Israel as Partner Country of CONQUEST Conference

Potsdam, June 20, 2008: Israel is the partner country of the “Conference on Quality Engineering in Software Technology” (CONQUEST) in 2008. 15 Israeli companies and associations have already agreed to come to Potsdam in September.

“On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the founding of the state Israel we invited our Israeli partners to come to Germany and meet with local companies”, stated Stephan Goericke, Director of the organizing International Software Quality Institute (iSQI). Therefore there is going to be an Israeli-German Get-Together called "BusinessLink" on Thursday evening, September 25. Furthermore all CONQUEST and BusinessLink participants are invited to take part in a Golf Tournament on Saturday, September 27.

At the CONQUEST conference will be the following Israeli speakers and participants:

Keynote Speech by Libby Affen – Chief Operating Officer for Matrix Global Israel (Talpiot) and former CIO of the Israel Foreign Ministry for over 11 years.

Furthermore Software Test Experts from Qualitest, Directors of Comverse, representatives of the SELA Group and the Tesnet Group as well as WebHouse Ltd. and the Israeli Software Testing Certification Boards and the Israel Export & International Cooperation Institute will be guests of CONQUEST.

The conference's topics are:

• Service Oriented Architecture
• Business Process Engineering
• Secure and Safe Software-Based Systems
• Secure Software Development
• Model-Driven Engineering
• Requirements Engineering
• Verification and Validation
• Testing
• Metrics and Measurements of System Quality and of Development Processes, Analytical Models of Software Engineering
• Project Management
• Configuration Management

Exhibitors and participants are welcome – please register at www.conquest-conference.org. Please also visit the website for more information on program, prices and speakers.

The CONQUEST conference will take place from September 24 to 26, 2008, at the Chamber of Industry and Commerce Potsdam (near Berlin, Germany).

The CONQUEST conference has been held annually since 1996. 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. Renowned national and international companies present their products and services at a conference exhibition paralleling the conference every year.

About 400 IT experts from industry and research from 28 nations came to Potsdam last year.

If you come to visit the conference or wish to interview one of the participants, we are happy to arrange that for you. Please accredit to

Ms. Jana Noack (iSQI): jana.noack@isqi.org

The International Software Quality Institute (iSQI GmbH) develops internationally accepted certification standards for advanced vocational training in the area of software quality. In order to optimize and safeguard the skills and abilities of software professionals, iSQI was founded in 2004 as a subsidiary of the German non-profit organisation ASQF e.V. and works together with international organizations, e.g. ISO (International Organization for Standardization) or EQN (European Quality Network).

iSQI certifies IT personnel in more than 40 countries. With more than 4000 exams per year, iSQI is one of the most important personnel certifier in the area of software quality. In addition, iSQI hosts seminars and organizes different international software conferences, for example the “Conference on Quality Engineering in Software Technology“ (CONQUEST) or the “International SPICE Days”.

www.isqi.org

Weitere Informationen sind im Internet unter www.isqi.org zu finden.