CAST: Conference of the Association for Software Testing
San Jose, California, July 16 & 17, 2012
CAST is a non-profit conference, organized for the members of AST to meet, share ideas and enlighten each other in aspects of testing and software in general. Presentations are unique in that 1/3 of the scheduled time is required to be a facilitated Question/Answer period where participants are some of the brightest minds in the business (this can be, intimidating for some.)
Emerging Topics is a "conference within a conference" aimed at giving brief introductions to ideas or concepts that the presenter believes may be of interest to the attendees. These are 20 minute slots with at least 5 minutes reserved for Question/Answers. The Emerging Topics track is being streamed live this year from San Jose, Monday and Tuesday, July 16 & 17.
The Introduction and Welcome is at 8:30 AM PDT (11:30 AM EDT) with the first of the presentations to be WebCast starting at 9:10 AM PDT (12:10 PM EDT).