Hi there. I'm Rosie Sherry, and I'm your MoTaverse Weekly host.
And so it begins. It is MoTaCon Festival Week!
It's feeling pretty special how our platform is evolving and making it easier to set things up for our members. What started out as adding a dinner or two to our MoTaCon sessions has evolved into what we are now calling MoTaCon Festival Week with dinners, Leading With Quality, two socials, MoTaCon, karaoke and to finish it off, a Brighon Walk on Friday.
Community always emerges in interesting ways, and it's great we can offer this as a service to our community. Again, something I'll keep reiterating: community is a service.
If you are around this week, do say hello to myself and Team MoT. We really want to get to know y'all as much as possible.
And also, oh my, didn't we publish a lot last week? Amazing community work, thank you!
🔥 MoTaCon 2027 registration is now open. Yes, it is.
📸 Image this week represents festival vibes at MoTaCon.
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MoTaCon: how to make friends and grow your influence — Ady Stokes & Simon Tomes, with Neil Taylor, Preeti Gupta, Demi Van Malcot and Rosie Sherry
A warm pre-MoTaCon episode full of conference anticipation, community stories, practical advice for first-time attendees, and excitement around stars, selfies, Moments, meetups, and merch.
It's been thirty years. Same loop, better toys. — Joe Colantonio & Rosie Sherry
Joe Colantonio and Rosie Sherry on why testing keeps circling the same promises, and why building with AI is still the most fun they have had in years.
Upskilling in AI at scale — Simon Tomes & Helena Brown
How PwC moved from a handful of AI experts to upskilling their whole testing team
How can you test a system that you don't understand? — Kim Muncey
Kim shares how curiosity, knowing who to ask, and well-judged use of AI help them test systems they doesn't yet understand.
A GROW model for AI adoption — Simon Tomes & Preeti Gupta
Four mindsets to guide your AI strategy and implementation
It’s always a people problem: the reality behind AI in testing — Lewis Prescott
Explore the intersection of AI and human-centric design within the software development life cycle.
Test data driven development — Rick Spencer
Discover how to implement a data-first development methodology that ensures quality in analytics and reporting features without the need for dedicated testers.
Guardrails & Evals: Keeping your AI skills honest — Maneesh Maddala
Understand the necessity of implementing guardrails and evaluations when using AI tools in professional workflows.
Community Maxxing: trading doomscrolling for human connection and joy — Simon Tomes & Rosie Sherry
Swap the algorithm for your people by exploring Community Maxxing and why writing still matters for community builders who want to leave a positive impact.
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Moments in the MoTaverse, create your moment today.
- MoTacon 2026 - thoughts of 2025 — Gary Hawkes
- Your AI Generated the Test. But Did It Keep the Context? — Guljeet Nagpaul
- Anticipating for MoTaCon 2026 ! — Madhuri Mittal
- Restoring keyboard-only behavior in Claude Code on macOS — Danielle Engelhaupt
- Excited to talk RCAs at MoTaCon — Richard Adams
- Tester-led implementation reviews: Getting your devs, UX designers and testers to talk to each over — Jesse Berkeley
- Reflections on MoTacon and Testbash — Neil Taylor
- How does the AI "Car Wash Test" link back to QE? — Deborah Reid
- From Community and Conversations to Quality Strategy — Dalbir Sehmbi
- Guardrails and evals are not scary! — Oleksandr Romanov
- MoTaCon spoiler edition — Suzanne Kraaij
- Correlation does not equal causation — Emily O'Connor
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📆 All upcoming events
MoTaverse, in person
- Leaders Dinner - London Edition — Mon 28th Sept
- Leading With Quality - Brighton. SOLD OUT, add yourself to the waitlist.
- Engineering management beach party — Wed 30th Sept
- Leaders Dinner with TestMu AI. SOLD OUT, add yourself to the waitlist.
- MoTaCon 2026: Next week!
- MoTography at your service — Thu 1st Oct
- Leaders Dinner with Klarent — Thu 1st Oct
- 🎤 MoTaCon Karaoke night 🎤 — Oct 1st
- Brighton walking tour — Fri 2nd Oct
- MoTaCon 2027 — Sept 30th 2027
MoT Chapter events
- TWiQ, listen live, or join the stage, and join the Chapter.
- TWiC, listen live or join the stage, and join the Chapter
- MoT Newcastle September Event: UPDATED | MoT Newcastle
- Automate mobile app testing with Katalon | Katalon
- Guardrails & Evals: Keeping Your AI Skills Honest | MoT AI Chapter
- Testing What You Can't Control: Adam Davis | MoT Leeds
- Pre-MoTaCon social | MoT Brighton
- Strangers Showers - MoT Milan #3 | MoT Milan
- AI Is Writing Your Tests, Yet Nothing Is Getting Tested | Testkube
- AI, Actually: Engineering Reliable Agents, Leading Real Change | MoT Berlin
- Bring Playwright into Katalon | Katalon
- From test cases to AI-ready quality data: why structure matters | Sembi
- The Rise of Agentic Testing | MoT AI Chapter
- Session with The Thinking Tester (TBC) | MoT AI Chapter
- If AI is everywhere, what shall I do? | MoT AI Chapter
- AI Governance - Whose headache is it anyway? | MoT AI Chapter
Partner events
- AI Writes the Tests, yet Nothing Gets Tested — Testkube
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