October 13–15, 2025 • Portland, Oregon

Conference At-A-Glance

Three days of workshops, keynotes, and sessions covering quality engineering, AI, leadership, and more. All times are Pacific.

Presentations, times, and locations are subject to change.

Track 1 · Invited Speakers Track 2 · Quality Engineering Track 3 · AI & Emerging Tech Track 4 · Leadership & People Track 5 · Virtual

Monday, October 13

Workshop Day
7:30 – 10:00 Registration and Wake Up with Coffee & Tea

8:15 – 12:15 — Morning Workshops

Change Agent Basics

April K Mills

How Can I Automate Stuff?

Alan Ark

An Introduction to BDD

Leslie Brooks

Agile Team Chartering

Diana Larsen

Embracing the Fuzzy: Testing in the Age of Generative AI

Ben Simo

The 10× ROI Challenge

Allan Rennebo Jepsen

12:15 – 13:15 — Lunch in the Ballroom

13:15 – 17:15 — Afternoon Workshops

Essentials of Quality Engineering

Bhushan Gupta

Test Automation for Absolute Beginners with Cypress

Kristin Jackvony

Test Bash: Rapid Testing Right Now

Jon Bach

Getting Dirty with Data, Bots, Agents and Code

Kevin Pyles

Embracing the Fuzzy: Testing in the Age of Generative AI

Ben Simo

Quality as a Living System

Gwen Iarussi

Public Speaking for Enginerds

Philip Lew

Opening Night Reception

Join us at the University Place Hotel from 6:00 – 9:00 pm

Tuesday, October 14

Conference Day 1
7:30 – 10:00 Registration & Breakfast — Ballroom
8:00 – 8:30 — Welcome and Highlights for the Day
Keynote 8:30 – 9:30

Everyone is a Change Agent

April K Mills

Track rooms: Ballroom • Crater Lake • Coos Bay • Astoria • Pyramid Lake

10:00 – 10:50

T1

Navigating the Career Labyrinth

Jeff Sing

T2

Web for All: Enhancing Quality Intelligence with Automated Accessibility Testing

Rodrigo Silva Ferreira

T3

Showcasing the Future of AI/Human Interaction

Jason Arbon

T4

Team Dynamics as a Predictor of Software Quality

Fazeel Gareeboo

T5

The Test Automation Toolbox: Exploring Frameworks Built On WebDriver

Pallavi Sharma

11:00 – 11:50

T1

From Chaos to Clarity

Premi Vinayagam

T2

Cypress to Playwright Migration Guide

Ryan Song

T3

Testing the AI Agentic Way

Praveen Bagare

T4

A Framework for Enterprise-Level Accessibility Management

Gage Pacifera

T5

AI-Powered QA: Real Results, Smarter Tools, Practical Plans

Long Trinh

12:00 – 13:00 — Lunch in Willamette Ballroom

Featuring “Birds of a Feather” discussions

13:00 – 13:50

T1

The Awkward Truths of AI-Tester Collaboration

Jason Arbon

T2

Enhancing Robotic Software Through Quality Intelligence

Havish Sripada, Sophia Lee, Jayden Mei, Thilan Wijeratn

T3

Knowledge Automation Security: The Next Step in Network Detection and Response

Borja de la Maza

T4

Graph Neural Network-Based DDoS Protection for Data Center Infrastructure

Kartikeya Sharma, Craig Jacobik

T5

How Modern Quality Approaches Were Founded in the 1850s

Mesut Durukal

14:00 – 14:50

T1

QA for Data Science

Leslie Brooks

T2

Model-Based Testing — is Now (Finally) a Good Time?

