The leading networking and information event on the subject of software quality assurance returns to London this autumn, at the Hilton Canary Wharf. Free to attend for delegates from financial firms, our audience will hear from experts and pioneers in new QA technologies from banks, insurance companies, exchanges and trading venues.
The QA Financial Forum London
October 18th 2022
Hilton Canary Wharf
The leading networking and information event on the subject of software quality assurance returns to London this autumn.
Free to attend for delegates from financial firms, our audience will hear from experts and pioneers in new QA technologies from banks, insurance companies, exchanges and trading venues.
There will also be presentations on cutting-edge tools for accelerating DevOps and continuous testing from the world's most innovative software technology vendors.
As always, our QA Financial Forum is a discreet meeting place, where ideas are shared confidentially. We allow the maximum time for questions and discussion breaks.
The Forum will cover:
George has over 29 years of experience in Information Technology and more than 20 years in hands on Information Risk and Security. His experience is in Banking, Telecommunications and IT Consulting. George has worked globally for FTSE 100 / Fortune corporations in UK, Greece, Cyprus and North Africa. “My mission is make the Information Security and Information Risk a business enabler and not a project stopper, by inspiring and introducing innovation to the business, based on secure principles and foundations” He is obsessed with eBPF and Kubernetes and promotes their use on a daily basis. He started coding at the age of 12 in an Amstrad CPC 464. Nowadays he codes in Rust, Restrictive C and Go playing with the Linux Kernel. George has spearheaded and led multiple projects and programs in diverse business environments like the Global Account Recertification Process and the automation of KIs in the Information Risk Environment. He recently joined Citi Global Markets as SME in Container Technologies and Java Microservices. George holds a Fellowship from British Computer Society and an MSc in Advanced Computer Science from Leicester University. Along with several certificates like CKA and CISSP , George is a PhD Candidate in NTUA (National Technical University of Athens) where he will research a new protocol and means for effective data transfer without the use of internet by using LoRa, eBPF and Kubernetes.
Anthony has over 25 years of experience in technology for algorithmic trading and direct market access gained in software houses, consulting, and Investment Banking Technology. Anthony is currently building a new organisation named "High Performance Architectures." The goal is to industrialise the development of low latency frameworks and tooling, and provide managed adoption of these in the wider Markets and ICG Technology organisations to accelerate application modernisation. The construct will also enable us to consistently address consent order and regulatory/risk control requirements across eTrading activities. Anthony is the visionary and driver behind the Ambrosia microservices framework and has been a change agent and thought leader for the architecture, design, and delivery of the flagship One Execution program, which addressed weaknesses from historical under-investment to propel Citi's platforms to best in class performance, feature set, stability and cost profile – critical in leapfrogging Citi's competition. Anthony learned to code aged nine (BBC BASIC, 6502 assembler) and is named on a Citi patent application for a new approach to monitoring low latency platforms. Anthony has also partnered with RedHat on whitepapers, articles, and video supporting Citi's BankInABox solution – a new container-based trading platform. In support of Citi's Engineering culture and innovation, Anthony takes part in technical speaking panels at conference events and in Electronic trading client events.
Abirami John is the Quality Lead in Lloyds Banking Group. She is passionate about quality engineering, with 14 years of experience in the field. Currently, she leads Lloyds’ mobile app quality platform, where she works to implement creative engineering principles and strategies to deliver mobile apps that delight customers and perform in a fast and safe manner.
Eyal Yovel is a Senior Solutions Architect at Sauce Labs based in London, UK, where he works with organizations across EMEA and the US to improve their testing practices and get the most value out of their investment in Sauce Labs.He has over 15 years of experience in software development and software automation. In that time, his roles combined coding, mentoring, consulting, and advanced troubleshooting in test frameworks across a wide range of environments and automation frameworks.He has a passion for learning new technologies and new test frameworks.
Paul has over 30 years IT experience in the finance industry in both Build the Bank and Run the Bank roles, having led complex, global, multi-partner teams across a variety of technical platforms. Paul Is currently accountable for the implementation of Service Virtualisation across Barclays. He is a change agent who drives the adoption of new technologies through building deep relationships across the business. His focus is on reducing time to market by simplifying the pre-production estate and removing the need for multiple end-to-end dev & test environments.
