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Make sure to visit the sponsors of STARCANADA 2015 in the Expo.

IBM Canada — Premier (2015)


IBM
is a globally integrated enterprise operating in over 170 countries. IBMers around the world bring innovative solutions to a diverse client base to help solve some of their toughest business challenges. In addition to being the world's largest IT and consulting services company, IBM is a global business and technology leader, innovating in research and development to shape the future of society at large. IBM's prized research, development and technical talent around the world partner with governments, corporations, thinkers and doers on ground-breaking real world problems to help make the world work better. ibm.com

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Tata Consultancy Services is an IT services, consulting and business solutions organization that delivers real results to global business, ensuring a level of certainty no other firm can match. TCS offers a consulting-led, integrated portfolio of IT,BPS,infrastructure, engineering and assurance services. This is delivered through its unique Global Network Delivery Model™, recognised as the benchmark of excellence in software development. A part of the Tata group, India’s largest industrial conglomerate, TCS has over 319,000 of the world’s best-trained consultants in 46 countries. The company generated consolidated revenues of US $15.5 billion for year ended March 31, 2015 and is listed on the National Stock Exchange and Bombay Stock Exchange in India. For more information, visit us at tcs.com. To stay up-to-date on TCS news in North America, follow @TCS_NA. For TCS global news, follow @TCS_News.

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Mobile Labs provides enterprise-grade, next generation testing tools for mobile app testing, mobile device testing and mobile website testing. With a focus on security, agility and affordability, Mobile Labs delivers solutions to help enterprises deploy quality mobile apps for Android and iOS platforms while also securely managing mobile devices and test device access via private cloud. Mobile Labs helps today’s enterprise IT and QA teams improve mobile application testing management, minimize the number of mobile devices required for test and strengthen mobile device and mobile app security. To learn more about Mobile Labs, visit mobilelabsinc.com

Sauce Labs—Gold (2015)

Sauce Labs provides a cloud-based platform for testing web and native/hybrid mobile applications. Founded by the original creator of Selenium, Sauce Labs helps companies accelerate software development cycles, improve application quality and deploy with confidence across 450+ browser / OS platforms, including Windows, Linux, iOS, Android & Mac OS X. Optimized for continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD), our highly scalable cloud is built to handle the most secure data from our customers, who range from Fortune 500 companies to small businesses, located across the globe. To date, more than 250 million tests have run on the Sauce Labs cloud. For more info or to sign up for a free account, visit saucelabs.com.

Soasta—Gold (2015)

SOASTA is the leader in performance analytics. The SOASTA platform enables digital business owners to gain unprecedented and continuous performance insights into their real user experience on mobile and web devices – in real time, and at scale. With more than 10 million tests performed and more than 100 billion user experiences measured, SOASTA is the digital performance expert trusted by industry-leading companies including Experian, Hallmark, Intuit, Microsoft and Netflix. SOASTA is privately held and headquartered in Mountain View, Calif. For more information about SOASTA, please visit soasta.com.

Synopsys—Gold (2015)

Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq:SNPS) is the Silicon to Software™ partner for innovative companies developing the electronic products and software applications we rely on every day. As the world's 15th largest software company, Synopsys has a long history of being a global leader in electronic design automation (EDA) and semiconductor IP, and is also a leader in software quality and security testing with its Coverity® solutions. Whether you're a system-on-chip (SoC) designer creating advanced semiconductors, or a software developer writing applications that require the highest quality and security, Synopsys has the solutions needed to deliver innovative, high-quality, secure products. Learn more at synopsys.com.

 

Tableau - Gold (2015)

Tableau Software is a company on a mission. We help people see and understand their data. After a highly successful IPO in 2013, Tableau has become a market-defining company in the business intelligence industry. Tableau’s culture is casual and high-energy. We are passionate about our product and our mission and we are loyal to each other and our company. We value work/life balance, efficiency, simplicity, freakishly friendly customer service, and making a difference in the world. Tableau offers exceptional professional and financial growth potential. tableau.com

Telerik— Gold(2015)

Telerik empowers its customers to create compelling app experiences across any screen. Our end-to-end platform uniquely combines industry-leading UI tools with cloud services to simplify the entire app development lifecycle. Telerik Test Studio and Telerik Mobile Testing are a set of test automation tools that help teams be more efficient in regression testing, improving test coverage and reducing the number of bugs that slip into production. They offer automation solutions for GUI, load and performance testing for desktop, web, hybrid and native apps running on any device (Android/ iOS/ Windows Phone). For additional information about Telerik Testing solutions, please visit telerik.com/test-studio or follow @TelerikTesting on Twitter.

