Registration is open | Sponsorship, exhibition and speaking opportunities are available. Email: info@unicom.co.uk | Co-located event – KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT, INFORMATION AND DATA: CONVERGENCE AND STATE OF THE ART, 19-20 OCTOBER,2023, LONDON.

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Background and Focus

Our 2023 flagship conference TESTEXPO, AGILE, DEVOPS & LOW CODE EXPO returns to London. Testing, Agile, DevOps and Low Code have shared environments that facilitate working together. Spurred by greater demand for excellence, these methods are adopting new tools and processes. The main features of this conference are:

  • Practitioner – thought leaders will help you to develop your business case and build the foundation towards getting significant return on investment.
  • They bring new perspectives and ideas of innovation to this conference.
  • They show how to be resilient in this ever-changing unpredictable market
  • You will be able to focus on boosting productivity, reduce time to market, cost, and resource investment.
  • The day will show you how to leverage modern technologies to deliver a fully unified customer experience
  • The day also features extended knowledge-sharing discussions in Round Table sessions for sharing insights and industry trends. This session will be for thirty minutes. Multiple Round Tables take place all at the same time.
  • You can catch up with all the new tools in the exhibition that is held alongside.
  • Learn from in-depth presentations on Testing, Agile, DevOps and Low Code.
  • Network with like-minded professionals and learn from their experiences

You can now choose to attend any session of either conference, in-person in London or join online from anywhere in the world!

Alongside this conference, we have a co-located event KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT, INFORMATION AND DATA: CONFLUENCE AND STATE OF THE ART, 19-20 OCTOBER, LONDON. You can now choose to attend any session of either conference, in-person in London or join online from anywhere in the world!

TOPICS TO BE COVERED

New Directions:

  • Experimentation & Innovation
  • Low Code / No Code
  • Visual Programming
  • Rapid Application Development
  • Agile and DevOps – moving with flow based awareness
  • Multi-User Development
  • Model-Driven Development
  • DevSecOps
  • Cloud Adoption
  • Analytics and automation

Testing:

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

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:

  • DevOps and Continuous Integration Testing (CI)
  • 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 panel sessions only. Please also get in touch if you would like to participate in the Panel session.

We understand that successful projects are written up as “White Papers”. Please share these with us. But projects that did not achieve their targets – “Black Papers”- are of interest to us too. They can be important topics of discussion / panels where you can present. Talk to us about both, we welcome your input.

Please complete the speaker’s response form and submit a proposal to present at this event.

PROGRAMME

Programme

08:30 – 09:30: REGISTRATION AND COFFEE

09:35: UNICOM’S WELCOME

09:40 – 09:50: INTRODUCTION TO SPONSORS AND SUPPORTING BODIES &CHAIRMAN’S INTRODUCTION

09:52: – 10:25: KEYNOTE: Creating worst practice systems & distributed decision making Read More
Dave Snowden, Director & Founder – The Cynefin Centre, CSO – The Cynefin Company

10:32 – 11:02: Sustainability in Testing Read More
Richard Bishop, Lead Quality Engineer, Lloyds Banking Group

11:04 – 11:34: TesterGPT – Generative AI (Tester vs. ChatGPT) Read More & WATCH VIDEO
Jonathon Wright, Chief Evangelist, Keysight

11:34 – 12:00: TEA / COFFEE BREAK & NETWORKING

12:00 – 12:30: Overcoming Challenges in Managing Testing and Agile: Strategies for Success Read More
Gomathi Ramalingam, Head of Quality Assurance, SIMBA Chain

12:32 – 13:02: Round Table Session: – Read More

Table One: Will Testers be replaced by Gen AI?
Jonathon Wright, Chief Evangelist, Keysight and Paul Gerrard, Gerrard Consulting

Table Two: Direction of Testing: Skills and Careers
Nicola Martin, Chair and Inclusion Officer, BCS Software Testing specialist group (SIGiST) and panellists from, BCS SIGST: Jon Hall, QA Manager, Steria and Felicity Lord, Deputy Director of Testing & Quality Management, Steria

Table Three: Embedding Accessibility.
Bryan Jones, Director of Quality Engineering & Testing, SOPRA STERIA Brian Wall, UK Director for Accessibility, Sopra Steria. and Paul Rushton, Head of Testing for Government & Transport Sector, Sopra Steria.

Table Four: Is the future AI/ML/Blockchain or a collaboration of it all?
Gomathi Ramalingam, Head of Quality Assurance, SIMBA Chain

Table Five: Professionalisation and Industrialisation of Software Testing
Geoff Thompson, Chair and Mike Smith, Vice Chair, UK & Ireland Testing Board

Table Six: All new code is s**t
Samuel Smith, Co-Founder, DoesQA

13:02 – 14:02: LUNCH BREAK & NETWORKING

14:02 – 14:32: At The Crossroads: Making Deals with The AI Devil Read More
Bryan Jones, Director of Quality Engineering & Testing, SOPRA STERIA LIMITED

14:34 – 15:04: From Idea to Reality: Prototyping and Innovation in the Age of Disruption Read More
Guillermo Martinez, Founder, Tektique

15:06 – 15:36: CASE STUDY: TDD: What it can and cannot do Read More
ALEX PUSHKAREV, SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER, TRIPADVISOR

15:38 – 16:08: Streamlining DevOps for Enterprises, when AI is just a building block Read More
Shajahan Pulikkal, Chief Automation Architect – Test Service Delivery, UST and Carlos Gutiérrez, EMEA Application Delivery Product Group Leader, OpenText

16:08 – 16:30: TEA/COFFEE AND NETWORKING

16:30 – 17:00: Quality Engineering Approach To Software Development: Delivering Successful Platform Projects Read More
Steve Mellor, Senior Quality Engineering Architect, Roq

17:02 – 17:32: The Test Engineering Society Read More
Paul Gerrard, Principal, Gerrard Consulting

17:34: CONFERENCE CHAIR’S SUMMING UP AND END OF CONFERENCE

17:40: DRINKS RECEPTION

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Speakers

Richard Bishop

Lead Quality Engineer, Lloyds Banking Group

Paul Gerrard

Principal, Gerrard Consulting

Carlos Gutiérrez

EMEA Application Delivery Product Group Leader, OpenText

Bryan Jones

Director of Quality Engineering & Testing, SOPRA STERIA LIMITED

Nicola Martin

Chair and Inclusion Officer, BCS Software Testing specialist group (SIGiST)

Guillermo Martinez

Founder, Tektique

Steve Mellor

Senior Quality Engineering Architect, Roq

Shajahan Pulikkal

Chief Automation Architect - Test Service Delivery, UST

Alex Pushkarev

Senior Software Engineer, Tripadvisor

Gomathi Ramalingam

Head of Quality Assurance, SIMBA Chain

Mike Smith

Vice Chair, UK & Ireland Testing Board

DAVE SNOWDEN

Director & Founder - The Cynefin Centre, CSO - The Cynefin Company

Geoff Thompson

Chair, UK & Ireland Testing Board

Jonathon Wright

Chief Evangelist, Keysight
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