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Background and Focus

Agile, DevOps, Testing and Low Code have shared environments that facilitate working together. Spurred by the current greater demand for excellence, these methods are more than simply adopting new tools and processes.

Expert practitioners and thought leaders discuss current topics and practices to develop a business case and build the foundation towards getting significant return on investment. Practitioners bring new perspectives and ideas of innovation. They show how to be resilient in this ever-changing unpredictable market and also be able to focus on boosting productivity, reduce time to market, cost, and resource investment.

TOPICS TO BE COVERED

Testing:

  • Mobile Test Automation
  • Site Reliability Engineering
  • Implementing Security Testing
  • Big Data Testing
  • Test Data Management
  • Cloud Testing
  • Leveraging AI&ML into Testing
  • Barriers to adoption of Testing
  • Testers as Quality advocates
  • TDD And BDD
  • Service Virtualization for Testing
  • Cloud-Based Performance Testing
  • Performance Testing
  • Enterprise Application Testing

Low Code:

  • Speed to market
  • Business agility
  • Investment for Low Code platforms and training
  • Enhanced customer experience
  • Enhanced productivity across teams
  • From large platforms to Low Code
  • Challenges – governance, privacy regularity, foundation testing
  • Legacy
  • Project Management vs Agile Working
  • Implementing and architecting Low Code into the enterprise

Agile:

  • Agile Software Testing
  • Success metrics of Agile
  • Agile Scrum and Agile XP
  • Agile frameworks provide guidance for efficient operational software
  • Adopt a “build-and-run” teams concept
  • Automation and SAFe

DevOps:

  • Automation for continuous deployment
  • Serverless CI\CD
  • Chaos Engineering
  • Rise Of TestOps
  • DevOps as a tool for process change
  • DevFinOps; BusDevOps ; No-Ops;
  • Individuals and interactions over process and tools

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    Code of Conduct & Diversity

    UNICOM’s Code of Conduct & Views on Diversity

    We at UNICOM strive to be a leading provider of knowledge to the business community and to engage the global business community as a specialised provider of knowledge. We strive to do this maintaining a culture of co-operation, commitment and trust. We want every UNICOM conference and training day to be a safe and productive environment for everyone – a place to share research and innovation and to build professional networks. To that end, we will enforce a code of conduct throughout all our events. We expect cooperation from all participants to help ensure a safe environment for everybody.

    Our approach is that our events are dedicated to providing a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, age, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, ethnicity or religion. We do not tolerate intimidation, stalking, harassing photography or recording, sustained disruption of sessions or events, and unwelcome physical contact or sexual attention. We do not tolerate harassment of conference participants in any form. Sexual language and imagery is not appropriate for any conference venue, including talks, workshops, Twitter and other online media. Event participants violating these rules may be sanctioned or expelled from the event without a refund at the discretion of the conference organisers. Please bring your concerns to the immediate attention of the event staff.

    Diversity: In our endeavour to be the provider of knowledge to the business community, we understand that this depends on hearing from and listening to a variety of perspectives that come from people of all races, ethnicities, genders, ages, abilities, religions, sexual orientation, and military service. We welcome diverse speakers for all our events, we do not always fully achieve this goal, but it is an ongoing process.

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    Call for Participation

    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.

    Programme

    Programme

    Conference Chair: KEITH WATSON, DIRECTOR OF DEVOPS, ADP UK LIMITED

    08:30 AM – 08:45: REGISTRATION AND COFFEE

    08:45: UNICOM’S WELCOME

    08:50 – 09:00: INTRODUCTION TO SPONSORS AND SUPPORTING BODIES & CHAIRMAN’S INTRODUCTION

    09:02 – 09:32: Keynote: What 5 Cats Can Teach Us About An Enabling Environment Read More & WATCH VIDEO
    Victoria Morgan-Smith, Delivery Director, Engineering Enablement, Financial Times

    09:34 – 10:04: Convincing the doubters: The politics of DevOps Read More & WATCH VIDEO
    Keith Watson, Director of DevOps, ADP UK Limited

    10:05 – 10:35: Automation testing for Agile teams Read More
    Bayo Adewole, Lead Consultant – UK & Ireland (EQS), Infosys Limited

