Conference Program

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May 27

Time AI Track (ENG) A4Q Track (ENG) ISTQB Track (ENG)
08:00

Usha Kandala

Move Fast Without Breaking Trust –
Balancing Lean QA and Compliance
in the AI Era

Arnika Hryszko

From Gatekeeper to Enabler: Evolving the
QA Role in Modern Development

 

09:00

Mehmet Engin Sacan

Using MCP server for desktop
applications via Pytest Framework

Lalitkumar Bhamare

The 70% Problem: Reclaiming Testing’s
Intellectual Core with Agent Assisted QCSD

Women in Testing panel discussion

10:00

Iosif Itkin

The Dichotomy of AI Testing.

Mesut Durukal

Zen of Testing

Nishan Portoyan

Why CTAL-TAE Matters, The Practical Value
of the ISTQB Test Automation Engineer Syllabus
11:00

Bruno Legeard

AI Test Execution Agents vs Scripted
Test Automation: A Practical Decision Framework

Pablo Garcia

The testers major dilemma, what test
method is the best.

Product Panel

Information coming soon
12:00

Joel Oliveira

Testing Efficiency in the age of AI: Why
traditional metrics are lying to you

Anton Angelov

There’s No CTRL+Z in Real Life: QA as Our
Last Line of Defense “Stories from
tomorrow that we must prevent today.”

Nele Van Ash

Information coming soon
13:00

Olivier Denoo

Prompt me if you can

Stephen Platten

Quality in the RAF – and What It Taught
Me About Testing

Eric Riou du Cosquer

Is the ISTQB Foundation Level Certification
still a Must-Have in the Age of AI?
14:00

Erkin Akbulut

AI-powered test automation and its
contribution to software quality.

Eric Riou du Cosquer

TMMi Made for You: Elevate Your Test Capability

Adam Roman

Information coming soon
15:00

Alex Bremer

AI-Enabled Test Management: What
the ISTQB GenAI Syllabus Changes
for Test Managers

René van Veldhuijzen

1664: The World of QA if the Dutch had
resisted selling New Amsterdam

Klaudia Dussa-Zieger

Information coming soon
16:00

Julian Cambridge

The V-Model: Structure, Discipline and
the Architecture of Confidence

Willem Keesman

The rapid rise of TMMi

Abbas Ahmad

Information coming soon
17:00

Sebastian Malyska

The Quality Journey Through
Web Protocols: From REST to the AI Frontier

Andreas Neumeister

Quality and Test Management within DevOps

Ecaterina Manole

QA on Trial: Staying relevant and
Leading Trust and Governance as a
Test Manager in the AI Era
18:00

Richard Seidl

Testing Is a People Business

Cedric Francois

Beyond Standards: Testing Where Theory Fails

Value of ISTQB certification

Information coming soon
19:00

Sheena Yap Chan

VISIBLE Quality: Elevating the Voice &
Identity of Testers in the Age of AItest
method is the best.

Michaël Pilaeten

The boundary values of your test team

 

20:00

Grzegorz Holak & Filip Barszcz

AI Didn’t Replace QA —
It Gave Us Time to Actually Do Quality

KBTG

Quality Level Up = The Roaming of Chai LAI

 

May 28

Time AI Track (ENG) A4Q Track (ENG) CFTL Track (FR) GTB (GER)
08:00

Alisa Hrustic

AI as a Test Designer:
Transforming Experience into Automated Testing

Rik Marselis

Amplified Quality Engineering
(with and for GenAI)

 

 

09:00

Leanne Howard

Information coming soon

Neeraj Kumar Singh

Security Testing in the Age of AI: Attacks, Defenses & Automation

Olivier Denoo

Entretien avec une IA

Lilia Gargouri & Maud Schlich

Testdesign in Theorie und
Praxis – zwei ziemlich beste Feinde?
10:00

Hingo Niklas dos Santos

Simplyfing AI in tests

Romina Pierce

Testing Beyond the Majority: Why
DEI Matters in the Age of GenAI

Marie-Laure Watrinet

Luxembourg Testing Board – partage d’expérience : le testing lors des Projectathons européens OOTS

Mario Winter & Klaudia Dussa-Zieger

Empowering Testers with AI
From Testing with Generative
AI to Testing AI – powered
by CT-GenAI and CT-AI
11:00

Adha Hrusto

From Specs to Tests: AI-Driven Automated API Testing

John Kurowski

The Wonderful World of Metamorphic Testing

Alexis Todoskoff

Au-delà de l’Effet de Mode :
Anatomied’une Transformation
Inachevée — Analyse Factorielle
et Longitudinale de l’IA
Générative dans le Test Logiciel (Enquête CFTL 2025)

Matthias Hamburg

Testautomatisierungslücke
mit KI füllen – Erfahrungen
aus dem ISTQB Glossary Projekt
12:00

Sagar Joshi

Why Testing AI Systems Breaks Traditional Test Strategies

Radosław Smilgin

Training the Visual Impairment
for ISTQB: A Journey Through Inaccessibility Hell

Eric Riou du Cosquer

TMMi pour tous: améliorer la maturité et la performance des activités de test

Marius Dreier

Anwendung Generativer KI im
Projekt-Qualitätsmanagement
13:00

May Hasan Saleem Abu-Sbeit

Emphasizing the Humanity of Software Testing in the Age of
AI & New Technologies

Tal Pe’er

Two Minds, One Mission :
Pairing Exploratory Testing
with a GenAI Agent

Nirmala Saneechur

Application du Lean Management pour améliorer la qualité

Andreas Neumeister & Horst Pohlmann

Anwendung von Generativer
KI im Management der Testaktivitäten
14:00

Baris Sarialioglu

From Algorithms to Culture: Redefining Quality in the Age of AI

Brynley Scully

CAN YOU PROVE YOU TESTED
IT? Audit Readiness for Development & Testing Teams in Regulated Industries & AI Systems

Ryad Ouerdiane

Comment se porte la Qualité Logicielle en Tunisie ?

Björn Scherer

Enabler oder Bremse?
Test-Engineering als DevOps-Plattform im Praxistest
15:00

Florian Fieber

From Artificial to Collaborative Intelligence in Software Testing

Sagar Mahendrakar

Cut the Noise, Keep the Value: Smarter Test Design for Modern QA

Bruno Legeard

Un agent IA qui sait dire “J’ai
un doute”,et qui apprend de vous.
Créer une relation de confiance critique et apprenante entre les professionnels QA et leurs IA de test

Ralf Reißing

Welche Qualifikation
benötigen Automotive
Software Tester?
16:00

Sammy Kolluru

Testing AI-Based Systems: Considerations Quality, Risk,
and Ethical Assurance

Kari Kakkonen &
Marko Rytkönen

Taking action to lead software testing

Nils Röttger

Der Weg zum AI Quality Engineer
17:00

Fabian Streitel

More tests are always better?
How to use AI to identify tests that bring little value.

Wim Decoutere

Exploratory Learning Styles

 

 

18:00

Abbas Ahmad

Generative AI in Software testing

Lilia Gargouri

Let’s Talk Quality!

 

 

19:00

Jurgen Benierman

Becoming a Good Software Tester in the Age of AI, DevOps, and beyond

Matthias Hamburg

Filling the Test Automation Gaps with AI – Lessons from the ISTQB Glossary Project

 

20:00

 

Erik van Veenendaal

Improve your testing with TMMi …. and AI