October 13–15, 2025 • Portland, Oregon
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.
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
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
Join us at the University Place Hotel from 6:00 – 9:00 pm
April K Mills
Track rooms: Ballroom • Crater Lake • Coos Bay • Astoria • Pyramid Lake
Navigating the Career Labyrinth
Jeff Sing
Web for All: Enhancing Quality Intelligence with Automated Accessibility Testing
Rodrigo Silva Ferreira
Showcasing the Future of AI/Human Interaction
Jason Arbon
Team Dynamics as a Predictor of Software Quality
Fazeel Gareeboo
The Test Automation Toolbox: Exploring Frameworks Built On WebDriver
Pallavi Sharma
From Chaos to Clarity
Premi Vinayagam
Cypress to Playwright Migration Guide
Ryan Song
Testing the AI Agentic Way
Praveen Bagare
A Framework for Enterprise-Level Accessibility Management
Gage Pacifera
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
The Awkward Truths of AI-Tester Collaboration
Jason Arbon
Enhancing Robotic Software Through Quality Intelligence
Havish Sripada, Sophia Lee, Jayden Mei, Thilan Wijeratn
Knowledge Automation Security: The Next Step in Network Detection and Response
Borja de la Maza
Graph Neural Network-Based DDoS Protection for Data Center Infrastructure
Kartikeya Sharma, Craig Jacobik
How Modern Quality Approaches Were Founded in the 1850s
Mesut Durukal
QA for Data Science
Leslie Brooks
Model-Based Testing — is Now (Finally) a Good Time?
Michael Bar-Sinai
Is Your AI Quietly Breaking Quality? The Hidden Risks Lurking in LLM-Driven Apps
Reet Kaur
Cloud Chemistry: Making SaaS Solutions Play Nice with Your Application
Nikita Deepak Davda, Ying Ki Kwong
Testing the Untestable with Gen AI
Artem Golubev
Shifting Out: A Crucial Dimension to Left and Right
Jon Bach
Agent-Based Digital Identity: Proof-of-Concept Prototype Description and Demonstration
Kalman Toth
TBA
Transforming Teams and CTOs Through a Quality Engineering Mindset
Millan Kaul
From Layoff to Innovation: Building a Game Tool with GenAI
Krishnamohan Malladi
Dance Bot Showcase: Where Robots Move to the Beat of Quality
Data Science Workflows for Hardware Security
Calvin Deutschbein
Don’t Anthropomorphize the Lawnmower — Metaphors for Testing AI
Nate Custer
Taming the Dragon: Governance of Large Language Models (LLMs)
Rahul Ravel
The Power of the Pause Button: Feature Flags and the Future of Software Delivery
Vaishnavi Tirumani Venkata Subramaniam
Joshua Kerievsky
18:15 – 19:15 — Happy Hour & Poster Presentations
19:15 – 21:00 — Dine Around Portland
Ben Simo
Track rooms: Ballroom • Crater Lake • Coos Bay • Astoria • Author Meet & Greet — Willamette Falls
AI/ML SDET: A Title Changes or a New Role?
Kevin Pyles
A Deep Dive into Exploratory Testing
Anna Sharpe
Data-Driven API Test Case Generation Using AI and Model Context Protocol
Harold Wilson, Joseph Petsche
Quality With Hearts Aligned — Bolstering Your Quality with Emotional Intelligence
Sophia McKeever
Everyone Is a Change Agent: Change Tactics
April Mills
Managing a Complicated Testing Project
Kristin Jackvony
Identifying and Reducing Test Case Combinatorial Explosions with Python’s AST
Arun Vishwanathan
Mastering Quality Engineering in AI Era
Nishadhi Nikalandawatte
Is the “Iron Triangle” Dead?
Heather Wilcox
Rhinestone Quality
Linda Wilkinson
Beyond Checkboxes: The Multidimensional Nature of Diversity in Software Quality
Panel
Built to be Fair? Bias, Verification and Validation, and the Future of AI
Nancy (Wei) McCormack
Invisible Intelligence: Embedding AI/ML for Smarter, Faster Release Testing
Vidhya Ranganathan
Quality Intelligence: Embedding Customer Voice to Drive Agile Excellence
Kristine O’Connor
The Professional Software Tester / The Complete Software Tester
Kristin Jackvony
12:30 – 13:30 — Lunch in Willamette Ballroom
The Ethics of Quality
Gwen Iarussi
Digital Blind Spots: A Field Study of Common Website Insecurities in Small Businesses
Lucas Zhang
Ensuring Quality and Security in Generative AI Integrations for Enterprise SaaS Platforms
Sneha Mirajkar
From Technical Roles to Enterprise Impact: Professional Directions in Enterprise IT Quality
Ying Ki Kwong
Lead Without Blame …and others!
Diana Larsen
RAG to the Rescue: Reimagining Enterprise Unit Test Management with AI
Gaurav Rathor, et al.
Collaborative Quality at the Core: AI-Powered Unit Test Synergy to Reduce E2E Dependency
Simone Colosimo
Metrics for AI in Software Testing
Philip Lew
YOU AREN’T AGILE
Linda Wilkinson
Joy of Agility
Joshua Kerievsky
Allan Rennebo Jepsen
Award Ceremony & Closing Remarks