Conference Speakers
 CEO Checkie.AI
Jason Arbon is the CEO at Checkie.AI. His mission is to test all the world's apps. Google’s AI investment arm led the funding for his previous company (test.ai). Jason previously worked on several large-scale products: web search at Google and Bing, the web browsers Chrome and Internet Explorer, operating systems such...Read more |
 AI Specialist Leading EDJE
Matt Eland is a software engineering leader and data scientist who has served as a senior engineer, software engineering manager, professional programming instructor, and has helped build enterprise-level software at a variety of organizations before distinguishing himself as a Microsoft MVP in Artificial Intelligence. Matt is an AI Specialist at Leading...Read more |
 AVP, Quality Engineer III BOK Financial
Concurrent SessionsEthan Ferguson graduated from Oklahoma State University in 2015 with a degree in Sports Management. After graduating, Ethan went into Finance helping clients meet their financial goals. After 3 years, Ethan left the finance industry to enter Technology as a Quality Assurance Specialist. Ethan has led onshore and offshore teams...Read more |
 AppSec Consultant and Trainer Coveros
Dalton Forbes brings his years of experience as a security analyst and manager within the US government to the Coveros AppSec team. He has experience in using change management strategies, vulnerability discoveries, and risk management to uncover deficiencies within systems, business logic, or processes. He follows the general Pareto principle...Read more |
 Senior Director of Cloud and AI Strategy Microsoft
Concurrent SessionsPrerak Garg is a visionary product leader and strategist in the field of artificial intelligence, currently serving as Senior Director within Microsoft’s Cloud & AI division. At Microsoft, he has been instrumental in shaping the AI strategy and investments, specifically in healthcare. Prior to Microsoft, Garg served as an Engagement...Read more |
 Head of Testing Products EPAM Systems
Dmitriy Gumeniuk is the Head of Testing Products, Senior Delivery Manager at EPAM Systems, a leading global provider of digital platform engineering and software development services. Dmitriy led development of solution accelerators at Test Competency Center, focusing of Machine Learning and Neural Networks usage in test automation such as Healenium,...Read more |
 Director, Business Value Engineering GitHub GitHub
Matt leads GitHub's Business Value Engineering program, which draws on insights from Systems Engineering, Process Improvement, and Software Quality. Throughout his career, he has served in customer-facing roles at industry-leading organizations such as BEA, Oracle, and Pivotal. At GitHub, he collaborates with customers and prospects to assess and clarify the...Read more |
 Chief Engagement Officer HALO Strategies
Tania Katan has been helping innovative leaders and fast-growth brands harness the power of storytelling to transform apathy into alchemy, metrics into movements, and status quo into social change. She is a potent keynote speaker, well-respected innovation coach, and visionary mind behind the globally viral social impact campaign #ItWasNeverADress, a...Read more |
 Senior Consultant Coveros, Inc.
Training ClassJonathan Kauffman works as an agile software development and test consultant at Coveros, a company that helps organizations develop secure software using agile methods. In this role, Jonathan has helped both government and commercial organizations develop and test high-quality applications, and he has gained his experience by working with health...Read more |
 Chief Innovation Officer S&P Global Ratings
Sudeep Kesh is the Chief Innovation Officer for S&P Global Ratings. His team is responsible for research, development, and training programs in the realm of Emerging Risk, primarily focused on digital risks like Cyber, Artificial Intelligence, and Technology Disruption, the interplay between these and financial markets, and implications...Read more |
 Qualiti
Concurrent SessionsCarlos Kidman is a Director of Engineering at Qualiti but was formerly an Engineering Manager at Adobe. He is also an instructor at Test Automation University with courses around architecture, design, containerization, and Machine Learning. He is the founder of QA at the Point, which is the Testing and Quality...Read more |
 CEO and Head Test IO
Tariq King is a recognized thought-leader in software quality engineering. He is currently the CEO and Head of Test IO, an EPAM company that specializes in crowdsourced and professional testing, development, and automation services. Tariq has over fifteen years' professional experience in the software industry, and has formerly held positions...Read more |
 Consultant Coveros
Phil LaFrance is a software engineer very experienced in working in super fast-paced and agile environments where ambiguity is common and the need to be constantly learning is a requirement. Some of his favorite challenges are tackling difficult tasks that require learning and thought to solve. Prior to joining Coveros,...Read more |
 Chief Revenue Officer DecisionBrain
Nevra Ledwon is Chief Revenue Officer at DecisionBrain, a provider of custom AI-powered decision support software solutions. Nevra brings over 20 years of experience helping organizations harness data and AI tools and technologies for better decision making. Her experience spans data integration, analytics, mathematical optimization,...Read more |
 Sr. Engineering Manager DoorDash
Hien Luu is Sr. Engineering Manager at DoorDash, leading the Machine Learning platform team. He is particularly passionate about the intersection between Big Data, AI/ML, and MLOps. He is the author of the Beginning Apache Spark 3 book. He has given presentations at various conferences...Read more |
 CEO & Founder Fresh van Root
