Vishal Mehrotra has 21 years of IT Solutions and Quality Assurance experience. At TCS, he has been instrumental in driving strategic alliance relationships and joint solutioning go-to-market initiatives, with end-to-end responsibility for ideating, building, managing and monetizing. Visualiser and creator of the Intelligent Testing paradigm, Vishal’s passion for taking Quality Assurance to the GenNext level is palpable. Currently, as Head of the Business Solutions and Open Source Technology Excellence Group, his area of focus (and interest) is futuristic product gestation. He has previously worked with Larsen & Toubro, India in their Cement and Mineral Processing Plants division. Vishal has a B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India. He is a certified Six Sigma Black Belt, and a self-confessed traveholic.

Ruediger Spies is the Independent Vice President of Software Markets, Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC) He brings over 30 years of extensive experience in management roles at international enterprise as well as in the field of cutting-edge technology and innovations, where he mainly focuses on enterprise applications and infrastructure, including server, mobile and communication technologies. In addition, Spies has profound strategic know-how in IT/business alignment, project organization/management, and quality management. He was named one of the 100 most influential people in the German IT industry in 2001 and 2011.

Ruediger has degrees in Master of Physics from University of Hamburg and Electrical Engineering from University of Aachen. He is also a Master of Intellectual Property Law and Management, LL.M. from Centre d’Études Internationales de la Propriété Intellectuelle, Strasbourg.