Technology Labs

TMAP originally started in 1995. So we now, in 2025, celebrate the 30 year anniversary!! As a gift to the Quality Engineering & Testing community we introduce the first TMAP audiobook. This audiobook contains the summary of the TMAP book "Quality for DevOps teams". This summary consists of the introduction texts of all of the chapters in the book (because as the authors state in thei...

Former member of our Podcast team and Microsoft Cloud Advocate Daniel Laskewitz is now our guest. A great opportunity to check with him the status of Gen-AI at Microsoft. Before we dive into details with Daniel there are some very interesting tech items to discuss. We start with an article on the Verge telling us about how Microsofts Dall-e can filter out specific prompts that could let Copilot ge...

Our guest is Finn Lorbeer (Director of Engineering at MOIA). With him we find out why one great performing autonomous car can master autonomous driving. This opposed to a fleet of cars that are 'semi'-autonomous. There are some great examples of traffic jams caused by deadlocked autonomous cars (either stand-alone or with each other). Our podcast is not complete without tech updates and in this ep...

Automate every step in your product creation proces so you can focus on real creativity. Every step along the way of creating a piece of code and eventually an integrated product can be automated. The creation of the (embedded) code itself is the creative part but all the rest: let's automate! Together with Richard van de Laarschot (chief solution architect quality assurance at Capgemini Engineeri...

A bright future lies ahead of us with current AI developments. In this episode we discuss what's happening with AI in Silicon Valley with Andreas Sjostrom (Leading the applied innovation lab in San Francisco for Capgemini). Generative AI as well as large language models (think ChatGPT) pain a bright future for us. Sceptics would say that ethics shoot all AI developments in the foot but Andreas hol...

Can Chat GPT help to test a Web page? With this question Paul started his exploration of what is possible with current generation AI. His Youtube video shows his experiment and in this podcast we talk about all the possibilities of adding AI to our test toolkit. Just as with test automation it can speed up so much of the test activities we do. Having a 'robot' at your side, helping you out...

The carbon footprint of worldwide IT already represents 1,5x of civil aviation and it is expected to increase in the upcoming years. A good starting point to look for more sustainable IT and reducing that footprint. We talk with Wilson Camargo Junior (Sustainability and Intelligent Industry Consultant) and discuss the options for IT solutions that have a lower impact on for example CO2 emissions....

ChatGTP, Dall E are but examples of how accessible Artificial Intelligence (AI) is currently. With Weiwei Feng we discuss the current state of AI and its merits. AI has its ethical dilemmas and it is difficult to check if AI is doing what you want. The possibilities are endless and that is what we explore in this podcast. The tech topics of this podcast episode are: AI eye contact for camera feeds...

Today, we have Tobias Zimmergren as our guest in this episode of the podcast! Tobias is Senior Architecture Content Lead at Microsoft and has recently released guidance on how to architect your solutions in the most sustainable way. This guidance is part of the Azure Well-Architectured Framework and in he tells us all about it during this episode!  If you want to read more about the Sustainab...

Have you ever wondered what governments do to comply to all kinds of security, compliance and policy requirements? Microsoft has introduced Microsoft Cloud for Sovereignty to support governments and public sector customers with just that. In this episode, Michiel van Otegem (Principal Program Manager at Microsoft) is our guest to explain us all about it. Next to that, we of course talk about our t...

In this episode, Pepijn Paap is our guest. Pepijn is Lead SAP/ERP Business Assurance Management Consultant & Test Master at Sogeti. He will tell us everything about the latest developments in SAP. With all the core processes that run on SAP workloads around the world, this is a very interesting topic to know more about! Of course, we start with our tech updates: MR 3D objects API&nbs...

Sustainability is a very hot topic right now. In this episode, we will talk with Maheshwar about this subject. Maheshwar is Global Quality Engineering & Testing Sales Leader at Sogeti Global. He has been researching sustainability for a couple of years now.  During this episode, the following tech items are discussed: New rules for people in self-driving cars https://www.bbc.com/news/tech...

