2014 Conference At-A-Glance

Monday, October 20, 2014

7:00-8:00 AM	Registration and Exhibits Open Level 2 Mezzanine
8:00-8:15 AM	Welcome and Opening Remarks Level 3 Auditorium + overflow rooms levels 2 and 3
8:15-9:45 AM	Keynote Balancing Agility and Discipline: Bridging the Gaps Between Software and Systems Engineering Dr. Richard Turner, School of Systems and Enterprises – Level 3 Auditorium + overflow rooms levels 2 and 3
9:45-10:15 AM	Break in Exhibit Hall Level 2 Mezzanine
	Level 3 Auditorium	Level 1 Plaza Room	Level 2 Mezzanine Room	Level 3 Skybridge Room
	*Invited Speaker*	*Agile Development*	*People and Management*	*Automation and Tools*
10:15-11:00 AM	INVITED SPEAKER You’re Doing It Wrong: How Your Decision-making Actually Increases Uncertainty and What To Do About It Hillel Glazer, Entinex, Inc.	Does DAD Know Best, Is It Better To Do Less Or Just Do Enough To Be Safe? Adapting Scaling Agile Practices Into The Enterprise Aashish Vaidya, Cambia Health Solutions	To Build an Agile Company, Do Not Begin with Agile Development Michael Belding, Phyllis Thompson, ShiftWise	Improving R&D Productivity by Triangulating Failures Richard Leveille, Synopsys Inc.
11:10-11:55 AM		Quality Engineering for Devops Customers Dwayne Thomas, CrowdCompass	The Changing Role Of Software Tester Anna Royzman, Liquidnet	CANCELED: Using AOP Techniques as an Alternative Test Strategy Lian Yang, Yachi Tech Consulting
12:00-1:25 PM	Lunch Program – Deep-Dive Discussions to Choose From Level 3 Terrace
	Level 3 Auditorium	Level 1 Plaza Room	Level 2 Mezzanine Room	Level 3 Skybridge Room
	*Invited Speaker*	*Agile Development*	*People and Management*	*Automation and Tools*
1:30-2:15 PM	INVITED SPEAKER Bridging to Offshore Testers Karen Johnson, Consultant	Scrum Adoption In Our Experience: TGCFO Approach Vadiraj Thayur, McAfee	Creating Alignment during Change Efforts: The Bridge Between Vision and Execution Denise Holmes, Edge Leadership Consulting	Automated Synthetic Exploratory Monitoring of Dynamic Web Sites Using Selenium Marcelo De Barros, Microsoft
2:25-3:10 PM		How to Fail at Agile Without Really Trying Heather Wilcox	Cultivating Software Quality Engineers Tim Farley, Cambia Health Solutions	Transition From A Rapid Prototyping To Programmatic Test Framework Robert Zakes, Oregon Secretary of State
3:15-3:45 PM	Break in Exhibit Hall Level 2 Mezzanine
	Level 3 Auditorium	Level 1 Plaza Room	Level 2 Mezzanine Room	Level 3 Skybridge Room
	*Business Analysis*	*Agile Development*	*People and Management*	*Automation and Tools*
3:45-4:30 PM	Eliminate Ambiguity with BDD Jeana McClure, PGE Sponsored by IIBA	Success Through Failure: How We Got Agile To Work On A Distributed International Team Erin Chapman, Tektronix	This Would Be Easy if it Weren’t for the People Danny Faught, AgileAssets Software	MetaAutomation: A Pattern Language to Bridge from Automation to Team Actions for Quality Matthew Griscom
4:40-5:20 PM	Business Analyst & Quality Analyst Partnership Alicia Cook and Chitra Balakrishnan, PGE Sponsored by IIBA	The Agile Advantage: How Agile Integration Improves Outcomes For Software as a Service (SaaS) In The Corporate Environment Gregory Spehar, Mitusis Consulting Inc.	Double-Loop Learning: A Powerful Force for Organizational Excellence Jean Richardson, Azure Gate Consulting	Enabling ETL Test Automation in Solution Delivery Teams Subu Iyer, Cambia Health Solutions, Inc.
5:30-7:30 PM	Conference Social Kickoff – Exhibits & Poster Papers Level 2 Mezzanine Lobby Complimentary hors d’oeuvres & beverages; open to the public.
6:30-7:30 PM	TAO (Technology Association of Oregon) Presentation – Level 2, Room Mezz 2-4 Blood-Curdling Tales of Testing Terror, Frank D’Andrea, Tater Tot Designs		IIBA (International Institute of Business Analysis) Meeting and Presentations – Level 3, Room Sky A-B Data Modelers And Process Modelers: United, The Project Succeeds, Divided, Let’s Not Go There!, Norman Daoust, Daoust Associates

