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Eric Proegler is a Staff Platform Engineer for Credit Karma in Oakland, California. At work, he’s hacking processes, wielding metrics carefully, asking questions, and generally splitting the difference between Solver and Right Hand StaffEng Archetypes. Previously, Eric has been a Senior Director of Quality Engineering, a performance testing consulting practice lead, a Testing Tools Product Manager, and the President of the Association for Software Testing. He’s presented at CAST, TestBash, DevOpsDays Austin, Agile, QualitySense Conf, PNSQC, CMG Impact, STARWEST, Jenkins World, Oredev, Nordic Testing Days, Romanian Testing Conference, Yerevan Testing Days, CodeFest, and STPCon. Eric may be best known as the lead organizer for WOPR, the Workshop on Performance and Reliability. In his free time, Eric spends time with family, travels, runs a science fiction book club, and is resuming a busy schedule of live literary events, music, and stand-up comedy. He seeks out street food from all over, plays video games, collects Lego sets, and closely follows the NBA.

Susanne has been working according to the human-centered design approach for over 15 years, advises companies on digital product development, is a social science UX researcher and has been a co-founder of evux, an experience consultancy, since 2016. She began her professional career as a computational visualist. She holds a doctorate in computer science and is particularly interested in the interaction of people with information in collaborative environments.

Laveena Ramchandani is a dedicated and experienced Test Manager with over 10 years of experience in the field. She is deeply passionate about continuous learning and sharing knowledge within the testing community. As a leader in data science testing and testing in general, Laveena has significantly contributed to enhancing the skillsets of individuals within the industry, particularly through her impactful presence on digital platforms. In 2022, Laveena was recognized as a finalist for the prestigious Digital Star Award at the everywoman in Technology Awards. In addition to her recognition, she has been featured on several podcasts and blogs, serves as a trainer for new testers with The Coders Guild, and is a sought-after international speaker. Her commitment to the community continues to inspire and shape the next generation of testers.

Gojko Adzic the author of Lizard Optimization, Impact Mapping, Specification by Example and a few more books… He is the founder or co-founder of Narakeet, MindMup and Votito, and a partner at Neuri Consulting LLP. Gojko is one of the 2019 AWS Serverless Heroes, the winner of the 2016 European Software Testing Outstanding Achievement Award, and the 2011 Most Influential Agile Testing Professional Award. Gojko’s book Specification by Example won the Jolt Award for the best book of 2012, and his blog won the UK Agile Award for the best online publication in 2010. Author of Lizard Optimization, Impact Mapping, Specification by Example and a few more books… Working on Narakeet and Votito.

Maria is a specialist generalist with deep knowledge in quality engineering and software testing. With twenty-five years in software development her experience ranges from different roles like mentor, teacher, team manager, developer, test lead, tester and coach in different domains such as Telecom, Retail, Security and lately Automotive. She thrives when she can help an individual, a team or a company to improve their testing skills, enhance their approach to testing and quality engineering, and see them taking pride in what they do. She sporadically blogs, runs workshops, speaks at conferences and helps organise conferences. In 2017 – 2019 she was a board member of the AST (Association for Software Testing).