Michael Bolton is a tester, consultant, and trainer.  He is co-author (with senior author James Bach) of Rapid Software Testing, a course that presents a methodology and mindset for testing software expertly in uncertain conditions and under extreme time pressure.

Michael is a leader in the context-driven software testing movement, with 20 years of experience testing, developing, managing, and writing about software. Currently, he leads DevelopSense, a Toronto-based consultancy.

Prior to that, he was with Quarterdeck Corporation for eight years, during which he managed the company’s flagship products and directed project and testing teams both in-house and around the world.

Kristina Tangen is an experienced project and test manager, with about 20 years of experience from large and complex system development projects. The past three years, she has been responsible for testing in the largest agile project in Norway at the time.

Nathalie Rooseboom de Vries van Delft, has been involved in IT (professionally) since 1997 and is involved Software Testing since 2004.

She is Expert Group Leader of the cluster testing technologies and processes and member of the CTO office at Capgemini, responsible for thoughtleadership and testing competence development.

Nathalie fulfills the roles of testmanager and advisor with various clients.

She speaks on national and international testevents on regular basis, writes in specialist publications and participates in the Dutch Standardization Body (NEN) workgroup for Software and System development.

Pål Gaute Sætre er prosjektleder i Helse Vest IKT.

Yanhong Peng, Test Manager and QA lead at Vianova Systems AS. Over 10 years test manager and QA lead experiences in different industries, focusing on QA process establishment and improvement, automation test architecture, test plan & test management & release process control. Before settled down in Norway in 2002, also worked over 10 years as software systems developer, consultant, and research fellow and associate professor in a university in China.

Tore Sletten er testleder fra Steria med 26 års erfaring fra programvareutvikling, prosjektledelse, kvalitetssikring og software testing. Testleder for teknisk akseptansetesting i et av Norges største utviklingsprosjekter. Dette prosjektet er grunnlaget for foredraget.

Vegard Hartmann is a Manager at Bekk Consulting. He has worked on several agile projects and has a broad experience with automated testing and quality assurance.

Øyvind Kvangardsnes is Senior Consultant at Bekk Consulting. He has worked on mission-critical applications and has experience with automated testing.

Fiona Ring Østensvig jobber hos EDB ErgoGroup Consulting som avdelingsleder for testledere og testere. Hun er ISTQB sertifisert, og hun har mange års erfaring som testleder. Med sin erfaring og kunnskap innen utvikling, test og testledelse har hun ansvar for faget og profesjon software test.

Hun var, som eneste representant fra Norge, foredragsholder på EuroSTAR2010. (eResept Implementing Electronic Prescription In Norway) Fiona ble våren 2011 invitert til å sitte i styret til Den norske Dataforeningen sin software test gruppe.
 

With more than twenty-eight years in the software industry, Lloyd has worked as a Developer, Test Analyst and Test Manager for a variety of different organisations. From 1999 to 2011 he worked as a consultant/partner within Grove Consultants. In 2011 he set up Lloyd Roden Consultancy, an independent training and consultancy company specialising in software testing.

Lloyd's passion is to enthuse, excite and inspire people in the area of software testing and he has enjoyed opportunities to speak at various conferences throughout the world including STAREAST, STARWEST, EuroSTAR, AsiaSTAR, Belgium Testing Days and Better Software as well as Special Interest Groups in software testing in several countries.

Lloyd was privileged to be Programme Chair for both the tenth and eleventh EuroSTAR conferences and won the European Testing Excellence award in 2004.
 

Jørgen arbeider som testleder og tester for Kantega AS, med fokus på testing av web-tjenester og ytelsestesting. Tidligere har han testet databaser for Sun Microsystems og Oracle. Når han ikke sitter foran en skjerm, så sitter han på en sykkel.

Morten har jobbet med IT siden han fullførte sin Master-utdanning i 2007. Han har vært involvert i alle områder av software utvikling, men spesialiserte seg tidlig innen kvalitetssikring (test).

Morten er en senioringeniør hos Devoteam Solutions A/S i Norge (Grimstad). Han er en erfaren konsulent innen software testing.
 

After studying computer science, Martin soon became interested in automated testing. He has supported testers on diverse test automation projects as a software engineer, designer and architect for over ten years. He has presented at national and international conferences. He is also a business analist in banking.

Frans Dijkman is an experienced tester and test manager currently working for Brønnøysundregistrene. He has been involved in over 20 years in Quality Assurance and acceptance testing of complex mobile communication systems. He is a fulltime software tester since 2004 bringing test experiences from large healthcare (UK and NL) projects. Based on a technical background he does like the non functional testing parts. He is ISTQB full advanced and TMAP certified and holds an EC Council CEH ‘Ethical hacking’ certificate.

Mieke Gevers has been in the IT industry for 22 years and is managing director at Agile Quality in Information Systems (Aqis).  She has a Bachelors of Computer Science and started her career as a software developer, later moving on to various positions as analyst, project manager and, ultimately, QA Manager for several different companies in the Benelux region and Germany.

Until November, 2006 she has been with Segue Software, Borland for more than eight years rising from Technical Sales Engineer, Technical Manager, EMEA/APAC, Alliance Architect EMEA/APAC to Solution Architect, EMEE at Borland. Having developed special interest in the techniques and processes relating to test environment management and the impact of environmental factors on automated testing, she is a regular speaker throughout Europe, the United States, Asia and Australia.

She is also EuroSTAR’s country coordinator for Belgium and a member of the Eurostar 2007 & 2009 Program Committee. In 2006, she co-founded “the Belgian Testers Organization” and recently became a board member of KVIV and BNTQB (ISTQB). She has also been working with different automatic testing tools, specializing in performance testing and monitoring.

Anders er prosjektleder fra Steria. Over 14 års erfaring med systemutvikling. Scrummaster i norges største smidig prosjekt i  3,5 år.

Espen er konsulent i Bekk Consulting, og arbeider for tiden med Postens nye storsatsning, Digipost. Her har han hatt et hovedansvar for ytelsestesting av hele systemet i forkant av den store norgeslanseringen i April 2011. I 2011 har han holdt foredrag på blant annet JavaZone og NNUG.

Kjetil arbeider som konsulent i Bekk Consulting. For tiden er han på prosjekt hos Statens Vegvesen, der han i en periode har hatt fokus på ytelsestesting. Arbeidet baserte seg på Grinder, og resulterte i en rigg for å automatisere enkle ytelsestester av vegvesenets websider.

After studying computer science, Martin soon became interested in automated testing. He has supported testers on diverse test automation projects as a software engineer, designer and architect for over ten years. He has presented at national and international conferences. He is also a business analist in banking.

Laura Arlov er en av de virkelige nestorene innenfor fagfeltene brukervennlighet og grensesnittdesign. Hun har holdt på siden tidlig på 80-tallet, de senere årene som rådgiver i Skatteetaten. Laura er en svært populær kurs- og foredragsholder, og hun holder alltid konkrete og praktiske foredrag med fokus på "gjør-det-selv".