    10:37 – 11:07: AutomatePro: An End-to-End Solution for ServiceNow Agile Testing and Deployment Read More
    Andy Cooke, CTO, AutomatePro

    11:07 – 11:40: TEA / COFFEE BREAK & NETWORKING

    11:40 – 12:10: Acceptance testing; what happens when your customer runs their own tests Read More & WATCH VIDEO
    Bill Watson, Test Manager, Bbc

    12:12 – 13:00: ROUND TABLE SESSION – Read More

    Table 1: On the theme of my talk: What are your experiences of using ML/AI in your job? What does the future hold?
    Paul Gerrard, Principal, Gerrard Consulting
    Table 2: Professionalisation and Industrialisation of Software Testing
    Geoff Thompson, Chair and Mike Smith, Vice Chair, UK & Ireland Testing Board
    Table 3: Developer autonomy
    Victoria Morgan-Smith, Delivery Director, Engineering Enablement, Financial Times
    Table 4: Don’t Let Bad Test Data Ruin Your Investment in Test Automation
    Hosted by Enrique Almohalla, CEO, Icaria Technology
    Table 5: Automated Testing, Compliance and Documentation for ServiceNow
    Seamus Scullion, Lead Solutions Consultant & Chris Bishop, Senior Sales & Account Executive, AutomatePro

    13:00 – 14:00: LUNCH BREAK & NETWORKING

    14:05 – 14:35: DevOps: To deliver applications and services at high velocity Read More
    Aruna Potteti, Release, Test and Governance Lead, Deutsche Bank

    14:37 – 15:07: In the context of Testing, DevOps, Agile, LowCode – Where will benefits of ML/AI come from? Read More
    Paul Gerrard, Principal, Gerrard Consulting

    15:07 – 15:30: TEA / COFFEE BREAK AND NETWORKING

    15:30 – 16:00: THE TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS OF BUILDING A MOBILE DEVICE FARM Read More & WATCH VIDEO
    Richard Bishop, Lead Quality Engineer, Quality Engineering Centre Of Excellence Team, Lloyds Banking Group

    16:02 – 16:32: From monolith to microservices Read More
    SOHAN MAHESHWAR, SENIOR DEVELOPER ADVOCATE, AMAZON WEB SERVICES, AMSTERDAM

    16:34 – 17:04: SUSTAINABILITY- OPS Read More
    Narayanan Palani, Engineering Lead, Quality, Lloyds Banking Group
    Thenmozhi Paramasivam, Engineering Lead, Quality, Lloyds Banking Group
    Venu Kailash Sambasivam, QE Chapter Lead, Wipro, Lloyds Banking Group in Partnership with Wipro

    17:05: CONFERENCE CHAIR’S SUMMING UP AND END OF CONFERENCE

    17:10: DRINKS RECEPTION

    Speakers

    Bayo Adewole

    Bayo Adewole

    Lead Consultant - UK & Ireland (EQS), Infosys Limited

    Enrique Almohalla

    CEO, Icaria Technology

    Chris Bishop

    Senior Sales & Account Executive, AutomatePro

    Richard Bishop

    Lead Quality Engineer in the “Quality Engineering Centre of Excellence” team, Lloyds Banking Group

    Andy Cooke

    CTO, AutomatePro

    Paul Gerrard

    Principal, Gerrard Consulting

    Sohan Maheshwar

    Senior Developer Advocate, Amazon Web Services, Amsterdam

    Victoria Morgan-Smith

    Delivery Director, Engineering Enablement, Financial Times

    Narayanan Palani

    Engineering Lead – Quality, Lloyds Banking Group

    Thenmozhi Paramasivam

    Engineering Lead, Quality, Lloyds Banking Group

    Aruna Potteti

    Release, Test and Governance Lead, Deutsche Bank

    Venu Kailash Sambasivam

    QE Chapter Lead, Wipro, Lloyds Banking Group in Partnership with Wipro

    Seamus Scullion

    Lead Solutions Consultant, AutomatePro

    Mike Smith

    Vice Chair, UK & Ireland Testing Board

    Geoff Thompson

    Chair, UK & Ireland Testing Board

    Keith Watson

    Director of DevOps, ADP UK Limited

    Bill Watson

    Test Manager, BBC

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