Crystal Preston-Watson is a QA Engineer at Spruce Labs in Denver, Colorado. With a decade working with tech companies in U.S and Canada, she has developed a passion for building quality and inclusive products. Over the years Crystal has worked as an accessibility engineer supporting and advising engineer teams, front-end developer in fintech, and interactive producer at a daily newspaper. Outside of work, you can find her playing backseat detective while watching old episodes of Forensic Files, photographing her two cats, Shadowmere and Ms. Etta James and getting really weird with life.

Gáspár Nagy is the creator and main contributor of SpecFlow, regular conference speaker, blogger, editor of the BDD Addict monthly newsletter (http://bddaddict.com), and co-author of the BDD Books: Discovery book. Gáspár is an independent coach, trainer and test automation expert focusing on helping teams implementing BDD and SpecFlow. He has more than 15 years of experience in enterprise software development as he worked as an architect and agile developer coach.

I am originally from a Software Development background and the rise of DevOps drove me to become more involved in how systems actually run in the real-world, and how I could make a difference helping others care about the applications they release to production. I am currently Infrastructure & Reliability Manager at Poppulo, where I'm responsible for our continuous delivery platform and the operations of our hybrid on-prem/cloud infrastructure.

Geoffrey works as though leader for Ordina Auto|Q. Geoffrey has focus on more the agile side of testing and exploratory side of testing. Together Geoffrey and Mark worked on this workshop to combine both their skill sets.

Carlos Kidman is the QA Manager at Jane.com, but who would have thought that Magic the Gathering would introduce him to QA in the first place? Now it’s an integral part of his life. He started in QA Engineering, but quickly moved into Test Automation and grew to appreciate each player and role in the development game. He wants to share the love and joy he’s found with QA and believes that a rising tide raises all ships. Carlos specializes in creating Test Automation Frameworks for UI, Integration, and Service tests, scaling tests and empowering developers and testers with CI/CD tools like Jenkins, Docker, and Kubernetes, and works closely with Infrastructure and DevOps organizations.

Although he is currently a QA Manager at Jane.com, he is also very active in the community. He is the founder of QA at the Point and QA Utah and is also a board member of DevOpsDays.

Alan Richardson has over twenty years of professional IT experience: as a programmer, tester, and test manager. Author of four books and several online training courses to help people learn Java, Technical Web Testing, and Selenium WebDriver. He works as an independent consultant, helping companies improve their automated execution, agile, and exploratory technical testing. Alan posts his writing and training videos on EvilTester.com, and CompendiumDev.co.uk

Ali began his software testing career testing video games before moving into an Agile testing role. He now works as a QA and Continuous Delivery Consultant at ECS Digital. He has a passion for learning. Recently Ali has been interested in learning how software testing can flourish in the world of DevOps and Continuous Delivery and has been sharing his testing knowledge within his cross-functional team. Ali can be found talking about testing on Twitter, blogging or at the Edinburgh Ministry of Testing Meetup.

I'm one of the co-organisers of the MoT Auckland chapter and love the wonderful world of testing. Although these days I'm not "technically" a tester, I still like introducing ideas, themes and practices from everything that I've learned through testing into my role as a consultant.

I work with people who are interested in improving their leadership and software delivery skills.

Suman Bala is a Test Architect with a passion for improvement in quality processes and is a strong believer in Test Automation. She feels proud of how people’s perspective has changed regarding testing throughout her career. She is striving to instil the idea that quality is everyone’s responsibility as opposed to merely laying it at the feet of QA. She is a co-organiser for the Ministry of Testing Bucks meet-up. She is a mentor and coach at work and within the wider testing community. She is co-designing and delivering the “Software Testing Bootcamp” sponsored by the West Yorkshire Combined Authority.

Alex is a passionate tester whose favourite topics are quality, agility and humans. She is CEO and Head of Quality at Bredex GmbH. In these roles, she supports colleagues, customers and teams on their journey to better quality - be it in products, in processes or in their communication. In previous roles, she was responsible for enabling teams and growing quality. Now she enables others to do that work, and works on nurturing a system in the company where everyone can flourish. Alex views the world through the curious eyes of a tester and loves learning new things. She shares her knowledge and experience in workshops, coaching sessions and as a speaker or keynote speaker at conferences.

Zeb is a software developer and technical lead at BREDEX GmbH in Germany. He is a huge fan of open source, and was an active Eclipse committer for many years. He works closely with testers in his teams to share understanding about quality and risk. He has a knack for effective code documentation and is not fond of acronyms.