Tal Levi Joseph

Head of Application Delivery Management Product Group, OpenText

Tal leads the Application Delivery Management product team within OpenText. With over a decade of experience running Quality Assurance, customer success and development teams, Tal melds her real-world experience and customer insights to drive a portfolio strategy that fuels greater intelligence and integration. Prior to this role, Tal was responsible for running the Application Delivery Management Research and Development organization. She holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel.

René Te-Strote

Product Owner, BMW Group

René Te-Strote has been working in the BMW Group Central IT in the field of vehicle development in an international environment for 18 years. He is currently Head of Total Vehicle Quality and Conformity of Production, Validation and Integration, E/E Vehicle Dynamics Drive, and IT Product Owner "Quality TV and CoP".

Most recently, in his role, he was responsible for the IT-side structure of the vehicle simulation within the joint venture BMW Brilliance Automotive (BBA) in China. In the past, René has been responsible for projects in Germany, USA, China, UK and other countries. The aim was always to implement complex IT scopes in an agile way in a multicultural environment all over the world with distributed teams and partners. Based on this experience, René has been representing BMW at international events and conferences for several years when it comes to presenting the BMW Group as an innovative tech company in an agile world.

Carlos Gutiérrez

Application Delivery Product Group Leader EMEA,      OpenText

Carlos has been in the IT business for over 28 years and currently helps OpenText convey the Application Delivery value proposition to market. He has held roles in development, analysis, project management and sales / pre-sales - so you can expect a wide vision and a deep understanding of the IT business dynamics.

Mark Turner

PPM Sales Engineering Practice Lead Intl, OpenText

Project and Portfolio Management Sales Engineer and international practice lead at OpenText, Mark Turner offers 30 years software management experience and knowledge. While working as a strategic software and business consultant for Mercury, Hewlett Packard, Micro Focus and OpenText, Mark has worked and supported a wide range of customers including Barclays, Vodafone, Shell, Nokia, Mercedes to name a few – solving business problems and ensuring all can truly leverage the power of their software assets.

Liz Greaves

Head of Application Delivery SaaS UK&I, OpenText

Liz has been working in the IT industry of over 20 years, and currently heads up the UK&I Application Delivery SaaS sales at OpenText.

Prior to this, Liz has held numerous positions in project management, operations, business strategy, and more recently customer success management – providing broad and varied experience when it comes to helping customers align with their business objectives to deliver value.

Outside of work Liz is a keen cycling athlete, participating in different disciplines and an active ambassador for women's cycling, working with Bike Park Wales to build out their programs for more inclusive cycling.

Richard Bishop

Lead Quality Engineer, Lloyds Banking Group

Richard is an experienced software tester with over 20 years’ experience in performance testing and test management. In his roles at Lloyds Banking Group, Richard advises and mentors quality engineers and developers and his goal is to help them to get the most from then bank’s investments in software testing and test management tools. As well as helping to support the LoadRunner Enterprise platform at Lloyds Banking Group he is also responsible for their UFT Mobile platform. Richard helps to train software testers at Lloyds Banking Group and is frequently involved in helping testers to increase automation and develop test pipelines using CI/CD tools such as Jenkins and ALM.

David Grant

Presales Software Technical Consultant, OpenText

David joined Micro Focus in 2014, and since then has been supporting a wide range of customers with their application delivery initiatives across a broad range of different verticals.

With a real passion for technology, David has acquired specialist experience in application lifecycle management, functional and non-function testing, mobile application testing and virtualization. 

 David Mcleish

Product Manager - Performance Engineering, Opentext

David has over 20 years IT experience with most of this time spent in the performance engineering domain. He started his career in technical support , providing world class support to enterprise customers. He then moved on to more customer focused roles in the field supporting customer software rollouts and upgrades. After 10 years in this area he moved into customer success and focused on ensuring customers got the most value from their products. In the last 2 years he has moved into Product Management and is now part of the team that is delivering 3 major releases of LoadRunner each year and leading the chaos integration stream within OpenText.

 Andreas Widmann

Senior Principal Consultant, OpenText

Andreas began his career at Mercury Interactive in 1997 and brings over 25 years of application delivery management experience working in various roles at HP, HPE, Micro Focus and now OpenText. In his current role as Senior Principal Consultant, Andreas is responsible for supporting our large enterprise customers with their software testing and development strategies.