EuroSTAR 2021 Online Programme

Our 2020 conference was incredible – thanks to our programme comittee and all of our speakers for delivering such an incredible 3 days of learning! Our 2021 programme will be equally amazing – sign up now and be the first to know when tickets go on sale.

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Tuesday

09:00CET

Welcome to EuroSTAR 2020 Online - Programme Chair - Rik Marselis

Rik Marselis 2020 EuroSTAR Conference Programme Chair

Half Day Tutorials (3.5hrs) will take place Morning & Afternoon - Breaks Included

09:30CET

A

Tutorial

Scrum and Kanban – Addressing Real Life Agile Testing Challenges

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Fran O'Hara

Fran O’Hara
Inspire Quality Services, Ireland

B

Tutorial

The Green Traveller – Prioritizing your Backlog to Make an Impact

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Derk Jan de Grood

Derk Jan de Grood
Squerist, Netherlands

C

Tutorial

Think Like a Tester

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Rikard Edgren

Rikard Edgren
Nordic Medtest, Sweden

13:00CET

Join us on Hopin for SpeedMeeting to Meet & Mingle with your Community
Join us in the Huddle Networking Lounge for Group Chat & Games

Why not visit the Virtual Expo during the interval?

14:00CET

D

Tutorial

Technical Web Testing

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Alan Richardson
EvilTester, UK

E

Tutorial

Strategic Testing Master Class

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Fiona Charles
Quality Intelligence, Canada

F

Tutorial

Answering Hard Questions: A Tester's Communication Clinic

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Michael Bolton
DevelopSense, Canada

G

Tutorial

How to Break Software: Robustness Edition

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EuroSTAR Conference Volunteer

Dawn Haynes
PerfTestPlus, USA

17:30CET

EuroSTAR Online Afternoon Tutorials Finish at 17:30hrs

Wednesday

09:15CET

Welcome from the EuroSTAR Programme Chair - Rik Marselis

Rik Marselis 2020 EuroSTAR Conference Programme Chair

09:22CET

1

Keynote

Develop a ‘Quality Narrative’ that Communicates the True Value of Quality

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Ronald Cummings-John

Ronald Cummings-John
Global App Testing, UK

10:15CET

Community Networking - Coffee & Chats
Connect - Converse - Create
STAGE 1
STAGE 2
STAGE 3
CONNECTIONS

10:30CET

Mapping Tricky Cognitive Biases

Aleksandra Kornecka
OLX Group, Poland

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Testing SAFely - Finding Your Way

Gitte Ottosen
Key2Quality, Denmark

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Encouraging Children into Testing

Kari Kakkonen
Dragons Out, Finland

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Don't forget the Fast & Furious Testers Table Quiz takes place tonight at 7pm!

11:00CET

Community Networking - Coffee & Chats
Connect - Converse - Create

11:15CET

Crowd-Testing for COVID Contact Tracing

Jonathon Wright
Digital-Assured, UK

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Power of Diversity in Mob Programming

Cindy Duflot
DPG Media, Belgium

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Continuous Delivery for Teams & 1 Monolith

Thierry de Pauw
ThinkingLabs, Belgium

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Soapbox Sessions are 2 minute videos on absolutely anything, expect to be amazed, enlightened and entertained, don't miss them.

11:45CET

Visit the Virtual Expo
Meet Testing Service Providers, Demo Testing Tools, Expo Prizes

12:00CET

2

Keynote

Unlock the Power of Testing in Production with Observability

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Abby Bangser

Abby Bangser
Duffel, UK

13:00CET

Meet & Mingle with your Community
Join us in the Huddle Networking Lounge for Conversations & Games

STAGE 1
STAGE 2
STAGE 3
CONNECTIONS

13:30CET

Progressing Beyond Continuous Delivery

Joost van Wollingen & Erik Swets
iptiQ, Netherlands

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Your Habitat is Rapidly Changing. Are You?

Ryan Volker
Targobank, Germany

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Importance of Accessibility from the Start

Kristoffer Nordström
Northern Test, Sweden

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We're scheduling "Ask Me Anything" sessions with well known speakers.

14:00CET

Coffee & Community Networking
Share Ideas with Friends - Make New Connections Online

14:15CET

I Need GDPR-proof Test Data NOW!

Stijn van den Brand
NS (Dutch Railways), Netherlands

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Turning Automation Into a Cinderella Story

Niranjani Manoharan
Lyft, USA

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When can we make a release?

Sérgio Freire
Xpand IT, Portugal

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Looking forward to meeting new friends? Try the Speed meet function on our event platform, available all day!

