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AutomationSTAR 2026

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utomationSTAR is Europe’s biggest test automation conference, held in Antwerp. The event features practical sessions, real-world strategies, keynotes, tutorials, networking opportunities, and an expo with automation tools and services. Attendees can connect in-person, join community conversations, gain insights from industry peers, and return with ideas to…

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40Voices
3Underwriters
6Exhibitors
36On the bill · sessions
46Companies · in total
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The Voices

Programmed at AutomationSTAR, in alphabetical order.
Adam Sandman
Inflectra, USA
Alena Drebezgova
viadee Unternehmensberatung AG, Germany
Anais van Asselt
Choco, Germany
Anamika Mukhopadhyay
Nagarro, India
Aslam Khan
Robonito, Saudi Arabia
Damián Pereira
Endava, Uruguay
Dawid Pacia
PatchingIT, Poland
Deepshikha
Nagarro, India
Fabian Streitel
CQSE, Germany
Gáspár Nagy
Spec Solutions, Hungary
Gaurav Khurana
Microsoft
Geosley Andrades
ACCELQ, India
Gerard van Engelen
Openpeople
Giuseppe Donati
trivago, Germany
Gomathi Ramalingam
SIMBA Chain
Greg Bednarski
VML ES, Poland
Grzegorz Bednarski
VML
Hit Shiroya
Red Hat, India
Ioannis Papadakis
Snappi
James Bornefelt Westfall
Neatframe, Norway
Jason Arbon
testers.ai
Julio de Lima
Capco

— and 18 more, by name unsung —

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Underwritten By

The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.
testingONPlatinum
XrayPlatinum
TestMu AI (LambdaTest)
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The Programme

Selected from 36 sessions on the bill.
  • ### 08:30THU

    Quality Engineering Has an Identity Crisis… and AI Just Walked Into the Room

    Skills Growth
  • ### 09:00WED

    Agentic Mobile Test Automation: Why Now?

    Emerging Trends
  • ### 09:00WED

    AI-Driven API Test and Automation in Action

    Emerging Trends
  • ### 09:00WED

    AI for Testing in Action: From Automation Patterns to Productivity

    AI Augmentation
  • ### 09:00WED

    AI Testing Dojo: Build, Break & Master Agents

    AI Augmentation
  • ### 09:00WED

    One Agent to Watch Them All

    AI Augmentation
  • ### 09:00WED

    Poison Kills Poison: AI Tests AI

    AI Augmentation
  • ### 09:00WED

    Scalable Playwright Framework with AI

    Strategy
  • ### 09:45THU

    AI Metrics: When Numbers Hide Real Risk

    AI Augmentation
Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

An audience of 46 companies, parsed from the program.

“46 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
3Sponsoringsponsor only
6Exhibitingexhibitor only
37Companies Speakingspeaker only
№ 02Fig. 02 — The Voices, by Seniority
  • Other roles40100%

Of 40 on the bill · classified by free-text title

№ 03Fig. 03 — The Heaviest in the Room
  1. 01Nagarro, India3V
  2. 02testingONSp·P
  3. 03TestMu AI (LambdaTest)Sp
  4. 04XraySp·P
  5. 05BQAEx
  6. 06CloudBeatEx
  7. 07OpenTextEx
  8. 08TeamscasleEx
  9. 09TestBenchEx
  10. 10TestsigmaEx
  11. 11VML2V
  12. 12ACCELQ, India1V
  13. 13Bartosz ICT, Netherlands1V
  14. 14Boehringer Ingelheim1V
№ 04Fig. 04 — By Tier
platinum2
67% of 3
unspecified1
33% of 3