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Agile Testing Days 2026

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four-day hybrid conference for experienced software testers and engineers, focused on advanced practices, real-world challenges, and hands-on learning. Features more than 100+ sessions including inspiring keynotes, experience talks, hands-on workshops and full-day tutorials.

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103Speakers
14Sponsors
39On the bill · sessions
14Companies · in total
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Speakers

Programmed at Agile, in alphabetical order.
Aki Salmi
Software developer
Alex Schladebeck
CEO
Andrea Jensen
Tester & QA Manager
Andrej Thiele
Senior Consultant
Andrew Brown
Consultant
Anna Bommas
Test Consultant
Annelie Coetzee
Enterprise Agile Coach
Anne-Marie Charrett
Consultant
Bart Knaack
IT Consultant
Bart Van Raemdonck
Technical Lead Software Testing
Ben Linders
Trainer / Coach / Adviser / Author / Speaker
Callum Akehurst-Ryan
Staff Quality Engineer
Carl Kibler
Head of Engineering
Chris Armstrong
DevRel Test Advocate
Christian Baumann
Principal Test Architect
Christine Pinto
CTPO
Christopher Chant
Senior Quality Coach
Clare Norman
Senior Quality Coach
David Lutt
No
Dragan Spiridonov
Founder & Agentic Quality Engineer
Elisabeth Hendrickson
consultant
Elizabeth Zagroba
Lead DevOps Engineer - Test Automation
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Sponsors

The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.
QaseGold
CQSESilver
Brightest GmbHBronze
Icaria TechnologyBronze
ooseBronze
SquashTMBronze
Agile Testing Fellowship
German Tech Jobs
ITCB
SmartBear SoftwareBronze Sponsor
Tabara de Testare
Teamscale by CQSESilver Sponsor
trendig GmbHOrganizer
Vihat Technologies
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Agenda

Selected from 39 sessions on the bill.
  • 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.

    Speaker Prep Workshop - Part 1

  • 3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.

    Speaker Prep Workshop - Part 2

  • 5:15 p.m. – 6:15 p.m.

    Push, Pull, Panic: Why doors, and software, fail us

  • Monday, Nov. 16, 5:15 p.m. – 6:15 p.m.

    Push, Pull, Panic: Why doors, and software, fail us

    Other
  • Monday, Nov. 16 (Masterclass Day)

    Build an Agile Line-Follower Robot

  • Monday, Nov. 16 (Masterclass Day)

    Building Sustainable Quality in the Age of AI

  • Monday, Nov. 16 (Masterclass Day)

    Build Your Own “Self-Healing” Testing Agent

  • Monday, Nov. 16 (Masterclass Day)

    Design For Trust: Engineer Agentic Trustworthy Systems

  • Monday, Nov. 16 (Masterclass Day)

    How to Change a System

Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

An audience of 14 companies, parsed from the program.

Fourteen companies in attendance.

The numbers below are derived from the speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors on this page — cross-referenced into one ledger. They are the only thing here that 10times.com cannot tell you.

01Fig. 01 — Composition of the House
0All threespeak · spons · exh
14Sponsoringsponsor only
0Companies Speakingspeaker only
02Fig. 02 — Speakers, by Seniority

24% of the speakers carry senior titles — C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite1111%
  • Founder / Owner44%
  • VP-level11%
  • Director / Head of99%
  • Manager / Lead2928%
  • Engineer · IC2928%
  • Research / Science11%
  • Other roles1918%

Of 103 on the bill · classified by free-text title

03Fig. 03 — The Heaviest in the Room
  1. 01Agile Testing FellowshipSp
  2. 02BrightestSp·B
  3. 03CQSESp·S
  4. 04German Tech JobsSp
  5. 05Icaria TechnologySp·B
  6. 06ITCBSp
  7. 07ooseSp·B
  8. 08QaseSp·G
  9. 09SmartBear SoftwareSp·B
  10. 10SquashTMSp·B
  11. 11Tabara de TestareSp
  12. 12Teamscale by CQSESp·S
  13. 13trendig GmbHSp·O
  14. 14Vihat TechnologiesSp
04Fig. 04 — By Tier
gold1
7% of 14
silver1
7% of 14
bronze4
29% of 14
organizer1
7% of 14
bronze sponsor1
7% of 14
silver sponsor1
7% of 14
unspecified5
36% of 14
05Fig. 05 — The Missing · who's at peer events but not here

These companies sponsored two or more peer events recently, but aren't on this program. For an organizer, that's a list of warm prospects.

06Fig. 06 — Adjacent Convocations · by shared underwriters

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