Gary Hawkes | Activities
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We are incredibly excited to welcome Nancy Kelln to MoTaCon!Nancy has spent years rescuing chaotic, politically tangled implementations, and she’s identified a 'hidden' set of superpowers that qual...
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🖖 The hidden leadership of Quality Professionals: skills you only earn when everything goes to hell
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🖖 The hidden leadership of Quality Professionals: skills you only earn when everything goes to hell
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🖖 The hidden leadership of Quality Professionals: skills you only earn when everything goes to hell
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Small posts, big learnings: Why sharing matters more than ever - Ep 120
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TWiQ Episode 132 - AI debate extended version
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You don’t have to pick one AI tool. There is no #1 AI tool.AI tools that I use and recommend:* Claude for writing (code, non-code stuff) and long work. * ChatGPT for voice, quick search and tr...
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My AI tool stack
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My AI tool stack
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My AI tool stack
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It's funny that AI is all consuming over the internet, but when I look at my AI tool stack, there really isn't much there.Tools I actively use:
Claude has become the thing I'm most invested in at...
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My AI tool stack
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My AI tool stack
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My AI tool stack
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We are thrilled to welcome Adam Davis to the MoTaCon stage this year!Adam will be presenting a talk where he will move beyond theory to show how bringing "controlled chaos" into a safe environment ...
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🖖 When systems stop behaving: controlled chaos in practice
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🖖 When systems stop behaving: controlled chaos in practice
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🖖 When systems stop behaving: controlled chaos in practice
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The AI Collaboration Paradox - Robert Herbig
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Prompt engineering isn't the bottleneck anymore. Observability is.
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The curse of the live demo… and other testing superstitions - Ep 123
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Eggs, toilet seats and fundamental quality career advice - Ep 125
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It depends - Ask MoTaverse Anything - Ep 128
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Just to say I loved loved loved your chat with Rosie. So much of what you said especially around the future of AI I totally agree with. 🙏
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"Thank you both Adam and Judy, really appreciate it. 🙏"
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4.2.0 of MoT Software Quality Engineering Certificate
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4.1.0 of MoT Software Quality Engineering Certificate
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TWiQ Episode 132 - AI debate extended version
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TWiQ Episode 132 - AI debate extended version
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TWiQ Episode 132 - AI debate extended version
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It depends - Ask MoTaverse Anything - Ep 128
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TWiQ Episode 132 - AI debate extended version
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Are we ready? How quality coaches and engineers can use patience to support their teams.
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The power of proactive patience
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The power of proactive patience
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The power of proactive patience
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Stop trying to engineer your way out of listening to people
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We’ll soon find out what is truly special about human writing
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Do I belong in tech anymore?
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Evals in practice for an AI coding agent
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Master this practical framework for building a layered evaluation strategy to systematically verify, secure, and improve the output quality of AI coding agents using both deterministic and model-grade
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TWiQ Episode 132 - AI debate extended version
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Get ready for an interactive workshop, led by the one and only Melissa Fisher 🙌Melissa is an Ambassador of the MoTaverse and a Quality and Test Leader, specialising in owning and delivering end to ...
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🖖 Build your own Quality Management System
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🖖 Build your own Quality Management System
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🖖 Build your own Quality Management System
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And you're absolutely right! I have a love hate relationship with AI
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The forgotten part of quality: paying attention to production
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The forgotten part of quality: paying attention to production
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The forgotten part of quality: paying attention to production
Gary Hawkes
Head of Engineering
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Software QA Lead and tester who loves to see people grow, processes continuously improve and help organisations understand and support Quality Engineering. Recently promoted to Head of Engineering (Jul 2026).
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