Egypt is partner country of the 13th Software & Systems Quality Conference in Düsseldorf

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International congress on software quality

Cologne, 14 February 2008

Once a year, managers, specialists and IT experts from over 20 countries meet in Düsseldorf at the world’s largest conference on software quality. This year, the 13th Software & Systems Quality Conference is being held from 15 to 18 April 2008. For the first time, a partner country—Egypt—is presenting itself at the four-day rendezvous for business and quality experts. The organiser, SQS Software Quality Systems AG, is expecting about 900 people to attend the Congress Center Stadthalle Düsseldorf. Visitors can choose from over 100 talks, tutorials and workshops.

This year’s conference is being held under the patronage of the North Rhine-Westphalian Minister for Innovation and Technology Professor Andreas Pinkwart, and in large part focuses on topics relating to IT security. Two series of talks are dedicated to the ever more pressing topic of system security. The highlight will be the keynote address by Christof Paar, Professor at the Ruhr University, Bochum. He will outline the risks to security over the coming ten years and identify solution scenarios.

The partner country, Egypt, will introduce itself at the conference as a next-generation outsourcing location. For this, Dr Tarek Kamel, the Egyptian Minister of Communication and Information Technology, will be coming to Düsseldorf to give another keynote address describing the strategy and initiatives that his country is using to establish itself as a recognised location for IT outsourcing. Another series of talks will also be dealing with outsourcing, among other things in offshore destinations, with various companies reporting on their experience from IT projects.

Panel of experts to discuss IT offshoring

As well as the talks and workshops, the now largely English-speaking conference will for the first time also have a panel of experts, with high-ranking members. Under the motto “IT Offshoring: New Job Opportunities in Europe”, analysts, service providers and end-user companies will discuss the opportunities and risks of offshore outsourcing for domestic IT business. In addition to market observers such as Frank Ridder from Gartner Deutschland and Klaus Holzhauser from Pierre Audoin Consultants, the panel will include representatives of Dresdner Bank and consulting houses Sogeti and SQS, among others.

The upcoming Software & Systems Quality Conference will be rounded off with an exhibition for service providers and product vendors in the field of quality management and quality assurance. About 45 companies and organisations will be showing what they do.

Further information is available from the conference office at SQS, where delegates can also register for the event. Contact details for the conference team:

Tel.: +49 (0)2203 915481
Fax: +49 (0)2203 915415
E-mail: team@sqs-conferences.com
Web: www.sqs-conferences.com

• SQS Software Quality Systems
  SQS is the leading independent provider of software quality management and testing services in Europe. Based in Cologne, Germany, SQS currently employs more than 850 people in its branches in Europe—including the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Austria and Ireland—and South Africa. SQS also has a minor stake in an operation in Portugal and a cooperative agreement with a company in Spain.
  SQS is the first German company to have a primary listing on AIM (Alternative Investment Market) in London. SQS completed a secondary listing on the Entry Standard of the Deutsche Börse (German Stock Exchange) in Frankfurt am Main on 2 December 2005.
  With over 4,000 successfully completed projects behind it, SQS has a strong customer base including half of the DAX 30 companies and 30 per cent of the companies in the STOXX 50. They include names like Dresdner Bank, Barclays, Deutsche Telekom, BP, DaimlerChrysler and Airbus, and various other enterprises from all business sectors.