility apps with simple UX and beautiful design, his apps see 5 star ratings across the board. Chris is currently a developer evangelist at Crittercism, a service that provides mobile app performance insights to help developers improve their apps, where he discusses the methods and tools he has used to build successful apps.

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Mike Benkovich brings it all—energy, laughter, and a contagious passion for coding—with him. In a career that has taken him from minion to business owner, from database administrator to developer, from author to evangelist, Mike has seen it all. In more than twenty-five years of working in the technology industry, he has been part of the latest waves to sweep the industry.

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Tarun Bhatia is a technical program manager in charge of driving the best breed of performance measurements and analysis for Microsoft Online Office Division. Tarun leads innovative strategies—analytics, performance, benchmarking, and compatibility—and guides the team to create an effective, reliable, and robust monitoring architecture. With more than seven years of software development experience in quality and service assurance, Tarun shows that taking initiative and thinking outside the box can deliver big results—both personally and for the company.

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SOASTA
Industry Technical Presentations Pragmatic Steps to Mobile Test Automation

Tom Chavez has more than twenty years of experience as a manager and product manager in the software development tools field. Today, Tom works in product management at SOASTA, the leader in performance analytics. He has worked across Silicon Valley at industry leaders including Apple, Sun, PalmSource, and Intuit delivering tools for Mac, Java, PalmOS, Linux, and Android development and testing. Tom is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and meet-ups. Follow Tom on Twitter @TomChavez.

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Alan Crouch is a senior software security specialist with Coveros, Inc. a Virginia-based firm focusing on agile, software quality, and application security. Alan has worked closely with federal agencies and private companies to advise, audit, and support IT security and governance teams. In addition to his cyber security experience, he has a strong background in highly structured software engineering, test analysis, test automation, agile software development, and security testing.

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Lance Gleason has been a computer nut ever since his dad bought him a computer when he was a kid. After getting a BS and MS in Computer Science, he worked on a number of large projects as a Java developer and architect for companies like Kodak, CNN, and GE. These days he is the CEO and founder of Polyglot Programming LLC. which focuses on Ruby, mobile and wearable software development.

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Jon Hagar is an independent consultant working in software product integrity, testing, verification, and validation. For more than thirty-five years Jon has worked in software engineering, particularly testing, supporting projects which include control systems (avionics and auto), spacecraft, IoT, mobile-smart devices, and attack testing for smart phones. He authored Software Test Attacks to Break Mobile and Embedded Devices; has presented hundreds of classes and more than fifty conference presentations; and written numerous articles.

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Ken Kousen is the President of Kousen IT, Inc., through which he does technical training, mentoring, and consulting in all areas related to Java, specializing in Android, Spring, Hibernate, Groovy, and Grails. He is the author of the Manning book “Making Java Groovy” and the upcoming O'Reilly book "Gradle for Android". Ken is a regular speaker on the No Fluff, Just Stuff conference tour, as well as at many other international conferences. In 2013 he won a JavaOne Rock Star award. Over the past decade he has taught thousands of developers in business and industry.

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After working in various management and technical positions in software development and product management, Philip Lew leads XBOSoft’s direction and strategy as CEO. A speaker at numerous trade and academic conferences, Phil has worked with hundreds of organizations to assess the quality of their software, examine software quality processes, and set forth measurement plans to improve software quality using systematic methods. His Ph.D. research in software quality and usability resulted in several IEEE and ACM journal publications and in various trade journals as well.

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As lead developer evangelist at Embarcadero Technologies, Jim McKeeth is a key part of Embarcadero’s developer community outreach. With more than twenty years of programming experience, Jim travels the world speaking at conferences and sharing his excitement and knowledge. He holds a patent for the swipe to unlock and pattern unlocks used on both iPhone and Android phones, plus a number of other computer- and software-related patents. When not traveling, Jim is an improvisational performer with ComedySportz Boise and enjoys spending time with his family.

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David Meyer manages mobile banking product development at FIS, a global leader in banking and payments technologies. His dynamic role focuses on white label device clients and large scale SaaS integration for thousands of financial institutions. As a next generation tech enthusiast, David is most excited about emerging devices, handhelds, and wearables. From a thought leadership perspective, he has spoken at Red Hat forum on the impact of mobile and SaaS as well as related security and compliance considerations.

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Troy Miles, aka the Rock-n-coder, has been coding for more than thirty years, writing games for C64, Apple II, and IBM PCs in assembly language. Troy moved on to Windows application and system programming, and caught Internet fever just before the dot net bubble burst. Realizing that mobile devices were the perfect window into back-end data, he added mobile programming to his repertoire. Troy builds web services with ASP.NET MVC or Node.js on the back-end and web or mobile up front.

