New at EuroSTAR 2009!

In addition to inspiring keynotes, educational tutorials, interesting tracks and a great exhibition, this year's conference has some exciting new aspects.

Tuesday afternoon is a series of mini-tracks after the opening keynote, so there is lots of information for you to gather in a shorter time. There will be 20 mini-track sessions on various topics such as Agile, Exploratory, Automation, Risk Based & Performance along with sessions on more diverse test topics - it promises to be a great beginning to EuroSTAR 2009!

There will be a Test Lab running over two days, where you can put your testing skills into practice with the help of experts and tools. Get hands-on in the Test Lab across two full days of the conference, you'll be able to test a real system using the ideas, tools and techniques you've heard about in keynotes and tracks. With open space sessions and a broad range of events led by experts and tool vendors, the Test Lab will be a fascinating and challenging environment - and we'll be keeping a public bug log, test repository and real-time metrics throughout to help you learn from each other.

The conference will end with a panel session facilitated by Julian Harty from Google. At every EuroSTAR, there are issues that seem to arise during the conference, partly based on what the speakers are talking about, partly from workshop discussions, and partly just what many people are interested in. The Panel Session which will close this year's conference has no subjects defined in advance, but will discuss the issues of 2009 as they emerge from the conference itself. The panellists will be selected from international experts, speakers and delegates from a variety of backgrounds and views. It should certainly be a dynamic and fitting way to bring the curtain down on EuroSTAR 2009