EuroSTAR 2023 Programme

The 2023 EuroSTAR Software Testing Conference will take place in Flanders Convention Centre at Antwerp Zoo, Belgium. The theme is ‘Software Development is a Social Activity’ .

Thank you to our 2023 Programme Chair, Kristoffer Nordström and committee Fiona Charles, Maria Kedemo and Rob Lambert, for crafting such an excellent programme of talks for our 31st EuroSTAR Conference. 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 2023, 13-16 June in Antwerp.

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Day	Time	Session	Topic	Title	Learn More
Tuesday	TUESDAY 13TH JUNE CEST
Tuesday	09:00^TUE	Tutorial A	Leadership & Management	Inspiring Quality: Becoming an Exceptional Quality Leader ^{(Full Day)} Fiona Charles Quality Intelligence, Canada	More
Tuesday	09:00^TUE	Tutorial B	Methods of Collaboration	Collaborative Test Design ^{(Full Day)} Wim Decoutere & Michaël Pilaeten CTG, Belgium	More
Tuesday	09:00^TUE	Tutorial C	Methods of Collaboration	Let’s Build a Continuous QA Strategy around CI/CD Pipeline ^{(Full Day)} Szilard Szell Eficode, Finland	More
Tuesday	09:00^TUE	Tutorial E	Software Testing	CSI Testing - A Simulation Game ^{(Half Day)} Adam Matłacz Demant, Poland	More
Tuesday	09:00^TUE	Tutorial F	Methods of Collaboration	Roll the Marbles! How Good Architecture Helps us to Test Better ^{(Half Day)} Alexandru Cusmaru & Ard Kramer Siemens Mobility, Germany & Orangecrest, Netherlands	More
Tuesday	09:00^TUE	Tutorial G	Software Testing	Measurement, Metrics, and Magic Numbers ^{FULLY BOOKED} Michael Bolton DevelopSense, Canada	More
Tuesday	12:30^CEST	Lunchtime		Meet & Mingle with your Community
Tuesday	13:30^TUE	Tutorial I	Methods of Collaboration	Sharpen the Axe! An Adventure Game about Test Automation ^{(Half Day)} Anne Kramer Smartesting, Germany	More
Tuesday	13:30^TUE	Tutorial J	Software Testing	Social Software Testing Approaches ^{(Half Day)} Maaret Pyhäjärvi Vaisala, Finland	More
Tuesday	13:30^TUE	Tutorial K	Software Testing	Critical Thinking Skills for Testers ^{FULLY BOOKED} Michael Bolton DevelopSense, Canada	More
Wednesday	WEDNESDAY 14TH JUNE CEST
Wednesday	09:00^WED	Welcome		Opening Remarks from the EuroSTAR Programme Chair Kristoffer Nordström Programme Chair, UK
Wednesday	09:15^WED	Keynote	Team Building	It Only Takes One Genius Isabel Evans Independent, UK	More
Wednesday	10:15^WED	Break		Morning Break – Visit The Test Tools EXPO
Wednesday	11:00^WED	W1	Communication	The Lost Art of Taking Good Notes Nicole van der Hoeven Grafana Labs, Netherlands	More
Wednesday	11:00^WED	W2	Communication	Developing on Mount Stupid Dermot Canniffe SmartBear, Ireland	More
Wednesday	11:00^WED	W3	Software Testing	How to Prevent your Next Software Release Ending in Disaster Andrew Brown Expleo, UK	More
Wednesday	11:00^WED	W4	Team Building	Start-up Mode: Wearing Many Hats as QA Fabian Kempert Groupe Chantelle, Germany	More
Wednesday	12:00^WED	W5	Methods of Collaboration	How Minimalism Helps Build High-Quality Products Lina Zubyte Doodle, Germany	More
Wednesday	12:00^WED	W6	Creating Healthy Organisations	Seat Belts On: You're About To Land On QA Planet Antony Yammine Murex, Cyprus	More
Wednesday	12:00^WED	W7	Communication	Moving Cheese: The Art of Persuasion for Testers Thomas Shipley GlobalLogic, UK	More
Wednesday	12:00^WED	W8	Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion	How I am Unfolding my Potential as a Neurodivergent in Testing Viviane Hennecke Accenture, Germany	More
Wednesday	12:45^WED	Lunchtime		Join us in the EXPO for Lunch
