Paul Mason is Director of Architecture and Assurance at House of Fraser. He leads the
architecture and assurance functions within the IT Division which are responsible for
delivering innovative system solutions; providing quality assurance for all technology
deliverables; and creating technical and assurance strategies for House of Fraser's
multichannel retail business in the UK.
He has over 25 years’ experience in the IT industry and more than 20 years’ experience in
the retail sector, having worked at Marks and Spencer and Sainsbury's before joining House
of Fraser in 2016. He has a successful track record of shaping, architecting and delivering
high impact retail technology solutions.

Jon Townsend is a leader in technology. He moved to the role of Chief Information Officer
for the National Trust in August of 2017. Previously he was the Director of Technology and
Information Security. He holds an MBA with the Open University and an MSc with Cranfield
University in the Design of Information Systems.
He was previously held a commission as an Officer in the British Army, fulfilling a variety of technical
and leadership roles culminating in regimental command. Upon leaving the military he became a
senior civil servant responsible for developing cyber security and intelligence capability for the
Department for Work and Pensions. He is also a Certified Data Protection Practitioner with the
British Computer Society, a Certified Information Security Manager with ISACA and GIAC Certified
Enterprise Defender with SANS.

Ingo Philipp is an award-winning Exploratory Testing and Agile thought leader, with a resume of speaking engagements that span the globe. In his role as a Product Manager at Tricentis, his responsibilities range from product development and product marketing to test management, test conception, test design, and test automation. His experiences with software testing embrace the application of agile testing as well as classical testing methodologies in various sectors including financial services, consumer goods, commercial services, healthcare, materials, telecommunications, and energy.

Kash started his QA career straight out of university in 2001 and has never looked back! He has worked in the defence, medical, education, psychology and travel industries for start-ups and multi-national corporations, covering all aspects of QA.

From career kick off as a Test Analyst to leading a Testing and Environment Practice, Alex is a career Quality evangelist, working across many organisations and industries as a consultant, and now focused on helping deliver Quality and Value at John Lewis- the UK’s Leading Omni-Channel Retailer. Alex is passionate about the evolution of Testing and Quality Management, and his current focus is helping build the right culture across all Delivery Teams to support John Lewis IT’s Digital Transformation Journey.

Graham has been the Neotys Territory Manager for the UK & Ireland since
2013. Starting out as a tester in 1976 (before test tools existed) he has
seen a lot of change in the status of testing and noted the advances in
the professional status of testers.

He is an advocate of the unique skills that testers bring to software
delivery and concerned by moves in some circles to completely replace
testers by automation or move the testing role into development.

Graham keenly follows the migration to agile and DevOps practices but is
sometimes surprised by the approach to test tools. "Many organisations
turn to agile for faster delivery but never evaluate the productivity of
the tools they use."

Simon started as a Process Engineer in manufacturing (hence his love of automation & lean). He took a view of the future of manufacturing in the UK and jumped into IT, working in Project, Programme, Release, Deployment & Implementation, Ops,  DevOps & Engineering Services in Retail, Distribution, Gaming and now FS. He is passionate about how we can implement technologies (the easy bit) to change the way people think and work (the tough bit).

For Simon, DevOps isn’t a job title, it’s a culture. And it’s not about reducing costs. It’s about getting smart Engineers to build machines that do the dull stuff (including delivering process & governance, without getting bored) and freeing Developers to do the creative stuff.

A DevOps solution architect, process automation specialist, author and honours graduate in Computer and Electronic Systems, with a proven track record of streamlining companies' development architecture and processes so they can deliver software at pace. Specialising in agile, continuous integration, infrastructure as code, networking as code, continuous delivery and deployment, who to date has worked for 10 years for leading consulting, financial services, benefits and gambling companies in the IT sector.

Steven is the technical lead for Paddy Power Betfair's award winning i2 OpenStack project, which is now well into the migration phase of the project. So far over four hundred production applications have been migrated onto the i2 platform, using continuous delivery and a fully automated approach building infrastructure and networking as code. This has enabled the company to create a single customer platform for the newly merged company, thus enabling the company to support multiple brands from the same code base.

Kostas joined Argos in 2017 as a Lead Machine Learning engineer. Prior to Argos, he worked at Royal Mail, Mailonline, Pearson and in research; he was involved in a broad range of projects from European FP6 research programs to EdTech, Analytics, Search, Predictive Modelling using Machine Learning and AI. He is interested in Deep Learning, Distributed Computing, Optimisation, Search, Predictive Analytics and Natural Language Processing.

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