99 Second Talks - Day 2 at TestBash Brighton 2024

1st October 2024
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  • Stuart Day's profile
  • Gwen Diagram's profile
  • Danny Dainton's profile
  • Vernon Richards's profile
  • Ady Stokes's profile
  • Andrew Hart's profile
  • Simon Rigler's profile
  • Christine Pinto's profile
  • Andrew Morton's profile
  • Veerle Verhagen's profile
  • Richard Adams's profile
  • Beth Barker's profile
  • Matthew Saunby's profile
  • Philippa Jennings's profile
  • Georga Turner's profile
  • Shweta Jaju's profile
  • Bharathi S's profile
  • Tom Game's profile
  • Nagendra Vadakattu's profile
  • Cristian Balau's profile
  • Abilio Oliveira's profile
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Talk Description

It's not a TestBash without 99 Second Talks!

The 99 Second Talks is the attendee's stage, an opportunity for anyone to come on stage and talk for, that's right, 99 seconds.

You can talk about anything, a testing topic you want to share, a personal experience, or an idea sparked by all the amazing talks, workshops, activities and conversations you've had for the past two days... the stage is yours, for 99 seconds!

This is also a great opportunity for you to kick-start your public speaking experience and/or give it a boost!

 

🤔 Did you speak during this session and your name is not featured? Use the chatbot on this page and let us know so we can add you as a speaker.

By the end of this session, you'll be able to:

  • Contribute with your knowledge
  • Share your testing stories
  • Practise public speaking
  • Learn directly from your peers
Head of Quality - Capital One
I'm Stu Day. I've been in the software testing and quality world since 1997 and love it. I'm a senior leader, a coach, podcast host, international speaker and workshop facilitator, writer and more
Head of Engineering

Gwen Diagram is a technology professional from Leeds who specialises in testing.  She is an avid automation evangelist with a focus on testing complemented by repeatable build processes with monitoring. She has had varied roles throughout her career including Scrum Master at a Start Up, Engineering Manager at a bank and DevOps kid at a large Financial Services organisation. She is currently the Head of Engineering at Glean in Leeds.

As a strong believer in making the tech industry as open and punk as possible, she co-organises a twice yearly free day long testing conference called the Leeds Testing Atelier.  She speaks regularly at local meet-up groups, Agile Yorkshire and Leeds DevOps, duels with creative types at events like the Tech Off, speaks internationally at conferences such as Nordic Testing Days in Tallinn and was the closing keynote at Agile on the Beach in Falmouth, UK in 2018.

Outside of work, you will usually find her hanging around a Natural History Museum somewhere in the world marvelling at how incredibly excellent dinosaurs are, feeding pigeons or ducks or obsessing over transport.

Danny Dainton
he/him
Senior Developer Advocate
Testing has and will always be where my heart is but recently I've been more on the Community side of things within the Devrel team at Postman. Reach out if you need any Postman based support!! 🚀
Quality Coach / Senior Quality Engineer

I’m a Quality Coach & Tester that helps orgs, teams & individuals understand the relationship between quality & testing to help them build better products & deliver more effective services.

I’ve been testing since 2002 starting with video games on PS2, Xbox & PC. It may not sound like a real job but it’s the truth!

By day I’m a Senior Quality Engineer at a health tech night I run Abode of Quality. Here is one of my core values:

“The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude (& how you’re thinking) about the problem.” - Captain Jack Sparrow (the part in brackets was my addition though!)

I believe that quality & testing problems are actually people problems in disguise! Often the cause of these problems is misaligned goals, different perspectives, low empathy for colleagues, and the list goes on.

Using my coaching skills in the quality & testing space, I believe the most effective way to serve the business, is to help teams & individuals gain new perspectives about themselves & their teammates.

Ady Stokes
He / Him
Freelance IT and Accessibility Consultant
I'm a freelancer and accessibility advocate with 20 years in testing. I curate the Essentials Certificate STEC, edit articles and co-run the MoT Leeds. MoT Ambassador. Reach out for services.
Senior Software Tester
Short. Likes cereal and nachos
Head of Testing
CPTO of Epic Test Quest
I'm a Berlin-based Automation Engineer with over 18 years in the tech industry. Taking my passion for innovation to the next level, I recently co-founded Epic Test Quest as CPTO
Andrew Morton
He/Him/His
MoT Developer
Fell into testing after getting a temporary job doing UAT and discovered he was actually good at it. Moved into development after deciding that the best way to build quality in was to do it.
Scrum Master
Former software tester, current scrum master, still passionate about all things quality!
Quality Coach
After my first full time job as a games tester, I've had a varied career from Gameplay Systems Designer to Software Engineer for security systems with a couple of roles in between.
Senior Software Tester
I am a manual tester with 9 years experience in testing e-commerce websites.
Chapter Lead for QA Engineering
I am passionate about the value quality and testing brings to software engineering and you will always hear me championing Quality First.
Senior Tester
Senior QA @ 3 SIDED CUBE | Tech for Good 💚 | She/Her
Tom Game
He/Him
Software Quality & Test Engineer
Software Quality & Test Engineer Apprentice excited to apply my FMCG experience and passion for problem-solving within Technology. Motorsport geek 🏎🤓 | Proud Dyslexic 🌈♾️ | #TheTestingGame
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