2025 | AutomationSTAR

AutomationSTAR 2025 Programme

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Day	Time	Session	Title	Learn More
Monday	Monday 10th Nov CEST
Monday	08:00^MON		Delegate Badge Collection & Coffee
Monday	09:00^MON	Tutorial A	Get In Control of Legacy Code With Approval Testing Emily Bache Bache Consulting, Sweden	More
Monday	09:00^MON	Tutorial B	Getting started with API security testing and automation Bas Dijkstra On Test Automation, Netherlands	More
Monday	09:00^MON	Tutorial C	Extending Robot Framework with custom libraries Pekka Klärck Eliga, Finland	More
Monday	09:00^MON	Tutorial D	Testus Patronus: No Magic, Just AI with Your Company Context Paula Bassagañas Boehringer Ingelheim, Germany	More
Monday	09:00^MON	Tutorial E	Introduction to Contract Testing with Pact: The Route to... Lewis Prescott Health Partners Group, U.K.	More
Monday	09:00^MON	Tutorial F	Build a Continuous QA Strategy around your CI/CD Pipeline Szilard Szell Eficode, Finland	More
Monday	09:00^MON	Tutorial G	Visual Regression Testing: A Practical Guide Tomasz Klepacki JIT Team, Poland	More
Monday	12:30^CEST	Lunch	Networking Lunch in the EXPO
Monday	13:30^MON	Keynote	Faster, safer, more sustainable! The green revolution in software testing Jutta Eckstein Independent, Germany	More
Monday	14:30^MON	M1	Test automation is so much more than test cases Torvald Mårtensson Saab, Sweden	More
Monday	14:30^MON	M2	Testing of and with AI agents - Concrete Insights Anne Kramer Smartesting, France	More
Monday	14:30^MON	M3	Testing and Architecture: Friends or Foes? Attila Fejér & Alessandro Di Gioia BriX Consulting, Hungary & Alcor Academy, U.K.	More
Monday	15:25^MON	Break	Break - Mix & Mingle in the EXPO
Monday	15:55^MON	M4	Elevating Test Automation in a Multi-Brand Regulated Context Oleksandra Kalmykova & Abigail Cauchi FDJ UNITED, Sweden & Malta	More
Monday	15:55^MON	M5	Sustainable Execution: Which Tests Can We Skip This Time? Elmar Jürgens CQSE, Germany	More
Monday	15:55^MON	M6	Robot Framework: Latest news & updates Pekka Klärck Eliga, Finland	More
Monday	15:55^MON	DD1	Stop Writing API Tests – Steal Them From Your Browser! ^{(90mins Deep Dive)} Anaïs van Asselt Choco, Germany	More
Monday	15:55 ^MON	DD2	Lights, camera, test! Let’s put the fun in non-functionals ^{(90mins Deep Dive)} Willem Keesman & Arnoud Gorter SopraSteria & CJIB, Netherlands	More
Monday	15:55^MON	DD3	Progressing Beyond Regression – Automation with Testability ^{(90mins Deep Dive)} Lalitkumar Bhamare & Samar Naqvi Accenture Song, Germany & GlobalLogic, U.K.	More
Monday	16:50^MON	M7	Lost in the Hype: Why Engineers Pursue AI & How to Address It Nancy Jain & Deepak Koul RedHat, India	More
Monday	16:50^MON	M8	Ten Commandments for Sustainable and Shared Test Automation Jani Haapala Gofore, Finland	More
Monday	16:50^MON	M9	Ensuring data integrity: Great Expectations + Python Joan Esquivel Montero ImagineX, Costa Rica	More
Monday	17:45^MON	EXPO Party	Games Night – Bites, Beers & Games Networking Event
Tuesday	Tuesday 11TH NOV CEST
Tuesday	08:00^TUES		Lean Coffee & Community Conversations
Tuesday	08:30^TUES	Keynote	Continuous Delivery – What Does “Good” Look Like? Dave Farley Continuous Delivery Ltd, UK	More
Tuesday	09:45^TUE	T1	Automate or Stagnate: Testing in Industrial Automation Márton Siska evosoft Hungary Kft., Hungary	More
Tuesday	09:45^TUE	T2	When canary meets human. Sonja Nesic bol, Netherlands	More
Tuesday	09:45^TUE	T3	Why Contract Testing Matters Lewis Prescott Health Partners Group, U.K.	More
Tuesday	09:45^TUE	DD4	Surviving and Creating Change ^{(90mins Deep Dive)} Jutta Eckstein Independent, Germany	More
Tuesday	10:30^TUES	BREAK	Break - Mix & Mingle in the EXPO
Tuesday	11.00^TUES	T4	When K8S Meets K6: A Testing Story Almudena Vivanco SCRM Lidl International Hub, Spain	More
Tuesday	11:00^TUES	T5	Unlocking Observability in Test Automation Leandro Melendez Señor Performo, Mexico	More
Tuesday	11:00^TUE	T6	Unit Tests for Sustainable Testing in Embedded Projects Balaji Srinivasan AutoStore, Norway	More
Tuesday	12:00^TUE	T7	Test Automation at Scale with Robot Framework Sander van Beek Bartosz ICT, Netherlands	More
Tuesday	12:00^TUE	T8	Sustainable Test Automation: Preventing Anti-Patterns Vincent Wijnen & Marco Jansen van Doorn Sogeti Netherlands, Netherlands	More
Tuesday	12:00^TUE	T9	Unveiling the Power of Approval Testing Janina Nemec REWE digital, Germany	More
Tuesday	12:00^TUE	DD5	Add Observability Skills to Boost your Test Automation Value ^{(90mins Deep Dive)} Paul Beelen & Ard Kramer OrangeCrestConsulting, Netherlands	More
Thursday	12.45^THUR	Lunch	Networking Lunch in the EXPO
Tuesday	13:45^TUE	T10	How to Tame a Beast – Test Automation for Microsoft Dynamics Cirilo Wortel, Ruben Dieleman & Jarno Swinkels Greenlight-IT, Dela & JRaffles, Netherlands	More
Tuesday	13.45^TUE	T11	Old Problems of New Agents: Oracles and Communication Henri Terho & Szilárd Széll Eficode, Finland	More
Tuesday	13.45^TUE	T12	Managing Change in an Ever Changing Environment Maryam Umar Booking.com, U.K.	More
Thursday	14:30^THUR	Break	Break - Mix & Mingle in the EXPO
Thursday	15:15^THUR	5 Talks	Community Stage 5 Speakers 5 mins each
Tuesday	15:30^TUE	Keynote	What They Don’t Tell You About AI in School Felienne Hermans Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands	More
Thursday	16:45^THUR	Farewell	Conference Awards Ceremony & Closing Remarks AutomationSTAR