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Dirk is a scholar and writer. He heads the Consumer Culture Research Unit at the University of Hildesheim and recently spent three years as a visiting professor at the Berlin University of the Arts. Called a "quality expert" by the Swiss Newspaper "NZZ am Sonntag", Dirk's book "Quality! On the Art of Discovering Well-Made Things, Choosing Wisely and Living Delightfully" (published by Brandstätter in 2021) received a broad media coverage in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. As an expert on cultural aspects of economics, Dirk is a frequent speaker and keynote speaker. He lectured at the invitation of universities, companies, ministries, non-governmental organizations, and cultural institutions worldwide. You find him on his website https://inventur-blog.de

Evelina Rimkute is an experienced Test Manager working in IT projects within the banking and insurance industry. She is specialised in shift-left quality models, E2E test coordination, and test management in large projects. Evelina has a vast experience in SAFe, Agile, Kanban and Waterfall development models. As an active participant in social life, Evelina encourages women to support each other in their career path and various life situations. She is a co-leader of Lean In Switzerland, part of the global Lean In community with more than 1,500 members and 24 circles that get together to exchange views, network and host inspiring events. Apart from Evelina’s daily work and Lean In activities, she is a book and nature lover, a self-published author (Questions and thoughts for every day), hosting her own podcast (Footprints of an expat) and a lifelong learner who enjoys bringing valuable ideas to the daylight. https://evelinarimkute.ch

Sophie studied mathematics at university which did not go as planned. She finished with a diploma, nonetheless. Serendipity brought her into agile testing – and she has never looked back. She now works happily as a test automation engineer at cronn GmbH, a Bonn based IT company. After years of successfully hunting bugs, lately she’s also been working her way into Java backend development so she can cut out the middle person and introduce the bugs herself. In her free time, she enjoys doing ballet and SUPing (in non-lockdown times) or knitting and baking (in lockdown times). No stranger to the universe’s gut punches, she is passionate about improving awareness and communication about mental health and self-care.

Alex is a whirlwind of enthusiasm for quality, agility and humans. She started out in testing and had an interesting and varied career as a product owner, consultant and team leader before becoming a part of the management team at the beginning of 2020. She spends her time communicating with people! A typical week involves working with customers, teaching and coaching testers and developers about quality, being an agile leader, working on strategy and developing her team to fulfil their potential. She keeps up to date on her favourite topics by supporting and consulting for teams and customers. Alex is a frequent speaker and keynote speaker at conferences about agility and quality from her experiences in projects and with customers, and she was awarded the Most Influential Agile Testing Professional Person award in 2018. In her free time she loves doing sports, playing music and being an auntie. She describes herself as an explorer and loves discovering places, cultures, perspectives and people.

Alex "TripleSeven" Bauduin is a 56 year old globetrotter. He has worked in consulting companies, gaining experience in several fields (medical, manufacturing, aerospace, pay TV, and data warehousing, to name a few) in different countries (Switzerland, France, Spain, Canada, etc.). His career started in the space industry, where he discovered his passion for aerospace, working on military and civilian projects. At times he was diverted from aerospace, but his passion drove him to become an airline pilot, to really understand how the instruments he programmed and integrated worked in a cockpit. In his latest challenges: Organizing flight simulator testing in a lean production environment. Specifying and testing a short-range anti-aircraft defence system. Integrating and testing electrically powered aircraft. He works with milling machines, creates blueprints, does accounting and finance, software development, electronics design and industrial robots, and it's always fun for him to use an oscilloscope, an avionics bus analyzer, debug in assembly language or perform stall tests on a Boeing 777!

Michael Bolton is a consulting software tester and testing teacher who helps people to solve testing problems that they didn't realize they could solve. In 2006, he became co-author (with James Bach) of Rapid Software Testing (RST), a methodology and mindset for testing software expertly and credibly in uncertain conditions and under extreme time pressure. Since then, he has flown over a million miles to teach RST in 35 countries on six continents. Michael has over 30 years of experience testing, developing, managing, and writing about software. For over 20 years, he has led DevelopSense, a Toronto-based testing and development 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. Contact Michael at michael@developsense.com, on Twitter @michaelbolton, or through his Web site, http://www.developsense.com.

A passionate Exploratory Test Manager with over 20 years of diverse IT experience, Nancy enjoys working with teams that are implementing or enhancing their testing practices and provides adaptive testing approaches to exploratory, context driven, and traditional testing teams. She has coached test teams in various environments and facilitated numerous local and international workshops and presentations. From small scale to multi-million-dollar projects; Nancy has played many roles within testing including Project Test Manager, Test Manager, Test Lead and Tester. Her most recent work has been exclusively with Exploratory Testing implementations at large scale companies.