Wednesday	13:45^WED	W9	Accessibility Testing	Designing & Testing for the Billion Voices Adonis Celestine & Julia Zacharias Applause, Netherlands	More
Wednesday	13:45^WED	W10	Leadership & Management	The Path of Least Resistance Irina Malgina BDO Holding, Netherlands	More
Wednesday	13:45^WED	W11	Communication	The Tester as Mediator Manfred Baumgartner Nagarro, Austria	More
Wednesday	13:45^WED	W12	Team Building	Why Testers are the True Rock Stars of IT Bryan Jones Sopra Steria, UK	More
Wednesday	14:30^WED	Break		Afternoon Break – Check out the Huddle Area in the EXPO
Wednesday	15:15^WED	W13	Methods of Collaboration	Test Techniques as a Collaborative Learning Approach Gitte Ottosen Key2Quality, Denmark	More
Wednesday	15:15^WED	W14	Group Dynamics	Spice up your Testing, and Gamify it Out! Geosley Andrades ACCELQ, India	More
Wednesday	15:15^WED	W15	Leadership & Management	Secret Life of a Leader in Testing Brijesh Deb Infosys, Netherlands	More
Wednesday	15:15^WED	W16	Creating Healthy Organisations	Weaving Quality into the Organizational Fabric Amir Shani Meta, Israel	More
Wednesday	16:15^WED	Keynote	Leadership & Management	Testing with Purpose: How Stories, Values and Kindness Make Testing Better Kristel Kruustük Testlio, Estonia	More
Wednesday	17:15^WED	NETWORK		EXPO Community Networking Event An opportunity to catch up with friends & make new connections
Thursday	THURSDAY 15TH JUNE CEST
Thursday	09:00^THUR	Keynote	Software Testing	Whose Test Is It Anyway? Maaret Pyhäjärvi Vaisala, Finland	More
Thursday	10:15^THUR	Th1	Software Testing	WebDriver BiDi – The Future of Cross-Browser Automation Jecelyn Yeen Google, Germany	More
Thursday	10:15^THUR	Th2	Creating Healthy Organisations	Visualising and Maintaining a Healthy Knowledge Fabric Mark Micallef University of Malta, Malta	More
Thursday	10:15^THUR	Th3	Communities	Building a Testing Community – How to Start From Zero Jonas Menesklou askui, Germany	More
Thursday	10:15^THUR	Th4	Software Testing	Testing the Important Changes – How Test-Gap-Analysis Can Align Dev and Test Elmar Jürgens CQSE, Germany	More
Thursday	11:00^THUR	Break		Morning Break – Connect with your fellow Attendees
Thursday	11:30^THUR	Th5	Software Testing	The Curse of Tutankhamun Iris Pinkster O'Riordain & Bas Dam Professional Testing & Performance Architecten, Netherlands	More
Thursday	11:30^THUR	Th6	Creating Healthy Organisations	From Chaos to Clarity – Our Journey Towards Healthy Teams Seema Prabhu Hudl, UK	More
Thursday	11:30^THUR	Th7	Communication	Bring your Everything! How Clown Training made me a Better Tester Søren Aasbjerg Andersen Elsevier, Denmark	More
Thursday	11:30^THUR	Th8	Remote Work	Self-Service Quality: Everything I Learned from Open-Source QA Gáspár Nagy Spec Solutions, Hungary	More
Thursday	12:30^THUR	Th9	Team Building	An Ancient Science for Advanced Critical Thinking for Testers and Teams Lalitkumar Bhamare Accenture Song, Germany	More
Thursday	12:30^THUR	Th10	Methods of Collaboration	Dungeons & Dragons: Becoming the Hero of the Sprint Tara Walton Independent, USA	More
Thursday	12:30^THUR	Th11	Communication	The Art of Asking Questions Jakob Sloth-Brodersen Shortcut Danmark, Denmark	More
Thursday	12:30^THUR	Th12	Test Automation	Breaking Testing Silos, The Ten Commandments for Better Automation Jani Haapala Gofore, Finland	More
Thursday	13:15^THUR	Lunchtime		Join us for Lunch in the EXPO Hall
Thursday	14:15^THUR	Th13	Software Testing	Graceful Degradation – Failing with Style Samer Naqvi Global Logic, UK	More