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James Montemagno, a developer evangelist at Xamarin, has been a .NET developer for more than a decade working in a wide range of industries including game development, printer software, and web services. Previously, James was a professional mobile developer using the Xamarin platform for more than three years, with several published apps on iOS, Android, and Windows. He can be found on Twitter @JamesMontemagno and blogs code regularly on his personal blog.

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Independent consultant Jaimee Newberry provides executive and personal coaching, and shares lessons in empathy, communication, experience design, and technology worldwide. Jaimee moved to GUI design and information architecture in the web start-up days; taught management information systems, graphic design, and interface design at UNLV; partnered in Eatdrink, a boutique animation/interactive shop; and led the efforts behind Zappos’ first iPad, iPhone, and Android apps.

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Jeffery Payne is CEO and founder of Coveros, Inc., a software company that builds secure software applications using agile methods. Since its inception in 2008, Coveros has become a market leader in secure agile principles and was recognized by Inc. magazine as one of the fastest growing private US companies. Prior to founding Coveros, Jeffery was chairman of the board, CEO, and cofounder of Cigital, Inc., a market leader in software security consulting.

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AmiBug.com

Rob Sabourin, P. Eng., has more than thirty-four years of management experience leading teams of software development professionals. A well-respected member of the software engineering community, Rob has managed, trained, mentored, and coached hundreds of top professionals in the field. He frequently speaks at conferences and writes on software engineering, SQA, testing, management, and internationalization.

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FIS Mobile

Director of engineering at FIS Mobile, Shadi Saifan is leading solution strategy and solution engineering and QA for all FIS Mobile client initiatives. Shadi is a professional technology leader with fifteen years of experience in delivering distributed, mobile, and enterprise solutions—with a focus on architecture, design, and development.

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For almost a decade, Max Saperstone has been a test engineer focusing on test automation and the continuous integration/continuous delivery process. Max specializes in open source tools—Selenium, JMeter, AutoIT, Cucumber, and Chef. He has led several testing automation efforts, including developing an automated suite focused on web-based software to operate over several applications.

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CapTech Consulting

Jason Snook, director of customer experience at CapTech Consulting, has more than fourteen years of experience helping companies design systems that are easier to use and more effective for customers and employees. A self-described “quant” with a PhD in Human-Computer Interaction from Virginia Tech, Jason believes that superior digital experiences hinge on solid research and data.

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Daniel Steinberg is the author of the best selling books A Swift Kickstart and Developing iOS 7 Apps for iPad and iPhone (the official companion book to the popular iTunes U series from Stanford University).

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Denver Automation and Quality Engineering

Melissa Tondi has spent most of her career working within testing teams, concentrating on functional, performance, security, and mobile testing techniques. Now Melissa is back to being a practitioner, assisting agile teams to continuously improve the design, build, test, and delivery of quality software. In the software test and quality engineering field for more than fifteen years, she focused on organizing testing teams around three major tenets—efficiency, innovation, and culture.

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Luke Wallace leads all Android development at Bottle Rocket. Luke wrote several of the first Android apps for Bottle Rocket and continues to oversee every project to maintain quality and push the bounds of what’s possible. A strong proponent of the Android platform, he is an invaluable resource for getting the Android perspective on news and trends within the industry. With his technical knowledge and humor, Luke loves educating people about Android.

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Dustin Whittle is a developer evangelist at AppDynamics where he focuses on helping organizations manage application performance. Dustin was previously CTO at Kwarter, a consultant at SensioLabs, and developer evangelist at Yahoo!. He has experience building and leading engineering teams and working with developers and partners to scale web platforms. When not working, Dustin enjoys flying, sailing, diving, golfing, and traveling around the world.

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IBM Distinguished Engineer Leigh Williamson has been working in the Austin, Texas, lab since 1988, contributing to IBM’s major software projects including OS/2, DB2, AIX, Java, WebSphere Application Server, and the IBM Rational portfolio of solutions. Leigh’s current role is as a member of the Chief Technology Officer team, influencing the strategic direction for products addressing the needs of software development teams. His primary focus is on tools and best practices for mobile application development.

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Steven Winter loves building teams that break big things! As the director of quality for FIS Mobile, Steven is responsible for the complete quality ecosystem for America’s leading provider of mobile financial services and the innovative power behind the Starbucks Card Mobile. With nineteen years of experience in quality, Steven has tested through a wide array of technologies from web, firmware, hardware, cameras, phones, desktop, data—and everything in between.

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