Michael Bar-Sinai

T3

Is Your AI Quietly Breaking Quality? The Hidden Risks Lurking in LLM-Driven Apps

Reet Kaur

T4

Cloud Chemistry: Making SaaS Solutions Play Nice with Your Application

Nikita Deepak Davda, Ying Ki Kwong

T5

Testing the Untestable with Gen AI

Artem Golubev

15:00 – 15:50

T1

Shifting Out: A Crucial Dimension to Left and Right

Jon Bach

T2

Agent-Based Digital Identity: Proof-of-Concept Prototype Description and Demonstration

Kalman Toth

T3

TBA

T4

Transforming Teams and CTOs Through a Quality Engineering Mindset

Millan Kaul

T5

From Layoff to Innovation: Building a Game Tool with GenAI

Krishnamohan Malladi

15:50 – 16:10 — Break

16:10 – 17:00

T1

Dance Bot Showcase: Where Robots Move to the Beat of Quality

T2

Data Science Workflows for Hardware Security

Calvin Deutschbein

T3

Don’t Anthropomorphize the Lawnmower — Metaphors for Testing AI

Nate Custer

T4

Taming the Dragon: Governance of Large Language Models (LLMs)

Rahul Ravel

T5

The Power of the Pause Button: Feature Flags and the Future of Software Delivery

Vaishnavi Tirumani Venkata Subramaniam

Keynote 17:10 – 18:10

Collective Risk Management

Joshua Kerievsky

Evening Events

18:15 – 19:15 — Happy Hour & Poster Presentations

19:15 – 21:00 — Dine Around Portland

Wednesday, October 15

Conference Day 2
7:30 – 10:00 Registration & Breakfast — Ballroom
8:00 – 8:15 — Welcome and Highlights for the Day
Keynote 8:15 – 9:15

Monsters & Magicians: Testing the Illusions of Generative AI

Ben Simo

Track rooms: Ballroom • Crater Lake • Coos Bay • Astoria • Author Meet & Greet — Willamette Falls

9:40 – 10:30

T1

AI/ML SDET: A Title Changes or a New Role?

Kevin Pyles

T2

A Deep Dive into Exploratory Testing

Anna Sharpe

T3

Data-Driven API Test Case Generation Using AI and Model Context Protocol

Harold Wilson, Joseph Petsche

T4

Quality With Hearts Aligned — Bolstering Your Quality with Emotional Intelligence

Sophia McKeever

M&G

Everyone Is a Change Agent: Change Tactics

April Mills

10:40 – 11:30

T1

Managing a Complicated Testing Project

Kristin Jackvony

T2

Identifying and Reducing Test Case Combinatorial Explosions with Python’s AST

Arun Vishwanathan

T3

Mastering Quality Engineering in AI Era

Nishadhi Nikalandawatte

T4

Is the “Iron Triangle” Dead?

Heather Wilcox

M&G

Rhinestone Quality

Linda Wilkinson

11:40 – 12:30

T1

Beyond Checkboxes: The Multidimensional Nature of Diversity in Software Quality

Panel

T2

Built to be Fair? Bias, Verification and Validation, and the Future of AI

Nancy (Wei) McCormack

T3

Invisible Intelligence: Embedding AI/ML for Smarter, Faster Release Testing

Vidhya Ranganathan

T4

Quality Intelligence: Embedding Customer Voice to Drive Agile Excellence

Kristine O’Connor

M&G

The Professional Software Tester / The Complete Software Tester

Kristin Jackvony

12:30 – 13:30 — Lunch in Willamette Ballroom

13:30 – 14:20

T1

The Ethics of Quality

Gwen Iarussi

T2

Digital Blind Spots: A Field Study of Common Website Insecurities in Small Businesses

Lucas Zhang

T3

Ensuring Quality and Security in Generative AI Integrations for Enterprise SaaS Platforms

Sneha Mirajkar

T4

From Technical Roles to Enterprise Impact: Professional Directions in Enterprise IT Quality

Ying Ki Kwong

M&G

Lead Without Blame …and others!

Diana Larsen

14:30 – 15:20

T1

RAG to the Rescue: Reimagining Enterprise Unit Test Management with AI

Gaurav Rathor, et al.

T2

Collaborative Quality at the Core: AI-Powered Unit Test Synergy to Reduce E2E Dependency

Simone Colosimo

T3

Metrics for AI in Software Testing

Philip Lew

T4

YOU AREN’T AGILE

Linda Wilkinson

M&G

Joy of Agility

Joshua Kerievsky

15:30 – 15:45 — Break & Networking
Keynote 15:45 – 16:45

Breaking the Cycle: Leading Organizations That Thrive Amid Constant Change

Allan Rennebo Jepsen

17:00 – 18:00

Award Ceremony & Closing Remarks