Ady Stokes
Freelance Consultant
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I am Open to Write, Teach, Speak, Meet at MoTaCon 2026, Podcasting
STEC Certified. MoT Ambassador, speaker, and accessibility advocate. Consulting, training, Leeds meetup host. MoT Certs curator and contributor. Testing wisdom, friendly, jokes, parody songs and poems

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TestBash Brighton 2025 Attendee
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Author Debut
99 and Counting
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Open to Opportunities
Found at 404
Picture Perfect
Story Sharer

Contributions

TWiQ: Testing in production - EP 107 image
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Celebrate the launch of This Week in Quality as the community tests a new platform, shares MoTaCon highlights, and reflects on how quality connects us all.
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  • Elly Gausden's profile
  • Louise Woodhams's profile
  • Richard Adams's profile
  • Eamon Droko's profile
  • Jesse Berkeley's profile
  • Chris Grubel's profile
  • Emily O'Connor's profile
  • Nicola Furniss's profile
  • Preeti's profile
  • Aaron Pinto's profile
  • Vanessa Zettler's profile
02/10/25. It's Thursday. The time is 16:03. It's Day 2 of MoTaCon. And I've never seen the 99-Second Talks queue grow so quickly. And even after this photo more people turned up. Such is the...
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  • Aaron Pinto's profile
Big thanks to everyone who supported us through this wild year of building Epic Test Quest from early interviews to testing our prototypes and giving us honest feedback. It was amazing to meet so ...
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Enjoying the banter, chemistry and passion for testing, quality and people, from the, err, Morecambe and Wise of our industry ⭐️👏🏽
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Scott and Ady take the stage at MoTacon 2025
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The MoTaCon (nee TrstBash) event team were on site from 7am getting everything ready. Hope you enjoyed the day?
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TestaBash is no more as we move to a quality first focused community. It is the era of MoTaCon.
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A virtually empty Brighton Dome main stage awaits 500+ eager minds ready to learn all the things
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Scott and I are heading to Brighton and taking advantage of first class between Leeds and London. Hopefully no problems like yesterday.
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MoT Leeds embarked on a new partnership with Hippo IT Services and Consultancy holding the September meetup in their community space. On LinkedIn they said; What a brilliant evening with the Min...
Quality people, all aboard the TestBash train! - Ep 106 image
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Feel the MoTaverse energy as quality people prepare for TestBash, share accessibility stories, and swap career advice.
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Was a great session at MoT Leeds with Scott and I hosting a workshop, elevating your career by becoming a generalist. Good turnout and great discussions. Thanks to everyone who came. But don’t as...
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