Ash, a former chef, put recipes aside when she began her career in software development, falling back on her skills in engineering she acquired as a kid building computers with her brother. A progressive type, Ash has focused her efforts within technology on bringing awareness to the inclusion of women and people of colour, especially in the Context-Driven Testing and Agile communities. An avid fan of matching business needs with technological solutions, you can find her doing her best work on whichever coast is the sunniest. Having helped teams build out testing practices, formulate Agile processes and redefine culture, she now works as an Engineering Manager in Quality for Credit Karma and continues consulting based out of San Francisco.

Jurian is a test automation engineer at DUO in Groningen, the Netherlands. He's been testing for over 10 years now. Having started out as a manual tester who liked to automate tests, he's now become a test automator: building frameworks & supporting and teaching fellow testers - together with the rest of the Test Automation Service Team.

He lives in Assen, home of the famous Dutch TT race, with his wife and three kids. When he's not at work he can be found coaching his son's football team and supporting his local church. If there's nothing to be done on those either he likes to exercise, run, Netflix, or game his free time away.

John is a dev gone QA who has worked on testing products used by millions worldwide such as Elasticsearch, GitHub and Firefox. John is currently at Elastic helping to develop test automation solutions in JavaScript. He loves tea, K Pop and anything having to do with cuff links. Find him on LinkedIn.

Tariq King is the Vice President of Product-Service Systems at EPAM, where he manages a portfolio that lies at the intersection of software products and services, and supports the business through technology consulting. Tariq has over 15 years' experience in software engineering and testing and has formerly held positions as Chief Scientist, Head of Quality, Director of Quality Engineering, Manager of Software Engineering and Test Architect. Tariq holds Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from Florida International University, and a B.S. in Computer Science from Florida Tech. His areas of research are software testing, artificial intelligence, autonomic and cloud computing, model-driven engineering, and computer science education. He has published over 40 research articles in peer-reviewed IEEE and ACM journals, conferences, and workshops, and has been an international keynote speaker at leading software conferences in industry and academia.

Jarsto has been playing with code for a quarter of a century now, having started at 11 years old. Despite studying law he eventually saw sense and turned his hobby into a career. He now works as a Specialist Test Engineer at DUO (part of the Netherlands' ministry of Education).

At work he is active in the Automation Serviceteam - developing internal tools, helping and teaching colleagues, and looking critically at what should and should not be automated - as well as taking on testing-related matters that affect the entire organization, coordinating with specialists from other DevOps disciplines, and advising management as needed.

In his free time Jarsto is mildly obsessed with world history, science fiction and fantasy, and all sorts of technology he doesn't get to play around with at work (yet). Somehow he never has the time to watch as quite many movies/series, read quite as many books, or play quite as many games as he thinks he should.

The important things are mindsets! They will change you!” is Lucian’s motto. He is currently working at R/GA where he has the opportunity to work with new technologies, brilliant design people and crafty developers, this blend resulting in award-winning & innovative user experiences. His journey into testing started in 2005, and since then he took an interest in many things related to testing & agile His testing experience covers a wide range, from networking & embedded to mobile apps, going through security and desktop applications. His recent interest is in exploring the interaction between users, computer interfaces, and data-driven methods (e.g. AI, ML). You can connect further on Twitter (@lucianadrian) or through his blog (lucianadrians.wordpress.com).

Mark Winteringham is a tester, toolsmith and author of AI-Assisted Testing and Testing Web APIs, with over ten years of experience providing testing expertise on award-winning projects across a wide range of technology sectors, including BBC, Barclays, UK Government and Thomson Reuters. He is an advocate for modern risk-based testing practices and trains teams in Automation, Behaviour Driven Development and Exploratory testing techniques. He is also the co-founder of Ministry of Testing Essentials a community raising awareness of careers in testing and improving testing education. You can find him on Twitter @2bittester or at mwtestconsultancy.co.uk

Alexandre Bauduin is a 53 year old world traveler. He worked in consulting firms gaining experience in several fields (medical, manufacturing, aerospace, pay TV, data warehouse—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 both military and civilian projects. He was sometimes steered away from aerospace but his passion pushed him to become an airline pilot, as a way to really understand how those instruments he programmed and integrated were operating in a cockpit. One of his last challenges was to organize flight simulator testing into a lean manufacturing environment. He works with milling machines, draftsmanship, accounting and finance, software development, electronic design and industrial robots, and it is always fun for him to use an oscilloscope, an ARINC bus analyzer, and step into assembly language or stall a Boeing 777!

Lina Zubyte is a passionate Quality Enthusiast who loves to ask questions, test, collaborate with diverse departments and investigate issues. Lina has worked in companies of different sizes (large multi-national companies and startups), moved between countries for work and have had to adapt quickly to get out of comfort zone. Favorite parts of being a quality professional for Lina are: diving deep into complex issues which may even reveal design or algorithm flaws, using monitoring tools and analytics data to understand the impact of found issues and collaborating with the team to build a high quality product.

Quality Engineed with 16+ years of experience, right now working mostly with test automation and performance testing.

I've been testing for 20 years in a variety of roles and a variety of companies/industries. I've been a Tester, a Senior Tester, a Senior Web Tester, a UAT Team Lead, a Developer, a Senior Test Team Lead, a Scrum Master, a Test Manager and a Release Manager. I've worked in start ups and multi-nationals, and I've worked in travel, government, telecoms, high-street, marketing and medical industries.

Being in testing so long, I have seen the positive changes to the role that have been brought about by Agile, so am passionate about speaking about these things.

Outside of work I'm a cinephile and bibliophile, and write comedy in whatever spare time I manage to find.

Nishi is a corporate trainer, an agile enthusiast and a tester at heart! With 13+ years of industry experience, she currently works with Trifacta as a Community Enablement Manager. She is passionate about training, organizing community events, and has been a speaker at numerous testing events and conferences. Nishi is also a writer on technical topics of interest in the industry and has numerous articles published at numerous popular forums and her own blog https://testwithnishi.com/ where she writes about the latest topics in Agile and Testing domains.