Technology, in the business landscape, is ever-evolving as business challenges have become increasingly complex. To keep up, organisations must build and deploy innovative, timely solutions.
Many emerging technologies are set to impact every aspect of a business. But there is considerable work to be done to create a comprehensive strategy and architecture to be able to turn the stored data into valuable business assets through scalable and flexible Cloud and AI solutions. In Agile, DevOps, and Testing new technologies keep maturing and it has changed the traditional way of working. Accepting these technologies can be a daunting task as every enterprise will have to deal with the innumerable technologies, and stakeholders as well as prioritize their efforts in making the changes.
There is an exhibition featuring leading service providers, consultants, and vendors from the areas of Agile, Testing, and DevOps.
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We are inviting speakers – thought leaders, subject experts and start-up entrepreneurs – to share their knowledge and enthusiasm about their work and vision in these three fields. Please let us know too if you would like to participate in the panel sessions only.
We are also planning short “how to do” sessions or full-day workshops to run as pre or post conference events. Let us know if you have a related topic that you want to run as a workshop or an extended briefing.
Please complete the speaker’s response form submit a proposal to present at this event.
Seb Rose, Continuous Improvement Lead, SmartBear
The days of delivering a monolithic desktop application once a year on physical media are long gone. Today we expect continuous (or at least frequent) delivery of upgrades and security patches with zero downtime. To support this, more and more companies are moving to a distributed, cloud-based architecture of collaborating micro-services. But managing the parallel creation and evolution of a micro-service ecosystem is not without it’s challenges.
In this session we’ll examine what can go wrong when organisations jump headfirst into micro-service architectures without understanding the potential pitfalls. You’ll leave with an understanding of the techniques and tooling necessary to reap the benefits of increased flexibility and velocity without creating additional risk or deployment nightmares.
Marjolein Pordon, Lead consultant low-code testing Squerist
Low-code is conquering software development, but alas it’s not the holy grail. In my talk I will name the five major pitfalls of low-code development, and I will offer five testing solutions to conquer these issues.
Keith Watson | Director of DevOps iHCM, ADP
Most commentors agree that DevOps is not just about tools but also about culture change. George Bernard Shaw postulated the “all progress depends on the unreasonable man!”. Using examples for projects in two industry sectors, this session reviews how to be an agent for change in organisations to promote DevOps and continuous delivery in particular when to be reasonable and unreasonable.
Dr Nandakumar Ramakrishnan, Product Owner – DevOps Platform Testing & Chaos Engineering and Saravanan RaviKumar, DevOps Engineer, ING Belgium
Today, Testing Challenges are increasing rapidly and the Velocity of Agile is extremely fast that we need technology power to solve. One of The best solutions is enabling a Container Journey in Quality Engineering.
Containerization has revolutionized cloud environments by allowing businesses to build, deploy and manage applications faster through continuous delivery and the Same technology can exponentially improve the Testing Ecosystem.
Our session will focus on Testing Solution with Container called Test Container Platform empowers Testing Ecosystem to Cutting Edge Containerised Solution using Cloud-based OpenShift or Google K8s, a docker Container orchestrate with Kubernetes managed system, preparing DevOps Team for Next-Generation Quality Engineering. It enables a secured containerization solution in DevOps Pipeline into Testing Ecology which breaks testing challenges with its power of
Beyond that our Test Container platform enables us to integrate all leading Continuous integration pipelines such as Azure, Jenkin & TFS. The platform is built with end-to-end SSL ensuring all major Security and Compliance factors such as SOX, PCI-DSS and GDPR compliance. Test Container Platform in short we call TCP is easy to use with very minimum or zero knowledge of the container. Our Vision is to make a TCP -One-Stop solution which breaks the testing limits.
Manju Janarthanan, Automation Tester, Propic Pty Ltd
Stuart Clark, Senior Technical Leader & Senior Developer Advocate, Cisco Systems
The network used to rely on manual configurations, siloed and separated groups, and slow provisioning processes. Thanks to technology advancements, companies can now deploy code hundreds of thousands of times per day, quickly and accurately updating their network configurations and security policies. They can even instantly provision private circuits and SD-WAN from the branch/edge to cloud – and everything in between. NetDevOps automated continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) allows the testing and validation to take place. SD-WAN is NetDevOps, agility, speed and automation. Learn how to apply modern agile methods and tools to the deployment of Cisco SD-WAN topologies. Take a step towards NetDevOps by using devops provisioning and configuration management tools and Cisco CML to build test environments, create infrastructure-as-code, and automate Day 0, Day 1 and Day 2 configurations
Moderator:
Richard J Self, Senior Lecturer in Governance of Advanced and Emerging Technologies, University of Derby
Panellists:
Seb Rose, Continuous Improvement Lead, SmartBear
Marjolein Pordon, Lead consultant low-code testing Squerist
Keith Watson | Director of DevOps iHCM, ADP
Dr Nandakumar Ramakrishnan, Product Owner – DevOps Platform Testing & Chaos Engineering
Manju Janarthanan, Automation Tester, Propic Pty Ltd
Florian Pachinger, Developer Advocate, Cisco DevNet
Bruno Valente E Costa, Vp, Infosistema
Dave Snowden, Director, Cynefin Centre, Chief Scientific Officer, Cognitive Edge
Seb Rose, Continuous Improvement Lead, SmartBear
Florian Pachinger, Developer Advocate, Cisco DevNet
The code of a machine learning model is just a small part of the whole application or ML-based function. However, other components such as data sourcing, feature engineering, model development and model serving are vitally important as well. Therefore, this session will focus on the operations part known as MLOps and will provide an example of how an end-to-end ML architecture can be built with the machine learning toolkit Kubeflow, which leverages Kubernetes.
After a general overview of MLOps Open-Source tools and the MLOps architecture, a sample ML application will be presented. Then, the focus will be on Kubeflow and the ML workflow of this application. It will be shown how the data is being sourced and validated, and how the ML model is being developed with the specific Kubeflow components. The performance of the model, experiment handling and model serving will be elaborated and discussed.
After this session, the attendee will be more familiar with the architecture of end-to-end ML workflows and the capabilities of Kubeflow.
Fernando Mattos, Product Marketing Lead, mabl
DevOps practices enable our teams to build, test, and deploy software faster and easier, speeding up the ability to get fixes and new features to users, and helping us stay ahead of the competition. However, testing hasn’t scaled equally and has become the biggest bottleneck to the practice. In this session, Fernando Mattos from mabl will go over a practical guide for overcoming the testing bottleneck by spreading user-centric testing throughout the different stages of the DevOps pipeline. In the end, you’ll have a foundation for an efficient and effective testing strategy that allows your teams to move faster and release with confidence.
Richard J Self, Senior Lecturer in Governance of Advanced and Emerging Technologies, University of Derby
The EU AI Act 2021 (draft), will have an impact on AI and Analytics software testing across the world. As a result, we need to understand how Model Cards will assist developers and testers to provide confidence to the users of the systems and how this use of model cards will be an added value activity rather than an extra and unnecessary cost.
Bruno Valente E Costa, Vp, Infosistema
Why you need to include Data Migration in your projects to reduce Risk and improve Quality and Time-to-Market within low-code operations. Understand and prepare for the pitfalls when planning a Data Migration process with low-code solutions like OutSystems.
