2024 | EuroSTAR Conference

EuroSTAR 2024 Programme

The 33rd EuroSTAR Software Testing Conference will take place in Edinburgh. 2025 is all about AI and the impact it’s having on software testing – expect an incredible programme of talks.

We look forward to welcoming all of our speakers, attendees and partners to EuroSTAR 2025, 3-6 June in Edinburgh. Book your tickets now at incredible value – with our Year End Saver offer you get 30% off individual tickets, or up to 50% off a group.

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Day	Time	Session	Topic	Title	Learn More
Tuesday	TUESDAY 11TH JUNE CEST
Tuesday	09:00^TUE	Tutorial A	New skills	Kick Ass Testing ^{(FULLY BOOKED)} Robert Sabourin, Ben Simo, Claudiu Stoianof AmiBug.com Inc, Canada, & Tricentis, USA & Independent, Austria	More
Tuesday	09:00^TUE	Tutorial B	Testing roles	What Are You Doing Here? Become an Awesome Leader in Testing ^{(Full Day)} Ard Kramer & Laveena Ramchandani OrangeCrest, Netherlands & EasyJet, UK	More
Tuesday	09:00^TUE	Tutorial C	New skills	Think Like a Tester ^{(Full Day)} Rikard Edgren Nordic Medtest, Sweden	More
Tuesday	09:00^TUE	Tutorial D	New skills	Test your Code as a Crime Scene ^{(FULLY BOOKED)} Adam Tornhill CodeScene, Sweden	More
Tuesday	09:00^TUE	Tutorial E	New skills	Make Quality Coaching Fun and Engage your Stakeholders ^{(Half Day)} Emna Ayadi & Eveline Moolenaars Sogeti, France & Netherlands	More
Tuesday	09:00^TUE	Tutorial F	Experience experimentation	API Exploratory Testing with Postman ^{(Half Day)} Gil Zilberfeld TestinGil, Israel	More
Tuesday	09:00^TUE	Tutorial G	Testing roles	Mission Critical: Decoding Crisis Management ^{(Half Day)} Maria Whaibe GRIS, Lebanon	More
Tuesday	12:30^CEST	Lunch		Meet & Mingle with your Community
Tuesday	13:30^TUE	Tutorial H	Experience experimentation	Redefining Refinement Meetings - Neat, Engaging, Rewarding ^{(Half Day)} Hristina Koleva ICB - A Kongbserg Digital Company, Bulgaria	More
Tuesday	13:30^TUE	Tutorial I	Experience experimentation	Beyond Bug-Hunt: What Does Generative AI Add to our Purpose? ^{(FULLY BOOKED)} Adam Matłacz Space To Grow, Poland	More
Tuesday	13:30^TUE	Tutorial J	Software Testing	Discover your Exploratory Tester Soul ^{(Half Day)} Andrea Jensen & Emna Ayadi Navis, Germany & Sogeti, France	More
Wednesday	WEDNESDAY 12TH JUNE CEST
Wednesday	08:55^WED	Welcome		Opening Remarks from the EuroSTAR 2024 Programme Chair Michael Bolton Programme Chair
Wednesday	09:00^WED	Keynote	Experience experimentation	Helping People, Through My Craft Abigail Cauchi Kindred Group, Malta	More
Wednesday	10:00^WED	Break		Morning Break – Visit the Test Tools & Services EXPO
Wednesday	10:30^WED	W1	Communication	At the Crossroads: Making Deals with the AI Devil Bryan Jones 2i, UK	More
Wednesday	10:30^WED	W2	Communication	Would We Hire Einstein? Karin Thorvaldsson Saab, Sweden	More
Wednesday	10:30^WED	W3	Software Testing	Being a Test Developer Allows me to Build in Testability Kristoffer Nordström Northern Test Consulting, Sweden	More
Wednesday	10:30^WED	W4	Team Building	Testing Metrics: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Ezanne Grobler iOCO Pty, South Africa	More
Wednesday	11:45^WED	W5	Methods of Collaboration	What are we Doing Here: Reviving Testers Amid AI Challenges Ajay Balamurugadas GSPANN Technologies, India	More
