Revolutionize Your Tech Journey
Join industry leaders and experts for a deep dive into the latest innovations driving digital transformation.
Explore topics like GenAI, testing, API excellence, and next-gen observability while gaining insights from real-world customer experiences.
Navigating Digital Transformation: Understand the impact of generative AI and rapid digitization on software development and learn how to adapt swiftly to maintain a competitive edge in a dynamic market.
Insider Insights: Gain exclusive access to SmartBear's product roadmap and learn about upcoming innovations directly from engineering and product leaders.
Pragmatic Solutions: Hear real-world accounts from industry peers on their modernization journeys across the software development lifecycle and discover actionable strategies to navigate disruptions effectively.
Register now for SmartBear Connect | Virtual
9/12/2024
Event Agenda
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In a world where generative AI and rapid digitization are reshaping the software development landscape, Dan Faulkner, our Chief Product Officer, will provide insights into navigating this transformative era. Dan will share SmartBear’s vision of leveraging AI to enhance human potential, fostering creativity and innovation rather than replacing human effort. We're thrilled to unveil SmartBear's latest innovations, crafted to empower development teams and guide companies through these changes, setting new standards for industry leadership.
Dan Faulkner, Chief Product Officer
This session strips back the hype around AI and digital transformation and shares real world accounts on how these customers are dealing with disruption.
Cynthia Gumbert, Chief Marketing Officer
Dive into a discussion with SmartBear's engineering and product leaders, facilitated by an industry evangelist. They'll unpack the next steps in our journey, reflecting on customer insights that shape our future. Engage with the minds behind our solutions and glimpse what lies ahead for SmartBear in the evolving tech landscape.
Erik Wilde, Principal Consultant, INNOQ
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SmartBear HaloAI is an advanced AI‑driven capability being introduced across SmartBear's product to enhance software development and testing. Launched in May 2024, HaloAI utilizes generative AI (GenAI) to automate complex, repetitive, and error-prone tasks that traditionally required manual intervention. Discover how HaloAI transforms the products you already love, making testing smarter and more efficient.
Todd McNeal, Director of Product Management
Matthew Fellows, Principal Product Manager
Feeling the pressure to design APIs that stand out? Join our expert API Solutions Engineer to dive into the key design principles that lead to exceptional developer experiences. You'll learn how to craft clear, consistent, and well‑documented APIs that empower developers to integrate seamlessly and unlock the full potential of your offerings. Walk away with actionable strategies to design APIs that not only function well but also delight the developers who use them.
Nicholas Nogradi, Solutions Engineer I
This session provides a comprehensive overview of full-stack developer-first observability and its critical role in modern software development. Unlike other APM vendors who prioritize application performance data over user insights, we'll explore how this approach empowers developers with the tools and insights needed to monitor and understand every layer of the application stack—from frontend to backend—enhancing their ability to identify, diagnose, and resolve issues swiftly.
Andrew Rushworth, Solutions Engineer
GenAI is making serious waves in the software industry, and one of the most exciting areas of opportunity is in test automation. In this session, we’re going to look past how AI can help you code more, and look closer at how it can help you code better. From instant test case automation to suggested script improvements, GenAI is helping teams turn out quality like never before.
Fitz Nowlan, Director of Engineering
Quality comes from coverage, but coverage is hard to achieve when your test suites are fractured across many tools. In this session, you’ll learn how to simplify testing so you can deliver better quality, faster. We’ll go over tips for aligning complex testing teams, advice on how to automate and execute more testing types in a single flow, and steps you can take to tie deliver insights out to development stakeholders.
Dan Lagomarsino, Solutions Engineer
Join us for an exploration of techniques for API management with cloud services like Amazon API Gateway in collaboration with SmartBear. This session will guide you through the essential strategies for optimizing and scaling your APIs. Learn how to leverage AWS's infrastructure combined with tools like SwaggerHub to enhance performance, ensure security, and streamline operations. Gain insights into best practices for managing API lifecycles, monitoring API health, and implementing efficient workflows that meet the demands of modern applications.
Bill Boora, Principal Specialist, Serverless AWS
Platform engineering is rapidly gaining traction for compelling reasons. As we continually expand our arsenal of digital building blocks, mastering the art of creating and using these components efficiently becomes crucial. This talk delves into the essence of platform engineering, exploring its synergy with API management and API platforms, and how the latter can significantly bolster platform engineering efforts. We will dissect the nuances of platform engineering, comparing it with traditional API management approaches. Furthermore, we will explore a widely recognized platform engineering maturity model, providing insights into its application and how it can guide you through the complexities of managing your API ecosystem.
Erik Wilde, Principal Consultant, INNOQ
As software systems become increasingly complex, observability has become a critical practice for developers and operations teams. However, traditional observability approaches often struggle to keep up with the scale and complexity of modern applications. Enter AI, a game‑changer that promises to revolutionize observability. This session will explore how AI can revolutionize the way we approach observability in traditional software systems.