The term " MLOps " refers to deploying, managing, and monitoring machine learning models in production. It takes best practices from the field of DevOps and utilizes them for the unique challenges that arise running machine learning systems in production. In this episode, MLOps is the main subject. Tia and Ed are our guests and provide valuable insights about this exciting subject!  During th...

Collaborate on code, a 3D print stl-file or CAD drawing or on a document. Github is at the root of all of this. Now the worlds largest collaboration tool and full of features you might not have heard of. Together with Jeff Beehler from Github we talk you trough the basis of Github, find out its latest and greatest features but also how inner source can act as a quality gatekeeper for the outside w...

The metaverse is one big digital environment and a windmill can be represented by a nice digital wireframe image. Are they digital twins? Together with Jeroen Kersten we take a look at three different instances of a digital twin (digital assets, digital production and digital organisations). A lot of examples come by ranging from the Digital Twin of Sweden for mining transportation optimisation an...

Can Deepa Mamtani do a better prediction on AI for 2022 than AI itself? This is the episode for you to learn more about how AI is taking shape the coming year. Not unsurprisingly generative AI has a place but there is so much more. A little bit more explanation on what you can expect to be doing with machine learning algorithms the coming year is all revealed in this podcast. Our tech updates cove...

Technology is evolving rapidly. We can hardly keep up with research done on AI and its commercial implications. With AI thought leader Johan Steyn from Johannesburg, South Africa, we discuss the latest developments on AI and automation. During this podcast we talk about current generations not needing a driving license, solar powered headphones, brain interaction and the name change to Meta from F...

Together with Quantum expert Julian van Velzen we discussed the current state of Quantum computing. We encounter a lot of quantum computing links when discussing heavy computing calculations. In this podcast we take a look to some news items and their link to quantum computing (can you do crypto mining with quantum computing for example). To take things to the next level we even get the improbabil...

It is not a question of what to automate but when to start with test automation. Vincent Wijnen talks with us on the current state of test automation. Products or applications that are (automatically) tested are evolving rapidly. Should test automation evolve just as fast? Before answering this question, Vincent shows us the values of test automation and that it needs to be quantified.  Be su...

Quality Experience Day 2021  Theme: Level Up! with Quality Engineering The QX Day is an annual event organized for and by Sogeti. It is the largest event in the Netherlands in the field of quality engineering and testing! The event is interesting for anyone who is concerned with IT quality. So certainly not just for the specialists and testers themselves. We offer a complete and inspiring pro...

New technologies are invading the world of test engineering. Johan Steyn is a lead architect in automation in South Africa and an authority on quality engineering. He joins our podcast from Johannesburg. The use of AI in test engineering and test automation is explained with the analogy of an old car with a new F1 motor: Go fast and break fast including an exponential increase in maintenance with...

Ron Meyer is managing director of the Center for Strategy & Leadership , an international consulting and management development organization, dedicated to improving companies' competences in the areas of strategic thinking, leadership , entrepreneurship, business innovation and change management. We connected a tech outlook with making strategic business choices. In this podcast we find out th...

In the 17th episode of the technology labs podcast series our guest is Erika Paasche who is Managing Director at iSQI. She joins us from Germany and tells us all about online exams and remote proctoring. A very fitting topic for education and courses in COVID times. We do so much online that taking a course and doing an exam is transferred to online space. Guaranteeing the same value for an online...

Menno van Doorn is the guest in this episode of Technology Labs. He talks about the new book "playing with reality", which he wrote with his colleagues Sander Duivestein and Thijs Pepping. Also, we have our tech updates: Microsoft in talks with Discord over $10 billion-plus acquisition: report - https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/22/22345792/microsoft-discord-acquisition-report-10-billion | Deep reas...

In this episode, we talk about something we don't about much, but it's a very important subject: technical publications! D Yongmit Lepcha (Delivery Manager at Sogeti) is our guest in this episode and she explains how important it is to have technical publications. Next to that, we also have our tech items: How many quantum computers do we need? - https://labs.sogeti.com/was-sir-thomas-watson-right...