Program Thursday March 6 2025

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08.30

REGISTRATION

09.15

Announcement and opening

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

13.50

Afternoon kick-off

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

17.30

Wrap-up and closing

17.45

Drinks at the Exhibition

18.45

End of Day 2