
Speaker Profile: Dana Scheider (@danascheider)
Dana Scheider is a developer who is passionate about behavior-driven development and about teaching others how to use BDD to enhance their experience as developers. Dana is the founder of Tessitura, a SaaS company serving classical singers, and makes contributions to Cucumber when she can. A woman of many talents, Dana loves math and foreign languages and is also an operatic mezzo-soprano. She lives in Portland.
Dana will be speaking on “How and Why to Love Cucumber” at 3PM Saturday. A lot of developers don’t like using Cucumber, and it’s often because they don’t quite grok what it is and how it can help them. This talk introduces strategies that can developing easier and more fun using Cucumber and BDD.

Sponsor Profile: axialHeathcare (@axialhealthcare)
axialHealthcare has pioneered a data-driven, predictive pain management solution that empowers insurers and care professionals to curb the overuse of opioids, stop runaway expenses, ensure safety, and secure optimal patient outcomes.
We are comprised of some of the nation’s top physicians, scientists, pharmacists, and operators in the field of pain management. Their combined experience affords a clear, evidence-based view into pain, its causes, pain medication best practices and the most effective solutions. Our cutting-edge analytics engine mines data to give insurers a comprehensive view of their pain problem and how much it’s costing them. By connecting the payer, practitioner, and patient, our solution reveals a clear path to improved pain care.