Last month I was invited to give a keynote talk at the Dutch Testnet 2010 event. I explained the basic concepts of Model-Driven Development (MDD) to an audience of about 500 professional software testers and gave some food-for-thought (I hope) about the impact of MDD on the test profession. I really enjoyed the event. Please find a brief overview of my talk and the slides below.

Do you believe in Model Driven Software Development? Do you believe in modeling languages on a higher abstraction level and automated transformations to an executable business application? I see Model Driven Software Development as an important part of the future of software development. However, I also see a lot of people struggle with actually using Model-Driven techniques and applying them in their daily business. It isn’t trivial to build a.

Last June I gave a presentation at the Code Generation 2010 conference in Cambridge. I really enjoyed the conference: great venue, great food, I met a lot of interesting people, and last but not least I participated in a lot of interesting sessions!

Recently I was asked to give a talk in a TED like setup. This meant 18 minutes to tell my story. I couldn’t go into much detail, but the message had to be clear: a nice challenge! This post contains a short review of my talk along with the slides. Enjoy.

Today I gave a talk at the BPM2009 conference in Garderen. A lot of talks were given, all centered around Business Process Management (BPM). Although a lot of people associate BPM with technical IT stuff, most of the talks were focused on process design, change management, emotions, and people. My talk, however, was a bit more technical as I focused on translating a process design into a Service-Oriented Business Application.