Sessions

Learn how test coverage is a necessary condition for shipping AI, but not a sufficient condition for trusting it.

RiskStorming AI is a strategy tool that helps your team to not only identify high value risks, but also set up a plan on how to deal with them.

Explore the parallels between the lessons Stephen learnt in the RAF and his current work.

After watching this talk, you’ll be able to write smarter and more comprehensive tests in Java using Property-based Testing - and catch bugs you didn’t even know existed at a fraction of the effort

A panel discussion exploring how AI is really affecting engineering teams today, from tool adoption and team confidence to testing, leadership, and the risk of over-relying on automation.

James Pearce shares a practical framework for testing AI products by making them more verifiable, measuring risk clearly, and learning safely from production.

Preeti Gupta explains how teams can adopt AI in test automation while keeping human judgement, ownership, and quality at the centre.

Nick Pykett argues that AI is most useful in testing when it works within structured, step-based frameworks that preserve human control.

Explore how risk can guide smarter testing decisions.

Learn what produces usable tests and confident-looking garbage, and where the failure modes hide.

Watch this live demo where the audience was the test.

Learn how to survive and adapt as a solo test lead on a large, long-running project.

Stop treating quality as a final gate and start using these practical, field-tested rituals to bake reliability into your product from the very first idea.

See where AI genuinely helps, where it doesn’t, and how testers can stay firmly in control

Shipping fast shouldn't mean shipping blind.

Identify, test and improve AI guardrails through a structured, scenario-based framework that addresses common implementation failures and attack patterns.

A celebratory 'wins' episode full of community milestones, personal breakthroughs, bug catches, career confidence, and the many small moments that keep the MoTaverse moving.

A hot-takes episode on AI dependency, community knowledge sharing, silos, and why exploratory testing matters more than ever as software teams move faster.

A thoughtful, vulnerable episode about grief, identity, AI, writing, and the emotional cost of trying to influence quality in organisations that don’t always listen.

Live experimentation, technical glitches, and community challenges along the way

Stephen Platten, The Stoic Tester, joins Rosie to unpack how Stoicism, critical thinking, and spotting logical fallacies help testers navigate AI slop and governance gaps.

Principal Developer Advocate Adriana Vilela joins Rosie Sherry to explore tech careers, observability, OpenTelemetry, AI slop in open source, and why quality is still a very human job.

Principal engineer Abby Bangser explains how platform engineering shifts quality feedback into the infrastructure layer. And why that's a massive opportunity for quality engineers.

Adam Davis explains why observability, not prompt engineering, is the real challenge in AI-assisted projects, using his phone-display art project Pixelmesh as a live test bed.

Celebrate the creativity and courage of testers and quality engineers as they share stories, lessons, and ideas in just 99 seconds.

Map your skills, set learning goals, and grow as a testing generalist using the Periodic Table of Testing.

Explore how GenAI is changing quality by increasing complexity and uncertainty, making visible confidence more critical than ever.

Learn how to maintain quality when working under strict technical and operational constraints.

How do we know AI is doing a good enough job?

Same objectives, different tools!

Reflect on how burnout affects belonging at work and in the community, and how people can find their way back without starting over.

Dive into the world of advanced automation with Playwright

Evolve from executor to orchestrator by integrating AI and holistic product insights to accelerate quality in high-stakes engineering environments.

Master the art of quality coaching by learning how to facilitate activation sessions that empower developers to own automation and identify wobbly code

Discover how slowing down for alignment, learning, and shared knowledge enables faster and safer AI-driven testing

Explore ways to use imagination to move past bottlenecks and grow new quality leaders

Watch the season finale episode of The Testing Planet News

Join Kat and Callum to discover what's working, examples and traps in QC

This debate explored the role of quality coaching, how it differs from quality engineering and where it is most effective

What happens when a team struggles with the motivation to improve quality?