2026 | EuroSTAR Conference

EuroSTAR 2026 Programme

The 2026 EuroSTAR Software Testing Conference takes place in Oslo – the theme is ‘Testing at its Best’.

Thank you to our 2026 Programme Chair, Elmar Jürgens, and committee Fiona Østensvig, Richard Seidl, Sophie Küster, and Willem Keesman, for selecting each of the talks below. Thank you to everyone submitted and also our community reviewers for taking time to read each of the submissions – your feedback helps shape the programme each year.

We look forward to welcoming all of our speakers, attendees and partners to EuroSTAR 2026, 15-18 June in Oslo.

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Day	Time	Session	Topic	Title	Learn More
Monday	MONDAY 15th JUNE CEST				Tutorials
Monday	09:00^MON	Tutorial A	Non functional testing	One Agent to Watch Them All: Building an AI Test Monitor Paula Bassagañas Boehringer Ingelheim, Germany	More
Monday	09:00^MON	Tutorial B	AI	AI-Driven API Test and Automation in Action Julio de Lima Capco, a Wipro Company, USA	More
Monday	09:00^MON	Tutorial C	AI	From Boomers to AI-Natives: Bridging Generations in QA Adam Matłacz Space to Grow, Poland	More
Monday	09:00^MON	Tutorial D	Human skills	Context Engineering for Testers Rahul Parwal Testing Titbits, India	More
Monday	09:00^MON	Tutorial E	Human skills	Details Coming Soon Speaker To Be Announced	More
Monday	09:00^MON	Tutorial F	Human skills	Breaking Down and Improving Your Playwright E2E Tests ^{Full Day Tutorial} Bas Dijkstra On Test Automation, Netherlands	More
Monday	09:00^MON	Tutorial G	AI	How to Test Magic ^{Full Day Tutorial} Michael Bolton DevelopSense, Canada	More
Monday	12:30^TUE	Lunch		Meet & Mingle with your Community
Monday	13:30^MON	Tutorial H	Non functional testing	Let’s Define the ‘Best of Testing’ Together Paul Gerrard Gerrard Consulting, U.K.	More
Monday	13:30^MON	Tutorial I	AI	DISC-overing Yourself to Bring Out Testing at its Best Linda van de Vooren, Tanja & Yvonne Vos Bartosz ICT, Netherlands, UPV, Spain & Fatzoen, Netherlands	More
Monday	13:30^MON	Tutorial J	AI	Cthulhu Consulting: Solving Mysteries, Saving Projects Bryan Jones 2i, U.K.	More
Monday	13:30^MON	Tutorial K	AI	Make Management Listen: QA Stories That Build Confidence Chris Mastnak Nagarro Netherlands	More
Monday	13:30^MON	Tutorial L	Human skills	Death to Failing Tests: A Hands-On Debugging Bootcamp David Ingraham Matium, USA	More
Tuesday	TUESDAY 16TH JUNE CEST
Tuesday	08:55^TUE	Welcome		Opening Remarks from the EuroSTAR Programme Chair Elmar Jürgens Programme Chair
Tuesday	09:00^TUE	Keynote	Human skills	The Jobs Not Taken Dona Sarkar Microsoft, USA	More
Tuesday	10:00^TUE	Break		Morning Break – Visit the Test Tools & Services EXPO
Tuesday	10:30^TUE	T1	Human skills	Betting on Quality: From Crisis to Confidence Keyhan Farhaninia, Stephan Haugsrud SOCO Norge AS, Norsk Tipping AS, Norway	More
Tuesday	10:30^TUE	T2	AI, Addressing biases	Not Remotely Healthy? Mental Health Skills for Remote Testers Katherine Haigh Xtract360, UK	More
Tuesday	10:30^TUE	T3	AI	AI: From Panacea to Panic to Purpose Brijesh Deb Infosys, Netherlands	More
Tuesday	10:30^TUE	T4	Test Data Management, AI	Global Test Factory: Experiences from Lufthansa Group Florian Fieber, Susanne Kunkel TestSolutions GmbH, Lufthansa Group, Germany	More
Tuesday	10:30^TUE	DD1	AI	Elevating Testing Through AI & Human-Centered Leadership ^{(Deep Dive)} Laveena Ramchandani Easyjet, UK	More
Tuesday	11:15^TUE	Break		Short Break
Tuesday	11:30^TUE	T5	Human skills, AI	Testing What Matters Most in a GAMP5 World Gitte Ottosen Key2quality, Denmark	More
Tuesday	11:30^TUE	T6	AI, Addressing biases, Learned experience	Is Psychology the Next Major Testing Skill for AI? Chris Ambler Chris Ambler Consulting, UK	More
Tuesday	11:30^TUE	T7	AI	Closing the Loop: Using Field Data as a Quality Metric Florian Wartenberg Vestas, Denmark	More
Tuesday	11:30^TUE	T8	Learned experience, Human skills	Impending Sense of Loom – The Past and Future of Automation Ester Greenwood Sopra Steria, Netherlands	More
