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AutomationSTAR 2026 Programme

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Day	Time	Session	Title	Learn More	Topic
Wednesday	Wednesday 4th Nov CET
Wednesday	08:00^WED		Delegate Badge Collection & Coffee
Wednesday	09:00^WED	Tutorial A	AI for Testing in Action: From Automation Patterns to Productivity Tariq King Test IO, USA	More	AI Augmentation
Wednesday	09:00^WED	Tutorial B	One Agent to Watch Them All Paula Bassagañas Òdena Boehringer Ingelheim, Germany	More	AI Augmentation
Wednesday	09:00^WED	Tutorial C	Poison Kills Poison: AI Tests AI Gaurav Khurana Microsoft, India	More	AI Augmentation
Wednesday	09:00^WED	Tutorial D	Agentic Mobile Test Automation: Why Now? Ioannis Papadakis LearnWorlds, Greece	More	Emerging Trends
Wednesday	09:00^WED	Tutorial E	Scalable Playwright Framework with AI Razvan Vancea Systematic, Romania	More	Strategy
Wednesday	09:00^WED	Tutorial F	AI Testing Dojo: Build, Break & Master Agents Gomathi Ramalingam SIMBA Chain, UK	More	AI Augmentation
Wednesday	09:00^WED	Tutorial G	AI-Driven API Test and Automation in Action Julio de Lima Capco (a Wipro Company), USA	More	Emerging Trends
Wednesday	12:30^WED	Lunch	Networking Lunch in the EXPO
Wednesday	13:30^WED	Keynote	Towards Trustworthy Self-Testing Generative AI Agents Tariq King Test IO, USA	More	AI Augmentation
Wednesday	14:40^WED	W1	Quality Model for Agentic SDLC Szilard Szell Eficode, Finland	More	Strategy
Wednesday	14:40^WED	W2	Automated guardrails for AI-generated tests James Bornefelt Westfall Neatframe, Norway	More	AI Augmentation
Wednesday	14:40^WED	W3	Why do we need Imagination & Emotion in QA? Anamika Mukhopadhyay & Deepshikha Nagarro, India	More	Case Studies
Wednesday	15:25^WED	Break	Break - Mix & Mingle in the EXPO
Wednesday	15:55^WED	W4	I'll Never Write Code Again — And Neither Will Your Automation Engineers Paul Gerrard Gerrard Consulting, U.K.	More	Case Studies
Wednesday	15:55^WED	W5	From Vibe Coding to AI Partnership Wayne Rutter Plandek, United Kingdom	More	Case Studies
Wednesday	15:55^WED	W6	MBT: The Undiscovered Country René van Veldhuijzen Squerist, Netherlands	More	Tooling
Wednesday	15:55^WED	DD1	Close Encounters with Systems ^{(90mins Deep Dive)} Rachel Kibler Qase, USA	More	AI Augmentation
Wednesday	15:55^WED	DD2	Smart Patterns for Rapid Automation ^{(90mins Deep Dive)} ^{Booked Out} Radek Lawgmin & Greg Bednarski WPP Enterprise Solutions, Poland	More	Strategy
Wednesday	15:55^WED	DD3	Testing in production: See it before they do ^{(90mins Deep Dive)} Gerard van Engelen Openpeople, Netherlands	More	Tooling
Wednesday	16:50^WED	W7	Rock-solid stability in mobile E2E testing Dawid Pacia PatchingIT, Poland	More	Strategy
Wednesday	16:50^WED	W8	Test data patterns for BDD automation Gáspár Nagy Spec Solutions, Hungary	More	Code Quality
Wednesday	16:50^WED	W9	Known and unknown unknowns Linda van de Vooren Bartosz ICT, Netherlands	More	Skills Growth
Wednesday	17:35^WED	EXPO Party	Expo Party Networking Event
Thursday	Thursday 5th Nov CET
Thursday	08:30^THU	Keynote	Quality Engineering Has an Identity Crisis… and AI Just Walked Into the Room Laveena Ramchandani easyjet, UK	More	Skills Growth
Thursday	09:45^THU	T1	Automating UI Tests for Better Accessibility Alena Drebezgova viadee Unternehmensberatung AG, Germany	More	Inclusion
Thursday	09:45^THU	T2	Hybrid Test Data in Automated Test Pipelines Martin Staal Boesgaard PII Guard, Denmark	More	Strategy
Thursday	09:45^THU	T3	How Do You Test a Thinking Machine? Geosley Andrades ACCELQ, India	More	Emerging Trends
Thursday	09:45^THU	DD4	AI Metrics: When Numbers Hide Real Risk ^{(90mins Deep Dive)} Maryna Didkovska EPAM, Ukraine	More	AI Augmentation
Thursday	10:30^THU	BREAK	Break - Mix & Mingle in the EXPO
Thursday	11:00^THU	T4	Evals in Practice for an AI Coding Agent Damián Pereira Endava, Uruguay	More	Emerging Trends
Thursday	11:00^THU	T5	Honey, I shrunk the test suite! Sebastian Mörtl & Fabian Streitel PAYBACK GmbH & CQSE, Germany	More	Strategy
Thursday	11:00^THU	T6	Intent-Based QA and AI Agents Aslam Khan Robonito, Saudi Arabia	More	Emerging Trends
Thursday	12:00^THU	T7	Expanded testing toolkit: browser extensions Giuseppe Donati trivago, Germany	More	Tooling
Thursday	12:00^THU	T8	Accessibility Audit at Your Fingertips Hit Shiroya Red Hat, India	More	Inclusion
Thursday	12:00^THU	T9	Low Code AI-Driven System Orchestration Manisha Mittal & Neha Gupta Nagarro, UAE & India	More	Emerging Trends
Thursday	12:00^THU	DD5	The evolution of Arrange-Act-Assert ^{(90mins Deep Dive)} Tim Heck MRI Software, USA	More	Strategy
Thursday	12:45^THU	Lunch	Networking Lunch in the EXPO
Thursday	13:45^THU	T10	Feedback as Fertiliser: from sh*t to quality with AI automation Anais van Asselt Choco, Germany	More
Thursday	13:45^THU	T11	Exploits of an LLM: Billy Ignore Instructions Gerard van Engelen Openpeople, Netherlands	More	Case Studies
Thursday	13:45^THU	T12	Mr. Bond: It Takes an Agent to Test an Agent Adam Sandman Inflectra, USA	More	Emerging Trends
Thursday	14:30^THU	Break	EXPO Prize Giving
Thursday	15:00^THU	5 Talks	Community Stage 5 Speakers 4 mins each
Thursday	15:30^THU	Keynote	Managing Drama Between Humans and Machines Jason Arbon testers.ai, USA	More	AI Augmentation
Thursday	16:30^THU		Closing Remarks & AutomationSTAR 2026 ends