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Diversity in Tech Conferences

The organiser, program committee and program chair perspective On an almost regular cadence, I end up reading about conferences getting heat for their lack of diversity in their speaker lineup. Sometimes I just observe from the sidelines, sometimes I get involved in the discussions. Most of the time - the organisers don't react very well to the feedback given. Let's get back to that part a bit later on.The fact that this keeps happening to…
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Agile Testing Days Open Air – How to make meetings not suck

In May 2022 the first Agile Testing Days Open Air took place, and there Samuel Nitsche and I premiered our workshop “How to make meetings not suck”. This post is my reflection on the process of creating the workshop and a slight summary of the workshop itself. Designing a new workshop is always a gamble and kind of nerve wrecking. You work really hard on creating a structure and content that you hope will be valuable…
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TestSverige UnConference 2018 – summary

So this weekend I attended TestSverige UnConference 2018 among with a group of other members. I've attended a few unconferences before (Agila Sverige as one example) but this was the first time with a really limited allowed number of attendees. In the end we were 10 eager participants which might sound small but allowed for really passionate discussions (that might have spilled into dinner, after dinner and breakfast..) First draft of schedule gave us 2…