ABOUT ANKARA TESTING DAYS 2020
Turkey’s Premier Software Testing Conference
Ankara Testing Days is one of the longest-running and most respected community organizations on software testing and quality assurance in Turkey. Until it has been converted into a great international conference, the event had featured 11 meetups since 2014, hosted more than 2000 curious individuals and covered a wide variety of some of the hottest topics in the software testing field. This year’s conference motto is “Testing at the spot where Humans and Technology converges!”. With our roster of guest keynotes, experienced practitioners and the experts from different domains, we would like to explore the impact of technology on the human side of software testing and we would like to highlight how testers can transform their organizations into innovative, efficient, and sustainable places of the future.
Call for Speakers
Ankara Testing Days 2020 will be hosting three different types of sessions. There will be keynotes (regular talks), discussion panels, and for the first time at our conference, ignite talks. Ignite talks are series of 15-minute presentations, where each presenter uses no slides, but flipcharts and/or other interactive material through which they can share a burning idea with the participants.
Call for speakers will be open from 16th of September, 2019 till 15th of November, 2019. Final announcements of acceptance decisions will be sent to chosen speakers by 20th of December, 2019.
OUR SPEAKERS
We have always been looking for the best speakers on the International software testing stage!
Barış Sarıalioğlu
Managing Partner @ TesterYou
Bilal Aktaş
General Manager @ TRtest Test ve Değerlendirme A.Ş.
Elena Chronopoulou
Software Engineer @ Intracom Telecom
Emin Aydogan
PMP Certifed Program / Project Manager & Uncertifed Agile Coach @ Turkish Aerospace Industries
Erdem Yıldırım
Software Test Manager @ Innova
Joel Oliveira
Foundation Member @ QA Coimbra
Kadir Herkiloğlu
Test Engineering Group Manager @ HAVELSAN
Olivier Denoo
President @ ISTQB - International Software Testing Qualifications Board
Okan Ünverdi
CTO @ Mobven
Sibel Akbaş
Project Manager @ ASELSAN
Szilárd Széll
DevOps Transformation Lead
Tolga Mırmırık
Partner, Senior Consultant @ TesterYou
Dr. Yenal ARSLAN
Head of Information Systems and Cyber Security Department @ SGK
EVENT SCHEDULES
Working on it every minute of an hour, just be patient!
| Time | Session |
|---|---|
| 08:30 - 09:30 | Registration & Morning Coffee |
| 09:30 - 09:40 |
Opening & Introduction Elena Chronopoulou |
| 09:40 - 10:20 |
Keynote 1: Life is a Test, Every Human is a Tester! Barış Sarıalioğlu |
| 10:20 - 10:40 | Coffee Break |
| 10:40 - 11:20 |
Keynote 2: Who is afraid of the big bad AI? (Would a robot soon steal my job?) Olivier Denoo |
| 11:20 - 12:20 |
Morning Panel Discussion: Software Testing in Different Industries (Global/Local Standards, Career Opportunities, Skills and Future) Kadir Herkiloğlu Bilal Aktaş Dr. Yenal ARSLAN |
| 12:20 - 13:30 | Lunch Break |
| 13:30 - 14:10 |
Keynote 3: DevOps Challenge in Telco Szilárd Széll |
| 14:10 - 14:50 |
Keynote 4: Six Traits of A Successful Test Automation Architecture Erdem Yıldırım |
| 14:50 - 15:10 | Coffee Break |
| 15:10 - 16:10 |
Afternoon Panel Discussion: Continuous Testing for Agile and DevOps Tolga Mırmırık Emin Aydogan Okan Ünverdi Sibel Akbaş |
| 16:10 - 16:50 |
Keynote 5: You are fired! Please handover to AI! Joel Oliveira |
| 16:50 - 19:00 | Closing & Gifts & Prizes & Afterparty |
Conference Venue
We have found the perfect space for Ankara Testing Days 2020
CONFERENCE VENUE
Discover our conference venue in the center of historic Ankara. The Ankara HiltonSA Hotel lies near the capital’s commercial and diplomatic activity. We are organizing Ankara Testing Days in style; the Kavaklidere ballroom is an elegant venue for our conference and it supports up to 750 guests. Fingers crossed!
TRANSPORT
Set in the Kavaklıdere neighborhood of Çankaya, the hotel is blocks from Ankara’s premier street, Tunalı Hilmi Caddesi. Except from your time in Ankara Testing Days; you can feed the ducks in Kuğulu Park, shop in Karum mall or watch the street life from an Ankara patisserie.