Kyle is an enthusiastic engineer and enjoys all things techy. Driven by constant learning, change and innovation he works to deliver best solutions for his organisation. Starting his Career in 2013 in QA, then moving into the Software development arena a year later where since he has leveraged the best of both worlds. Kyle loves to innovate and architect solutions, especially in the financial sector, with a decade of experience. Subjects of interest are Service Virtualisation, Test Data Management, Full Stack software development and cloud. In his free time, he likes to stay active with his hobbies; Boxing, Mountain biking and going to the gym. He also enjoys learning Spanish and ethical hacking.
Jochem Feekes enjoys helping organisations realize business value through their testing & quality efforts. Subjects of interest include service virtualisation, API testing, automated testing & CI/CD. In his free time, he enjoys dancing Lindy Hop and climbing, and after renovating his 1911 home you can also reach out to him for construction tips.
Martin McVay is an experienced Solutions Architect with a long career encompassing the design and implementation of large-scale software systems, cloud native architectures and platforms, and, more recently, DevOps processes and tools.
Somnath heads UK and European business in Quinnox. He has more than 25 years of experience of which majority has been in Financial Services. He is very passionate about solving complex problems with simple and easy to use technology and unlocking value for his clients.”
Hameed is the Director of Engineering at Shawbrook. With a career spanning over 23 years holding various technology leadership roles, Hameed has driven the vision of rapidly growing FinTech, Financial Services and E-commerce organizations operating at global 24x7 scale, most notably at WorldRemit and Kayak in the past. Hameed comes from a strong engineering background where he has designed modern, distributed architectures for complex, high-volume products by applying industry-standard best practices. Hameed is particularly passionate about automation and is a seasoned practitioner of Agile practices like DevOps, SRE and Continuous Delivery & Improvement.
Andy is a Principal Consultant at TTC Global, a Tricentis global partner. He has been a senior testing practitioner managing global test teams to deliver pragmatic, strategic solutions, mainly for large investment banks, but also for smaller investment houses and utility companies for 35 years. He has been a regular public speaker at international conferences since 1993. He was Chair of the UK ISEB International standards Panel in 2003/4, an ISTQB examiner, the UK representative to the ISTQB Board in 2003. In 2004 he founded the ISEB UK Executive Committee at the request of the Chief Executive of the British Computer Society. Andy was the 7th winner of the prestigious EuroSTAR Testing Excellence Award in December 2005, following a previous nomination in 2003.
Andrew has enjoyed a 23-year career in Financial Services having held senior roles within Nationwide Building Society and The Co-Operative Bank as well as multiple outsourcers and Management Consultancies. Currently accountable for multiple disciplines within Intellect Design, the majority of Andrew’s focus for the last 14 years has been Test and he has designed and embedded multiple Test Centres of Excellence focused on driving down time to market, reducing overall costs whilst increasing the quality of the outcomes by influencing the entire change development lifecycle. Embedding Transformational change in his current role for a leading UK Wealth Manager, introducing a new Test operating model, revised toolset and automation first strategy without impacting any committed delivery dates and seeing a significant improvement in quality outcomes achieved.
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Paul Brennan has over 15 years' experience in product, strategy and management of complex businesses within Financial Markets. Prior to joining Imandra, Paul was the Chief Operating Officer of Goldman Sachs' regulated trading venue. He holds an MSc in Applied and Theoretical Fluid Dynamics and a BSc in Mathematics from the University of Manchester.
Mohamed Mehdi BEN AISSA is Data and Cloud Architect. He has a PhD from the Polytechnic School. Mehdi constructs his work around distributed systems, Data architectures and technologies, Business Intelligence, Cloud Computing and decisional methodologies. He is a speaker at international meetups and conferences such as DataWorks Summit in Barcelona, Big Data Paris, Paris Apache Kafka Meetup, Future of Data Meetup, QA Financial Paris, Big Data World Paris and Elastic{ON} Paris. In 2019, he was nominated as the EMEA Cloudera Data Architect Hero of the year.
With over 10 years of experience in Big Data and Hadoop ecosystem, Sinh Chung NGUYEN currently works as Big Data Architect taking in charge of TDP project at Public Finances Directorate General. He is interested in digital transformation, data architectures, new technology trends and open source.
My career started within the QA sphere, however, as that space is evolving so am I. In recent roles I have moved more towards helping engineering teams as a whole deliver their software changes with efficiency, quality and ownership at heart. I firmly believe in T shaped people, encouraging a more guild based approach to the horizontal functions like QA, Architecture, Security, etc. I have led transformations of both Engineering and QA functions to deliver higher quality at greater speeds. These transformations have ensured we see measurable increases in code quality and delivery along with implementing stable automated processes, fostering a constant shifting left mentality. I have also been maintaining software development life cycles with a strong agile view.
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