Programme Schedule

Fri, Oct 23
Session
                             Speaker & Sessions
08:00 - 08:50
                              Registration
08:50 - 09:00
Opening Note and Welcome
09:00 - 09:45
Keynote
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Entering the Golden Era of Software Quality: Why this is the best time in history to be a tester
Christin Wiedemann, Senior Director, Slalom
09:45 - 10:30
Track Talk
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Quality Engineering Strategy and the Culture of Testing in the Age of AI
Arash Taheri, Director, QA/QE, Central 1
10:30 - 11:00
                              Refreshment Break
Session
11:00 - 11:45
Track Talk
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Testing Agentic Workflows: New Challenges for Enterprise Quality Engineering
Balash Akbari, Staff Solution Architect – Quality Engineering, lululemon
11:45 - 12:30
Track Talk
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Left Doesn’t Mean Right: Principles We Forgot
Denys Kunytskyi, Lead Engineer, Benevity
12:30 - 13:15
                              Networking Lunch
13:15 - 13:35
Sponsor Talk
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From Co-Pilot to Colleague, at Enterprise Scale
Tatyana Arbouzova, Head of Dev Relations & Marketing, ContextQA
13:35 - 14:20
Track Talk
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The Verification Loop: Why AI-Era Quality Runs on Context and Feedback
Vidhya Ranganathan, Staff Software Engineer, Quality, Okta
14:20 - 15:20
Panel
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AI agents in testing — co-pilot, colleague, or replacement?Exploring autonomous testing, agentic QA, and what it means for the humans in the loop
Snehal Lohar, Bahar Rostamkhani, Mike Hrycyk, Eldon Wong, Balash Akbari
15:20 - 15:35
                              Refreshment Break
Session

15:35 - 16:20
Track Talk
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Mobile & API-first testing strategies
Jomina Jolly, Senior Software Engineer in Test, Eventbase Technologies
16:20 - 16:35
Closing Note
Closing and Wrap-Up