
Programme Committee
AutomationSTAR 2023 will take place in Berlin, 20-21 November. We are delighted to present our 2023 Programme Committee led by Chris Loder.
Meet the Committee
Meet our 2023 committee; Chris Loder (Canada) as Programme Chair, John Kent (UK), and Sophie Küster (Germany). We hope to see you in Berlin this November.

Chris Loder
Upland Software, Canada
Chris, a QA Automation Manager at Upland Software, is an automation enthusiast to the core. His passion and experience allow him to help companies reduce regression time and improve overall software quality. With over two decades of automation experience, he designs and implements automation frameworks with his team of automation developers.

Sophie Küster
Cronn, Germany
Sophie works as a test automation engineer at cronn GmbH, a Bonn based IT company. After years of successfully hunting bugs, lately she’s also been working in Java backend development so she can cut out the middle person and introduce the bugs herself. She is passionate about improving awareness and communication about mental health and self-care.

John Kent
Simply Testing, UK
John Kent has been helping organisations with test automation for nearly thirty years. He developed the ‘Test Liberation’ keyword driven, ‘code-less’ automation framework which is built on top of Selenium. He wrote a chapter for the book ‘Experiences of Test Automation’ and is co-author of the Official Netscape Guide to JavaScript1.2.
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