Jennifer Bonine - The AI AppStore
Jennifer Bonine is the CEO of the AI App Store, an International Speaker, and Trainer.
Jennifer Bonine is the CEO of AI Appstore, Inc., and was the first female Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) platform tech CEO. AI Appstore specializes in custom subscription technology bundles, leveraging an intelligent platform using a personalized ‘virtual research assistant’ to enhance corporate growth. The company exceeds expectations of integration, testing, delivery, and management with a groundbreaking business model that is fully engaged in the sustainable development goals (“SDGs”) cultivated by the United Nations.
Respected as a gifted speaker, entrepreneur, and philanthropist, Jennifer Bonine addresses the AI industry nationally and internationally, most recently at the World Economic Forum in Davos and for CNNMoney Switzerland. She has held executive-level positions leading teams for Oracle and Target and is a founding board member of the United States bid for a Minnesota World Expo 2027. Jennifer is a 2020 Minneapolis St. Paul Business Journal Women in Business honoree, a founding sponsor and member of IVOW AI’s Women in History Data Ideation Challenge, and an executive board member of Chad Greenway’s Lead the Way Foundation. She is a member of Million Dollar Women, member and mentor for TeamWomen, and a council member of DreamTank, an organization designed to champion young entrepreneurs. Recently named one of the Top 30 Leaders to Watch in 2020 by Silicon Review, Jennifer Bonine was featured at the UN’s AI for Good summit. Jennifer is also developing a series of books to educate children about the power of AI and machine learning
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Julie Gardiner - Testing Rainmaker
Julie Gardiner is the CEO of Testing Rainmaker Ltd. an International Speaker, a certified ScrumMaster, and an agile coach.
Julie has more than twenty-five years' experience in the IT industry, including time spent as a developer, database analyst, project and programme manager, test analyst, test team leader, test consultant, Head of Test, Agile, and Engineering. She is now CEO of Testing Rainmaker Ltd, providing consultancy and training in all aspects of agile and testing, specializing in risk, agile testing, test management, and people and transitioning issues. She is also a certified ScrumMaster and agile coach. An enthusiastic and motivated presenter, Julie is a regular speaker at agile and testing events and has won the best presentation at STAREAST, EuroSTAR, STARWEST, ADPEast, STANZ, ANZTB, Innovative Test Management Conferences, and Czech Test.
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Paul Grizzaffi - Magenic
Paul Grizzaffi is a Principal Automation Architect at Magenic and an International speaker.
As a Principal Automation Architect at Magenic, Paul Grizzaffi is following his passion for providing
technology solutions to testing, QE, and QA organizations, including automation assessments,
implementations, and through activities benefiting the broader testing community. An accomplished
keynote speaker and writer, Paul has spoken at local and national conferences and meetings. He is an
advisor to Software Test Professionals and STPCon, as well as a member of the Industry Advisory Board
of the Advanced Research Center for Software Testing and Quality Assurance (STQA) at UT Dallas where
he is a frequent guest lecturer. In addition to spending time with his twins, Paul enjoys sharing his
experiences and learning from other testing professionals; his mostly cogent thoughts can be read on his
blog at https://responsibleautomation.wordpress.com/.
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Jeffery Payne - Coveros
Jeffery Payne is the CEO of Coveros and an International Speaker.
Jeffery Payne has led Coveros since its inception in 2008. Under his guidance, the company has become a recognized market leader in secure agile software development. Mr. Payne is a popular keynote and featured speaker at technology conferences and has testified before Congress on technology issues such as intellectual property rights and cyber-terrorism.
Prior to Coveros, he was co-founder, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of Cigital, where he led the startup and growth of the company for 16 years. Mr. Payne is a former ACM National Lecturer and the co-founder of the Northern Virginia Chapter of the IEEE Computer Society. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Allegheny College and an M.S. in Computer Science from The College of William and Mary.
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Adam Sandman - Inflectra
Adam Sandman is the Founder and the Director of Technology at Inflectra.
Adam Sandman has been working in the IT industry for the past 20 years. His areas of expertise span from software architecture to agile development, software testing, test automation, and project management.
Currently, Adam is a Director of Technology at Inflectra. Adam is a prolific speaker, whose speaking engagements include STPcon 2018 and 2019, DevGeekWeek Israel 2017 & 2018, to Swiss Testing Day 2019, NDIA/Agile In Government Summit 2019, and StarCanada in 2019.
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Raj Subrameyer - ChaiLatte Consulting
Raj Subrameyer is the Owner and CEO of ChaiLatte Consulting, an International keynote speaker, writer, and tech career coach.
Raj Subrameyer is an international keynote speaker, author, and tech career coach who helps people to land their dream job and become successful leaders. He is helping countless individuals discover their zone of genius and leverage it to live a life that they love. He is the author of the new book – Skyrocket Your Career and has been featured in numerous publications including Authority Magazine, Thrive Global, and The Good Men Project. You can connect with him on twitter @epsilon11, or his website www.rajsubra.com.
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Damian Synadinos - Ineffable Solutions
Damian Synadinos is the Owner at Ineffable Solutions, an International Speaker, and the President of QA or the Highway Conference.
For more than 25 years, Damian Synadinos has been helping “build better software and build software better” through testing. Now, through his company Ineffable Solutions, Damian offers talks and training that are focused on fundamental topics and people-skills, based on real-world experience, and supplemented with deep research. His experience spans many roles, industries, and companies, including CompuServe, NetJets, Abercrombie & Fitch, Nationwide Insurance, and Huntington Bank. Damian also helps organize an annual, regional testing conference, QA or the Highway, and frequently mentors, coaches, and advises IT professionals around the world. As an international speaker and trainer, he presents at numerous conferences and corporations around the world. Additionally, Damian has over 10 years of theatrical improv experience and frequently uses applied improv to teach.
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Melissa Tondi - International Speaker
Melissa Tondi is the Quality Engineering Lead at E*Trade, Speaker, and the STPCon Program Committee Member.
Melissa Tondi has spent most of her career working within testing teams where the concentration has been on functional, performance, and security, and new and innovative testing techniques. In her current role, she is back to being a practitioner assisting agile teams with continuously improving designing, building, testing, and delivering quality software. She's been in the software test and quality engineering field for more than fifteen years and focuses on organizing teams around three major tenets—efficiency, innovation, and culture. Her previous roles have included director of software quality engineering in the world's leading education company; QA consultant for health care, finance, and software-as-a-service industries; and president of the Software Quality Association of Denver.