Background and Focus

For 2022 our flagship conference TestExpo, Agile & DevOps Expo returns to London with a new co-located track Low Code Expo. You can now choose to attend in-person in London or join online from anywhere in the world!

Agile, DevOps, Testing and Low Code/ No Code have shared environments that facilitate working together. Spurred by greater demand for excellence, these methods are more than simply adopting new tools and processes. At this conference we plan to discuss current topics and practices that is designed to connect a wide range of stakeholders and provide informational as well as and educational experience for all.

Expert practitioners and thought leaders will help you to develop your business case and build the foundation towards getting significant return on investment. Practitioners bring new perspectives and ideas of innovation to this conference. 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.

The day will show you how to leverage modern technologies to deliver a fully unified customer experience. You can catch up with all the new tools at the exhibition that is held alongside.

FORMAT OF THE PROGRAMME

The programme will have a plenary session of keynotes on the four topics (Agile, DevOps, Testing and Low Code) and then separate tracks on each of them. Delegates can attend any presentation from any track throughout the day.

We will also feature extended knowledge-sharing discussions in Round Table sessions for sharing insights and industry trends. This session will be in a panel format for thirty minutes.

TOPICS TO BE COVERED

New Directions:

  • Experimentation & Innovation
  • Evolutionary Prototyping
  • 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

TIMES IN THE PROGRAMME ARE IN BST
Programme

08:30 – 09:00: REGISTRATION AND COFFEE

09:05 – 09:10: UNICOM’S WELCOME

09:10 – 09:20: INTRODUCTION TO SPONSORS AND SUPPORTING BODIES

JOINT SESSION

09:20 – 09:25: JOINT PLEANARY SESSION’S CHAIR, KEITH WATSON’S INTRODUCTION

09:27 – 09:57: KEYNOTE: CI / CD in a Serverless World Read More & WATCH VIDEO
Sohan Maheshwar, Senior Developer Advocate, Amazon Web Services, Amsterdam

10:00 – 10:30: KEYNOTE: Agile estimation – the good, the bad, and the ugly Read More & WATCH VIDEO
Seb Rose, Continuous Improvement Lead, Smartbear

10:32 – 11:02: KEYNOTE: SEEKING A WIDER CONTEXT FOR LOW CODE Read More
Dave Snowden, Director Cynefin Centre, Chief Scientific Officer Cognitive Edge

11:02 – 11:20: Tea / Coffee break & networking

11:20 – 11:50: KEYNOTE: DevOps Imagineering – The Promised Land of an integrated continuous delivery supply chain Read More
Keith Watson, Director of DevOps, ADP UK Limited

11:52 – 12:22: KEYNOTE: Be a Rebel – Hockey Stick People Performance Read More & WATCH VIDEO
Jasmine Kernaleguen, CEO, Performance Rebels, AMP Coaching & Consulting, Canada

12:25 – 13:10: Round Table Session – Read More

Table 1: Agile & DevOps: supporting and enhancing the remote working experience
Hosted by Colin Deady, Agile Lead, PPS and Valencia Serrao, Senior Platform Engineer, PPS
Table 2: Low Code / No Code Technology: Trends and Customer experience
Hosted by Govindaraj Jawahar, CTO and Head of Low Code and No Code Technologies, The Ideation Works (UK)
Table 3: QA Role in the DevOPs Ecosytem.
Hosted by Guillermo Martinez, Head of DevOps, Accenture NL
Table 4: How realistic is it to expect low code test automation tools to be super easy to use for non technical folks…?
Hosted by Andy Wyatt, Sauce Labs
Table 5: What data is important for you to share between the different stages in your CI pipeline?
Hosted by Hassan Choudhury, Sauce Labs
Table 6: My experience in Low Code when in building (and failing to do so) back when I was at Gupshup.
Hosted by Sohan Maheshwar, Senior Developer Advocate, Amazon Web Services, Amsterdam
Table 7: In the race to build and release, testing suffers. What’s the way out?
Hosted by Brijesh Deb, Principal Consultant, Infosys
Table 8: Iterate people performance like you iterate product
Jasmine Kernaleguen, CEO, Performance Rebels, AMP Coaching & Consulting, Canada
Table 9: Best practices for regression testing in a frequent release environment
Hosted by Artem Bobrovskiy, Product Manager, Global App Testing

13:10 – 14:10: Lunch break & networking

TRACK ON TESTING

14:10 – 14:15: Chair’s scene-setting

14:15 – 14:45: Solving the test data bottleneck Read More
Maarten Urbach, Managing Director, DATPROF

14:47 – 15:17: Develop a ‘Quality Narrative’ that Communicates the True Value of Quality Read More
Fahim Sachedina, Quality Consultant, Global App Testing

