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| 9.00 - 9.45 |
Conference opening by:
Tom Kitt TD
Government Chief Whip and Information Society Minister
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| 9.45 - 10.30 |
KEYNOTE
The Quality Ecosystem
Colm Butler 
Department of AnTaoiseach, Information Policy Unit
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| 10.30 - 11.15 |
COFFEE BREAK |
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Round Table Discussions
Track Chair:
Jim Friars
Irish Computer Society |
Lecture Theatre
Track Chair:
Rob McConnell
SQS |
Interactive Discussions
Track Chair:
Claire Murphy
SQS | Supplier Seminars |
| 11.15 - 12.00 |
Testing During The Development Phase Using OpenSource Tools
Richard Thompson
Liberty IT |
The Quality Challenge for
joined up Government -
A Criminal Justice
Case Study
Mary Scullion
Northern Ireland Civil Service |
Performance Testing -
From Best Efforts to Best
Practice
Patricia Costelloe
AIB |
From The Trenches:
A Microsoft Testing Perspective
Martha Rotter
Microsoft
Share DSI's Experience of Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Test Edition
Peter Buckley
DeCare Systems Ireland |
| 12.00 - 12.45 |
Panel Discussion 
"Software Testers: Perceptions and Professionalism"
Mary Cleary
Irish Computer Society iCS
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Test-Driven Development: Ensuring Quality From a Developer Perspective

Jedidja Bourgeois
Microsoft
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Performance Stress
Testing: Activity Profiling

Fergal Downey/
Emer McVeigh
HBOS |
An intensive case study of test offshoring
Paul Cronin
SQS |
| 12.45 - 1.45 |
LUNCH |
Automation strategies for different lifecycle approaches
Ken Brennock
Insight |
The Practitioner's View of Test Automation
Jiri Machala
QASight/Moravia IT |
| 1.45 - 2.30 |
KEYNOTE
Formula One is a Sport which Revolves around Testing and Quality
Mark Gallagher 
Eddie Jordan's Formula One Team
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| 2.30 - 3.00 |
COFFEE BREAK |
The Application Performance Lifecycle
Elma Cusack
Hewlett-Packard |
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Round Table Discussions
Track Chair:
Fran O'Hara
SoftTest Ireland |
Lecture Theatre
Track Chair:
Paul Cronin
SQS |
Interactive Discussions
Track Chair:
Fergal O'Riordan
Anglo Irish Bank | Supplier Seminars |
| 3.00 - 3.45 |
Testing in a Service
Oriented Architecture

Dave Rigler
SQS |
Making Sure Information Quality Matches Software Quality

Daragh O'Brien
International Association for Information & Data Quality (IAIDQ) |
End-User Computing: Risks in Spreadsheets

Patrick O'Beirne
SoftTest Ireland |
From The Trenches:
A Microsoft Testing Perspective
Martha Rotter
Microsoft
Share DSI's Experience of Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Test Edition
Peter Buckley
DeCare Systems Ireland |
| 3.45 - 4.30 |
The Truth about
Outsourcing
Looking Forward to
Outsourcing 2.0

Arpit Kaushik
Crystals Design Limited
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Green Testing:
The Race Against Waste

Joan Jordan
o2 |
Virtualisation of
Test Environments

Mark Scully/
Sean O'Sullivan
Irish Stock Exchange |
Caught In The Middle Testing -
the 'No Mans Land' between Systems Test and UAT on Vendor-supplied software
Adrienne Reddan
Delphi Technologies |
| 4.30 - 5.15 |
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Running a centralised Performance testing service in an Ecommerce World

Peter Pinto
Friends Provident |

Michael O'Duffy
The Centre for Software Engineering |
Requirements-Driven Testing:
The Clear Solution for Improving Application Quality
Fergal McGovern
Compuware |
| 5.15 -6.15 |
NETWORKING SESSION |