STAGE 1
STAGE 2
STAGE 3
CONNECTIONS

15:00CET

Why Bug Classifications Matter

Sanne Visser
Capgemini, Netherlands

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Preventing Burnout in the Tech Industry

Raj Subrameyer
ChaiLatte Consulting, USA

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3 Routes To Deliver Higher Quality SAP Updates, Faster

Timo Mangelmann
Tricentis, Austria

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All technical sessions from stages 1-3 will be recorded and available to view on demand after the conference, so feel fre to take a wellness break!

15:30CET

Meet & Mingle with your Community
Join us in the Huddle Networking Lounge for Conversations & Games

15:45CET

3

Keynote

Let's Talk About Problems

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Michael Bolton
DevelopSense, Canada

16:45CET

Signing off for today from EuroSTAR Team & Programme Chair

19:00CET

EuroSTAR Trivia Quiz Night
Join us for a General Knowledge Challenge

Thursday

09:15CET

Welcome from the EuroSTAR 2020 Programme Chair - Rik Marselis

Rik Marselis 2020 EuroSTAR Conference Programme Chair

09:22CET

4

Keynote

Real Life Stories of Microservices Testing

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Tomasz Dubikowski

Tomasz Dubikowski
Level-up Your Culture, Poland

10:15CET

Coffee & Chats with the Community

STAGE 1
STAGE 2
STAGE 3
CONNECTIONS

10:30CET

Bug Hunting - A Wild MissingNo Appeared!

Beren Van Daele & Andreas Faes
Isle of IT, Belgium

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Surviving and Thriving in Automation

Martin Gijsen
Independent Consultant, Netherlands

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Testing the Escape Room World Championship

Ken Ferguson
Metaswitch Networks, UK

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We're delighted to introduce Chair Yoga, you'll find beautiful moments of calm all over the programme. We love wellness at EuroSTAR.

11:00CET

Meet the Testing Tools & Service Providers

STAGE 1
STAGE 2
STAGE 3
CONNECTIONS

11:15CET

Operational Readiness Testing

Christian Brodsjo & Bjorn Christian Schirmer
Promis Qualify, Norway

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What Testers can learn from Elephants

Iris Pinkster-O’Riordain & Greet Burkels
ProfTest, Netherlands

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Walk a Mile in your Users' Boots

Jørgen Lund
Systematic, Denmark

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Huddle is where we chill! Come join us in the sessions for fun & games, to take time out, to talk testing or just to chill!

12:00CET

5

Keynote

GUI testing: from developing scripts to creating AI-enabled agents

Tanja Vos

Tanja Vos
Open Universiteit, Netherlands

13:00CET

Have Lunch & Meet Your Community
Connect - Converse - Create

STAGE 1
STAGE 2
STAGE 3
CONNECTIONS

13:30CET

Why Adding more Phases may not Reduce Bugs

Andrew Brown
Expleo, UK

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Pay Peanuts, Get Monkeys: How To Pitch Testing

Bjorn Boisschot
CTG, Belgium

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First QA on Mars

Bruno Medley
Codacy, Portugal

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Make the most of SpeedMeet - its your chance to connect with the test community

14:00CET

Afternoon Reviver

14:15CET

Doing Testing v Selling it to Management

Ingo Philipp
UiPath, Austria

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Testing in the Wild at 130km/h

Nina Aabech & Charlotte Mortensen
National Police, Denmark

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Why Testing in DevOps is Broken

Katie Staveley
mabl, USA

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Check out all the action in the EXPO, visit the booths and see what prizes and giveaways you can collect!

STAGE 1
STAGE 2
STAGE 3
CONNECTIONS

15:00CET

RisingSTAR Talk: Inclusive Automation

Brendan Connolly
RisingSTAR Winner, USA

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APIs are Loose - How Do We Test Them?

Adam Sandman
Inflectra, USA

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Taming
DevOps

Hanna Dernbrant
Jayway, Sweden

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Don't forget we will present the EuroSTAR Testing Excellence Award Thursday evening, the longest running award of its kind in Europe!

15:30CET

Catch up with your Fellow Attendees

15:45CET

6

Keynote

AI Testing in the Wild

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Jason Arbon

Jason Arbon
Test.ai, USA

16:45CET

The EuroSTAR Gala Awards will be presented online this year, we look forward to celebrating everything that’s wonderful about our community, and invite you to join us!

17:00CET

Final Remarks & Thank You from the 2020 Programme Chair

Rik Marselis 2020 EuroSTAR Conference Programme Chair

Rik Marselis
Programme Chair

#EuroSTARConf 2020 Farewell

All programmed elements are subject to change. Download a PDF of the EuroSTAR 2020 Programme to select your preferred talks and mark them in your calendar

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