Tricentis — Gold (2015)

Tricentis is the leading provider of software testing solutions for Global 2000 companies to accelerate business innovation via agile development methodologies. Tricentis’ unique model-based approach to software test automation enables enterprises to achieve unprecedented automation rates (>90%) while maximizing business risk coverage (>95%). Gartner recognized Tricentis as a visionary in the 2014 Magic Quadrant for Integrated Software Quality Suites. The company’s more than 400 customers include global brands such as Allianz, BMW, BofA, ING, Deutsche Bank, HBO, Orange, Swiss Re, UBS, and Vodafone. Tricentis has offices in the United States, Europe, Australia and Singapore. tricentis.com

Avant - Silver (2015)

Avant is an innovative information technology integration and workflow solutions company. Our expertise stems from over 20 years of experience in software consulting and development. Our team is passionate about software, development tools, development processes, methodologies, and most importantly we are passionate about sharing our expertise with our clients and being a part of their growth and evolution. In addition to our Avant Consulting services and solutions, Avant is an Atlassian Expert, providing a full range of professional services supporting the full Atlassian stack including license sales, configuration & setup, managed hosting, data migration and custom plugin development. avant.ca

CSTB — Silver (2012)

Certifying Software Testers in Canada, the Canadian Software Testing Board (CSTB) is committed to the development, maintenance, and promotion of the ISTQB Certified Tester program in Canada.  With Certifications ranging from Foundation to Advanced Levels, the CSTB helps Canadian Software Testers stand out from the crowd.  Visit cstb.ca for more information.

PQA—Silver (2012)

Founded in 1997, Professional Quality Assurance Ltd. (PQA) is Canada’s leading independent solutions provider of quality assurance and software testing services through a team of over 100 professionals. Headquartered in Fredericton, NB, PQA has additional delivery offices located in Halifax, NS, Moncton, NB, Calgary, AB and Vancouver, BC. PQA offers a “Test Smarter” testing process that includes methodologies, frameworks and tools to ensure that testing projects are conducted in a well-managed and consistent manner across the entire software development life-cycle. We apply and tailor our methodologies and approaches to match your development and testing life-cycle, keeping your objectives and goals in mind. PQA can add value at any point in your testing process to help ensure successful project delivery. pqatesting.com

 

Ranorex—Silver (2013)

Ranorex offers a cost-effective and comprehensive UI test automation framework that simplifies both integration and acceptance testing for developers, and testing professionals, regardless of their programming or scripting experience. The Ranorex Automation Framework allows testing of many different application types including Web 2.0, Mobile Devices (Android, iOS), WPF, Flash/Flex, Silverlight, Qt, .NET and Java. ranorex.com

ROKITT - Silver (2015)

ROKITT™ solves complex business challenges in the digital and enterprise markets. We leverage our expertise and global partnerships in order to deliver best-in-class solutions driving bottom-line results. ROKITT Test Transformation is based on practical experience from leading test organizations in major enterprises. The solution consists of people, process, and technology as well as consulting designed to overcome the obstacles most enterprises face with testing today. We emphasize elimination of manual steps and automation of all critical processes. ROKITT’s key differentiator is that once we have implemented the transformation solution we enable the existing test organization to run and maintain it. rokittech.com

SQE Training—Silver(2015)

SQE Training is one of the world's largest providers of software improvement training. We provide the industry’s best resources to help organizations meet their software testing, development, management, and requirements training needs. SQE Training provides a wide selection of specialized courses, developed and dispensed by industry experts, that deliver field-proven techniques for producing high-quality software. sqetraining.com

TechWell - Silver (2015)

Featuring fresh, insightful stories, TechWell.com is the place to go for what is now happening in development and delivery. TechWell’s passionate industry professionals curate new stories everyday to keep you up-to-date on the latest in development, testing, business analysis, project management, agile, DevOps, the cloud, and more. Join the conversation now! Techwell.com

ACM Queue—Co-Marketing Partner (2013)

