Plenary Speakers

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                                                                                             Presentations

• Wilson Tan, Mercury
  Application Quality Life-cycle:A Critical Imperative
  
  Amidst an environment of increasing application complexity, compliance issues and the impact of strategic sourcing, the need to understand and implement an overall application quality life cycle is now more important than ever. Recognizing this need, forward thinking IT professionals have elevated Application Delivery to a strategic status. This approach ensures application quality and performance, and establishes metrics to measure business value from applications.
  What are the best practices and key learnings that demonstrate this evolution in application quality life-cycle? How do we as IT professionals plan, develop and implement an application quality life-cycle approach that will provide clear and measurable IT and business metrics? What will be the key drivers to necessitate this approach in 2005 and beyond?
  
  Wilson Tan currently serves as President of the Asian-Oceanian Computer Industry Organization (ASOCIO), which is a regional grouping of IT associations. Mr. Tan is responsible for all business operations including sales, support and general management. Mr. Tan has held various senior management positions at Software AG, Informix, Apple, Xerox and Transmacro Data Systems. Mr. Tan is the Immediate Past Chairman of the IT Standards Committee (ITSC) having served two terms as Chairman, and is currently serving on the Standards Advisory Board of SPRING. He was also a board member of the National Computer Board (NCB) and the Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) Mr. Tan holds a Bachelor of Arts from the National University of Singapore and a graduate diploma in Marketing Management from Singapore Institute of Marketing. In addition, he is a member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (IMUK) and has attended the Executive Management Program at INSEAD, France.

• Scott Ambler, Ronin International
  Examining the Role of Testing and QA in Agile Software Development
• Martin Pol, Polteq
  The Roadmap for Successful Test Outsourcing
• John Scarborough, Disha Technologies
  Using Functional Abstraction Models for Effort Estimates
• Katherin WU, Compuware
  How to Increase IT Efficiency and Business Effectiveness: Implementing a Risk-Based Approach to Ensuring Application Quality
• Sanjay Menon, Disha Technologies
  Outsourced Testing in an Agile Environment
• Seshadri Nathan, Accenture
  Best Practices: Improving Delivery Performance through Automation
• Venkatesh Chillara, Satyam Computer Services Ltd.
  Importance of Negotiation Techniques in Software Testing
• Rajaram S Kanyamadugu, Wipro
  Mobile Testing – Challenges and Solutions
• Abhishek Kumar Mishra, Microsoft
  Evolution of Testing as a career option
• Dr. A Narendranath Udupa, Philips Research
  Sharing of Testing Research Best Practices

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