Gáspár Nagy

Coach, Trainer – Spec Solutions, Hungary

Gáspár Nagy is the creator of SpecFlow, regular conference speaker, blogger, editor of the BDD Addict monthly newsletter, and co-author of the books “Discovery: Explore behaviour using examples” and “Formulation: Document examples with Given/When/Then“.

Gáspár is an independent coach, trainer and test automation expert focusing on helping teams implementing BDD and SpecFlow. He has more than 20 years of experience in enterprise software development and has worked as an architect and agile developer coach.

Kristoffer Nordstrom

Consultant – Northern Test Consulting, Sweden

Kristoffer Nordström is a Test Developer that in his career has worked with technologies such as Telecommunications System, Distributed Compilers, Cloud technology, Cryptocurrency, Smartphone OS development, Embedded systems, and much more. A testing devotee and passionate member of the test community who with his own company, consults and teaches the class Python for Testers because he believes in tools-assisted sapient testing. 

Tina Christin Syversen

Quality Engineer – Sopra Steria, Norway

Tina is a quality engineer working in Sopra Steria Norway. She loves to test, secure the quality of systems and teach testing and test techniques to other colleagues. What Tina does in her projects ranges from a bit of programming, testing – static and dynamic, and improving the different processes so that her team can deliver quality and value to their customers. In addition to this Tina likes to share her experiences, and also learn new ways of working by reading books and articles and taking different certifications. 

Prabhuram Govindarajan

Test Architect – Cognizant, Netherlands

Prabhu is a solution architect at Cognizant Technology Solutions. He has worked for customers across Continental Europe. He has seen the evolution of tools & methodologies in the last 16 years. He started his career as a test automation engineer, then evolved into a consultant and architect. Prabhu builds new-age solutions in the space of AI, IoT and implements them at various industries.

He has done many presentations for Cognizant and spoken at conferences in the Netherlands. 

Adonis Celestine

Solution Architect – Cognizant Technology Solutions, Netherlands

Promoting technology & culture of quality. Adonis lives in the Netherlands and is involved in assuring quality for leading customers in a fast, up scaled environment for more than a decade. He is passionate about making testing simpler and more interesting for everyone in the team. He embraces change and bringing in innovation and technology to his daily work is his forte.

Adonis is a firm believer that technology achieves its full potential when used from a human perspective. He finds nothing more satisfying than providing right solutions to his customers solving their problems in a creative way. 

Adonis is passionate about speaking in conferences and has spoken in several Testing meetups and conferences including, TestNet, Testdag, TAPOST, Belgium Testing Days, Testcon, EuroSTAR, Romania Test Conference, etc.

Jeffrey Fredrick

Director – Reflect Adapt, UK

Jeffrey Fredrick is an internationally recognised expert in software development and has over twenty-five years’ experience covering both sides of the business/technology divide. An early adopter of XP and Agile practices, Jeffrey has been a conference speaker in the US, Europe, India and Japan. Through his work on the pioneering open-source project CruiseControl, and through his role as co-organiser of the Continuous Integration and Testing Conference (CITCON), he has had a global impact on software development. Jeffrey’s Silicon Valley experience includes roles as Vice President of Product Management, Vice President of Engineering, and Chief Evangelist. He has also worked as an independent consultant on topics including corporate strategy, product management, marketing, and interaction design. Jeffrey is currently Managing Director in London at TIM, an Acuris Company. He also runs the London Organisational Learning Meetup and is a CTO mentor through CTO Craft. His book Agile Conversations, with co-author Douglas Squirrel, was published in 2020 by IT Revolution.

Douglas Squirrel

Director – Squirrel Squared, UK

Douglas Squirrel​ has been coding for forty years and has led software teams for twenty. He uses the power of conversations to create dramatic productivity gains in technology organisations of all sizes. Squirrel’s experience includes growing software teams as a CTO in startups from fintech to biotech to music, and everything in between; consulting on product improvement at over 100 organisations in the UK, US, Australia, and Europe; and coaching a wide variety of leaders in improving their conversations, aligning to business goals, and creating productive conflict. He lives in Frogholt, England, in a timber-framed cottage built in the year 1450.

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.