Sai Krishna V from ThoughtWorks gave a presentation in Bangalore about speeding up mobile test automation with Appium. He has 6 years of experience as a quality engineer and is passionate about test automation. He discussed how to distribute long-running UI tests across multiple mobile devices in parallel using a tool called AppiumTestDistribution to optimize testing. He also covered using ExtentReports for test reporting and optimizations like method-level distribution and monitoring processes.