2024 | EuroSTAR Conference

EuroSTAR 2024 Programme

The 2024 EuroSTAR Software Testing Conference took place in Stockholmsmässan. The theme is ‘What are we Doing Here‘?

The 2025 EuroSTAR Software Testing Conference will take place in Edinburgh – the theme is ‘AI on Trial’.

We look forward to welcoming all of our speakers, attendees and partners to EuroSTAR 2025, 3-6 June in Edinburgh.

Below is the 2024 Programme – Click here for 2025 Programme .

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!