Marc Roper is general chair of the engagingly-titled TAIC PART conference. TAIC PART stands for Testing: Academic and Industrial Conference – Practice and Reearch Techniques and aims to encourage close collaboration between academics and industrialists working on the the problems of software testing. The conference is held in Cumberland Lodge in Windsor and has the atmosphere of a retreat, typically making for a very productive workshop. For more details of the event see http://www2008.taicpart.org/