Sopra Group participates in a number of high-profile industry events.  Recognised as thought-leaders in a variety of fields within IT and Consulting we are frequently invited to present papers at some of the leading industry forums.  We also arrange a number of our own Business Briefings and Seminars throughout the UK.

Sopra Group was once again invited to speak at this year's EuroSTAR conference where Neil Pandit (a Senior Sopra Group Test Consultant) was presented with the Triple Star Award for the most innovative contribution to the event for his presentation on a Visual approach to Risk-Based Integration Testing.  In addition, Graham Freeburn (a Sopra Group Principal Consultant and EuroSTAR veteran) also led a tutorial on Influencing and Negotiation Skills for testers. 

EuroSTAR is widely recognised as the most successful European software testing conference, as well as a key training and education event.  EuroSTAR has been running for over 15 years.  This year's event attracted around 600 delegates and was held in Stockholm between 30th November and 3rd December.

To request a slide pack or speak to one of our consultants about the topics covered at this event then please contact us.

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The theme of the third annual conference, held on 24th November at the Royal Society of Edinburgh, was 'Transforming the Public Sector.'  The event gave attendees an opportunity to hear more about what is happening in shared services from leading experts and network with a broad range of delegates. 

Andrew Campbell, Sopra Group's Director for Public Sector Services in Scotland, delivered a session entitled 'The Role of the Private Sector in Building Shared Services' and was the day's only speaker from a private sector supplier organisation.  

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itSMF 2009 - the principal event for the promotion of IT Service Management 'best practice,' standards and qualifications - was held on 9th and 10th of November in Birmingham.  The theme of this year's event was 'Optimising IT Services for Business Success,' and around 1200 delegates are expected to attend from over 40 countries.

Bob Craig, a Sopra Group Director, co-presented a workshop with easyJet's Head of Development, Colin Rees.  As part of the 'Working Together' stream, this well-attended session focused on how the Agile methodology that underpins easyJet and Sopra Group's successful partnership has helped the airline stay one step ahead in the highly competitive aviation market.

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The annual Socitm event was held at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre between 11th and 13th October 2009.  Socitm has been running for over 20 years and one of the UK's major networking events for public sector ICT professionals.  The theme was "re-inventing local public services - radical thinking, practical thinking.

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"Cost Out - Quality In' was the theme of this event, that was hosted by Sopra Group and CAST software on 7th October 2009 at the Glasshouse Hotel, Edinburgh.

The seminar explored how by employing innovative approaches to Testing to significantly improve quality at every stage of the development process, and by embedding CAST's powerful Application Intelligence Platform into processes, the evolving quality of an application can be measured precisely throughout the software development lifecycle, and a truly end-to-end approach to solution quality.  The event also featured a live demo of the CAST tool.

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On Tuesday 6th October 2009, Sopra Group welcomed a number of CIOs to The Cinnamon Club in London for a complimentary half-day seminar.  The theme of the event was 'Be Prepared to Take Advantage of the Upturn', which is in line with the view of many leading analysts that organisations that invest wisely in IT during a downturn can improve the quality of their offerings and services, and in turn their long-term future.

Speakers at this event included renowned IT Analyst Anthony Miller who presented a 'State Of The IT Nation' and Tim Newing, IT Director of easyJet, who spoke on 'Optimising Delivery – Agile Offshore/Onshore'.

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