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October, 2019
The Power of Design Sprints for Product Team
6:00 p.m. The Albany Club - 91 King Street East, Toronto, Ontario
Speakers: Leah Oliveira and Carlos Oliveira
Today, product teams are under pressure to be more creative, innovative and delight customers sooner, but lack the knowledge and skills to know where to start. Agile product teams have frameworks and methods for rapid feedback, but generally, lack real data from real users to make good business decisions. As product release cycles run longer and longer, team members lose enthusiasm and focus on the customer.
As a tool, Design Sprints offer Agile teams an effective and transformative formula for testing ideas with real people, whether you’re on a small team at a start-up, scale-up, or inside a large portfolio of projects at an enterprise organization. Within five days, teams move from idea to prototyping/testing, to better business decisions, ultimately saving time, effort, and energy over the long-run. Join Leah Oliveira and Carlos Oliveira, co-founders of AdaptiveX, as they introduce both the business side (Leah) and technology side (Carlos) of design sprints for product teams, a process for rapid experimentation and learning that helps teams solve big problems and test new ideas in less than five days.
Originally created by three partners at Google Ventures, the process has been proven at hundreds of companies. Both Leah and Carlos have been involved in many organizational transformations and have run dozens of design sprints for the Fortune 500, witnessing how product teams can harness the power of design sprints to focus their efforts and deliver more appropriate solutions to market sooner.
Agenda
- 5:30pm-6pm: Welcoming and Networking
- 6pm-7pm: Conference
- 7pm-7:30pm: Discussion and Networking
- 7:30pm: Read More
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October, 2019
STARCANADA—SOFTWARE TESTING AND REVIEW
7:30AM Location: Hyatt Regency Toronto 370 King Street West Toronto, ON, Canada M5V 1J9
Registration Note: please use the following link: https://well.tc/5oi. Explore the conference and all that STARCANADA (https://well.tc/5oi3) has to offer. Plus, don’t forget that TASSQ email subscribers will also receive this exclusive discount: 25% off with promo code TASSQ19
Date: October 20-25, 2019
Keynotes
-A Framework for the Whole Team to Own Quality by Dr. Jess Ingrasselino
-The Logic of Verification by Michael Bolton
-The Lazy Student’s Guide to Test Automation by Chris Loder
-and more
Tutorials
-Selenium Test Automation: From the Ground Up (full-day)
-Quality and Testing Measures and Metrics (half-day)
-Integrating Automated Testing into DevOps (half-day)
-Test Design for Fully Automated Build Architecture (half-day)
- And more
Concurrent Sessions Topics
-Continuous Testing
-Automation
-API Testing
- Security Testing
-And more
Explore the conference and all that STARCANADA (https://well.tc/5oi3) has to offer. Plus, don’t forget that TASSQ email subscribers will als
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September, 2019
President's Dinner - V2X (Vehicle to Everything) Communications
6:00 p.m. The Albany Club - 91 King Street East, Toronto, Ontario
Speakers: Charles Finlay, Peter Watkins, Tony Hui, Ysni Semsedini
Moderator: Colin Dhillon
V2X (vehicle-to-everything) communications technology allows vehicles to directly communicate with each other, roadside infrastructure, and other road users to deliver an array of benefits in the form of road safety, traffic efficiency, smart mobility, environmental sustainability, and driver convenience.
In addition, V2X is also helping pave the way for fully autonomous driving through its unique non line-of-sight sensing capability which allows vehicles to detect potential hazards, traffic, and road conditions from longer distances and sooner than other in-vehicle sensors such as cameras, radar, and LiDAR. So who is involved in the V2X sandbox? The ecosystem includes cellular communications companies like Bell, Infrastructure technology companies like Siemens, Miovision and Electromega. Cybersecurity specialist providing a cloud of protection over this ecos
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June, 2019
Is Digital Transformation a Buzz Word or Is It a Business Evolution?
