Tricentis Roadshows are launching October 2022, and we will be kicking off the series at the Sheraton Grand Chicago on Wednesday, October 20th. 

We hope you'll join us for unique insight into the latest Agile testing and enterprise automation trends. The roadshow is being held in three cities throughout North America and will bring together global thought leaders and testing experts in the continuous testing and DevOps ecosystem.

Tricentis Partner Day will be on Wednesday, October 20, and is designed exclusively for our valued partners. The 1-day event will feature the latest updates and news regarding our partner program, the Tricentis roadmap, and how we can win, together.

Register below  to save your seat for this not-to-be-missed in person experience.

Morning Sessions

8:30-9:00 am

Location:  Superior AB, Level 2

Registration

9:00-9:10 am

Location:  Superior AB, Level 2

Welcome and Opening Remarks

9:10-9:40 am

Location:  Superior AB, Level 2

Morning Keynote:  The fast and agile will thrive

Kevin Thompson, Chief Executive Officer at Tricentis, will share valuable insights on the current trends and challenges facing our industry, and how the visionary Tricentis team is continuing to provide innovative solutions which enable our customers to exceed their organizations’ goals and stay ahead of the curve.  

9:40-10:10 am

Location:  Superior AB, Level 2

Customer Panel: How comprehensive quality initiatives can accelerate digital business

Join our panel of distinguished guest speakers as they discuss how they developed and successfully executed forward-thinking strategies to accelerate positive business outcomes at their organizations, and how they will continue to drive mission critical software quality initiatives across the enterprise.

Moderator:  Chris Collins, Chief Customer Officer at Tricentis

Panelists:  Nate Brown, Managing Director, Global IT-HR Platforms, Accenture and Brad Bellmore, IT Quality Assurance Manager at ABC Supply Co. Inc.

10:10-10:30 am

Location:  Superior AB Foyer, Level 2

Morning Break

10:30 am-12:00 pm

Location:  Superior AB, Level 2

Product Keynote: Delivering quality at speed with the latest Tricentis product innovations

Grigori Melnik, Chief Product & Technology Officer at Tricentis, will showcase the latest industry-leading developments Tricentis continues to bring to the world of software quality, spanning both our existing solution portfolio as well as exciting new product releases..

Afternoon Sessions

12:00-1:00 pm

Location: Chicago 10, Level 4

Lunch

1:00-1:30 pm

Location:  Superior AB, Level 2

How to deliver continuous quality at DevOps speed

If you ask ten people the true definition of DevOps, you’ll get ten answers. There are different views on what DevOps is and who has achieved success. Many organizations know what is necessary to build quality into their DevOps processes but are often stuck in the middle of their transformation. They’ve all tried the best practices to mimic the fast-paced startups and unicorns but can’t figure out how to ensure quality. Join this presentation to learn:

- The barriers to achieving true quality in DevOps

- How organizations get “stuck in the middle” and the techniques to get through it 

- How to create a unique definition of DevOps and apply what works best for your team

1:30-2:00 pm

Location:  Superior AB, Level 2

Evolve your DevOps Change Automation with ServiceNow and Tricentis

Learn how to improve employee satisfaction and evolve your DevOps Change Automation with ServiceNow and Tricentis. By leveraging ServiceNow as your operations system of record in conjunction with Tricentis you can accelerate releases, increase engineering velocity, deliver turnkey audits, improve enterprise application performance, and proactively flag applications in need of optimization. This session will cover how to speed innovations with AI machine learning, reduce risk, and improve governance by bringing ops, quality, and dev teams together.

2:00-2:30 pm

Location:  Superior AB, Level 2

How to tackle the $15 million dollar bad data problem with end-to-end test automation

Learn about the alarming costs of bad data experienced by large companies every year. We'll share how to enhance and automate your enterprise data quality efforts at scale. Finally, we'll review best practice data testing strategies and insightful customer use cases and successes.

2:30-2:45 pm

Location:  Superior AB Foyer, Level 2

Afternoon Break

2:45-3:15 pm

Location:  Superior AB, Level 2

Accelerate and de-risk Oracle updates, cloud migrations, and innovation

Learn how Tricentis solutions can put your Oracle projects into overdrive by cutting the time, risk, and cost associated with delivering, modernizing, and maintaining Oracle applications. We'll cover best practice strategies for:

- Maintaining on-prem Oracle software like Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS), Siebel, Peoplesoft, and JD Edwards

- Migrating business processes and data to Oracle Cloud solutions

- Developing cloud-native apps in Oracle cloud infrastructure

- Optimizing infrastructure costs

3:15-3:45 pm

Location:  Superior AB, Level 2

Introducing TestOps: A new approach for efficient testing operations

TestOps is more than improving collaboration between testing and operations — been there, done that. But now that you have an Agile team with developers, QA, product owners, etc. all contributing to testing, how do you scale effectively? This talk will discuss why scaling end-to-end testing is more important than ever. We will demonstrate new TestOps features to improve test planning, establish governance, simplify the management of tests and teams, and generate the insights you need to continuously improve quality.   

3:45-4:15 pm

Location:  Superior AB, Level 2

Transformation journey to quality engineering

Delivering IT modernization at pace is at every CIO’s agenda but most of the time ensuring quality while delivering at speed becomes a major bottleneck for an organization. The Accenture ANZ Quality Engineering team has been helping customers across multiple verticals to transform age old testing practices to modern day quality engineering practices. This session will highlight strategies and key trends in the ANZ market around:  

- Quality engineering enabling cloud migration

- Enterprise scale test automation

- Test data management

- Test infrastructure as a service - the next big thing

Nate Brown, Managing Director, Global IT-HR Platforms, Accenture

As a managing director in Accenture’s global IT organization, Nate Brown leads Accenture’s Workday implementation focused on enhancing the HR experience for Accenture’s 700,000+ people. In this capacity, he is responsible for the strategy, management and technology operations of Workday capabilities—including human capital management, recruiting, onboarding, payroll, learning and more. Working hand-in-hand with the business, Nate and his team embrace change, innovation and agile frameworks to unlock value along all stages of the HR transformation journey. Prior, as a global delivery lead in HR, he led the talent supply chain initiative and the rollout of the Performance Achievement performance management platform. Nate began his Accenture career as a solution architect serving national, state and city government clients. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in Management Science and Information Technology from Virginia Tech.

Kevin Smith, Senior Manager, Global IT-HR Platforms, Accenture

Kevin Smith is a senior manager in Accenture’s global IT organization, where he leads the quality assurance (QA) program for Accenture’s Workday implementation, a project which touches all 700,000+ people. Kevin is responsible for managing QA reviews, which verify that work is proceeding in alignment with stakeholder expectations, and also help to identify and manage risks. Additionally, he ensures proactive follow-up and corrective actions to accelerate recommended project improvements. Prior, he led multi-platform software testing for the Workday transformation. Before joining Accenture in 2005, Kevin held a variety of IT and solution architect roles in government, private industry and consulting. He has a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and a master’s degree in Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University. 

4:15-4:30 pm

Location:  Superior AB, Level 2

Wrap up and meeting concludes

Partner Panel Discussion 

(Separate registration required)

Join our partner-only discussion as our panel of Tricentis experts take on your product and partner program questions. This session is for Tricentis partners only.

1:30-2:30 pm

Location: Erie, Level 2

Partner-Only Panel Discussion

Sheraton Grand Chicago Riverwalk

301 East North Water Street, Chicago, Illinois, USA, 60611

Tel: +1 312-464-1000