Hi there. I'm Rosie Sherry, and I'm your MoTaverse Weekly host.
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⏳ Events happening this week: AI Assisted Exploratory Testing with Trowser, Testing AI When Every Answer Is Different.
📸 Photo this week is from a small selection of people who got on stage at MoTaCon 2025. Join us for MoTaCon 2026, it's your stage.
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Reducing the cost of curiosity with AI — Simon Tomes & Adam Davis
Build for fun, build to learn, build for business. How do the things you build outside work teach you inside it?
Roundtable: AI did the work. Did anyone do the thinking? — Melissa Fisher, with Gary Hawkes, Adam Davis & Scout Burghardt
Using AI isn't the same as doing good work.
Curious but sceptical: exploring AI as an engineering manager — Simon Tomes & Neil Younger
Explore how AI can support your decisions, research, and communication as an engineering manager, without replacing human connection
Whose voice is it anyway? AI slop, ramblings and the case for a quality feed — Rosie Sherry & Simon Tomes
Reflect on AI detection tools flagging LinkedIn slop, and building ramblings, bytes and quality feeds instead.
What to do when someone leaves your team — Neil Taylor & Simon Tomes
Build team resilience as colleagues leave and your team's knowledge changes shape
Moments in the MoTaverse, create your moment today.
- A still from my first Developer's meetup — Ujjwal Kumar Singh
- AI Orchestration Levels — Rahul Parwal
- Use Matt Pockock's skills to beat Common AI Entropy Failures — Rahul Parwal
- Ady asks the MoTaverse #3 — Ady Stokes
- All things security now has a home — Jesper Ottosen
- Head of Engineering Lesson 2 - Don't walk into accidental isolation — Gary Hawkes
- Throwback Wednesday: Life moves fast and slow when you support MoTaCon — Simon Tomes
- My thoughts before MoTaCon: Co-owning quality — Lisa Crispin
- Thoughts before MoTaCon: there goes the fear — Simon Tomes
- A Sunday With Creativity But Without Testing — Ujjwal Kumar Singh
- Rosie Sherry — 3 Moments this week: Grumpy Office: This is my happy face, Throwback Wednesday: TestBash 2016 Lunch Tables, and Thoughts before MoTaCon: Stability and Systems.
- Diana Dromey — 4 Moments this week: Submit proposals for contribution, Lead Chapters in the MoTaverse, Post Jobs, and 1 more.
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📆 All upcoming events
MoTaverse online:
- Influence, from the other side of the table — Masterclass — Sept 10th
- Test data driven development — Masterclass — Sept 23rd
MoTaverse, in person:
- Leaders Dinner, London — Sept 28th
- Leading With Quality is returning to Brighton. SOLD OUT, add yourself to the waitlist.
- Engineering management beach party — Sept 30th
- Leaders Dinner, Brighton — Sept 30th, SOLD OUT, add yourself to the wait list.
- Pre-MoTaCon Meetup | MoT Brighton
- MoTaCon 2026: 357 people already registered. Let's go!
- MoTography at your service — October 1st
- Brighton walking tour — Friday 2nd of October
MoT Chapter events:
- AI Assisted Exploratory Testing with Trowser | MoT AI Chapter
- The MoTaCon Pre-Party: The Spoiler Episode...Live from Groningen | MoT Netherlands
- AI, Agents and Trailblazers | MoT London
- MoT Manchester x Hippo Digital - The People behind the Testing | MoT Manchester
- Ministry of Testing Edinburgh: Meet testers and listen to talks | MoT Edinburgh
- MoT Newcastle September Event | MoT Newcastle
- Guardrails & Evals: Keeping Your AI Skills Honest | MoT AI Chapter
- Testing What You Can't Control: Adam Davis | MoT Leeds
- Pre-MoTaCon Meetup | MoT Brighton
- The Rise of Agentic Testing | MoT AI Chapter
Partner events
- Testing AI When Every Answer Is Different — Parasoft
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