Wednesday	11:45^WED	W6	Creating Healthy Organisations	How to Shine at the Interview Vlada Danilova JetBrains, Germany	More
Wednesday	11:45^WED	W7	Communication	API Test Planning Live! Gil Zilberfeld TestinGil, Israel	More
Wednesday	11:45^WED	W8	New skills	Debugging Emotions: Leading Testing through the Lens of EI Vipin Jain Metacube Software, India	More
Wednesday	12:45^WED	Lunch		Join us in the EXPO for Lunch & visit the Community Hub
Wednesday	13:45^WED	W9	Accessibility Testing	Why AI is Killing - Not Improving - the Quality of Testing Joel Deutscher & Jarrod Plant Planit, Australia	More
Wednesday	13:45^WED	W10	Leadership & Management	Rule-Bending and Cheating: A Tester’s Strategy for Success Nele Van Asch CTG, Belgium	More
Wednesday	13:45^WED	W11	Communication	Test Intelligence: How to Find More Bugs in Less Time Elmar Juergens CQSE, Germany	More
Wednesday	13:45^WED	W12	Communication	Empathy in Software Testing: Putting People First in a Software-Driven World Ben Simo Tricentis, USA	More
Wednesday	14:45^WED	Break		Afternoon Break – Check out the Community Hub in the EXPO
Wednesday	15:15^WED	W13	Bug investigation reporting	La Cucaracha: Revolutionising Bug Management with AI Anais van Asselt Choco, Germany	More
Wednesday	15:15^WED	W14	New skills	Basic Coaching Techniques for Emerging Quality Coaches Gitte Ottosen Key2Quality, Denmark	More
Wednesday	15:15^WED	W15	Bug investigation reporting	Beyond Logs: Elevating Test Analysis with Data Visualization Aleksi Simell Eficode, Finland	More
Wednesday	15:15^WED	W16	Lessons learnt	Crisis-Resilient Testing Strategy: A Real-Time Playbook Maryna Didkovska EPAM, Hungary	More
Wednesday	16:30^WED	Keynote	Leadership & Management	Testing the Gripen E Fighter Aircraft Torvald Mårtensson Saab Aeronautics, Sweden	More
Wednesday	17:30^WED	NETWORK		EXPO Drinks An opportunity to catch up with friends & make new connections over pizza & beer.
Thursday	THURSDAY 13TH JUNE CEST
Thursday	09:00^THUR	Keynote		The Center Left: Testing Software in the Age of Transformation Keith Klain KPMG, UK	More
Thursday	10:00^THUR	Break		Morning Break – Connect with your fellow Attendees
Thursday	10:30^THUR	Th1	Software Testing	I (still) LOVE Finding Bugs! Tina Knudsen Capgemini, Denmark	More
Thursday	10:30^THUR	Th2	Creating Healthy Organisations	What we do Today Shapes our Tomorrow Indranil Sinha Marginalen Bank, Sweden	More
Thursday	10:30^THUR	Th3	Bug investigation reporting	Look After Your Logs — and Get AI to Help Jihad Ghandour Murex, Lebanon	More
Thursday	10:30^THUR	Th4	Experience experimentation	Stop the Tooling Avalanche! Cristiano Cunha Xray, Portugal	More
Thursday	11:45^THUR	Th5	Lessons learnt	Is This Really Testing? Hassan Bugti Qalibrate, Denmark	More
Thursday	11:45^THUR	Th6	Experience experimentation	I'm not the Imposter, it’s all in my Head Linda Van De Vooren Bartosz ICT, Netherlands	More
Thursday	11:45^THUR	Th7	Experience experimentation	DataCraft: Test Data Proficiency in Software Testing Alexander Gyulai Auto1 Group, Germany	More
Thursday	11:45^THUR	Th8	New skills	Testing an SDK from a Cybersecurity Startup Company Ivan Merola Build38, Spain	More
Thursday	12:45^THUR	Lunch		Enjoy Lunch, watch the EXPO Demos & Visit the Community Hub.
