Simon Tomes | Activities
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MoTaCon: how to make friends and grow your influence
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MoTaCon: how to make friends and grow your influence
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MoTaCon: how to make friends and grow your influence
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MoTaCon: how to make friends and grow your influence
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MoTaCon: how to make friends and grow your influence
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MoTaCon: how to make friends and grow your influence
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MoTaCon: how to make friends and grow your influence
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MoTaCon: how to make friends and grow your influence
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MoTaCon: how to make friends and grow your influence
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MoTaCon: how to make friends and grow your influence
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MoTaCon: how to make friends and grow your influence
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MoTaCon: how to make friends and grow your influence
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MoTaCon: how to make friends and grow your influence
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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.
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Thank you for choosing MoTaCon. See you there! 🎉
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Thanks for encouraging your colleague to attend MoTaCon.
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Pre-pre-MoTaCon Social
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Gather the day before the pre-MoTaCon Social with the pre-pre-MoTaCon Social
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Melissa Fisher awarded me a star for my "making presentations accessible guide". Helping people is my most favourite reason for receiving stars. Thank you Melissa, happy to help
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My favourite reason for getting a Community Star, helping people
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My favourite reason for getting a Community Star, helping people
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My favourite reason for getting a Community Star, helping people
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Thanks for joining the TWiQ stage!
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Thanks for joining the TWiQ stage!
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Thanks for joining the TWiQ stage!
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Thanks for joining the TWiQ stage!
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Thanks for co-hosting TWiQ. Always a pleasure to co-host with you.
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First time meets are far from neat
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Great to see you amplify Neil Taylor in the TWiQ chat. 🤩
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Member joined TWiQ — This Week in Quality chapter
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This Week in Quality
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MoTaCon 2027
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Register, save the date and stay tuned!
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First time meets are far from neat
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First time meets are far from neat
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Simon's always encouraged me to interact with the larger MoT community. He let's me know that all of us have knowledge worth sharing and questions worth asking that enrich and diversify the MoTaverse. Thank you, Simon, for leading by example.
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I have always really enjoyed all my trips to Brighton for Testbash and more recently MoTaCon ever since the first one I came to back in April of 2013. It not been possible to make it every ye...
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Reflections on MoTacon and Testbash
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Reflections on MoTacon and Testbash
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First time meets are far from neat
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Person A meets Person B. It’s the first time they’ve met face-to-face and they immediately hit it off. Both take time to listen to each other. Their body language is open. Both are genuinely intere...
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Kim shares how curiosity, knowing who to ask, and well-judged use of AI help them test systems they doesn't yet understand.
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How can you test a system that you don't understand?
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How can you test a system that you don't understand?
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How can you test a system that you don't understand?
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MoT London
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OpenAI agent hacks Australia's Medicare in world's first known rogue AI breach of government body
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Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges
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Thank you for choosing MoTaCon. See you there! 🎉
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Anthropic CEO Amodei warns UN Security Council on AI risks
Simon Tomes
Community Lead at MoTaverse
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Hello, I'm Simon. Since 2003 I've had various roles in testing, tech leadership and coaching. I believe in the power of collaboration, creativity and community. 🎓 MoT-STEC qualified. I get real joy working with and supporting our wonderful MoTaverse community.
“Thanks for making me feel so confident about myself.” | “I'm so grateful for all you do in the MoTaverse community, I learn so much as a result!” | “A simple chat with Simon in person absolutely changed everything.” | “Simon is one of the best people that I've ever met to have conversations with. He's so grounded in his way of thinking and articulates his thoughts so well and his feelings and his knowledge about community and everything.”
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