SPEAKERS

Gojko Adzic
Gojko Adzic is a software craftsman with a passion for new technologies, programming and writing. He is the author of several books and online guides on acceptance testing, including Bridging the Communication Gap, Test Driven .NET Development with Fitnesse, and Getting Fit with .NET, and more than 200 articles about programming, operating systems, the Internet and new technologies published in various online and print magazines.
Rachel Davies
Rachel Davies has a wealth of experience through her work coaching agile teams. Her new book "Agile Coaching" shares many practical tips that can help you take your teams to the next level. Rachel supports the agile community as a long-serving director of the Agile Alliance and as an organizer of many Agile conferences. Contact her via www.agilexp.com
Aslak Hellesoy
Aslak Helles?y is the Chief Scientist of BEKK Consulting in Oslo, Norway. Aslak has worked with agile teams since 2003 and has contributed to over a dozen open source projects, lately mostly to Cucumber, a popular Ruby framework for Behaviour Driven Development. In 2004 he was named one of the top 50 most influential Java programmers in the world by TheServerSide.com, probably for the work with PicoCointainer and XDoclet. Aslak first honed his agile skills while working for ThoughtWorks in the UK and US. He is an active member of the agile community in Norway and in 2007 and 2008 he was one of the organisers of Norway?s first agile conference with 300 participants.
Mauro Talevi
Mauro Talevi works for Agilesque, an independent consultancy specialising in Agile coaching and development. He's helped enterprises deliver complex and large projects by introducing Agile practices and tools, believing that the best results can be achieved by bringing together the right ideas with the appropriate tools to implement them. He's active in numerous open-source project, more recently driving forward core development of JBehave.
Mike Scott
Mike Scott is Champion of Agile and Developer Testing at SQS, Europe&squo;s largest pure-play quality consultancy, where he serves as a quality architect and agile coach for a range of clients. Mike has over 20 years experience of systems design, delivery and QA on small and enterprise systems. He has presented talks and tutorials at various testing and development events across Europe, USA, Africa and the Far East. He is also the creator of &squo;Testify&squo;, an open-source utility for test-driven development
Martin Gijsen
With thirteen years of experience in the software industry, Martin Gijsen is a test consultant, test automation architect, software architect, and business analyst. Starting as a software engineer, he soon became interested in test automation. Martin has since supported numerous testers by designing and creating effective automated testing solutions for a variety of systems with many different interfaces (including Web, Web services, and payment messages). He has also released the freeware Essential Test Automation Framework, easy to use with other free and open source test software (like Selenium, WebDriver, and Abbot). Martin frequently presents at international conferences and gives workshops for both testers and test automation specialists.
Juha Rantanen
Juha Rantanen works as an agile testing consultant at Reaktor, developing Robot Framework and helping customer teams in organizing their testing and test automation efforts. He have also organized workshops about executable requirements in XP2009 and Scan-Agile 2009 conferences. Juha has also studied acceptance test driven development (ATDD) in his Master?s Thesis.
Alexandra Imrie
Alexandra Imrie has a Master?s degree in Phonetics and Phonology. At BREDEX GmbH she has various roles including working on concepts and planning in the development process as well as manual and automated testing, documentation, customer support, training and demonstrations
Anko Tijman
Anko Tijman is principal consultant on Agile testing at Ordina. He has more than 12 years experience in software testing and holds ISEB Practitioner and TMap certificates. Anko is involved in agile testing since 2001. He is a ScrumMaster. In Nov 2008 he published his second book on Agile testing in Dutch (title: Testen 2.0 de praktijk van agile testen). He was speaker at Eurostar, SQS, Agile2005, ATD2009 and other agile conferences on this topic. He is considered a thoughtleader on agile testing in the Netherlands.
Wes Williams
Wes Williams is a developer and agile coach who is passionate about delivering software that meets customer's needs today and can be quickly changed to meet the ongoing needs of the customer. He is the creator of the GivWenZen BDD tool for FitNesse and has been doing automated acceptance testing since 2002 and using FitNesse since 2005.
Francesco Masia
Francesco Masia is one of the three founders of Calameda, a software company started in Summer 2009 but dreamed of for about a decade, since when the three used to work together building one of the largest financial websites in Italy. During his career in the software business ? spent also in UK and Germany - he has always been fascinated by the flow of information within teams and enjoys to actively compare development methodologies in order to build customized solutions that best fit the various project realities.
Antony Marcano & Andy Palmer
Antony Marcano‘s background in Agile Software Development started in 2000 with an Extreme Programming project. Since then Antony has worked on numerous agile projects, whilst continuously developing his craft. Antony has diverse skills with an emphasis on increasing throughput with quality.

Andy Palmer was inspired by the Agile Manifesto in 2002, and since then has applied agile principles and practices wherever applicable. Andy was previously a senior consultant with ThoughtWorks and has several years experience working with high-availability systems for the mobile telecommunications industry.