Tuesday	12:15^TUE	Lunch		Join us in the EXPO for Lunch & visit the Community Hub
Tuesday	13:15^TUE	T9	Human skills, AI	Test Automation That Matters: Lessons from Battle Lines of ING Ashish Ghosh ING Bank, Netherlands	More
Tuesday	13:15^TUE	T10	Human skills, Non functional testing	AI Promised Better Testing, Did It Deliver? Thomas Decock b.ignited, Belgium	More
Tuesday	13:15^TUE	T11	Addressing biases, Learned experience, AI	Redefining Quality for AI-Powered Systems Evgeny Tkachenko Amazon One Medical, USA	More
Tuesday	13:15^TUE	T12	Learned experience, AI	Don’t Trust a Test Never Seen Fail: Reverse Mutation Testing Leonardo Lanni QA Roots, Spain	More
Tuesday	13:15^TUE	DD2	Human skills	Smarter Testing, Fewer Overruns: The TRIZ Advantages ^{(Deep Dive)} Gek Yeo & Andrew Brown AICPA-CIMA & Indepent, UK	More
Tuesday	14:00^TUE	Break		Short Break
Tuesday	14:15^TUE	T13	AI, Human skills	Standing Tall In Quality: What Can We Actually Do About It? Gary Shannon Optimal, UK	More
Tuesday	14:15^TUE	T14	Learned experience, AI	AI-Powered Learning in QA and Beyond Nils Röttger imbus, Germany	More
Tuesday	14:15^TUE	T15	Learned experience	What Our Brains Add, and What They Ignore Maria Whaibe GRIS, Lebanon	More
Tuesday	14:15^TUE	T16	AI	Is TMMi Relevant in DevOps to Improve the Testing Process?! Szilard Szell Eficode, Finland	More
Tuesday	15:00^TUE	Break		Afternoon Break – Check out the Community Hub in the EXPO
Tuesday	15:45^TUE	T17	Learned experience, AI	Metrics That Matter for GenAI Evaluation Anamika Mukhopadhyay & Deepshikha Nagarro, India	More
Tuesday	15:45^TUE	T18	Learned experience, AI	Towards Sustainable Software Testing Lilia Gargouri & Alessandro Sebaste mgm tech partners, Germany & Way to Green IT, Switzerland	More
Tuesday	15:45^TUE	T19	Learned experience, AI	The Power of Mind: Why it Matters in the Age of AI !? Ard Kramer OrangeCrest, Netherlands	More
Tuesday	15:45^TUE	T20	Learned experience, AI	Taming the AI Ana Duarte XRay, Portugal	More
Tuesday	16:30^TUE	Break		Short Break
Tuesday	16:45^TUE	T21	Learned experience, AI	Securing LLMs: Insights into OWASP top 10 Maryia Tuleika Regent AB, Sweden	More
Tuesday	16:45^TUE	T22	Learned experience, AI	How to Train LLMs to Design Better Tests Than You? István Forgács 4Test-Plus, Hungary	More
Tuesday	16:45^TUE	T23	Learned experience, AI	Testing Beyond Your Product Megan Ozanne Clue Software Ltd, UK	More
Tuesday	16:45^TUE	T24	Learned experience, AI	Accelerate the Agentic Enterprise with Agentic Testing ^{Industry Insights} Ingo Philipp UiPath, Austria	More
Tuesday	17:30^WED	NETWORK		EXPO Drinks An opportunity to catch up with friends & make new connections over snacks and drinks.
Wednesday	WEDNESDAY 17TH JUNE CEST
Wednesday	09:00^WED	Keynote	AI	Do it For the Plot Sanne Visser Bartosz, The Netherlands	More
Wednesday	10:00^WED	TALKS		Community Stage 5 Speakers 4 Minutes Each	More
Wednesday	10:30^WED	Break		Morning Break – Connect with your fellow Attendees
Wednesday	11:00^WED	W1	Learned experience, Human skills	Exploratory Testing for Massively Multiplayer Online Games Oliver Heldt CipSoft, GmbH Germany	More
Wednesday	11:00^WED	W2	Addressing biases, AI	Component Testing: Attaining Stability and Coverage Jome Maria Princil Funda Real Estate B.V., Netherlands	More
Wednesday	11:00^WED	W3	AI	Testing Europe’s Most Advanced Rail Management System Øyvind Woll Promis Qualify, Norway	More
Wednesday	11:00^WED	W4	Non functional testing	Too Close to See the Canvas – The Pattern Beyond the Pixels Lena Nyström TestScouts, Sweden	More
Wednesday	11:00^WED	DD3	Human skills	Creating a Better Test Team: Mix, Match, Listen and Learn!s ^{(Deep Dive)} Iris Pinkster & Fieke de Vreede Professional Testing B.V. & DUO, Netherlands	More
Wednesday	11:45 ^WED	Break		Short Break
Wednesday	12:00^WED	W5	AI	Unlikely Paths: How our Backgrounds & Hobbies Enrich Testing Alejandra Ugarte Bedwell Public, Denmark	More
Wednesday	12:00^WED	W6	Non functional testing	How to Confidently Test and Scale Large Language Models Huw Price Curiosity Software, UK	More