Concurrent SessionsRolf Mistelbacher is the CEO and Founder of Fresh van Root, a boutique digital marketing agency. With a decade at Microsoft in various marketing managerial roles, Rolf learned marketing from the ground up, mastering all disciplines and channels. An avid marketing enthusiast, he's always on the lookout for the latest...Read more |
 CEO & Founder HALO Strategies
Rob Nicoletti, Founder and CEO of HALO, is an expert in strategy execution. He is driven by data and fueled by empowering businesses—from startups to Fortune 100—to create efficiencies, maximize effectiveness, and realize success in an increasingly competitive marketplace. Rob’s knowledge—and impact—is built on a 20-year career as the Founder...Read more |
 CEO and Founder Coveros
Training ClassTutorialsLeadership Summit SessionsJeffery Payne is CEO and founder of Coveros, Inc., a company that helps organizations accelerate software delivery using agile methods. Prior to founding Coveros, he was the co-founder of application security company Cigital, where he served as CEO for 16 years. Jeffery is a recognized software expert and popular keynote speaker...Read more |
 CEO and Founder Width.ai
Concurrent SessionsTutorialsMatt Payne is a former Capital One ML Engineer and is the Founder and CEO of Width.ai. Width.ai is an AI consulting & development firm focused on building AI-based applications for enterprise & early stage startup clients. Width.ai is a current leader in building and consulting on production-grade GPT products...Read more |
 Vice President of Technology 11:59
Scott Peterson brings a wealth of experience in AI development and management, coupled with a profound commitment to ethical standards. With a background spanning 20 years in Technology, Scott Peterson has led groundbreaking projects at the intersection of technology and ethics. As a recognized thought leader, Scott has contributed to...Read more |
 Technical Director for AI/ML Dev Technology Group
TutorialsJoshua Powers is the Technical Director for AI/ML at Dev Technology Group. Josh has 30 years of experience researching and applying artificial intelligence technologies to various business and public sector challenges. Before Dev Tech, he was VP of Data Analytics at WorldAware. He developed a large-scale open-source intelligence exploitation platform...Read more |
 Director Test Engineering O.C. Tanner
Concurrent SessionsKevin Pyles has been in the QA industry now for over 15 years with project, product, and management roles throughout. Kevin is currently the Director of Test Engineering at O.C. Tanner. Kevin also served on the board for QA at the Point (a local testing meetup), and is an award-winning...Read more |
 Senior Technical Program Manager Arize AI
Concurrent SessionsAmber Roberts is a data scientist, machine learning engineer, and education lead at Arize AI, an AI observability and large language model evaluation platform. Before Arize, Amber was a Product Manager of AI/ML at Splunk and Head of Artificial Intelligence at Insight Data Science. A former astrophysicist and Carnegie Fellow,...Read more |
 Engineering Manager Indeed
Dionny Santiago is an Engineering Manager at Indeed and has 12+ years of industry experience working as an SW/QA/ML engineer, software/test architect, and engineering manager. Dionny completed his master's thesis on exploring the intersection between AI and test automation and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in this problem space. One...Read more |
 Chief Trouble Maker - Co-Pilot and AI Extensibility Microsoft
KeynotesDona Sakar believes you are one experiment away from being your most powerful self at work. And yes, in life! Currently, at her day job, she's running 100 experiments as the Chief Troublemaker of the Microsoft AI and Copilot Extensibility Program. Her goal is that people all over the world...Read more |
 Staff Developer Advocate TBD
Concurrent SessionsRizel Scarlett is a Staff Developer Advocate at TBD, Block's newest business unit. With a diverse background spanning GitHub, startups, and non-profit organizations, Rizel has cultivated a passion for utilizing emerging technologies to champion equity within the tech industry. She moonlights as an Advisor at G{Code} House, an organization aimed...Read more |
 Cloudflare
Concurrent SessionsLizzie serves developers in the Bay Area and beyond on Twilio's developer evangelism team and holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Bryn Mawr. She likes Swift, JavaScript, and working with AI, but has been seen writing Python and Haskell as well. When not organizing or attending hackathons and...Read more |
 CTO Coveros
Concurrent SessionsTom Stiehm has been developing applications and managing software development teams for over twenty years. As CTO of Coveros, he is responsible for the oversight of all technical projects and integrating new technologies and testing practices into software development projects. Recently, Tom has been focusing on how to incorporate DevSecOps...Read more |
 Sr. Data Scientist Testaify, Inc.
Concurrent SessionsRobert Vanderwall built his first computer from chips, transistors, wire, and solder. His passion for all things computers was born. When at university, Robert studied physics, specifically wave mechanics. After graduation, Robert was employed to design microcomputer systems for Telxon, then ITT. He then went on to Bell Labs where...Read more |
 Chief Technology Evangelist Keysight
Concurrent SessionsJonathon Wright is a strategic thought leader and distinguished technology evangelist. He specializes in emerging technologies, innovation, and automation and has over 25 years of international commercial experience within global organizations. Jonathon combines his extensive practical experience and leadership with insights into the real-world adoption of Cognitive Engineering (Generative AI)....Read more |