Speakers

Daniel Amodeo

Over the years in the healthcare sector, Daniel Amodeo has improved his experience in many technical and business aspects. The dynamism of the healthcare world has allowed him to follow the evolution of the world of interoperability and citizen empowerment, analyzing all the processes at 360 degrees.

In recent years, reporting directly to the Chief Technical Officer (CTO), he led the Enterprise Architect department for the corporate digital transformation with the pattern AMM (Application Modernization & Migration) and DevOps practices. Particularly, he also took care of QA and Test Automation.

Alfonso Nocella

Co-founder and Sr. Software Engineer at Maveryx, Alfonso Nocella led the design and development of some core components of the Maveryx automated testing tool. He collaborated on astrophysics IT research projects with the University of Napoli Federico II and the Italian national astrophysics research institute (INAF).
Over the decades, Alfonso worked on many industrial and research projects in different business fields and partnerships. Also, he was a speaker at several conferences and universities.

Today, Alfonso supports critical QA projects of some Maveryx customers in the defense and public health fields. Besides, he is a test automation trainer, and he takes care of the communication and the technical marketing of Maveryx.

Chris Armstrong

Chris Armstrong is currently working as a Quality Strategy Manager at Provar. Having worked in software quality roles for 18 years, Chris specialises in strategic test leadership. Through the years, he has worked with and led testing teams, and has learnt the skills needed to overcome many challenges faced by team leads and test managers. Chris is passionate about quality; people, process, and products. He is an active member of the global software testing community and co-host of both the popular podcast “Testing Peers” and the monthly YouTube stream "9 out of 10 Testers". Chris loves to engage with new people – facilitating events and interesting discussions is his bag.

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.

Dominik Birkmeier

Dr. Dominik Birkmeier is Head of Digital Design & Engineering at MaibornWolff. Digital Design is a matter close to his heart. He and his team design digital products – with and for renowned clients. As a business mathematician and statistician, he reconciles the dry world of numbers and IT with user-centered needs, which he already addressed in his PhD. He is passionate about shaping digital products – from problem identification via vision creation and idea generation to detailed roadmaps. Solid methodology paired with the necessary leeway for crazy ideas are his tools to identify people's real needs and to cast them into innovative solutions.

Jakob Köhnemann

Jakob Köhnemann is a business informatics specialist with a Master of Science in Service Management & Engineering. As Principal IT Consultant and Digital Designer, he shapes the conception and development in software-development-projects at MaibornWolff. As Deputy Head of the Digital Design & Engineering department, he plays a key role in shaping Digital Design at MaibornWolff. He has cross-industry and cross-thematic IT project experience and feels right at home in interface functions between IT and business, as he can bring in his knowledge from both areas and mediate between two worlds.

Francesca Romana Bortone

Francesca Romana Bortone is Lead eCommerce Engineer at Carrefour Italia

Cristiano Passoni

Cristiano Passoni is Senior Manager at Alten Italia

Mariagrazia Brunetti

Mariagrazia Brunetti is Founder partner and Managing Director of Quence Srl, which merged into TxtGroup in 2022. After graduating in Electronic Engineering, she began his work experience in a company in the Defense Avionics sector dealing with SW Engineering. She then continued her experience in the banking and telecommunications sector as a Business Dvelopment Manager. In Quence she is responsible for Value Proposition, Large Account Management, Marketing & Sales, Operations Management, Strategy Definition, Business Development, Strategic Alliances.

Giorgio Riva

Giorgio Riva is Founder partner and Technical Director of Quence Srl. He began his career as a programmer for industrial automation systems, meanwhile obtaining a degree in Cybernetic Physics, before entering the world of SW Quality Assurance and SW Testing, where he works for about 35 years. He has worked in large companies in various sectors including Industrial, Avionics and Defense, Finance, Telecommunications in positions of Test Analyst, Test Manager, Test Team Leader.

Gian Luca Zani

Gian Luca Zani is Senior Technical Test Manager in TXT Group. Naturally curious and passionate about everything that is technological, he has been working for 18 years in the field of test automation, first on the performance side and then moving on to functional validation; today his task is to define solutions that are able to meet the specific needs of the customers on which he operates, with a strong propensity for the innovation of services and products in the QA field. 

Ernesto Centrella

Ernesto Centrella is Head of IT work methods and Delivery manager at Credem Banca

Ernesto is a member of the ITA-STQB scientific committee

Raffaele Colace

Raffaele Colace is COO and Co-Founder of 20tab, a development and consulting company for digital projects.

Here he made concrete his great passion for Agile and Lean methodologies, which he never ceases to deepen and study, putting them into practice with the internal team and with customers. And then of course, this is where he can devote himself to programming. He knows and knows how to use different languages, such as Swift C#, Java, and is very attentive to best practices. Python has always been his focus: it is no coincidence that he is an active member of the community and participates, even holding talks, in national and international events.

From this interest in code, but also in the business world, #StopCoding was born, an initiative that aims to bring these two worlds closer thanks to appointments on topics such as: Agile Software Development, Lean Startup, DevOps, Growth Hacking, Design Thinking , etc. In short, everything that revolves around Product Management which involves the use of common sense.

He also founded the Product Management Day, the first Italian conference on Product Management.

Marco Costa

Marco Costa is Country Manager Italy of Thales' Software Monetization Division. With over 20 years of experience in the software monetization market, Marco is recognized in the sector for his expertise in particular in on-premise, hybrid, Cloud and Embedded solutions, for software protection and licensing.

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.

Marco Denti

Marco Denti is Head of the San Donato Group Software Factory and ICT Innovation, previously at i-Faber (Unicredit Group) he was architect for the implementation of an eProcurement portal and subsequently led the Application Maintenance and Quality Assurance area, while within the Fiat world he participated in various digital initiatives as a consultant