Program Thursday March 6 2025
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08.30
REGISTRATION
09.30
AI and the Tester
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Fiona Charles, Software Quality Consultant / Coach & Program Test Manager, Quality Intelligence
10.10
Putting the Quality Back Into QA
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Corina-Adina Pip, Owner imalittletester.com
10.50
break and visit exhibition
11.20
PARALLEL ROUND 1
Parallel session A1 – Room 7
The Evolution of THE WHY in Test Automation
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Irja Straus, Quality Advocate & Owner, Straus d.o.o
Session for beginners
Parallel session B1 – Room 3
Reducing Developer Toil: Autonomous AI for Java Testing at Scale
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Zoe Laycock, Product Marketing Lead, Diffblue
Session for experienced attendees
Parallel session C1 – Room 6
Simulating User to User Interaction
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Wiebe de Greef, Test Specialist, Squerist
Session for experienced attendees
Parallel session D1 – Room 4
From Astronaut to Rocket: The Rise of the Fenix Framework
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Bart Vrenegoor, Director QA & Testing, Valori
Session for beginners
Parallel session E1 – Room 10 – FULL
Spoonfuls of TDD and a Pinch of AI: Ingredients for a Robust Automation Framework
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Puja Jagani, Lead OpenSource Engineer, BrowserStack
Session for beginners
Workshop W1 – Room 2
Testing in Rust
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Maria Shalnova-Weinzierl, QA-Engineer, Carl Zeiss Digital Innovation GmbH
Session for beginners
12.00
Change Rooms
12.10
PARALLEL ROUND 2
Parallel session A2 – Room 6 – FULL
FOMO Sapiens … and the Rise of the AI Empire
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René van Veldhuijzen, Test Positivo, Testimist
Session for beginners
Parallel session B2 – Room 10
From Resistance to Results: Navigating a Test Automation Tool Shift
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Hugh McCamphill, Senior Quality Manager, ESW
Session for experienced attendees
Parallel session C2 – Room 3
A11y first – Accessibility in action for Web Apps
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Razvan Vancea, Principal QA Engineer, Zitec
Session for beginners
Parallel session D2 – Room 7
A Case Study on Modernizing Test Data Management
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Christoph Stock, Manager Product Development, UBS Hainer GmbH
Session for experienced attendees
Parallel session E2 – Room 4
From User to Creator to Tester – How Our Path to Becoming Testers Contributes to Finding the Right Balance in Our Testing Strategy
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Denise van Rooyen, QA Engineer, SmartQA South Africa
Elvira ‘t Hart, QA Developer, SmartQA the Netherlands
Session for beginners
12.50
Lunch break and visit exhibition
14.00
The Lost Art of Test Design
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Gil Zilberfeld, Agile Testing Consultant, TestinGil
14.40
Change Rooms
14.50
PARALLEL ROUND 3
Parallel session A3 – Room 10
Shape Up Your Testing Strategy: Balancing Unit, Integration, and E2E Tests
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Antonello D’Ippolito, Engineering manager, Mollie BV
Session for experienced attendees
Parallel session B3 – Room 7
AI Automation Buddy or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Automation Maintenance
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Michał Chytroszek, Senior Team Lead QA Engineer, AUTO1 Group
Session for experienced attendees
Parallel session C3 – Room 3
Revolutionizing and Transforming DevOps with AI: From Automation to Intelligence
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Malcolm Isaacs, Global Principal Product Manager, Functional Testing, OpenText
Presented by OpenText
Parallel session D3 – Room 6
Boosting Test Speed with Parallel Testing and Targeted Automation
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André Koene, Test Automation Engineer, Newspark
Session for beginners
Parallel session E3 – Room 4
Agentic AI in Test Automation: Where Autonomous Meets Autonomy
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Jonathon Wright, CTO, Keysight
Presented by Keysight
Workshop W3 – Room 2 – FULL
Mocking with Playwright
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Maarten Beks, Maat, Oelan
Erik Deibert, Test Consultant, Oelan
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Session for all levels
15.30
Break and visit Exhibition
16.00
PARALLEL ROUND 4
Parallel session A4 – Room 4
AI vs. The Gilded Rose: The Future of Testing or Just a Thorny Path?
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Christian Baumann, Principal Test Architect, MaibornWolff GmbH
Session for beginners
Parallel session B4 – Room 6
How Generative AI Works (a very rough guide)
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Jarsto van Santen, Specialist Test Engineer, Dienst Uitvoering Onderwijs
Session for beginners
Parallel session C4 – Room 10
From Network Tab to Automated API Test with GenAI
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Anaïs van Asselt, Senior QA Engineer, Choco
Parallel session D4 – Room 7 – FULL
From Hours to Minutes: Accelerating Test Automation with Playwright and Cursor AI
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Nenad Resimic, Test Lead | Department Manager, Levi9
Session for experienced attendees
Parallel session E4 – Room 3
“Gotta Go Fast!” Performance Engineering Our Way to a Brighter Future
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Serge Don, Test Automation Engineer, Team Rockstar IT
Session for experienced attendees
16.40
Change Rooms
16.50
BDD is Dead. Long Live DFA!
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Andrew Knight, Senior Director of Product Management, Cycle Labs
17.45
Drinks at the Exhibition
18.45
End of Day 2