QAI brings SEPG conference to Asia

BANGALORE: QAI India and Software Engineering Institute (SEI), Carnegie

Mellon University, USA is co-organizing the fourth Software Engineering and

Process Group (SEPG) Conference. For the first time the conference is being

brought to Asia visiting five countries, India, Thailand, Australia, Singapore

and China.

The conference starts from Bangalore on March 1, 2002. A media statement

mentioned that the concept of tour comes from the need to share best practices

and papers across Asia Pacific and mutually benefit from the rich software

experience of Asia Pacific academia, industry and government.

QAI, Executive Director, Navyug Mohnot said, "Software is the Process,

and in the new millennium, processes will need to respond to the demands of

enabling delivery in Internet Time. If so, the importance of an annual

conference on software process improvement cannot be overstated".

The SEPG " Best of Best" Award jury will be headed by Mark Paulk,

SEI, CMU, USA. The Conferences’ high point is the handing out of Best Paper

and Best Practice award. The profile of the professionals attending the sessions

represent the best software companies in the Asia Pacific region, a cross

section including CEOs, CIOs and CTOs, Project Manager, Process Group Members,

Testers and others.

The Conference will address the issues of the Indian IT industry and showcase

India’s leadership in software engineering and management.