Thursday	13:45^THUR	Th9	Team Building	Becoming a Better Tester by Getting Involved in Everything Steve Jefferies WTW, UK	More
Thursday	13:45^THUR	Th10	New skills	LLMs: Testing the Unknowns that Seem to Know It All Vimmi Walia & Manisha Mittal Nagarro, India	More
Thursday	13:45^THUR	Th11	New skills	Manual Accessibility Testing: Why, What, and How Ina Tsvetkova NAV IKT, Norway	More
Thursday	13:45^THUR	Th12	Lessons learnt	Dark Testing: Anti-Patterns and Failure Stories in Testing Szilard Szell Eficode, Finland	More
Thursday	14:45^THUR	Break		Afternoon Break – Explore the Community Area in the EXPO
Thursday	15:15^THUR	Th13	Testing roles	What Are We Doing Here? A Human Perspective Mark Micallef University of Malta, Malta	More
Thursday	15:15^THUR	Th14	Recruitment people development	Different, Not Less: Empowering through Inclusion Khimanand Upreti & Deepshika Nagarro, India	More
Thursday	15:15^THUR	Th15	Software Testing	Visualizing Test Status using Quality Characteristics Martin Nilsson House of Test, Sweden	More
Thursday	15:15^THUR	Th16	New skills	A Tester’s Guide to Navigating the Wild West of Web3 Testing Rafaela Azevedo The Chaincademy, UK	More
Thursday	16:30^THUR	AWARDS		EuroSTAR 2024 Software Testing Awards Celebrating Excellence in our Community
Thursday	16:30^THUR	Keynote	Software Testing	Why I Left Software Testing – and Why I Came Back Maria Kedemo Black Koi Consulting, Sweden	More
Thursday	19:30^THUR	NETWORK		City of Stockholm Evening Swedish Buffet & Drinks in Stockholm City Hall Hosted by the City of Stockholm
Friday	FRIDAY 14TH JUNE CEST
Friday	09:00^FRI	F1	Creating Healthy Organisations	A Navigation into the Testing Mind: The Enigma of Intuition Cynthia Zeinoun & Pamela El Khoury Murex, Lebanon	More
Friday	09:00^FRI	F2	Experience experimentation	Adversarial Testing for AIs: Get Ready to Fuzz Things Up! Benjamin Johnson-Ward Curiosity Software, USA	More
Friday	09:00^FRI	F3	Test Automation	Utilising AI to Enhance the Daily Tasks of Software Testing^{(RisingSTAR Award)} Joonas Palomäki Meliora, Finland	More
Friday	09:00^FRI	F4	New skills	Concurrency: Why End-to-End Testing Isn't Enough Rick Tracy Hapalion Consulting, Netherlands	More
Friday	10:00^FRI	Break		Morning Break – Last chance for Passport Around the EXPO
Friday	10:30^FRI	F5	Bug investigation reporting	How to Avoid Cognitive Biases in Testing Benjamin Johnson-Ward Curiosity Software, USA	More
Friday	10:30^FRI	F6	Leadership & Management	21st Century Stress Management for the Busy Tester Kristina Sabotic & Carin Norling Zington, Sweden	More
Friday	10:30^FRI	F7	Lessons learnt	QA Outsourcing: Triumphs, Trials, & Takeaways Paul Ngum afriQA, UK	More
Friday	10:30^FRI	F8	Communication	Futureproofing Testing in the Age of AI Michael Bolton DevelopSense, Canada	More
Friday	11:45^FRI	Keynote	Communication	Lost Test Automation Fundamentals Robert Sabourin AmiBug.Com, Inc., Canada	More
Friday	12:45^FRI	Closing		Closing Remarks Michael Bolton EuroSTAR 2024 Programme Chair
Friday	12:55^FRI	Reveal		The Big Reveal 2025 Programme Chair 2025 Location
Friday	13:00^FRI	Lunch		Lunch & Prize-Giving Bonanza in the Community Hub
Friday	14:30^FRI	TALKS		Community Stage 5 Speakers 4 Minutes Each
Friday	14:30^FRI	F12	Communication	Get Ready to Game! Michael Bolton & Guests
Friday	15:00^FRI	F9		Best of EuroSTAR as Voted by Delegates Speaker To Be Announced
Friday	15:00^FRI	F10		Best of EuroSTAR as Voted by Delegates Speaker To Be Announced
Friday	15:00^FRI	F11		Best of EuroSTAR as Voted by Delegates Speaker To Be Announced
Friday	16:00^FRI	ENDS		Farewell Thank you for being part of EuroSTAR and see you next year!