Innovate QA 2026

Name: Innovate QA 2026
Start: 2026-06-04T08:00:00-07:00
End: 2026-06-05T18:00:00-07:00
Location: The Westin Bellevue

Quality Engineering Excellence

June 4, 2026 - June 5

Bellevue, Washington

250+

Attendees

Speakers

Sessions

Event Schedule

Schedule

Explore the sessions, workshops, discussions, and networking moments across both days of Innovate QA 2026.

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Leadership Track

Strategy, culture, awards

Practitioner Track

Applied QA practice

Demo Track

Tools, products, live demos

Discussion

Roundtables and workshops

8:00 AM

9:00 AM

9:10 AM

10:00 AM

10:55 AM

12:00 PM

1:00 PM

2:00 PM

2:45 PM

3:00 PM

3:50 PM

4:35 PM

9:00 AM

Leadership Track

9:10 AM

Leadership Track

10:00 AM

Leadership Track

Practitioner Track

Discussion

10:55 AM

Leadership Track

Practitioner Track

Demo Track

Discussion

1:00 PM

Leadership Track

Practitioner Track

Demo Track

Discussion

2:00 PM

Leadership Track

Practitioner Track

Demo Track

Discussion

3:00 PM

Leadership Track

Practitioner Track

Demo Track

Discussion

3:50 PM

Leadership Track

Practitioner Track

Discussion

4:35 PM

Leadership Track

Speakers

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Featured Speakers

RonitBohrer Hillel

Microsoft

Director of AI Transformation

SidharthShukla

Amazon

SDET 2

Dr. BastianBaudisch

UBS HAINER

Lead Sales Engineer US

KrishnaSeerapu

FlintLab Inc.

CEO

AmberRace

Adobe

Staff SDE

WalterZimerman

Amazon

Sr SDE

LeeBarnes

Forte Group

Chief Quality Officer

Awards Judges

Judges

Meet the panel shaping the Innovate QA 2026 Awards through excellence, innovation, and impact across the software quality community.

Kavitha Rajendran

AI/ML Solutions Architect

Google

Marina Voloshina

Sr Software QA Manager

Infinite Electronics, Inc

Pranav Pandit

Lead Software Quality Engineer

Robinhood

Samuel Selvaraj

Engineering Manager Test Automation

Veeva Systems

Shripad Deshpande

Sr QA Engineering Manager

Somu Suryanarayanan

Staff QA Automation Engineer

Cookunity

Vivek Krishna

Lead Software Engineer - Test

Amazon Web Services

Vivek Misra

Engineering Director

CVS Health

Sidharth Shukla

Sr SDET

Amazon

Priyamvada Govil

Sr Manager, Quality Engineering

Amazon

Sponsors & Partners

The partner ecosystem behind Innovate QA 2026

Tool builders, quality platforms, and community partners helping create a practical conference for the teams defining modern software quality.

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Innovate QA 2026

Schedule

Registration & Welcome Breakfast

Welcome

Opening Keynote

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

Beyond Page Objects: Modern Patterns for Scaling Playwright Tests

Accessibility AI Testing Landscape and Testing Workshop

Evaluating Large-Scale Multi-Agent AI Systems in Production

Unlocking New Frontiers in Test Automation with AI and Open Source

One Platform, Two Frontiers: Testing Web Applications and AI Agents with ContextQA

Continue - Accessibility AI Testing Landscape and Testing Workshop

Lunch & Networking

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

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

AI Has Never Needed Humans More Than It Does Now

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

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

Orchestrating AI for Testing: Connecting Context, Tools, and Human Judgment

Afternoon Break

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

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

The QA price is right

Quality for Agents: A Hands-On Workshop by ContextQA Ambassadors

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

From Hype to Trust: How We Evaluated an Enterprise Sales Research Agent with a Purpose-Built AI Benchmark

Continue - Quality for Agents: A Hands-On Workshop by ContextQA Ambassadors

Day 1 - Wrap up

Registration & Welcome Breakfast

Welcome

Opening Keynote

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

Beyond Page Objects: Modern Patterns for Scaling Playwright Tests

Accessibility AI Testing Landscape and Testing Workshop

Evaluating Large-Scale Multi-Agent AI Systems in Production

Unlocking New Frontiers in Test Automation with AI and Open Source

One Platform, Two Frontiers: Testing Web Applications and AI Agents with ContextQA

Continue - Accessibility AI Testing Landscape and Testing Workshop

Lunch & Networking

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

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

AI Has Never Needed Humans More Than It Does Now

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

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

Orchestrating AI for Testing: Connecting Context, Tools, and Human Judgment

Afternoon Break

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

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

The QA price is right

Quality for Agents: A Hands-On Workshop by ContextQA Ambassadors

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

From Hype to Trust: How We Evaluated an Enterprise Sales Research Agent with a Purpose-Built AI Benchmark

Continue - Quality for Agents: A Hands-On Workshop by ContextQA Ambassadors

Day 1 - Wrap up

Speakers

RonitBohrer Hillel

SidharthShukla

Dr. BastianBaudisch

KrishnaSeerapu

AmberRace

WalterZimerman

LeeBarnes

Judges

Kavitha Rajendran

Marina Voloshina

Pranav Pandit

Samuel Selvaraj

Shripad Deshpande

Somu Suryanarayanan

Vivek Krishna

Vivek Misra

Sidharth Shukla

Priyamvada Govil

The partner ecosystem behind Innovate QA 2026

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