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First up, thanks to our sponsors who help expand the MoTaverse. 🙏
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Who will you MoT and Greet and upcoming Chapters? Last week we mentioned Meetups are now Chapters and we're in transition of having them all available in the MoTaverse platform. It's happening!
MoT and greet people at upcoming Chapter events:
- MoT Cambridge: Tuesday February 3rd
- MoT Leeds: Thursday February 5th
- MoT Brighton: Thursday February 12th
- MoT Netherlands: Thursday 19th February
- MoT London: Thursday 26th February
💰 In 2025 the community started sharing their salary details with the MoTaverse. We now have a table available of the latest 200 entries available to Professional Members. In 2026 we will continue to gather this data, aim to increase the number of contributions and do some deeper analysis. View the Quality and Software Testing Salaries database.
🚢 The MoTaverse has been shipping
- Small posts, big learnings: Why sharing matters more than ever - Ep 120
- From testers to quality advocates: Understanding the shift to quality engineering
- Discovering confidence through community - Into The MoTaverse - Episode 1
- Make your best Ambassador face
- Five practical ways to use AI as a partner in Quality Engineering
- A New Dutch Chapter Rising: 100 Members Strong and Growing 🎉
- MoT Goals for 2026 keep growing 🚀
📆 Upcoming Events
Virtual Opportunities:
- We can test in production: An introduction to shifting testing right.
- RiskStorming: Artificial Intelligence
- TWiQ, listen live, or join the stage.
In person:
- MoTaCon 2026: you can submit to speak. Remember, to attend MoTaCon 2026 you need a Professional Membership (available for teams!), no separate ticket purchase is required. Registration is required, save your place today. 123 people booked already.
- Leading With Quality is returning to Brighton, right before MoTaCon. Save your spot, it will sell out. 75% booked.
Partner events:
- AI in Software Testing: What’s Real. What’s Hype. What Actually Helps in 2026.
- How to Cut API Testing Time - live demo and Q&A
- Contract Testing: Debunking the Doubts
- RBCN 2026
- RBCN 2026 - Online
From The Observatory:
The Observatory is where we and the community share blogs, articles, videos and news from the quality ecosystem. It will save you time in searching through the chaos of the social web.
Here are our top picks, visit The Observatory for the full list!
⭐️ From the MoTaverse community:
- Holistic Testing with Lisa Crispin — Engineering Quality
- Releases should be smooth, fast, and boring — Elizabeth Zagroba
- The origins of Quality Engineering lie in the prevention of product failures in Japan. — Mike Harris
- Extending My Agentic SDLC Demo: Adding Vibium Test Support Alongside Playwright — Beth Marshall
- Automation Is Not a Tool Problem. It Is a Thinking Problem. — Ujjwal Kumar Signh
- The Human Dimensions of Assurance — Ashok Thiruvengadam
- On Dream Teams — Susanne Abdelrahman
- AI did not break testing — Kat Obring
⭐️ Industry tech news:
- AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage
- Microsoft Shuts Down Library, Replaces It With AI
- ICE’s AI Tool Has Been a Complete Disaster
- Does AI help us care less?
- Claude Code Won't Fix Your Life
Company pages:
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