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MoTaCon Festival season is open. 🎉No festival is complete without some sort of map. So feel free to dive into a basic interactive Google ...
talking about MoTaCon.
It's the 1st of October 2025 at 08:48 in the morning. Hundreds of people have already entered the Brighton Dome mingling in the Corn Exch...
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 o...
Continuing with an experiment. Let's look at the talk and workshop descriptions of MoTaCon 2026 and share my thoughts and reflections bef...
Whilst reviewing some pages on our site I stumbled across Yulia Tekin's article from 1st April 2021: Roadmap To Becoming A Test Automatio...
Simon Tomes is an awesome person who works incredibly hard for the MoTaverse. He has supported me and helped improve my ideas for years. ...
I've been reviewing a draft essay from a friend and ex-colleague of mine. He's a super experienced senior software architect and he's wri...
Sometimes, you just need to be near people. If you're in tech, it can feel like all you hear about is AI.Maybe you've worked with it...
Last week, out of the blue, I received a friendly message from Helen T. She let me know she’d just signed up to a Professional Membership...
Thanks to the MoT crew for organising MoT London AI, Agents and Trailblazers - it is always very interesting to see how external organisa...
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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