99 Second Talks – Day 1 – TestBash Brighton / MoTaCon 2025

17 Oct 2025
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  • Jarsto van Santen's profile
  • Ady Stokes's profile
  • Brandon Conley's profile
  • Christine Pinto's profile
  • Oleksandr Romanov's profile
  • Andrew Morton's profile
  • Antonella Scaravilli's profile
  • Scott Kenyon's profile
  • Jokin Aspiazu's profile
  • Gary Hawkes's profile
  • Richard Adams's profile
  • Chris Pratt's profile
  • Rahul Parwal's profile
  • Eamon Droko's profile
  • Philippa Jennings's profile
  • Dalbir Sehmbi's profile
  • Madhuri Mittal's profile
  • Keara Phillips-Vabre's profile
  • Tom Game's profile
  • Shweta Jaju's profile
  • Mariem SAFI's profile
  • Preeti's profile
  • Heleen Van Grootven's profile
  • Emmanuel Pedralvez's profile
  • Kieran Webb's profile
  • Lex Reinhardt's profile
  • Simon Long's profile
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Talk Description

Experience the energy and spontaneity of the 99 Second Talks, an MoT tradition where attendees take the conference stage to share their thoughts, stories, and insights in just 99 seconds.

You’ll hear a fast-paced mix of testing lessons, personal reflections, and big ideas sparked by the conference. Each talk offers a glimpse into the diverse voices and experiences that make the MoTaverse so unique.

By the end of this session, you'll be able to:

  • Recognise the value of sharing your own experiences to contribute to the MoTaverse community
  • Reflect on a range of perspectives and stories from peers in quality
  • Identify ideas and insights you can apply in your own work and learning journey.
Stu Day
Head of Quality

I've been in the software testing & quality world since 1997 and love it. I'm a senior leader, a coach, international speaker, workshop facilitator, writer & founder of Quality Talks.

Chapter Organiser
Jarsto van Santen
Specialist Test Engineer
He/Him

Specialist/Lead Engineer - love the technical side of testing, but also helping people grow and understand quality in new ways. Occasional public speaker.

Ady Stokes
Freelance Consultant
He / Him

STEC Certified. MoT Ambassador, writer, speaker, accessibility advocate. Consulting, Leeds Chapter host. MoT Certs curator. Testing wisdom, friendly, songs and poems. Great minds think differently

Chapter Organiser
Ambassador
Brandon Conley
Development Support Team Lead

Over 20 years testing experience in various functions looking to break in to the Climate/Green/Tech For Good space.

Christine Pinto
CPTO of Epic Test Quest

Co-Founder and CTPO @Epic Test Quest | Conference speaker on AI and Quality Leadership | Long-time tester | Building tools testers actually enjoy using | Join the quest to level up software quality

Oleksandr Romanov
Senior Software Engineer in Test
He/him

14+ years in testing and engineering | Co-host at Testing Minutes podcast | Writing and podcasting about test engineering, performance, AI, blockchain, and distributed systems | Views are my own

Ambassador
Andrew Morton
MoT Developer
He/Him/His

Fell into testing after getting a temporary job doing UAT and discovered he was actually good at it. Moved into development after deciding that the best way to build quality in was to do it.

MoTaverse Team
Antonella Scaravilli
QA Engineer
she/her

My job consists of helping teams be more autonomous and own our product's quality. Sometimes I test, sometimes I teach others how to test. Sometimes I test myself as well.

Scott Kenyon
Program lead - Software Tester - BPP Education Group
He / Him

I'm the program lead in software testing apprenticeships for the BPP education Group. international speaker, accessibility, communication & neurodiversity advocate & co-run MoT Leeds meetup

Chapter Organiser
Jokin Aspiazu
Fellow Tester

Jokin as been a Software Tester since 2008, he had moved from Waterfall to Agile, from Test cases to Exploratory testing, from Excel to Rapid Software Testing. He has learnt from James Bach & Michael Bolton, from Huib Schoots & Richard Bradshaw, from Lisa Crispin & Fiona Charles, from Pekka Marjamäki & Martin Hynie … and one night he invited Pradeep Soundararajan to dinner, so he knows about the secret sauce of testing. After a couple of years experimenting as Product Owner, he is back to testing, now trying the test consultant way.

Gary Hawkes
QA Lead
He/Him

Software QA Lead and tester who loves to see people grow, processes continuously improve and help organisations understand and support Quality Engineering

Ambassador
Richard Adams
Senior Test Analyst
He / Him

Passionate about quality & testing. Creator of Threat Agents card game and regularly found chatting cyber security.

Chapter Organiser
Chris Pratt
Quality & Testing Practitioner
he/him

Always learning. Enjoy unpacking tricky problems, sharing experiences, and thinking out loud about how we build better systems together.

Chapter Organiser
Rahul Parwal
Test Specialist

Rahul Parwal is a Test Specialist with expertise in testing, automation, and AI in testing. He’s an award-winning tester, and international speaker.

Want to know more, Check out testingtitbits.com

Ambassador
Eamon Droko
QA Engineer
He/him

QA Engineer working for Two Circles

Chapter Organiser
Ambassador
Philippa Jennings
Quality Engineer
She/Her

I love talking about how building Quality in continuously from the start can help us to deliver great software through a strategic blend of exploratory testing, automation, and quality coaching.

Dalbir Sehmbi
Quality Assurance Manager
He/Him

Quality Engineering Leader | 19+ Years in QA Transformation | Test Management | Global Team Leadership | AI-Driven Testing | Driving Innovation & High-Quality Solutions

Madhuri Mittal
QA Engineer
She

An ambitious QA engineer who lives with and for quality!

Looking forward to resume my career after 2 years of full time parenting break.

Keara Phillips-Vabre
QA Engineer
She/Her

Team Account Member
Tom Game
Software Quality & Test Engineer
He/Him

Software Quality & Test Engineer Apprentice excited to apply my FMCG experience and passion for problem-solving within Technology.
Motorsport geek 🏎🤓 | Proud Dyslexic 🌈♾️ | #TheTestingGame

Shweta Jaju
Quality Coach
She / Her

I am a quality coach who focuses on creating a collaborative environment within teams, helps implement best practices and raises the difficult questions that are on everyone's minds anyway.

Team Account Member
Mariem SAFI
QA Engineer
She/her

Self taught QA Tester, mum, co-founder of an NGO supporting pregnant women and new parents.
Passionate and persevering person.

Preeti
QA Lead

I am having 17+ years of experience in software quality assurance, test automation, and team leadership and management

Heleen Van Grootven
Testing Engineer
They/them - she/her

After a decade in communications, I switched to testing—turns out that I really like figuring out how things work and how they fit together. Always open to learning more and meeting new people!

Emmanuel Pedralvez
QA Team Lead
He/Him

Passionate about quality

Kieran Webb

Lex Reinhardt
Quality-Focused Software Solutions Architect

Simon Long

Selmen
Starting with "I'm here to explain why I regret joining the Ministry of Testing community." That was a scary intro for a 99-second talk! But as always, you should never judge a 99-second talk by its intro. Great presentation, Mariem Safi! I hope to see you live on stage next time.

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