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Keynote GREETING Speakers
Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Josef Nassauer
Bayern Innovativ GmbH and Technical University Munich,
GERMANY
Keynote on 16 September: “Trends in Innovation – Technologies,
Networks and Clusters”
Josef Nassauer studied mechanical and process engineering
at the Technical University of Munich. Late 1986, Josef
Nassauer became Research Director at the new European
Research and Development Centre of Kraft Foods in Munich,
part of Philip-Morris Companies. His responsibility
was the coordination of scientific services, the development
of novel processes and the worldwide coordination
of strategical process engineering projects between plants
in USA, Europe and Australia.
In 1992 Josef Nassauer was awarded the Philip-Morris-
Chairman’s-Award in New York for an outstanding membrane
technology innovation. In 1990 he was also offered
the position of Head of the Institute of Food Process Engineering
at the ETH Zürich. In December 1997 Josef Nassauer
was nominated honorary professor by the Technical
University of Munich. In 1995 Josef Nassauer accepted
the position as chief executive of Bayern Innovativ Ltd.,
which was newly established by the Free State of Bavaria
as a corporation for innovation and technology transfer in
Nuremberg. The main objectives are to intensify technology
transfer between science and industry as well as to enhance
technology orientated cooperations across branches.
Thereby, its work is focused on 10 future-orientated technologies
and 10 branches important for Bavaria’s economy.
Prof. Dr. Jeff Offutt
George Mason University, USA
Keynote on 17 September: “The Model-Driven Test Design
Process”
Dr. Jeff Offutt is Professor of Software Engineering at
George Mason University and leads the MS and PhD programs
in Software Engineering. He has published over 115
refereed research papers and is co-author of the textbook
Introduction to Software Testing. He is editor-in-chief of
Wiley’s journal of Software Testing, Verification and Reliability;
steering committee chair for the IEEE International
Conference on Software Testing, Verification, and Validation;
program chair for ICST 2009; and on the technical
board of advisers for Certess, Inc.
Keynote Speakers
Vipul Kocher
PT PureTesting Software Pvt. Ltd., INDIA
Keynote on 17 September: “Software Testing – Present
Problems and Future Solutions”
Vipul is a Co-founder of PureTesting (www.puretesting.com)
and the President of the Indian Testing Board (ITB), a member
of ISTQB. In over 15 years of testing experience with
leading software companies, he has led test teams for various
types of products such as Acrobat Reader, routers and
network management products, mail and database access
products for mobile devices and desktops. These have involved
working on various handheld, embedded, and multiple
desktop platforms.
Vipul regularly presents keynotes, papers and tutorials at
various national and international conferences. He has
won several awards including the best paper award at
STAREast 2006 and the Logica CMG Triple Star Award for
the most original contribution at EuroStar 2005, Denmark.
He also received the Testing Thought Leadership award at
Test2008 in India.
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Peter Liggesmeyer
University of Kaiserslautern and Fraunhofer IESE,
GERMANY
Keynote on 18 September: “Software Quality Assurance:
State of the Art, Standards and Empirical Results”
Dr.-Ing. Peter Liggesmeyer is a Full Professor at the University
of Kaiserslautern, Germany (Department of Computer
Science). He holds a chair in Software Engineering: Dependability,
and is director of the Fraunhofer Institute for
Experimental Software Engineering (IESE). His research
interests are in software engineering for embedded systems,
software quality, system safety and reliability, and
visualization of software systems.
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Liggesmeyer is the author of more than 80
publications including several books.
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