6:00PM The Albany Club, 91 King St E, Toronto, ON M5C 1G3
Speaker: Kyle Hulme
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The phrase Digital Transformation is being used to describe technology, change and innovation in every which way in today’s market. This presentation will attempt to filter through the overused phrase to carve out what “digital transformation is” and
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May, 2019
The need for cybersecurity in the 21st century
6:00 p.m. The Albany Club - 91 King Street East, Toronto, Ontario
Presenters: Jeremy Critch and Pranav Mehndiratta
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The 21st century has created an ever increasing and innovative society. Technology has made leaps and bounds, and will continue to do so moving forward. However, with technological inventions increasing, the opportunity for cyber threats also grows. Many organizations developing new tech remain unaware of the extent of damages that can be caused by a cyber attack. Some of these disruptions can easily be avoided by taking the time to have the right discussions around cyber security within an organization. By understanding what the attackers are after and how organizations are exposed, companies can begin to mitigate some of the risk they face from these threat actors.
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April, 2019
A Blockchain and AI Primer
6:00 p.m. The Albany Club - 91 King Street East, Toronto, Ontario
Speakers: Eric Osuorah and Patrick . C. Egbunonu
Outline:
In this presentation, Eric will present an overview of Blockchain, along with benefits and challenges with this technology. In addition, he will highlight the various types of Blockchain, using practical applications and use cases to demonstrate blockchain technology. Patrick will then present a quick overview of Artificial Intelligence Read More
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March, 2019
Why and How to adopt BDD in Software Development
6:00 p.m. The Albany Club - 91 King Street East, Toronto, Ontario
Speaker: Rob Ashall
Over the past several years, many organizations have transitioned to agile development in order to accelerate delivery and get more timely feedback from the market. In these organizations, while development begins to move faster, QA will struggle to keep pace unless they integrate automated software testing practices into the development pipeline. Accelerating software development and ensuring software quality with automated continuous testing is a great achievement, but it’s all for naught if the software isn’t what your customers want or need.
Folks at this stage in their software development processes evolution are taking a close look at BDD (Behavior-Driven-Development) Read More
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February, 2019
Create an effective mobile testing strategy in an ever-evolving technical environment
6:00 p.m. The Albany Club - 91 King Street East, Toronto, Ontario
Speaker: Johanna Castro
The performance of an app and website is tied to its ability to operate across various configurations. Each configuration acts like an individual layer the app must pass through before reaching the end user. The most important layers it must contend with are the operating system, the specific version of the operating system, smartphone model, and screen size. Each layer an app encounters can influence its performance and user experience.
Operating across a variety of configurations is essential for apps given the huge fragmentation of a diverse smartphone market in terms of models, operating systems, and more.
- Testing across multiple configurations
- Mobile testing to stay competitive
- The effects of Fragmentation
- Emulators/ Simulators / Real devices
- How to select the most relevant devices configurations
- Case : Iphone X and its impact on your digital products (Eg. Google map, Mc Donald's, Amazon, Spotify)
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January, 2019
Improving Testing of AI Systems with Grey-box Testing Technique
6:00 p.m. The Albany Club - 91 King Street East, Toronto, Ontario
Speaker: Yury Makedonov
There are two main challenges to testing systems that incorporate elements of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The same input can trigger different responses while an AI system adapts to a new environment. It may also be challenging to understand what is the correct response.
Such behavior breaks one of the main principles of traditional testing – repeatability of execution of test cases. This is akin to shooting a moving target and not knowing whether you missed. Testers feel frustrated when their traditional approach can’t be used anymore and have no confidence in the outcome of their testing.
Yury Makedonov explains that to successfully test an AI system, you need to have direct access to the system’s state. Using an example of a simplified machine learning system with a few simple models of its internals Yury shows how to use the state of this system for effective testing and how to deal with test data, the most difficult part of AI
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November, 2018
Developing Agile Maturity. An Agile Coach’s Perspective
6:00pm The Albany Club - 91 King Street East, Toronto, Ontario
Speaker: Nico Gonzalez
Topic: Developing Agile Maturity. An Agile Coach’s Perspective
As Agile coaches we are empowered to transform organizations into becoming more efficient and to focus on value delivery. Correlating specific mindsets and behaviors to agile maturity allows us to focus on specific areas of impact and organize a custom coaching approach.
Agenda:
- Agile 101
- Agile Maturity Dimensions
- The Agile Maturity Model
- A Simple Lean Change Canvas
- Maturity Flow Using the Lean Change Canvas
- Case Study: Improving an Agile team’s QA process via the “Three Amigo” approach, Spec by Example and Cross functional teams.