Sopra Group participates in a number of high-profile industry events.  Recognised as thought leaders in a variety of fields within IT and Consulting, including e-Government, risk-based testing, Business Process Management and IT security, 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.

EuroSTAR is an international software testing conference, attracting delegates and speakers from all around the world.  Last year in Stockholm over 1000 delegates, from 38 countries, attended the conference.  This year EuroSTAR will be held at The Hague, Netherlands on 10th-13th November.

Ian Smith, Principal Consultant, and Robert Campbell, Senior Developer, will be speaking on the topic "Mobile Software Testing - Facing the Future Challenges" on Wednesday 12th November.

The session will take a look at the current mobile market and examine some of the trends driving changes in how we will build and test mobile systems.  Some practical approaches employing commercial and open-source mobile test tools and supporting infrastructure will be presented.

Our Principal Testing Consultant, Graham Freeburn will also be speaking at EuroSTAR 2008 on the topic "Make Your Testing Smarter - Know Your Context!"

Graham's session is primarily aimed at people defining test strategies for organisations or making the decisions about the test processes used on projects, whether or not they are experienced, but it is open to all - the broader the range of experiences the better the model will be.  After the conference those attending the session can, if they wish, join a working group to build on the output from the session. 

DATE: Wednesday 12th November 2008
VENUE: EuroSTAR 2008, The Hague, Netherlands

12:15-13:00 Mobile Software Testing - Facing the Future Challenges
14:15-15:00 Make Your Testing Smarter - Know Your Context!

If you would like to know more about this event then please contact us.

Sharing Public Sector IT Experience

This forum, held on 18th June in Edinburgh, showcased some recent, successful and innovative Scottish Public Sector IT projects as well as leading technologies.

The case study format provided an honest assessment of each project's successes as well as any challenges encountered along the way and lessons learned for the future.

If you are interested in receiving a copy of the slides from this event then please contact us.

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The India-Scotland Business Forum was held at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre from 11th-13th June.  Around 300 companies, from both Scotland and India, registered for the event.  Sopra Group was represented by Gopalan Rajagopalan, Divisional Director, who was a speaker at the event.

Gopalan spoke on the topic of "Captive Offshoring - Lessons Learnt and Opportunities."  This session focused on the dos and dont's of offshoring and how a captive facility, once established, can be leveraged for the benefit of the wider industry segments such as Small to Medium-scale Enterprises (SMEs).

If you would like to receive a copy of the slides from the above session or to talk to one of our experts about offshoring then please contact us.

On 18th April 2008 Sopra Group sponsored the SOCITM Information Security event in Belfast.  Jonathan Roach, Security Consultant at Sopra Group spoke about data handling threats and other key security issues at the event.

If you would like to receive a copy of the slides or talk to one of our experts about the topics covered at this event then please contact us.

Durning November 2007 Sopra Group and Fortify Software held an informative Seminar which outlined the threats posed by the hidden issues built in to many of today's business applications.  The Seminar was not just about the theory or perceived threats and solutions, real life client experiences were also presented.

Howard Schmidt, former Chief Information Officer at eBay and Cyber Security Advisor for the White House was the keynote speaker.

Statistics suggest organisations are consistently failing to realise the expected cost-benefit of their IT implementations.

The Efficient Programme Delivery approach is all about minimising risk, increasing 'certainty of delivery' and maximising the organisational fit of your IT implementations, for a planned and minimum appropriate investment.  Using this approach, investment in 'Quality Assurance' is minimal, budgeted and measurable, and technology change works in partnership with the business to support organisational change.

At the end of 2007 we held a number of Efficient Programme Delivery seminars.  If you would like to receive a copy of the slides or talk to one of our experts about the topics covered contact us.

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