| 7:30 - 10:00 | Registration and Breakfast - Ballroom |
| 8:00 - 8:30 | Welcome and Highlights for the Day |
| 8:30 - 9:30 | Keynote by April K Mills
Everyone is a Change Agent |
| Track 1 Invited Speaker Sessions Ballroom | Track 2 Quality Engineering Crater Lake | Track 3 AI and Emerging Technologies Coos Bay | Track 4 Management, Leadership & People Astoria | Track 5 Virtual Presenters Pyramid Lake |
| 10:00 - 10:50 | Navigating the Career Labyrinth
Jeff Sing | Web for All: Enhancing Quality Intelligence with Automated Accessibility Testing
Rodrigo Silva Ferreira | 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 |
| 11:00 - 11:50 | From Chaos to Clarity
Premi Vinayagam | Identifying and reducing test case combinatorial explosions with Python's Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) Arun Vishwanathan | 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 the Ballroom Featuring "Birds of a Feather" discussions |
| Track 1 Invited Speaker Sessions Ballroom | Track 2 Quality Engineering Crater Lake | Track 3 AI and Emerging Technologies Coos Bay | Track 4 Management, Leadership & People Astoria | Track 5 Virtual Presenters Pyramid Lake |
| 13:00 - 13:50 | The Awkward Truths of AI-Tester Collaboration Jason Arbon | Enhancing Robotic Software Through Quality Intelligence: Data-Driven Approach to Optimization & Performance Improvement 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 |
| 14:00 - 14:50 | QA for Data Science Leslie Brooks | Model-Based Testing - is Now (Finally) a Good Time? Michael Bar-Sinai | Ensuring Quality and Security in Generative AI Integrations for Enterprise SaaS Platforms
Sneha Mirajkar | Cloud Chemistry: Making SaaS solutions play nice with your application to ensure Enterprise IT Quality Nikita Deepak Davda, Ying Ki Kwong | Testing the Untestable with Gen AI Artem Golubev |
| 15:00 - 15:50 | Shifting Out: a Crucial Dimension to Left and Right Jon Bach | Agent-Based Digital Identity: Proof-of-Concept Prototype Description and Demonstration Kalman Toth | 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 | From Layoff to Innovation: Building a Game Tool with GenAI (ChatGPT) and Experiencing the Full 360 Degrees of SDLC
Krishnamohan Malladi |
| 15:50 - 16:10 | Break |
| 16:10 - 17:00 | 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: The Superpower of Feature Flags and the Future of Software Delivery Vaishnavi Tirumani Venkata Subramaniam |
| 17:10 - 18:10 | Keynote by Joshua Kerievsky
Collective Risk Management |
| 18:15 - 19:15 | Happy Hour & Poster Presentations |
| 19:15 - 21:00 | Dine Around Portland |
