Yury Makedonov made well received presentations for:

• QAI's Software Quality Conference, Toronto (2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007)
• Waterfall 2006 Conference, Niagara Falls, 2006
• Software Test and Performance Conference, Boston, 2006
• Software Test and Performance Conference, New York, 2005
• Practical Software Quality and Testing Conference, Las Vegas, 2006
• QAI's Software Quality Conference, Orlando, 2006
• QAI's Software Testing Conference, Orlando, 2006
• Kitchener-Waterloo Software Quality Association, 2005
• Ottawa Software Quality Association, 2005
• Toronto Association for System and Software Quality, 2003
• Toronto Mercury User Group, 2002

Presentation slides (Adobe Acrobat format):

• Managing “Testing Cycles” efficiently
• A Managers' Guide to GUI Test Automation
• Saving a Runaway Project: A Case Study for Project Turnaround
• Major SDLC phases: Development Driven Development and Test Driven Testing (an abstract)
• Functional Testing of Web Services
• Test automation framework for real life
• Evolution of a WinRunner framework from a pilot project to a multi-project test team (PowerPoint slides)
• Evolution of a WinRunner framework from a pilot project to a multi-project test team (MS Word document)