Agenda at a Glance 

09:30 - 10:00

Registration & Welcome Coffee

10:00 - 10:45

Welcome and Plenary Keynote—Accelerating Application Delivery for Transformative Business Value

10:45 - 11:15

Digital Twins at home in China with BMW Group

11:15 - 12:00

From DevOps to Value Stream Management—Delivering True Value to Customers

12:00 - 13:00

Lunch & Networking

13:00 - 15:00

Break Out Sessions

15:00 - 15:15

Afternoon Coffee & Networking

15:15 - 16:15

Break Out Sessions

16:15 - 17:00

Networking Drinks Reception

Agenda in Detail

Plenary Sessions

10:00 - 12:00

Room: Explore Suite

10:00 - 10:45

Application delivery continues its rapid evolution, including the need for a speedier pace of delivery. When such speed is sustained, without sacrificing quality, new revenue streams emerge, the customer experience improves, and competitive standing grows. In short, accelerated delivery generates transformative business value.

Having recently completed the purchase of Micro Focus, OpenText’s corporate mission has expanded. We help enterprise professionals better manage an increasingly hybrid and complex digital fabric with a new generation of tools.

This keynote session will share our vision of accelerated application delivery. You’ll discover how our solutions can help your business achieve high-quality applications at scale—from strategy to production.

 

Speaker: Tal Levi Joseph, Head of Application Delivery Management Product Group, OpenText

10:45 - 11:15

BMW Group have been utilizing OpenText application delivery tools for many years to modernize and secure their vehicle development. But a new challenge arose when a ‘digital twin’ was required to develop, produce and bring to market cars in China.

Join this exciting presentation to learn how the BMW Group was able to use functional data management to successfully set up the vehicle simulation in China, and what challenges they encountered along the way. 

 

Speaker: René Te-Strote, Product Owner, BMW Group

11:15 - 12:00

DevOps practices are proven to speed the development and delivery of IT projects. But most DevOps teams focus on the technical side of product delivery. To be successful, organizations must understand and manage how their DevOps and digital transformation create value.

Join this session to understand how to take the next step in your transformation. Learn how ValueEdge helps organizations scale up and get Agile, Quality, and DevOps-focused information and actionable insights.

 

Speaker: Carlos Gutiérrez, Application Delivery Product Group Leader EMEA, OpenText

Break Out Sessions

13:00 - 16:15

Discover Track

Room: Discover 2

13:00 - 14:00

Business 2030 is the OpenText vision for a new digital era. It will require high-quality applications that follow a rapid pace of enhancement.

Join this session as we explore current market developments, the challenges they bring, and the capabilities you can leverage to get ahead today, to meet the demands of business tomorrow.

 

Speaker: Carlos Gutiérrez, Application Delivery Product Group Leader EMEA, OpenText

14:00 - 15:00

The benefits of software as a service are clear, with easier updates, increased agility, and fewer infrastructure headaches. But what should you consider when evaluating the move to software as a service?

Join this session to get exclusive insight into cloud adoption.

 

Speaker: Liz Greaves, Head of Application Delivery SaaS UK&I, OpenText

15:15 - 16:15

With the carbon footprint of the ICT industry accounting for a significant amount of global greenhouse gas emissions and demand for technology continuously rising, building green technology is critical in efforts to reduce global emissions.

But how can you use that same technology to align with, and deliver against, your organization’s environmental targets?

Join this session to see how Project and Portfolio Management helps you work to the specific goals and KPIs your organization has set, monitor your achievements, and deliver against those targets.

 

Speaker: Mark Turner, PPM Sales Engineering Practice Lead Intl, OpenText

Explore Track

Room: Explore 1

13:00 - 14:00

As software use exponentially increases in our personal and professional lives, organizations must deliver quality applications to meet increasing consumer and market expectations.

Failure to do so can have profound effects on revenue, customer satisfaction, employee productivity, and brand reputation.

However, many enterprises struggle to ensure high product quality when adopting practices such as Agile and DevOps. They speed up software production and delivery without a focus on software quality.

Join this session to hear how our ALM solutions improve quality at each stage of your development lifecycle, helping you achieve higher levels of agility, traceability, and predictability to improve the flow of work across software delivery value streams.

 

Speaker: Andreas Widmann, Senior Principal Consultant, OpenText and Jerry Saelemakers, Pre-sales Manager, OpenText

14:00 - 14:40

In today's digital world, applications need to be delivered faster with validation across a variety of operating systems, mobile devices, and browsers to provide a superior user experience.

Basic test automation can no longer keep up. QA teams need a smarter, accelerated, and simplified approach to address these ever-growing challenges and complexities.

Join this session to hear how the UFT Family enables smarter test automation, by combining a breadth of technology support with capabilities such as AI, codeless & model-based testing, to achieve continuous automation at scale.

 

Speaker: Andreas Widmann, Senior Principal Consultant, OpenText and Jerry Saelemakers, Pre-sales Manager, OpenText

Customer Session:

The Trials and Tribulations of Building a Mobile Device Farm

14:40 - 15:00

Mobile device farms can make your application testing more scalable and efficient, leading to high-quality apps that delight your customers.

But they also present challenges of their own, including managing the initial set-up, device management, cost, and data security considerations to name but a few.

Join this session to get an insight into why Lloyds Banking Group require a mobile test platform, the challenges they faced, and the reasons why they chose UFT Mobile as their strategic mobile device platform. 

 

Speaker: Richard Bishop, Lead Quality Engineer, Lloyds Banking Group

15:15 - 16:15

As technology evolves, the expectation is that applications should work at any time, on any device.

With a direct correlation between customer engagement and revenue, application performance is just as important to corporations. Performance testing can no longer be an afterthought.

Join this session to hear how the LoadRunner family leverages rich integrations, comprehensive analytics, real-world simulations, and continuous feedback loops to enable your teams to test earlier. By finding issues sooner, you can consistently deliver high-quality applications that meet your users’ expectations.

 

Speaker: David Mcleish, Product Manager - Performance Engineering, Opentext