2021

Jonathon Wright

CTO – MIT Path Check, USA

Jonathon Wright is a strategic thought leader and distinguished technology evangelist. He specializes in emerging technologies, innovation, and automation, and has more than 25 years of international commercial experience within global organizations. He is currently the CTO of Digital-Assured based in Oxford in the UK. Jonathon combines his extensive practical experience and leadership with insights into real-world adoption of Cognitive Engineering (Enterprise A.I. and AIOps). Thus, he is frequently in demand as a speaker at international conferences such as TEDx, Gartner, Oracle, AI Summit, ITWeb, EuroSTAR, STAREast, STARWest, UKSTAR, Guild Conferences, Swiss Testing Days, Unicom, DevOps Summit, TestExpo and Vivit Community. In his spare time he is the QA advisory lead for MIT for the COVID Paths Check foundation throughout the Coronavirus pandemic. He is also a member of Harvard Business Council, A.I. Alliance for the European Commission, chair of the review committee for the ISO-IEC 29119 part 8 “Model-Based Testing” and part 11 for the “Testing of A.I. based systems” for the British Computer Society (BCS SIGiST). Jonathon also hosts the QA lead (based in Canada) and the author of several award-winning books (2010 – 2020) and online-courses.

Erik Fogg

COO – ProdPerfect, USA

Operational management focus, expert at running companies and teams to make graphs go up and to the right, regardless of industry. Now founder and Chief Operating Officer at ProdPerfect, fixing E2E testing with ML and good design. ProdPerfect automatically builds and maintains E2E test automation by analysing user journeys on web applications.

MIT Bacherlors/Masters grad, studying mechanical engineering and political science. 4 years’ experience as operations/ management/engineering consultant with Stroud International, followed by operations/sales executive role at startup HelmetHub. Interludes as political author, business book ghost-writer, and consultant for private equity and biotech. 

Erik’s big ambitions are to use artificial intelligence to help large organizations and societies consistently identify truth from falsehood, and make better fact-based decisions.

Anders Dinsen

Test Manager – KMD, Denmark

Anders Dinsen drives learning and development with testing complex software systems. He leads people in agile, waterfall, and hybrid contexts. He is Danish, critically minded, and enjoys the short power-distances part of Danish organizational culture as it enables effective influencing management and driving quality for people who matter. He has more than 25 years of experience in software engineering as a developer, tester, manager, facilitator, and coach.

Michael Bolton

Consulting Software Tester – DevelopSense, Canada

Michael Bolton is a consulting software tester and testing teacher who helps people to solve testing problems that they didn’t realize they could solve. In 2006, he became co-author (with James Bach) of Rapid Software Testing (RST), a methodology and mindset for testing software expertly and credibly in uncertain conditions and under extreme time pressure. Since then, he has flown over a million miles to teach RST in 35 countries on six continents. Michael has over 30 years of experience testing, developing, managing, and writing about software. For over 20 years, he has led DevelopSense, a Toronto-based testing and development consultancy. Prior to that, he was with Quarterdeck Corporation for eight years, during which he managed the company’s flagship products and directed project and testing teams both in-house and around the world. Contact Michael on email, on Twitter @michaelbolton, or via his website.