Wednesday	12:00^WED	W7	AI	Automated Structural/ White-Box Testing of LLM-Based Agentsn Jens Kohl & Otto Kruse BMW Group, Germany & AWS, Netherlands	More
Wednesday	12:00^WED	W8	Human skills	Can We Measure Local Bias in AI Systems? Wessel Braakman & Teresa Herland Bouvet ASA & Rema1000, Norway	More
Wednesday	12:45^WED	Lunch		Enjoy Lunch, watch the EXPO Demos & Visit the Community Hub.
Wednesday	13:45^WED	Keynote	Learned experience	Three Decades of Software Testing – from Startup to Global Leader Wolfgang Platz Katharo Ventures, Austria	More
Wednesday	15:30^WED	W9	Non functional testing	How to Automate Exploratory Testing Using AI and MCPs Gerard van Engelen Openpeople, The Netherlands	More
Wednesday	15:30^WED	W10	Programming, Human skills	The Illusion of Quality: Rethinking Test Data Management Anastasia Simou Accenture, Germany	More
Wednesday	15:30^WED	W11	AI	If I Could Turn Back Time, Testing Differences I Would Make Lloyd Roden Lloyd Roden Consultancy Ltd, UK	More
Wednesday	15:30^WED	W12	Human skills, AI	Ephemeral Environments: Testing at its Best in the Cloud Archana Kattilakath Chandrasekharan Booking Holdings, India	More
Wednesday	15:30^WED	DD4	AI	Inclusive Testing with AI from A to Z ^{(Deep Dive)} Jaunita Flessas & Ina Tsvetkova Empower Accessibility, Australia & Nav, Norway	More
Wednesday	16:15 ^WED	Break		Short Break
Wednesday	16:30^WED	W13	Human skills, AI	How AI is Changing the DNA of Test Automation Samer Naqvi Global Logic, UK	More
Wednesday	16:30^WED	W14	AI, Addressing biases	Fifty Shades of Green: Beyond the PASS/FAIL Illusion Sami Söderblom Qlarify, Finland	More
Wednesday	16:30^WED	W15	Learned experience, AI	Using AI to Create UAT Tests, a Case Study from BBC Radio Bill Watson Test Manager, BBC	More
Wednesday	16:30^WED	W16	Learned experience, Human skills	Test Data at Its Best: Safe, Valid, Practical Martin Boesgaard PII Guard, Denmark	More
Wednesday	19:30^WED	NETWORK		Awards Evening EuroSTAR at Night	More
Thursday	THURSDAY 18TH JUNE CEST
Thursday	09:00^THU	Th1	Human skills, Learned experience	Automated Testing of Large Language Models: A Live Demo Anupam Krishnamurthy Anukrit, Germany	More
Thursday	09:00^THU	Th2	AI	Details Coming Soon ^{Industry Insights} Speaker TBC SauceLabs, Germany	More
Thursday	09:00^THU	Th3	Learned experience, Human skills	Bring Your Coffee and Lean in – Diversity and Inclusion Fiona Østensvig & Tone Molyneux Gritera Quality & DNB, Norway	More
Thursday	09:00^THU	Th4	Learned experience	Shadow Work Tara Walton Springfield-Branson, U.S.A.	More
Thursday	09:45^THU	BREAK		Short Break
Thursday	10:00^THU	Th5	Learned experience, Human skills	Multi Agent Cooperative Testing: Automation to Orchestration Manisha Mittal & Apurva Singh Nagarro, UAE	More
Thursday	10:00^THU	Th6	Addressing biases, Human skills, AI	Reframing Exploratory Testing Christian Kram oose., Germany	More
Thursday	10:00^THU	Th7	AI, Addressing biases, Human skills	Testing for a Secure Digital Future ^RisingSTAR Sara Martinez Giner Telefónica Tech, Spain	More
Thursday	10:00^THU	Th8	Non functional testing	Critical Thinking At its Best – and How to Learn it Yourself Wouter Ruigrok Sogeti, Netherlands	More
Thursday	10:45^THU	BREAK		Morning Break – Visit the Test Tools & Services EXPO
Thursday	11:15^THU	Keynote	AI, Learned experience	With Great Trust Comes Great Responsibility Michael Kutz REWE digital GmbH, Germany	More
Thursday	12:15^THU	conclude		Closing Remarks Elmar Jürgens EuroSTAR 2026 Programme Chair
Thursday	12:25^THU	Reveal		The Big Reveal 2027 Programme Chair 2027 Location
Thursday	12:30^THU	Lunch		Lunch & Prize-Giving Bonanza in the Community Hub
Thursday	14:00^THU	LECTURE		Details Coming Soon Speaker To Be Announced
Thursday	15:15^THU	Th9		Community Session Speaker To Be Announced
Thursday	15:15^THU	Th10		Best of EuroSTAR as Voted by You Speaker To Be Announced
Thursday	15:15^THU	Th11		Best of EuroSTAR as Voted by You Speaker To Be Announced
Thursday	15:30^THU	ENDS		Farewell Thank you for being part of EuroSTAR and see you next year!