Tuesday, October 21, 2014

7:30-8:00 AM	Registration Open Level 2 Mezzanine
8:00-9:30 AM	Keynote Live Site Quality: the Bridge Between Your Silos Jon Bach, eBay, Level 3 Auditorium
9:30-10:15 AM	Break with Poster Papers Level 2 Mezzanine
	Level 3 Auditorium	Level 1 Plaza Room	Level 2 Mezzanine Room	Level 3 Skybridge Room
	*Invited Speaker*	*Mixed*	*Testing and Quality Assurance*	*Lifecycles, Processes and Methodologies*
10:15-11:00 AM	INVITED SPEAKER Scrum + Kanban, Sittin’ In a Tree… Halim Dunsky, SolutionsIQ	How Do I Get Started with Mobile Testing? Theodore Chan, Wellero Inc.	The Path Not Taken: Maximizing the ROI of Increased Decision Coverage Laura Bright, McAfee	Continuous Delivery: Bridging Quality Between Development and Customers John Ruberto, Intuit
11:10-12:00 PM		Non-Functional Risk Assessment Framework to increase predictability of Non-Functional Defects Vijayanand Chelliahdhas, HCL America, Inc.	Reducing the Cost of User Acceptance Testing with Combinatorial Test Design Steven Dyson, Cambia Health Solutions	Software Quality Strategy Supported by People and Organization Charles Matthews, The Boeing Company
12:00-1:25 PM	Lunch Program – Deep-Dive Discussions to Choose From Level 3 Terrace
	Level 3 Auditorium	Level 1 Plaza Room	Level 2 Mezzanine Room	Level 3 Skybridge Room
	*Invited Speaker*	*Mobile*	*Performance Engineering*	*Liefcycles, Processes, and Methodologies*
1:30-2:15 PM	INVITED SPEAKER Mobile UX Make or Break Philip Lew, XBOSoft	Testing @ Tango Amit Mathur, Tango	Scalability Testing: Pushing the Limits Neha Rai, Tejas Patil, Tim Schooley, McAfee	The Fab Experience: How I Stopped Whining and Started to Appreciate Process Michael Stahl, Ron Moussafi, Intel
2:25-3:10 PM		Developing Heuristic Based Mobile Application Pooja Sinha, Samrat Dutta, IBM, Sundaresan Krishnaswami, Fiberlink	Early Performance Testing Eric Proegler, Mentora Group	Low-tech ATDD Kevin Klinemeier, Davisbase
3:15-3:45 PM	Break with Poster Papers Level 2 Mezzanine
	Level 3 Auditorium	Level 1 Plaza Room	Level 2 Mezzanine Room	Level 3 Skybridge Room
	*Automation and Tools*	*Measurement and Metrics*	*Mixed*	*Security*
3:45-4:30 PM	Example-Driven Architecture – Moving Beyond The Fragile Test Problem Once And For All Gerard Meszaros, Consultant	Quality Data Management Chris Davis, Nike	Design for Profitability – a Model for Developing More Profitable Products F. Michael Dedolph, Levi Deal Consulting	Effective Security Testing Jeyasekar Marimuthu, McAfee
4:40-5:20 PM	Five Symptoms Your Test Automation Is Dying An Doan, AKQA	Building Software That Captures Better Data Danny Casale, PGE, Daniel Elbaum, Con-way	Making Enterprise Agile Transformations Successful Daniel Gullo, SolutionsIQ	How Identity and Access Management can enable Business Outcomes and Enterprise Security Srikanth Thanjavur Ravindran, Suresh Chandra Bose, Cognizant
5:30-6:30 PM	Networking co-sponsored with the Rose City SPIN Level 3 Terrace Complimentary hors d’oeuvres & beverages; open to the public.
6:30-7:30 PM	SPIN Presentation: Inciting and Inviting a Quality Culture Jon Bach, eBay – Level 3, Auditorium