Ken Johnston

VIce President

Ford Motor Company

Ken Johnston is a frequent keynote presenter, trainer, blogger, and author on software testing and data science. Currently he is VP of Cloud Platforms and Telematics development for Ford Motor Company and the CEO of Autonomic.ai. Prior to Ford, Ken worked for Microsoft for 25 years in various roles including Data Science Manager for the Microsoft 360 Business Intelligence Graph (M360 BIG) within Windows, GPM for Bing Local and Segments search, General Manager Office 365 Cloud Development Team, and Test Manager for Commerce Server. For two and a half years he served as the Microsoft Director of Test and Operations Excellence building the learning curriculum for both engineering disciplines. He earned his MBA from the University of Washington, is a coauthor of How We Test Software at Microsoft, a contributing author to Experiences of Test Automation: Case Studies of Software Test Automation, and working on his newest book to be title "Lean MLOps." You can contact him through LinkedIn.