Salvatore Reale

Salvatore Reale has more than twenty years experience in R&D, and in particular in software development for large corporations, where he served for several years as Director and VP, with responsibility for product line.

Since 2007, he spent significant part of his work as manager of the program for introduction of Agile Development methodologies in the R&D of a multinational TLC company in Italy. He trained with specialized courses from 2007 to 2010, and later on taking part in tutorials and workshops in the United States and Europe with some of the leading experts in Agile and Scrum.

From 2008 to 2010 he was a member of the international team of Agile Coaches for the same company. He dealt with a detailed training program, which involved about 300 people and was oriented to the formation of Product Owners, Scrum Masters and Team Members, with the realization of 3 pilot projects.
Salvatore is a Certified Scrum Master since 2008 and he is one of the first in Italy to have achieved certification as a Scrum Professional. Currently, as a freelancer, provides consulting, within which Agile Coaching and Training are the most important items.

Salvatore is co-founder and member of the Board of Directors of ITA-STQB, which is the association that in Italy carries out the certification of ICT professionals in the areas of software engineering. He is also Vice-Chair of REQB®, founded by a group of international experts with the main objective to create a standard framework for the activities of Requirements Engineering.

Rex Black

With over thirty years of software and systems engineering experience, Rex Black is President of RBCS (www.rbcs-us.com), a leader in software, hardware, and systems testing.

For twenty years, RBCS has delivered consulting, outsourcing and training services in the areas of software, hardware, and systems testing and quality. Employing the industry's most experienced and recognized consultants, RBCS conducts product testing, builds and improves testing groups, and provides testing staff for hundreds of clients worldwide. Ranging from Fortune 20 companies to start-ups, RBCS clients save time and money through higher quality, improved product development, decreased tech support calls, improved reputation, and more.

As the leader of RBCS, Rex is the most prolific author practicing in the field of software testing today. His popular first book, Managing the Testing Process, has sold over 100,000 copies around the world, including Japanese, Chinese, and Indian releases, and is now in its third edition. His eleven other books on testing, Advanced Software Testing: Volumes I, II and III, Critical Testing Processes, Foundations of Software Testing, Pragmatic Software Testing, Fundamentos de Pruebas de Software, Testing Metrics, Improving the Testing Process, Improving the Software Process, and The Expert Test Manager have also sold tens of thousands of copies, including Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indian, and Russian editions.

He has written over fifty articles, presented hundreds of papers, workshops, and seminars, and given about seventy-five keynotes and other speeches at conferences and events around the world.

Rex is the past President of the International Software Testing Qualifications Board and of the American Software Testing Qualifications Board.

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Alon Linetzki

Mr. Alon Linetzki is an expert test engineer and a testing consultant with over 18 years in testing, and over 28 years in IT.

During his long professional career, Mr. Linetzki have participated and managed various types of testing projects with a huge range of technologies, size and sector orientation.

He is the author of multiple testing courses, including: Agile testing, TPI in a day, Risk Based Testing, Personal Communication and presentation Skills, Test Automation for Decision Makers, Exploratory Testing Explained, Writing Good Test Requirements, Introduction to Test Automation and more.

Mr. Linetzki is a speaker in many international testing conferences since 1995, and is a speaker this year at Belgium Testing Days, Nordic Testing Days, China Test, Agile Testing Days, Testing Portugal, Microsoft Visual Studio Announcement Event (Rome) - on multiple topics, he is the cofounder of the Israeli Testing Certification Board (www.itcb.org.il) and the founder and chair of SIGiST Israel (www.sigist.org.il).

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