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Innovate QA 2026

Quality Engineering Excellence

June 5, 2026 - June 6
Bellevue, Washington

250+

Attendees

40

Speakers

35

Sessions

Schedule

8:00 AM(60 min)
breakLeadership Track

Registration & Welcome Breakfast

Check-in, collect your badge, and network over breakfast

9:00 AM(10 min)
talkRoom A - Practitioner Track

Welcome

9:10 AM(40 min)
keynoteRoom A - Practitioner Track

10:00 AM(45 min)
talkRoom A - Practitioner Track

Scaling Trust, Not Automation - Rethinking Quality for the AI Era

Walter Zimerman - Amazon

talkRoom B - Demo Track

Beyond Page Objects: Modern Patterns for Scaling Playwright Tests

Amber Race - Adobe

10:55 AM(45 min)
talkRoom A - Practitioner Track

AI Generated Test Data: Know Your Need

Dr. Bastian Baudisch - UBS HAINER

talkRoom B - Demo Track

Unlocking New Frontiers in Test Automation with AI and Open Source

Gregory Goldshteyn - Fox Networks Group

12:00 PM(60 min)
breakLeadership Track

Lunch & Networking

Catered lunch with networking opportunities

1:00 PM(90 min)
workshopWorkshop Studio

Authors Meet & Greet

talkRoom A - Practitioner Track

Innovate QA with Stories & Wisdom®: A neuroscience-backed workshop for transforming software quality cultures.

Pradeep UN - The Stories and Wisdom Company

talkRoom B - Demo Track

From Prompt to Patch: Agent‑Driven Playwright Testing with MCP, CLI, and AI Copilot.

Deepak Kamboj - Microsoft

2:00 PM(45 min)
talkRoom A - Practitioner Track

panelRoom B - Demo Track

Is Today's Test Infra Ready for AI? The Hard Questions No One Is Asking.

Krishna Seerapu - FlintLab Inc.

2:45 PM(15 min)
breakLeadership Track

Afternoon Break

Coffee, snacks, and networking

3:45 PM(60 min)
keynoteLeadership Track

Closing Keynote: Quality Engineering 2027 and Beyond

Looking ahead at the trends and technologies shaping the future of quality.

5:00 PM(120 min)
breakTBD

After Party

Speakers

Ronit Bohrer Hillel

Ronit Bohrer Hillel

Engineering Leader, Business & Industry Frontline Applications

Microsoft

Becoming AI‑First?! What Does that Means for QA?

Sidharth Shukla

Sidharth Shukla

SDET 2

Amazon

From Failure to Fix: AI-Driven Test Debugging & RCA with Playwright MCP and LLM CLI

Dr. Bastian Baudisch

Dr. Bastian Baudisch

Lead Sales Engineer US

UBS HAINER

AI Generated Test Data: Know Your Need

Krishna Seerapu

Krishna Seerapu

CEO

FlintLab Inc.

Is Today's Test Infra Ready for AI? The Hard Questions No One Is Asking.

Amber Race

Amber Race

Staff SDE

Adobe

Beyond Page Objects: Modern Patterns for Scaling Playwright Tests

Walter Zimerman

Walter Zimerman

Sr SDE

Amazon

Scaling Trust, Not Automation - Rethinking Quality for the AI Era

Lee Barnes

Lee Barnes

Chief Quality Officer

Forte Group

Taming the Beast: Testing Non-Deterministic AI Systems with Confidence

Goldie Chan

Goldie Chan

Founder

Warm Robots

Personal Branding for Job Searchers

Deepak Kamboj

Deepak Kamboj

Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft

From Prompt to Patch: Agent‑Driven Playwright Testing with MCP, CLI, and AI Copilot.

Igor Dorovskikh

Igor Dorovskikh

Founder

EnGenious, Inc

Breaking GPT & Claude: AI Bug Bounty Workshop

Gregory Goldshteyn

Gregory Goldshteyn

Video Engineering & Quality Assurance Leader

Fox Networks Group

Unlocking New Frontiers in Test Automation with AI and Open Source

Rhea Khanna

Rhea Khanna

Sr Software Engineer, Agentic AI, Microsoft Discovery

Microsoft

Unlocking New Frontiers in Test Automation with AI and Open Source

Pradeep UN

Pradeep UN

Founder CEO

The Stories and Wisdom Company

Innovate QA with Stories & Wisdom®: A neuroscience-backed workshop for transforming software quality cultures.

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