Gil Broza helps organizations, teams and individuals implement high-performance Agile principles and practices. His coaching and training clients – over 1,000 professionals in 20 companies – have delighted their customers, shipped working software on time, boosted their productivity and decimated their software defects.

Beyond teaching skills and methods, Gil helps people overcome limiting habits, fears of change, blind spots and outdated beliefs; through his personal coaching practice he helps them find their true north and reach self-actualization.

Gil has an M.Sc. in Computational Linguistics and a B.Sc. in Computer Science and Mathematics; he’s also an NLP Master Practitioner. He lives in Toronto, Canada with his wife and twins.

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Get Your Point Across

Kevin Burr has twenty years of software development experience and ten years of management experience in software quality, security risk analysis, test automation strategies, unit and usability testing, performance, and interoperability.

Kevin has managed performance, integration, and system testing groups in Nortel, as well as having created the Test Acceleration Consulting Group within Nortel's Software Engineering Analysis Lab.

Currently, Kevin is in the Technology Innovation Management Program at Carleton University, and is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional.

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Testing Myths

Selena Delesie is a software coach and manager based in Waterloo. She currently manages and coaches on software and agile practices, and on testing for programs in wireless, media, embedded, telematics, web, billing, and speech technologies. Selena is passionate about creating empowered and collaborative organizations by way of individualized coaching and interactive training experiences.

Selena is past chair for the Kitchener-Waterloo Software Quality Association (KWSQA), and is co-founder and host for the Waterloo Workshops on Software Testing. You can contact Selena via her website at www.selenadelesie.com.

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Rob is employed as a Software Test Lead at Research in Motion. Over the past few years he has been honing his skills in Exploratory Testing and Rapid Software Testing. As well, Rob has started focusing his attention on technical leadership and team interaction.

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Speed vs. Quality Simulation

Michael Bolton has been teaching software testing on five continents for ten years. He is the 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. He has been Program Chair for the Toronto Association of System and Software Quality, and Conference Chair (in 2008) for the Association of Software Testing. He wrote a column in Better Software Magazine ran for four years, and very sporadically produces his own newsletter.

Michael lives in Toronto, Canada, with his wife and two children. He can be reached at mb@developsense.com, or through his Web site, http://www.developsense.com

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Learning to Say No

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Adam Goucher has been testing professionally for over 12 years at a range of organizations from national banks to startups. A large part of that time has been spent augmenting his exploratory testing with automation. But automation is not the only tool in his toolbox.

As an experienced tester who believes in the principles of both the Context School of Testing and the Agile Manifesto he brings an open and modern view of testing to projects.

His first book, Beautiful Testing was published in October 2009. His second, still untitled book is on Selenium and due out late 2010 by the Pragmatic Programmers.

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Successful Web Automation with Selenium

Paul Matsumoto has over 11 years of experience in Quality Assurance. In his current role, as a Quality Assurance Operational Manager at Innosphere SDG Ltd, he is responsible for organizing large groups of QA personnel on multiple projects.

The majority of Paul’s experience has focused on commercial business software used by thousands of users across North America. He has extensive experience working in an Agile Scrum QA environment.

Paul is a graduate of the University of Guelph and both lives and works in Guelph Ontario.

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Implementing an Agile Process

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Test Management and Projects in Crisis

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Testing vs. QA

Experienced from the fertile ground of both success and failure, Mark Meninger has been steadily working in various software testing capacities since 1999.

Mark has been driving, designing, developing, and implementing test automation solutions since 2004. He currently holds the position of Senior Test Automation Manager, Consumer Applications at McAfee Inc.

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