| 7:30 - 10:00 | Registration and Breakfast - Ballroom |
| 8:00 - 8:15 | Welcome and Highlights for the Day |
| 8:15 - 9:15 | Keynote by April K Mills
Everyone is a Change Agent |
| Track 1 Invited Speaker Sessions Ballroom | Track 2 Process & Tools Crater Lake | Track 3 Emerging Technologies & Concepts Coos Bay | Track 4 Management, Leadership & People Astoria | Track 5 Virtual Presenters Pyramid Lake |
| 9:45 - 10:30 | Navigating the Career Labyrinth
Jeff Sing | Contract-Driven Development: The Future of API Quality Engineering Richard Martin | AI-assisted 3DDs - A New Way Test-First Approach Mark Nicholas Angeles | Team Dynamics as a Predictor of Software Quality Fazeel Gareeboo | Collaborative Quality at the Core: AI-Powered Unit Test Synergy to Reduce E2E Dependency
Pallavi Sharma |
| 10:40 - 11:25 | QA for Data Science Leslie Brooks | Elevate Your UI Automation: Upping Your Game with the Page Object Model (POM) Pattern Tom Wells | Testing the AI Agentic Way Praveen Bagare | A Framework for Enterprise-Level Accessibility Management Gage Pacifera | TBA |
| 11:35 - 12:20 | TBA | Enhancing Robotic Software Through Quality Intelligence: Data-Driven Approach to Optimization & Performance Improvement Havish Sripada, Sophia Lee, Jayden Mei, Thilan Wijeratne
| Beyond the GenAI Hype: Practical Agents for 50% Faster Software Projects Costa Avradopoulos
| 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 |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch in the Ballroom Featuring "Birds of a Feather" discussions |
| Track 1 Invited Speaker Sessions Ballroom | Track 2 Process & Tools Crater Lake | Track 3 Emerging Technologies & Concepts Coos Bay | Track 4 Management, Leadership & People Astoria | Track 5 Virtual Presenters Pyramid Lake |
| 13:30 - 14:15 | Panel: Career Path of a Tester | Focus, Flow, and Cold Coffee: ADHD-Driven Development Practices Paige Watson | Knowledge Automation Security: The Next Step in Network Detection and Response Borja de la Maza | Cloud Chemistry Nikita Deepak Davda, Ying Ki Kwong | TBA |
| 14:25 - 15:10 | Shifting Out: a Crucial Dimension to Left and Right Jon Bach | Model-Based Testing - is Now (Finally) a Good Time? Michael Bar-Sinai | Layout Validation Using Generative AI: A New Approach to Ensuring UI Consistency Shripad Deshpande
| Transforming Teams and CTOs Through a Quality Engineering Mindset Millan Kaul | TBA |
| 15:20 - 16:05 | Setup time for Dance Bots | Testing the Untestable with Gen AI Artem Golubev | Is Your AI Quietly Breaking Quality? The Hidden Risks Lurking in LLM-Driven Apps Reet Kaur
| TBA | TBA |
| 16:15 - 17:00 | Dance Bot Showcase: Where Robots Move to the Beat of Quality | The Power of the Pause Button: The Superpower of Feature Flags and the Future of Software Delivery Vaishnavi Tirumani Venkata Subramaniam | Don't Anthropomorphize the Lawnmower - Metaphors for Testing AI Nate Custer | Taming the Dragon: Governance of Large Language Models (LLMs) Rahul Ravel |
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| 17:15 - 18:15 | Keynote by Joshua Kerievsky
Collective Risk Management |
| 18:15 - 19:15 | Happy Hour & Poster Presentations |
| 19:30 - 21:00 | Dine Around Portland |
