Announcing The 44^th ANNUAL PNSQC

The 44th Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference will be held October 12-14, 2026.

The conference theme is "Quality in the Age of Autonomy." Quality is relevant to design, manufacturing, code, applications, user experience, writing/prose, and many other areas that may not be obvious.

Keynotes include Maaret Pyhäjärvi from Finland, Jonathon Wright from England, and over 50 more presenters.

Talks include "Inside Tesla: The Birth of the Software-Defined Vehicle and Quality in the Age of Autonomy", "The Quality Nervous System", and many presentations about the impact of AI on software quality as well as more traditional quality aspects.

PNSQC 2026 is both an in-person and online event, even offering a FREE virtual track to watch our keynotes and invited speakers.

Check it out online at: https://pnsqc.org/register

Tracks Include - Quality Engineering (Process & Methods, Tools & Technologies) - Management, Leadership, People & Enterprise IT Quality - AI and Emerging Technologies.

Our industry learns from working with education, healthcare, manufacturing, government sectors, and more. What can those other industries learn from us? Come and find out at PNSQC 2026.

The 44th Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference will be held October 12-14, 2026, including a free track. Read on for more info.

The conference theme is "Quality in the Age of Autonomy." Quality is relevant to design, manufacturing, code, applications, user experience, writing/prose, and many other areas that may not be obvious.

Keynotes include Maaret Pyhäjärvi from Finland, Jonathon Wright from England, and over 50 more presenters.

Talks include "Inside Tesla: The Birth of the Software-Defined Vehicle and Quality in the Age of Autonomy", "The Quality Nervous System", and many presentations about the impact of AI on software quality as well as more traditional quality aspects.

We offer a free track which includes the keynotes and virtual presenters.
Check it out online at: https://pnsqc.org/register

PNSQC is partnering up with BiTpdx for Septembers meetup this month at OpenHaus! Join us for an evening of technical learning with quality professionals from across the region.

​This month a panel of speakers will be discussing how AI is changing quality, opportunities and creating threats across the software quality landscape. What could an expert in software quality paired with AI look like? We will here more!

​This will be a hybrid meetup, so mingle in person or tune in online. Doors (and virtual lobby) open at 6:00pm for a half hour of pre-talk networking.

​Food and drinks are being provided by PNSQC & BiTpdx. Free to attend!

​Schedule:

• ​6:00pm - 6:30pm Networking
• ​6:30pm - 8:00pm Panel Discussion

​*For our virtual guests, we will send you a Zoom video link on the day of the event.

PNSQC is sponsoring SpoQuality's August meetup this month at Fellow Coworking! Join us for an evening of technical learning with quality professionals from across the region.

This month, Evan Masters, COO of Critical Logic, will be presenting a talk about the use of AI powered test generation. Evan will unpack why Should-Do testing: designing tests straight from requirements before the code even exists and catching the defects that everyone else's tests are trained to miss.

This will be a hybrid meetup, so mingle in person or tune in online. Doors (and virtual lobby) open at 5:30pm for a half hour of pre-talk networking.

Pizza and drinks are being provided by PNSQC. Free to attend!

Schedule:

• 5:30pm - 6pm Networking
• 6pm - 7pm Tech Talk

The PNSQC and Portland AWS User Group are joining forces this June at ProFocus Headquarters for an evening of technical learning with cloud, security, and quality professionals from across the region.

This month, Trevor Gudeman, Senior Software Engineer at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, takes us inside how AWS can level up code quality across CI/CD workflows. With a focus on CodeBuild and CodePipeline, Trevor will show how AWS-native tools can take the manual effort out of key quality checks — think linting, unit testing, code coverage, static analysis, security scanning, and quality gates — so your team can catch issues earlier and ship with more confidence.

This will be a hybrid meetup, so mingle in person or tune in online. Doors (and virtual lobby) open at 5:30pm for a half hour of pre-talk networking.

Drinks provided by ProFocus. Free to attend!
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Schedule:

• 5:30pm - 6pm Networking
• 6pm - 7:30pm Tech Talk