External events

On 9 September, GeoSTQB, the official representative of the ISTQB Board in Georgia, in partnership with TBC Innovations and GITA hosted The Software Tester's Day 2021 webinar. This year, the celebration event took place for the 2nd time. The webinar featured presentations by international leaders in software testing, including Exactpro experts. The speakers reviewed current and future testing trends, as well as focused on the latest concepts of the software industry.

AITest Conference provides an international forum for researchers and practitioners to exchange novel research results, to articulate the practical problems and challenges, to deepen our understanding of the subject area with new theories, methodologies, techniques, processes models, and to improve on the existing tools and resources.

On 19 August, Kari Kakkonen, Director at Knowit, Author, Treasurer at FiSTB, gave a talk on his recently published book “Dragons Out!” and the work he is doing in software testing advocacy among children and young adults.

On 12-16 July, the Laboratory of Software Testing, Tomsk Polytechnic University hosted the online Summer School on Data Science in Software Engineering. We got a great opportunity to explore Data Science from various perspectives with representatives of IT companies Huawei, Exactpro, DeepPavlov, and high-ranking universities Tomsk Polytechnic University and Higher School of Economics. 

EMEA Trading Conference 2021 hosted by the FIX Trading Community brought the global trading community together to discuss the most pressing issues facing the institutional community and provide a neutral platform for buy-side, sell-side, exchanges, vendors and regulators to share their ideas on how the community can continue to collaborate. 

On 17 June, at the QA Meetup we discussed the benefits of investing into Quality Assurance and took a deep dive into HiVAT testing. We had great experts who joined the discussion.

The second FIXinar in the Americas 2021 series took place on 29 April. Thomas Toller, Director of Exactpro’s US entity, was one of the panel experts.  

On 19-23 April, The World Federation of Exchanges (the WFE) hosted the 37th edition of its Clearing & Derivatives Conference. This year, the conference took place online. The Conference brought together academics, policy-makers, regulators, CCPs, derivatives markets and practitioners from all around the world to exchange ideas on the opportunities and challenges for the future of central and bilateral clearing in the context of the latest regulatory reforms, market structure changes and technological developments.

One of the world‘s largest virtual international conferences, the A4Q World Congress brought together over 80 international speakers and participants from more than 90 countries to discuss current findings and future trends in IT with the software quality industry professionals community. The event was hosted by the Alliance for Qualification.

“Recent Challenges in Modern Science” is an Online Academic Panel Conference and Discussion that took place this Saturday, 27 March, hosted by the European Institute for Research and Development.