The international Conference on Quality Engineering in Software Technology (CONQUEST) has been held annually since 1997. It has been the platform for software professionals bringing together the software engineering community to discuss software quality aspects, to see how quality engineering methods and techniques are used in both industry and science, to see the latest tools, to share experiences on projects and representative case studies and to hear about newest advancements. About 350 IT experts from industry and research from all over the world have participated in the conference every year. Two-thirds of them CEOs or in charge of personnel or budget, one third programmers, testers, architects. In 2008 they came from 21 different nations: Germany, Israel, Austria, India, Finland, Bangladesh, Spain, USA, France, China, Sweden, The Netherlands, Latvia, Belgium, Switzerland, Denmark, Poland, Ireland, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Italy. The conference topics are for example:   

• Quality Assurance and Management
• Process and Product Quality
• Process Optimization and Improvement
• Education, Training and Certification
• Quality Engineering Related Standardization
• Systematic Software and System Development
• Secure and Safe Software-Based Systems
• Model Driven Engineering
• Requirements Engineering
• Verification and Validation
• Testing of Software-Based Systems
• Metrics and Measurements of System Quality and of Development Processes
• Analytical Models of Software Engineering
• Project Management

The CONQUEST 2009 will be held in Nuremberg from September 16 to 18, 2009. Please find further information here.