Thursday	14:15^THUR	Th14	Creating Healthy Organisations	That Which isn’t Good for the Hive, isn’t Good for the Bee Sanne Visser Capgemini, Netherlands	More
Thursday	14:15^THUR	Th15	Software Testing	Exploratory Testing As Code Brendan Connolly Carpe Data, USA	More
Thursday	14:15^THUR	Th16	Methods of Collaboration	Bug Bashing: My Secret Weapon for Quality Software Prashant Hegde MoEngage, India	More
Thursday	15:00^THUR	Break		Afternoon Break – Check out the Huddle Area in the EXPO
Thursday	15:45^THUR	Th17	Team Building	Growing Pains – Lessons Learned from the Incredible Rise and Collapse of WCW Chris Armstrong Testing Peers, UK	More
Thursday	15:45^THUR	Th18	Accessibility Testing	Automatic Accessibility Tests for All Cecilie Haugstvedt SOCO, Norway	More
Thursday	15:45^THUR	Th19	Software Testing	Mission Impossible: Automatic Usability Testing Kimberly Snoyl Capgemini, Netherlands	More
Thursday	15:45^THUR	Th20	Communication	Advocating Quality in Finland’s Biggest Company Sami Söderblom & Dong Pham SOK, Finland	More
Thursday	16:45^THUR	Keynote	Software Testing	The Cyber Security of Smart 'Adult' Toys - or Lack of it! Ken Munro & Jo Dalton Pen Test Partners, UK	More
Thursday	19:00^THUR	NETWORK		Awards Evening Awards & Entertainment Celebration
Friday	FRIDAY 16TH JUNE CEST
Friday	09:00^FRI	F1	Creating Healthy Organisations	Learning Culture: Adapt or Die Phil Royston Tesena, Czech Republic	More
Friday	09:00^FRI	F2	Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion	Embracing Adversity, a Learnership’s Story Ezanne Grobler EOH, South Africa	More
Friday	09:00^FRI	F3	Test Automation	10 Behaviours of Effective Employees Rob Lambert Cultivated Management LTD, U.K.	More
Friday	09:00^FRI	F4	Software Testing	Need for Speed – The Many Benefits of Faster Feedback Loops Jørgen Lund Systematic, Denmark	More
Friday	10:00^FRI	F5	Methods of Collaboration	Hacking is also a Social Activity… Keith Yorkston Quality Risk Management, UK	More
Friday	10:00^FRI	F6	Leadership & Management	The New Test Manager’s Survival Guide Kevin Harris SixWorks, UK	More
Friday	10:00^FRI	F7	Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion	One of the Lads – Things I’m Tired of Hearing about Women in Tech Sophie Küster Cronn, Germany	More
Friday	10:00^FRI	F8	Communication	Hope is Not a Plan Fredrik Håård Ideagen, UK	More
Friday	10:45^FRI	Break		Morning Break – EXPO Prize-Giving Bonanza in the Huddle Area
Friday	11:30^FRI	5 Talks		Community Stage 5 Speakers from the Community - Lightning Talks Join us for 5 Different Stories	More
Friday	11:45^FRI	Keynote	Communication	Leadership is Everyone’s Responsibility Anne-Marie Charrett Testing Times, Australia	More
Friday	12:45^FRI	Farewell		Closing Remarks Kristoffer Nordström 2023 Conference Chair
Friday	12:55^FRI	Reveal		The Big Reveal 2024 Conference Chair 2024 Location
Friday	13:00^FRI	Lunchtime		Lunch and Friday Farewell Festival in the EXPO Hall
Friday	14:00^FRI	F9	Creating Healthy Organisations	9 out of 10 Testers Find These Things Most Annoying… (60min Session) Chris, Shey, Hanna, Veerle, Sanne Interactive Panel Session	More
Friday	14:00^FRI	F10	Methods of Collaboration	Make Yourself Future Proof while Improving your Soft Skills (90 min Workshop) Emna Ayadi & Ard Kramer Sogeti, France & OrangeCrest, Netherlands	More
Friday	14:00^FRI	F11		Do-Over Session Delegates Choose the Speaker Vote for Your Favourite Track Talk
Friday	16:00^FRI	FINISH		EuroSTAR 2023 Ends Safe travels home to all our attendees, partners & speakers Until next year!