15:15 – 15:45: Tea / Coffee break and networking

15:47 – 16:17: Are your Digital Services Accessible? Read More
Andy Wyatt, Solutions Engineering Team Manager, EMEA, Sauce Labs

16:19 – 16:49: The future of Testing in the world Agile, DevOps and Test Automation Read More
Alexander Pushkarev, Senior Software Engineer, TripAdvisor

16:49: Conference Chair’s summing up and end of conference

16:55: Drinks reception

Track on DevOps

14:10 – 14:15: Chair’s scene-setting

14:15 – 14:45: A recipe for embracing DevOps Read More
Guillermo Martinez, Head of DevOps, Accenture NL

14:47 – 15:17: DevSecOps Engineering Best Practices and necessity of Cloud Security Tests in post-pandemic world Read More
Narayanan Palani, Engineering Lead (Quality), Lloyds Banking Group

15:17 – 15:47: Tea / Coffee break and networking

15:47 – 16:17: Case study of SVN to GIT Migration:
Tech Migration Diaries – Essentials to champion the transformative journey
Read More
Valencia Serrao, Senior Platform Engineer, PPS

16:19 – 16:49: Automating Our Way to Mini-App Success Read More & WATCH VIDEO
Sorna Priya Pradeepvarma, Software Development Engineer in Test, Kindred Group

16:49: Conference Chair’s summing up and end of conference

16:55: Drinks reception

Track on Agile

14:10 – 14:15: SESSION’S CHAIR, COLIN DEADY’S INTRODUCTION

14:15 – 14:45: Case Study: Agile for any age Read More
Shaheen Sultana, QA Analyst, The Aventum group

14:47 – 15:17: Accelerating deliveries : embrace that uncomfortable feeling Read More & WATCH VIDEO
Colin Deady, Agile Lead, PPS

15:17 – 15:47: Tea / Coffee break and networking

15:47 – 16:17: Is Agility threatening the end to end integration testing delivery Read More
Mahalakshmi PS, Senior E2E Programme Test Manager, Vodafone UK

16:19: Conference Chair’s summing up and end of conference

16:25: Drinks reception

Track on LOW CODE

14:10 – 14:15: SESSION’S CHAIR, GOVINDARAJ JAWAHAR’S INTRODUCTION

14:15 – 14:45: Enhance agility and accelerate automation with low-code Read More
Seema Prabhu, Head of QA, MotorK

14:47 – 15:17: Paradigm shift for testers with Low code/ No Code tools Read More
Brijesh Deb, Principal Consultant, Infosys

15:17 – 15:47: Tea / Coffee break and networking

15:47 – 16:17: Embracing Low Code / No Code Transformation – For Banking and Financial Institutions Read More & WATCH VIDEO
Govindaraj Jawahar, CTO and Head of Low Code and No Code Technologies, The Ideation Works (UK)

16:19 – 16:49: Speed-up delivery with Low-Code and DevOps Read More
José Carlos Figueiredo, Principal Solutions Architect, Noesis and Roy Goonewardena, Principal Solutions Architect, OutSystems

16:49: Conference Chair’s summing up and end of conference

16:55: Drinks reception

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Speakers

Colin Deady

Agile Lead, PPS

Brijesh Deb

Principal Consultant, Infosys

José Carlos Figueiredo

Principal Solutions Architect, Noesis

Roy Goonewardena

Principal Solutions Architect, OutSystems

Govindaraj Jawahar

CTO and Head of Low Code and No Code Technologies, The Ideation Works (UK)

Jasmine Kernaleguen

CEO, Performance Rebels, AMP Coaching & Consulting, Canada

Sohan Maheshwar

Senior Developer Advocate, Amazon Web Services, Amsterdam

Guillermo Martinez

Head of DevOps, Accenture NL

Narayanan Palani

Engineering Lead (Quality), Lloyds Banking Group

Seema Prabhu

Head of QA, MotorK

Sorna Priya Pradeepvarma

Software Development Engineer in Test, Kindred Group

Mahalakshmi PS

Senior E2E Programme Test Manager, Vodafone UK

Alexander Pushkarev

Senior Software Engineer, TripAdvisor

Seb Rose

Continuous Improvement Lead, SmartBear
Fahim Sachedina

Fahim Sachedina

Quality Consultant, Global App Testing

Valencia Serrao

Senior Platform Engineer, PPS

Dave Snowden

Director Cynefin Centre, Chief Scientific Officer Cognitive Edge

Shaheen Sultana

QA Analyst, The Aventum group

Maarten Urbach

Managing Director, DATPROF

Keith Watson

Director of DevOps iHCM, ADP
Andy Wyatt

Andy Wyatt

Solutions Engineering Team Manager, EMEA, Sauce Labs
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