Speakers

Gualtiero Bazzana

Gualtiero Bazzana

Gualtiero Bazzana has been operating for many years in the IT sector and specifically on aspects related to Quality. He was President of ISTQB® for two terms. He is currently President of the Italian Software Testing Qualifications Board (ITA-STQB) and holds the role of Executive Vice President of the ALTEN group.

Nicola Bertuzzi

Nicola Bertuzzi

Nicola Bertuzzi is Major Account Manager at Applause, he ensures customer success across Applause's major accounts in South Europe. He has worked with leading brands spanning banking, media and retail to deliver high-quality, engaging experiences to their customers across every digital touchpoint. Nicola has over 20 years of experience supporting companies to drive growth, expand internationally and streamline processes, with a focus on QA, product and engineering. Nicola speaks fluent Italian, English and Spanish and holds an EMBA in Business Administration from ESIC Business & Marketing School.

Giulio Cardilli

Giulio Cardilli

Giulio Cardilli is Strategic Project Manager at Step 4 Business, coordinates and governs cross-function and IT strategic projects within STEP 4 Business in all countries: Italy, Spain and Brazil.

With the support of the IT team, he coordinates the development of the E2E platform from the definition of the Business Requirements to post-production.

Vincenzo Cuomo

Vincenzo Cuomo

Vincenzo Cuomo is a Senior SW Testing and QA Engineer at ST MICROELECTRONICS. For over 20 years he has been working in the IT sector and specifically on aspects related to testing and automation. He currently leads a testing team that focuses on the quality of non-embedded software related to Secure Elements across various industries, including telecom, banking and ID. Vincenzo also collaborates with the Information Technology Engineering department of the Federico II University of Naples, where he holds courses on test automation.

Rahul Dadhich

Rahul Dadhich

Rahul Dadhich is an enthusiastic, inquisitive and laterally thinking Quality Assurance Engineer with more than 7 years of experience in Software Testing. Becoming a software tester might not be his first choice as he coms from a different Engineering background. But since he had his interest towards the software field and got the opportunity, the magical field of Testing started pulling him towards it. He has worked across different types, tools and phases of STLC which gives him wholesome experience of the Testing cycle. He carries experience working in various domains and clients including Banking, ManLog, E-Comm, Health Care etc, which has been quite a good learning curve for his journey. He likes sharing his knowledge, experience and being a QA enabler for software projects.

Carolina Davico

Carolina Davico

Senior Sales Account Manager at UNGUESS. Carolina Davico is a management engineer with experience as a business developer and key account in the digital sector, in large multinationals, consultancy boutiques and innovative startups. It works closely with some of the most important companies at a national level, supporting them in QA and User Experience improvement and analysis activities.

Ilaria Dell'Acqua

Ilaria Dell'Acqua

After several professional experiences abroad in the digital sector, Ilaria Dell'Acqua today holds the role of Senior Customer Success Manager in UNGUESS, an Italian scale-up leader in crowdtesting. Specifically, it acts as a strategic partner for customers in optimizing digital products through software testing.

Filippo Di Gregorio

Filippo Di Gregorio

Technical Test Automation and Performance Test Expert at ALTEN ITALIA. Filippo Di Gregorio is an experienced manager with an extensive proven history of working in the IT world. Expert in planning and development for IT solutions. IT professional, focused on IT Engineering. Curious by nature (tech) interested in everything that is an experience.

Maria Francesca Emiliani

Maria Francesca Emiliani

Francesca Emiliani has been coordinating the Test Factory activities within CRIF's Global Technologies area since 2018. She is ISTQB certified, she carries out consultancy activities regarding the quality needs of the CRIF solutions software and supports the testing activities through the Test Factory team. She has twenty years of experience as a Project Manager and Head of Software Quality.

Thomas Fehlmann

Thomas Fehlmann

Dr. Thomas Fehlmann is a senior software metrics and testing expert, a Lean Six Sigma black belt for lean and agile software development, and a promoter of customer-oriented product design and testing.

He has spent most of his professional life as a quality manager for software organizations. As such, he has led some companies to global market dominance by using Quality Function Deployment (QFD) and Six Sigma for software. He has headed the Euro Project Office since 1999 and is internationally recognized as a QFD expert, for which he received the Akao Award in 2001, and as a software metrics expert.

Since 2016, Thomas has been an academic member of the Athens Institute for Education and Research.

Thomas is a frequent speaker at conferences on topics such as Six Sigma, QFD, software quality, software testing, project management, software engineering, and software metrics.

Francesco Lionetti

Francesco Lionetti

In OpenText with the role of Senior Presales for the North and South Europe cluster, Francesco Lionetti actively collaborates in supporting Sales and the development of the DevOps Cloud business unit. Along his professional path he was part of the Professional Services of the HPE Software division, subsequently Micro Focus in the Application Delivery Management practice (Performance, Functional, Test Governance, Service Virtualization and Agile Management) in which he was responsible for the delivery of solutions. Previously at HP he worked in the Testing area: Performance, Functional and Governance. Francesco holds a degree in Electronic Engineering.