Michiel Boreel

Group Chief Technology Officer – Sogeti, Netherlands

Educated as an Industrial Engineer, Michiel Boreel is working in the IT Industry for over 30 years. Now in the role of Chief Technology Officer and EVP contributing to the innovation in Sogeti, one of Capgemini’s strategic business units. 

In 1994 Michiel created a thinktank with the goal of inspiring clients to apply new technology in business processes. Constant theme in all research is what role IT plays in society and how technology creates meaningful business innovation. Since the institute’s start it has published over 15 books and many reports (see labs.sogeti.com). Two of the latest publications are “Infinite Machine Creativity” and “Digital Happiness”.

Aprajita Mathur

Associate Director Bioinformatics System Software Engineering – Guardant Health, USA

Aprajita Mathur is a mom, inventor, mentor and international speaker with an engineering background in Bioinformatics. She has more than 15+ years of software testing experience. She has worked on a wide range of products like instrument software, LIMS, integrated solutions and data analysis pipelines which are used in the fields of agriculture , transplant genomics, forensics and oncology. Currently she leads the Bioinformatics Software Test team at Guardant Health, which is a leading precision oncology company dedicated to helping conquer cancer through their proprietary blood tests, vast data sets, and advanced analytics. She also leads the chapter for “Women Who Test” in the bay area and hopes to grow this community. In her spare time, she loves to catch up on sleep and write new songs for her son

Rob Lambert

Consultant – Cultivated Management, UK

Rob Lambert is on a mission to make management more interesting, rewarding, and fun. It’s an uphill struggle. Rob started his career as a software tester, became an engineering manager, and then made the logical move sideways to HR, before setting up his own management consulting company.  When he’s not talking all things management, he writes books, help parents remain employable, takes photos of cars, podcasts about stationery, explores the English countryside with his family, and writes TV and film scripts. His biggest achievement to date is surviving parenthood to three boys. Interestingly, he hopes they grow up with their mothers bone structure as Rob has broken almost every bone in his body and spent most of his teenage years at the Accident and Emergency hospital.

Marcin Sikorski

Senior Test Engineer – Spyrosoft, Poland

The most popular Polish expert on the Internet of Things. Member of Platforma Przemysłu Przyszłości, Poland Hong Kong Business Association and SJSI. Co-author of the report “IoT in the Polish Economy”, advisor to the CPK and author of the book “Real IT World – Internet of Things”. Public speaker (f.e. TEDx, seeTest), writer, mentor.  In the IT industry since 2013 – consumer IoT, automotive, nuclear reactors – within which he helps to implement good practices regarding quality, business and testing related to digital transformation.

Dionny Santiago

Director of Engineering – test.ai, USA

Dionny Santiago is a Director of Engineering at test.ai, where he leads the development of the core AI-driven testing platform. Dionny’s goal is to advance the current state of the art in software testing through the application of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. Dionny holds a M.S. degree and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Florida International University (FIU). He has published and contributed to the design of test specification languages and AI-driven test generation approaches. Dionny also enjoys attending software testing conferences to both learn and share. Dionny is a member of the IEEE Computer Society and the ACM.

Sue Atkins

Consultant – Grove Software Testing, UK

A test-obsessed bug-magnet Sue Atkins has spent some thirty years helping to improve the quality of software systems. A passionate believer in accessibility and usability design she also specialises in performance testing and test process improvement. However her main focus over the last few years has been bringing new testers into the fold via test training and consultancy.

She has delivered presentations at both physical and virtual events including the inaugural UKSTAR conference in London, Codecamp Romania and Ministry of Test, Utrecht.

She is also Co-Chair of the Scottish Testing Group – a voluntary, not for profit group hosting knowledge sharing events for testers across Scotland and worldwide.

Isabel Evans

Freelance – United Kingdom

After more than 30 years in IT, on software industry projects, quality and testing practitioner Isabel Evans is now a part-time post graduate student at the University of Malta. Her research focuses on human factors in test automation. Her interest in this topic arose from real life experiences as a test manager, quality manager and test consultant. Isabel authored Achieving Software Quality through Teamwork and chapters in Agile Testing: How to Succeed in an eXtreme Testing Environment, The Testing Practitioner, and Foundations of Software Testing. A popular speaker and storyteller at software conferences worldwide, Isabel has chaired EuroSTAR (2019) and HUSTEF (2018), as well as presenting tutorials and keynotes at conferences world-wide. She is a Chartered IT Professional and Fellow of the British Computer Society, and received the 2017 EuroSTAR Testing Excellence Award