Testing / Qa

PNSQC 2026

The 44th Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference (PNSQC 2026) is themed 'Quality in the Age of Autonomy' and brings together practitioners, researchers, and leaders in software quality. The event features keynotes including Maaret Pyhäjärvi from Finland and Jonathon Wright from England, hands-on workshops, paper sessions, and a free virtual track. With…

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12Speakers
3Sponsors
18Sessions
9Companies · in total

Speakers

Programmed at PNSQC, in alphabetical order.

Anna Sharpe
Software Test Engineer
Anne-Louise Sterry
Audacious Joy Expert
Florian Rohde
Principal SDV Expert · iProcess Consulting
Gowtham Gundu
Chief AI Officer
Jason Arbon
CEO founder · testers.ai
Jonathon Wright
Chief AI Officer · Keysight Technologies
Kevin Pyles
Lead Software Architect · NiCE
Kristine O'Connor
Sr. Agile Transformation Consultant · Agile Rising
Maaret Pyhäjärvi
Director of AI-Enhanced Application Testing · CGI
Millan Kaul
Engineering Leader
Paul Grizzaffi
Wayne Roseberry

Sponsors

The companies behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.

CambrionixPlatinum
PLUS QAPlatinum
TricentisPlatinum

Agenda

Selected from 18 sessions.

  • TBA

    AI Cost & Quality Governance

    As generative AI moves from experimentation to production, organizations face a difficult balancing act: improving output quality while keeping inference costs predictable and sust…

  • TBA

    A Year Living With AI - Lessons Learned

    The role of a software engineer in test will always revolve around ensuring high quality products are delivered to our customers. However, the world of AI is here and here to stay,…

  • TBA

    Better Together: Humans, AI, and the Next Quality Benchmark

    Maaret Pyhäjärvi benchmarked testing results on a known-buggy ToDo app, comparing herself testing alone, herself with AI, AI guided by her prompts, AI alone, and 57 other human tes…

  • TBA

    Cutting Through the Noise: AI Tools That Actually Moved the Needle

  • TBA

    From Pilot to Production: What It Actually Takes to Scale AI in Testing

  • TBA

    How AI Tests Software

    AI can do more than write test scripts. It can read requirements, examine code, explore an application, investigate failures, and fix what it finds. But asking AI to “test this” is…

  • TBA

    In Defense of the Tester: Why Humans Still Matter

  • TBA

    Inside Tesla: The Birth of the Software-Defined Vehicle and Quality in the Age of Autonomy

    This keynote provides a first-hand view into how Tesla built and operated software for vehicles during the formative years of the Software-Defined Vehicle. It explains the processe…

  • TBA

    More Code. Less Certainty. Now What?

    _Subtitle: From experimenting with AI to owning its total cost. What leaders often underestimate_ AI is accelerating software delivery at an unprecedented pace. Teams are generati…

Company intelligence

An audience of 9 companies, parsed from the program.

Nine companies in attendance.

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Who's in the room
0All threespeak · spons · exh
3Sponsoringsponsor only
6Speakingspeaker only
Speakers by seniority

33% of the speakers carry senior titles: C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite325%
  • Director / Head of18%
  • Manager / Lead217%
  • Engineer · IC217%
  • Other roles433%

Of 12 speakers · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
#CompanyRolesSpeakers
1CambrionixSponsor · Platinum-
2Plus QASponsor · Platinum-
3TricentisSponsor · Platinum-
4Agile Rising1
5CGI1
6iProcess Consulting1
7Keysight Technologies1
8NiCE1
9Testers.AI1
Sponsors by tier
platinum3
100% of 3