Eran Grabiner, Director of Product Management
Join us for a deep dive into the evolution of BugSnag within the Insight Hub, transitioning from traditional error monitoring to a comprehensive hub encompassing real user monitoring (RUM), server-side performance monitoring, and distributed tracing. This session will explore how these advanced capabilities provide developers with a holistic view of system health, enabling more precise diagnostics and performance optimizations across the full application lifecycle. Discover how the Insight Hub’s empowers teams to proactively enhance user experiences and maintain robust, efficient applications with unprecedented insight into user interactions and system performance.
Rosty Sokolov, Enterprise Solutions Engineer
Customer experience is the biggest reason behind customer growth and churn, and QA teams lead the work that determines the level of quality your users receive. In this session we’ll look closer at the impact poor user experience has on user retention and what steps QA teams can take to assure company growth. Join us as we tackle quality at every level; from function to visuals to performance to scale.
Rob McNeil, Senior Product Marketing Manager
Join experts from Atlassian and SmartBear to discover how to transform your testing from a siloed afterthought to a collaborative cornerstone of software development. Learn how integrating Jira and Zephyr Scale break down barriers between development and testing, streamline processes with automation, and gain unparalleled visibility into project health. By unifying your teams and tools, you'll accelerate delivery of higher-quality software while boosting efficiency and collaboration.
Keran McKenzie, Head of Ecosystem, Marketplace & Developer Experience, Atlassian
Maggie Bean, Product Marketing Manager
How can organizations effectively use Generative AI in their API testing? This session focuses on the transformative role of AI in Contract Testing. We'll discuss how its thoughtful application can tackle common challenges and enhance both user experience and software quality. Join us to explore our latest features and learn how we are strategically navigating a new era of development harmony with AI-augmented processes.
Matthew Fellows, Principal Product Manager
Join us for an in-depth exploration of how our API Hub is transforming API development by integrating advanced testing and AI capabilities. This session, led by our expert API Solutions Architect, will demonstrate how to enhance scalability, improve functionality, and ensure long-term success. Learn how these powerful features will provide teams to create robust and future-ready APIs with practical use cases that highlight the synergy between testing and AI.
Joseph Joyce, Solutions Architect
This session delves into how a well‑crafted digital experience strategy can dramatically elevate customer satisfaction and loyalty. Attendees will learn how to effectively utilize tools and technologies that not only detect and resolve issues but also anticipate customer needs, ensuring a seamless digital experience. Discover innovative, practical approaches to monitor and refine digital touchpoints, ultimately transforming how users engage with your platforms and driving positive business outcomes.
Justin Collier, Senior Director Product Management
Agile transitions put a heavy burden on testing teams to keep up with faster and more complex releases. What if you could do more than just keep up? What if instead you could set the pace? In this session, we’ll discuss how QA teams can position themselves best for a digital future, from balancing modern and legacy processes and systems to planning for future specialization and creativity.
Prashant Mohan, Senior Director Product Management
In the ever-changing digital landscape, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) emerge as transformative forces reshaping software development. While these tools offer immense opportunities, they also present a variety of security challenges and pitfalls. While AI does offer a significant amount of time-saving for developers, there are increasing concerns about the security of code produced by generative AI. Not only does code generated by AI technologies have higher defect rates, but AI models also have their own software supply chains that organizations must pay attention to effectively protect their software.
In this talk, we will explore evolving AI capabilities from experiment to production, provide tips for enhancing transparency and proactively managing AI-related components, and reveal the ways engineers and security teams are utilizing AI while managing risk. Join us as we explore evolving AI capabilities from experiment to production, provide tips for proactively managing AI-related components, and reveal the ways engineers and security teams are utilizing AI while managing risk.
Ilkka Turunen, Field CTO, Sonatype
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Dan Faulkner
Chief Product Officer
Cynthia Gumbert
Chief Marketing Officer
Vineeta Puranik
SVP of Engineering
Todd McNeal
Director of Product Management
Nicholas Nogradi
Solutions Engineer I
Andrew Rushworth
Solutions Engineer
Fitz Nowlan
Director of Engineering
Dan Lagomarsino
Solutions Engineer
Bill Boora
Principal Specialist, Serverless AWS
Erik Wilde
Principal Consultant, INNOQ
Eran Grabiner
Director of Product Management
Rosty Sokolov
Enterprise Solutions Engineer
Rob McNeil
Senior Product Marketing Manager
Keran McKenzie
Head of Ecosystem, Marketplace & Developer Experience, Atlassian
Maggie Bean
Product Marketing Manager
Matthew Fellows
Principal Product Manager
Joseph Joyce
Solutions Architect
Justin Collier
Senior Director Product Management
Prashant Mohan
Senior Director Product Management
Ilkka Turunen
Field CTO, Sonatype
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