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QA Leadership Summit 2026

Join over 20,000 QA leaders at the QA Leadership Summit to learn how AI-native products are driving a transformation in quality assurance. This virtual summit focuses on the latest innovations and best practices in leveraging artificial intelligence to elevate QA processes. The event will explore real-world insights from industry experts and provide strategi…

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26Speakers
0Sponsors
15Sessions
17Companies · in total

Speakers

Programmed at QA, in alphabetical order.

Ahmed El-Deeb
QA Manager · Amazon
Ajesh Viswambharan
Director of Quality Engineering · BrowserStack
Akhil Gundawar
Director of Product Management · BrowserStack
Anamika Mukhopadhyay
Associate Director · Nagarro
Ashish Kona
Product Growth Manager · BrowserStack
Avinash Ahuja
Manager Solution Architect · NVIDIA
Deepshikha
Associate Director · Nagarro
Dhimil Gosalia
Vice President of Products · BrowserStack
Erika Chestnut
Founder & Executive Coach · Powerhouse Professionals
Harit Narke
Lead Software Engineer · Mastercard
Hilary Weaver
Senior Quality Engineer · Microsoft
Jason Huggins
Vibe Coder · Vibium
Jenna Charlton
Developer Advocate · BrowserStack
Jenny Bramble
Sr Manager of Quality Assurance Engineering · AvidXchange, Inc.
Juhi Sabharwal
Head of Developer Marketing & Community · BrowserStack
Marc Boroditsky
Technology Leader · Nebius
Mark Nicholas Angeles
QE Director · Sun Life
Mary Jinugu
Senior Software Engineering Manager · Teladoc Health
Nakul Aggarwal
CTO & Co-founder · BrowserStack
Prajakt Deshpande
Head of Engineering · Atlassian
Prince Batra
AI Automation Engineer · EPAM Systems
Richard Hand
Assistant VP · Genpact

Agenda

Selected from 15 sessions.

  • 10:05 AM - 10:55 AM PT

    The Pioneer’s Playbook: Non-Determinism and the AI-Native QA Era

    Software testing is at a massive inflection point, but separating the genuine breakthroughs from the noise is harder than ever. In this candid fireside chat, we sit down with Jason…

  • 10:55 AM - 11:10 AM PT

    Building an AI-Native Quality Operating System in the Age of AI: From Manual QA to Intelligent Quality Engineering

    In the rush to adopt AI, most organizations ask, “How can this help us move faster?” But for Mary, the real transformation hasn’t been about speed, it’s been about perspective. As …

  • 1:10 PM - 2:05 PM PT

    Building Gender-Expansive Teams in Tech

    Panel exploring gender diversity in QA, moving beyond DEI buzzwords to core practicalities, pronoun usage, and creating authentic, safe spaces for all genders.

  • 11:10 AM - 11:40 AM PT

    Testing AI agents: From confident answers to trustable outcomes

    AI agents do not just respond. They reason, decide, use tools, and act. And sometimes, they can also get it wrong in ways that look completely right. This reality makes it differen…

  • 11:40 AM - 12:20 PM PT

    Scaling Your QA Career: From IC to VP

    What does it really take to grow from writing test cases to leading global engineering teams? In this fireside chat, Richard Hand, Assistant Vice President at Genpact, shares his j…

  • 12:20 PM - 12:50 PM PT

    Guarding the Brand: Leveraging AI to Catch "Invisible" UI Regressions at Scale

    While functional automation confirms that an application works, it is often "blind" to the subtle visual regressions that dilute brand trust and degrade user experience. For organi…

  • 2:05 PM - 2:35 PM PT

    Have Some Cake With Your Frosting: Testing Both the UI and API Layers

    While many testers are conditioned to focus primarily on the user interface, the true business logic and some of the most critical defects reside within the underlying web services…

  • 2:35 PM - 2:40 PM PT

    What Comes Next: Turning Insight into Impact

    Final remarks to synthesize the biggest takeaways on the future of AI-native quality engineering, followed by logistical updates and networking reception announcement.

  • 7:30 AM - 7:35 AM PT

    Welcome to Breakpoint'26

    Welcome to the frontier of software quality. Join us as we officially open the doors to Breakpoint 2026. We will set the agenda, align our focus, and prepare to tackle the hardest …

Company intelligence

An audience of 17 companies, parsed from the program.

Seventeen companies in attendance.

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Who's in the room
0All threespeak · spons · exh
0Sponsoringsponsor only
17Speakingspeaker only
Speakers by seniority

46% of the speakers carry senior titles: C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite14%
  • Founder / Owner14%
  • VP-level28%
  • Director / Head of831%
  • Manager / Lead727%
  • Engineer · IC415%
  • Other roles312%

Of 26 speakers · classified by free-text title

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Tiers were not disclosed for this event.