I originally posted this in the AD Community, and realized that some QA folk may not go there very much - so I'm posting this here as well...
I received a message from Bernie Berger, the chairman of the Financial Services SIG of the Association for Software Testing (AST).
He has been invited to speak at this conference in London, England in May.
The conference theme is "Testing and Finance in Agile Projects, Social Media and Regulation".
What makes this conference interesting is that the track sessions are split between Financial Services topics and Software Testing topics. The emphasis this year leans a bit toward aspects of testing and quality, all in the context of working in a financial services environment.
Perhaps someone may benefit from participating in this.