Mark has been involved in startups for 10+ years in every aspect from initial funding to acquisition. His latest startup involvement was Jet.com that was acquired for over $3 billion by Walmart. Prior to the Walmart acquisition, Mark built Jet's A/B testing and release rollout framework from the ground up. He now leads a team at Walmart Labs focused on building a world-class experimentation platform to advance the experimentation capabilities at Walmart.

Arylee McSweaney, Etsy’s Senior Manager of Quality Assurance, directs the vision, implementation, and alignment of Quality to business goals. Arylee is passionate about diversifying tech and is the founder of Etsy’s BridgE Employee Resource Group for Blacks and African Americans. An experienced strategic thinker with an MBA in Information Systems, Arylee is skilled in leadership, surfacing and filling gaps, team building, influencing without authority and management. She has worked in the QA industry for over five years and recently completed her fifth anniversary as an Etsy employee.

Marcus Merrell has been working in quality engineering for 18 years. He has been using Selenium/WebDriver since 2007 and is a contributor to the Selenium project and the co-chair of the Selenium Conference Organizing Committee. He has released several open source projects for testing and IoT. As Director of Technical Services at Sauce Labs, Marcus is well qualified to help customers with his expertise in release management, CI/CD, cloud software and container management. He is also experienced in analytics and marketing automation. Marcus frequently speaks at conferences worldwide.

Alfredo Perez leads IT organizations through transformation and modernization, making companies optimize their business processes. His career has focused on producing reliable, robust designs and applications; avoiding unnecessary complexity; and driving the best adoption and leverage of new technology. He prides himself in changing the way that IT teams think of themselves and their customers, closing the gap between what we say we reward (e.g. Mission Statements) and what we actually reward (i.e. the Team's Culture)

VP of E-commerce and user experience at Tough Mudder, Celia has over 10 years of e-commerce, multi-channel and digital marketing experience leading strategic site evolutions and optimizing functionality. Having worked with startups in London, Tokyo and New York, upon joining Tough Mudder she spearheaded the launch of a multivariate testing program, leading a redesign of the top templates of the site that drove an almost 10% improvement in site conversion, and is currently driving a website redesign due to launch in December 2019. When not working on improving the user journey, she’s looking for ways to literally and figuratively electrify customers.

Jonathan has been making things out of code as long as he can remember. Jonathan is the architect and project lead for Appium, the popular open source automation framework. He is also the founding Principal of Cloud Grey, a consulting firm devoted to helping clients leverage the power of Appium successfully. He has worked as a programmer in tech startups for over 15 years, but is also passionate about academic discussion. Jonathan has master’s degrees in philosophy and linguistics, from Stanford and Oxford respectively. Living in Vancouver, he’s an avid musician, and also writes on the philosophy of technology.

Jai is a versatile engineering leader with extensive experience in building API, web and mobile automation frameworks, tools and leading teams in DevOps, performance engineering and Cloud. He has a Masters in Electrical and Computer Engineering and a MBA, has authored tech blogs and is a speaker at tech conferences. Jai is a constant learner with a strong focus on his customers' needs and has worked in large, mid size organizations as well as startups to deliver successful B2C, enterprise, SaaS and cloud based solutions.

Preety is the CEO of Deque Systems and founded Deque in 1999 with the vision of unifying Web access, both from the user and the technology perspective. Under Preety’s leadership, Deque has grown to be a market leader in the field of information accessibility, serving corporate and government clients with the highest standards in information technology such as Veteran Affairs, Department of Education, Humana, Intuit, HSBC, Target, and others. She collaborated with the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative and is a nominated member of the Accessibility Forum’s Strategic Management Council: a GSA sponsored group with representatives from the IT industry, academia, Government Agencies, and disabled user groups that foster information accessibility through mutual cooperation.

I am fortunate to live in beautiful Seattle, Washington working as Principal UX Designer at The Walt Disney Company and I have been honored to direct workflow and front-end design for multiple company-wide projects and applications. I work with the world's best engineers and business analysts to produce novel design solutions that answer the question, "How can we make this experience more magical?" My design experience is diverse and spans 3 years running my own design company, 7 years in the travel technology sector, building award-winning websites and applications, and nearly 5 years in the Media industry designing enterprise-level interfaces. I currently serve on the committee for Puget Sound World Usability Day in Seattle Washington and have previously served as Director of Big Design Latin America, Vice President of UXPA Ecuador, and Board of Technical Advisors at Brookhaven College in Texas.

Aaron's work spans design and engineering to conceive, prototype, and create software and hardware experiences. Aaron's 8 year tenure as a UX Engineer at Google has produced early stage prototypes, comprehensive user research, technical proofs of concept, complete ux designs, and finalized products for a variety of product areas such as Google X, YouTube, DoubleClick, and Google Sheets. Additionally, for the past three years Aaron has been an advocate, educator, and public speaker focused on accessible product design. Aaron lives in New York where he enjoys surfing and sailing in his free time.

Chas Mastin is a NY-based senior technologist who has held positions as CTO, VP, Director and independant contributor at companies in the video streaming, AR/VRE, Edtech, political, pure R&D and Marketing spaces.  Chas has managed QA, Ops, and engineering teams since the late 90's.  He is currently Sr Director of Engineering at fubo.tv.  His blog is at TrustNoRobot.blog, where Chas writes about the ethics of AI, technology, society and self.

With a background in engineering and law, Rohen has focused his efforts on technologies that aim to improve the world. That has taken him through several seed stage startups, wearable technology, mobile communications, and a US presidential campaign. He has led teams on mobile, web, platform, infrastructure, and data engineering, while focusing on quick delivery of reliable and scalable engineering to support product growth. He is currently a Director of Engineering at Rent the Runway, working on system-wide internal tools.

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Sonia is a passionate QE professional who believes in Defect Prevention vs Defect Detection . Throughout her career, Sonia takes pride in her skill to establish build-in-quality accountability for all phases of SDLC and deliver high-end quality products with eye for an end users. Furthermore, she has authored multiple engineering frameworks to establish a 360 view of Quality Engineering; some examples of these frameworks are- BDD( behavior driven development), In-Sprint Automation, Lean leverage, reducing technical debt with ambassadorial non functional testing approach and enabling DevOps to achieve CI/CD/CT. In total, Sonia has little over 20 years of Software industry experience and had received her Masters in Computer Applications along with Customer Centric Management mini-MBA from Rutgers University. She has also earned multiple industry-recognized Agile certifications SAFe and Scrum) in range of Product Owner & Scrum Master. All ranks have been raised in her career - from Quality Analyst through Head of Quality Engineering, explaining her unparalleled passion towards learning, constantly defying herself to achieve above & beyond expectations and not shy away from hard work, while nurturing engineering spirit.  When not working, Sonia is a proud mom of three who likes to spend quality time with her family, learn new dishes & visit places all around! She believes that work is her second home but delivers compassion in both her professional and personal lives. Those who are familiar with Sonia, will tend to describe her as - "always learning, listening and carrying a flawless smile!

Keith is President of Shieldpay -- a payment service provider that enables secure transactions and payments between consumers all over the world. Previous to this role he was Managing Partner of AEGUS, a Risk and Regulation Advisory practice for Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies and Fintechs and utilising machine learning and AI to deliver business value. Keith has 27 years of industry experience at PWC, JPMC, Citi and American Express and is an MBA graduate of Columbia University.