Acmqueue provides a critical perspective on current and emerging information technologies, highlighting the technical challenges and problems that software engineers are likely to encounter when using them. In doing so, Queue helps readers sharpen their own thinking and pursue innovative solutions in their own work. queue.acm.org

AgileConnection—Co-Marketing Partner (2015)

AgileConnection has today’s best agile ideas and how-to advice on the latest agile development and methodology practices. AgileConnection provides weekly articles from industry experts, as well as interviews with thought leaders, searchable tools and books guides, Q&A, the complete Better Software magazine archive, and access to past conference presentations. AgileConnection.com

Better Software magazine—Co-Marketing Partner (2015)

Better Software magazine is the quarterly, online magazine for software professionals who care about quality. Each issue brings you relevant, timely information to help you build better software. Better Software magazine delivers in-depth articles on testing, project management, development, configuration management, DevOps, agile, mobile, and cloud technologies. In each issue you'll find solutions to common problems, coverage on emerging technologies, and more. It’s a steady stream of ideas for software professionals focused on quality. BetterSoftware.com

CISQ—Co-Marketing Partner (2014)

The Consortium for IT Software Quality (CISQ) is an IT industry leadership group comprised of IT executives from the Global 2000, system integrators, outsourced service providers, and software technology vendors committed to introducing a computable metrics standard for measuring software quality & size. CISQ is a neutral, open forum in which customers and suppliers of IT application software can develop an industry-wide agenda of actions for improving IT application quality to reduce cost and risk. Become a CISQ member, learn more: it-cisq.org.

CMCrossroads—Co-Marketing Partner (2015)

CMCrossroads is where configuration management and development professionals go for answers on SCM, ALM, change management, DevOps, tools, and more. CMCrossroads delivers weekly articles from industry experts, as well as interviews with thought leaders, searchable tools and books guides, Q&A, the complete Better Software magazine archive, and access to past conference presentations CMCrossroads.com.

IFPUG—Co-Marketing Partner (2013)

The International Function Point Users Group (IFPUG) is the recognized leader in promoting and encouraging effective management of application software development and maintenance activities through the use of Function Point Analysis and other software measurement techniques. It is the steward of the international standard of software size measurement – ISO/IEC 20926:2009 Software Engineering. ifpug.org

IT Central Sation—Co-Marketing Partner (2015)

IT Central Station is a dynamic real-time platform that offers user information that is current, objective, and relevant. IT Central Station is revolutionizing the enterprise technology buying process through the power of crowdsourced knowledge, online product reviews and social networking. Enterprise technology professionals use IT Central Station to access and share unbiased product  information and tap into a community of other real users. The Wall Street Journal has called us “The Yelp of Enterprise Technology.” itcentralstation.com 

IT Today—Co-Marketing Partner (2013)

IT Today informs readers of best practices, as well as of research into current and upcoming issues in information and communication technology (ICT). Articles take a how-to approach to their topics. They help readers solve problems and are applicable to on-the-job situations faced everyday by IT management, staff and consultants in all areas. ittoday.info

Methods & Tools—Co-Marketing Partner (2015)

Methods and Tools is a free e-magazine providing practical expert knowledge for software development professionals. Methods & Tools gives software development ideas more than one page to express themselves and covers all aspects of software engineering: software project planning and tracking, Agile and Lean frameworks and techniques like Scrum or Kanban, software testing and quality assurance, business analysis and requirements management, software architecture, software process improvement, user interface and UX, continuous integration and delivery, software developer psychology and management, metrics, software design, software tools presentations, etc. methodsandtools.com

SD Times—Co-Marketing Partner (2013)

Software Development Times® is the leading magazine covering the software development industry. SD Times is available in print and digitally. It may also be read at SDTimes.com. SD Times (circulation: 70,000) carries more advertising pages than any other development publication and regularly covers software QA and test, agile and ALM development, software security, mobile and cloud-based development and much more. Subscribe free at sdtimes.com.

Stickyminds—Co-Marketing Partner (2015)

StickyMinds, is the most comprehensive online resource for helping you produce better software. StickyMinds offers an unrivaled scope of original articles from industry experts, as well as interviews with thought leaders, searchable tools and books guides, Q&A, the complete Better Software magazine archive, and access to past conference presentations. StickyMinds.com