View the webinar here: http://www.eurostarconferences.com/community/member/webinar-archive/webinar-96-2014-programme-announcement-with-paul-gerrard Conference Chair 2014, Paul Gerrard, walks us through the programme for the upcoming conference in Dublin on November 24-27th.

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Presenting the 2014
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Theme
Diversity, Innovation &
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Venue
The Convention Centre, Dublin.
24-27 November 2014

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Theme
Diversity, Innovation, Leadership
‘tell us your story’

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Programme Committee
Mike Jarred, Pusser Janvit, Paul Gerrard (Chair), Alexandra Casapu & Henk van Merode
In Galway

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Reviewers (45)
Alexandra Rotaru ● Alon Linetzki ● Amy Phillips ● Anand Ramdeo ● Anna Baik
● Bob Van de Burgt ● Bram Bronneberg ● Derk-Jan de Grood ●
Dorothy Graham ● Edwin van Loon ● Erkki Poyhonen ● Fabian Scarano ●
Felienne Hermans ● Graham Freeburn ● Graham Thomas ● Ian Howles ●
Ian McCowatt ● Iris Pinkster ● Isabel Evans ● James Lyndsay ●
Jean-Paul Varwijk ● Jos van Rooyen ● Kari Kakkonen ● Kees Blokland ●
Kristoffer Nordström ● Matthias Rasking ● Mette Bruhn-Pedersen ●
Michael Pilaeten ● Michael Felderer ● Morten Hougaard ● Nathalie van Delft
● Nayani Ranasinghe ● Per Klingnäs ● Peter Zimmerer ● Peter Morgan ●
Peter Walen ● Richard Bradshaw ● Rik Marselis ● Rohit Garg ● Ruud Cox ●
Saksham Sarode ● Seth Okai ● Soile Sainio ● Srikanth Krishnan ●
Stevan Zivanovic ● Trude Britt Rosendal ● Zeger van Hese
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The task
• 5 Full Day Tutorials
• 6 Half Day Tutorials
457
submissions
• 40 Track Sessions
• 3 Active Workshops
6 World Class Keynotes

9. • 57 tutorial submissions
• Only 11 could be selected
• 400 track, discussion and special session submissions
• Only 43 could be selected
• 3140 (blind) reviews were performed; every submission reviewed 6-8 times
• 1st draft program selected from top 50 scoring submissions
• Check, after check after check (15 of them, I think)
• Topic areas, levels, duplicate company, paths, new speakers....
• Endless reshuffling of the programme
• Some talks dropped out, new ones popped off the stack
• The Programme Committee, Lorraine, Siobhan were fantastic. (Thank-you)
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Process

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5 Full-Day Tutorials
Tut E: Key Test Design Techniques
- Lee Copeland
Tut C: Test Strategy – Next Level
- Rikard Edgren
Tub B: Agile Testing: Advanced Topics
- Janet Gregory
Tut A: Test Management in a Changing World
- Bob van de Burgt & Iris Pinkster - O'Riordain
Tut D: Inspiring Testing - Leadership Workshop
– Fiona Charles

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6 Half-Day Tutorials
Tut K: Robotic Testing
- Anne-Marie Charrett
Tut J: Agile Testing - Preventing Defects
over Finding Failures - Colm OhEocha
Tut H: Test Automation Patterns
– Dot Graham & Seretta Gamba
Tut G: Thinking Skills: Bridging Skills from
Theory to Practical Use - Karen Johnson
Tut F: BDD Fundamentals
– Aslak Hellesøy
Tut I: What's The Problem? Delivering
Solid Problem Reports - Michael Bolton

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6 World Class Keynotes
K6: Exploring Diversity, Innovation and Leadership
- Zeger van Hese
K5: "The Sound of Testing"
- Daniel Maslyn
K3: Restore to Factory Settings: What to do When
a Change Programme Goes Wrong - Isabel Evans
K2: Continuous Delivery and DevOps: Moving
From Staged to Pervasive Testing - Rob Lambert
K1: The Internet of Things - It's Coming!
- Professor Andy Stanford-Clark
K4: "Software Talks - Are You
Listening?” - Julian Harty

13. Track Sessions
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• Team Work
• Test Management
• Finding Value
• Lean
• Leadership
• Innovative Testing
• Passionate Testing
• Agile Innovation
• Team Building
Topics Covered
• Mobile
• Test Experiences
• Skills
• Automation
• Security
• Personal Stories
• Test Strategy
• People
• Data

14. • More women; more new faces; more diversity; seven ‘double-acts’
• 16 countries represented
Holland • France • Israel • Romania • Australia • Ukraine • USA • Austria • UK
Sweden • Ireland • Germany • Belgium • Norway • Denmark • Canada
• Agile, mobile, automation, security, people, skills, leadership
• Internet of Things, self-management, big data, getting rid of (central)
QA, storytelling, gamification, programming for testers
• Poetry, girl-power, passionate dating, testers who sing, software that
talks, ordering pizza, animal management and dog-bones.
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Highlights

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Active Workshops
AW3: Don’t Leave until you have all the Answers.
- Derk-Jan de Grood
AW2: Are You a Leader?
- Kateryna Shevchenko
AW1: Programming for Testers – It is easy!
- Graham Thomas
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Theme
Diversity, Innovation &
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Come to Dublin!
The Convention Centre, Dublin.
24-27 November 2014

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