Testing / Qa

STARWEST 2026

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STARWEST 2026 ran Sep 20–25, 2026 at Disneyland® Hotel in Anaheim, United States. It is a Testing / Qa conference. ConferenceGrid lists 71 speakers, 39 sponsors, 36 exhibitors and 213 sessions. Dates for the next edition are not announced yet.

Lineup updated Oct 15, 2026 · dates verified Jun 22, 2026

STARWEST 2026 is the world's leading conference for software testing and quality, held in Anaheim, CA and online. The event features over 75 talks, including keynotes, trainings, tutorials, and sessions, designed to inspire and help attendees tackle emerging and existing testing roadblocks. Opportunities for networking, leadership development, and profession…

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71Speakers
39Sponsors
36Exhibitors
213Sessions
92Companies · in total

Speakers

Programmed at STARWEST, in alphabetical order.

Adam Auerbach
VP of Cloud and DevTestSecOps · EPAM Systems
Aditi Jain
SDE · Amazon
Alfred Querubin
Tricentis
Alison McGuigan
Golden 1 Credit Union · Golden 1 Credit Union
Alison Wade
Coveros · Coveros
Anand Chinnakannan
Staff Data scientist · Walmart
Andrew Knight
Senior Director of Product Management · Cycle Labs
Anna Petrosyan
Acba Bank · Acba Bank
Aprajita Mathur
Associate Director, Bioinformatics System Software Engineering · Guardant Health
Brian Crumrine
Director, Test Engineering & Release · Pulsara
Cara Moccia
Senior Product Leader · Industry Expert
Chandana Mulpuri
IBM · IBM
Chris Loder
Senior QA Manager · Privacy Analytics
Christopher Leek
Quality Assurance Manager · ClearStar, Inc.
Dionny Santiago
Indeed · Indeed
Filip Hric
Community Manager & DevRel · Replay.io
Gregory Goldshteyn
Manager, Quality Assurance · Fox Corporation
Heather Thacker
Gatling · Gatling
Ian Verhaegen
Panaya
Jaimee Finney
Global Director of Learning & Development · PLAYSTUDIOS
Janna Loeffler
Director of Software Quality Engineering · Industry Expert
Jason Arbon
Principal · IcebergQA

Sponsors

The companies behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.

BrowserStackPlatinum
LogiGearPlatinum
OpenTextPlatinum
OpenText DevOps CloudPlatinum
PerforcePlatinum
QasePlatinum
Q-ProsPlatinum
TestMu AIPlatinum
UiPathPlatinum
ApplitoolsGold
Aspire SystemsGold
CloudBeesGold
CoverosGold
InflectraGold
LeapworkGold
mablGold
PanayaGold
ProlificsGold
SmartBearGold
SofttekGold
Test IO, an EPAM CompanyGold
TestRailGold
TestRail by SembiGold
XrayGold
Xray by SembiGold
Digital.aiSilver
Checkpoint TechnologiesBronze
KatalonBronze
ParasoftBronze
Qt GroupBronze
testkubeBronze
TestRigorBronze
TestsigmaBronze
TestZeusBronze
ThundersBronze
PractiTestBronze Sponsor
TestGridSilver Sponsor
Test IOGold Sponsor
TricentisPremier

Agenda

Selected from 213 sessions.

  • Friday, September 25, 8:30am

    Testing & Quality Leadership Summit

  • Friday, September 25, 8:30am

    Women Who Test

  • Monday 1:00 PM

    A Quality Engineering Introduction to AI and Machine Learning

    Tutorials
  • Monday 1:00 PM

    Automation Framework Essentials

    Tutorials
  • Monday 1:00 PM

    Building Apps and Tests Together with AI: Agentic Spec-Driven Development

    Tutorials
  • Monday 1:00 PM

    Cursor and Claude Code for Test Automation Engineers (Advanced)

    Tutorials
  • Monday 1:00 PM

    Leading Your Agent Team: From Agent to Agentic Orchestration

    Tutorials
  • Monday 1:00 PM

    Smarter Test Design with Classification Trees and Pairwise Techniques

    Tutorials
  • Monday 1:00 PM

    Testing AI Systems That Refuse to Sit Still: Practical Evals, Red Teaming, and Oversight for AI Agents

    Tutorials

Quick answers

When is STARWEST 2026?
STARWEST 2026 ran Sep 20–25, 2026 at Disneyland® Hotel in Anaheim, United States.
Where is STARWEST 2026 held?
STARWEST 2026 was held at Disneyland® Hotel in Anaheim, United States.
Who is speaking at STARWEST 2026?
ConferenceGrid lists 71 speakers, including Adam Auerbach (VP of Cloud and DevTestSecOps, EPAM Systems), Aditi Jain (SDE, Amazon) and Alfred Querubin (Tricentis).
Who sponsors STARWEST 2026?
ConferenceGrid lists 39 sponsors, including BrowserStack, LogiGear, OpenText, OpenText DevOps Cloud and Perforce.
Company intelligence

What does it mean when 92 companies show up, and 37 bet on three roles at once?

92 companies. 37 are betting more than once.

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.

Who's in the room
37All threespeak · spons · exh
2Sponsoringsponsor only
0Exhibitingexhibitor only
53Speakingspeaker only

In all three roles

Coveros·Panaya·Qase·Tricentis·Applitools·Aspire Systems·BrowserStack·Checkpoint Technologies·CloudBees·Digital.ai·Inflectra·Katalon·Leapwork·LogiGear·mabl·OpenText·OpenText DevOps Cloud·Parasoft·Perforce·PractiTest·Prolifics·Q-Pros

Speakers by seniority

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

  • C-suite46%
  • VP-level46%
  • Director / Head of913%
  • Manager / Lead1115%
  • Engineer · IC913%
  • Research / Science23%
  • Other roles3245%

Of 71 speakers · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
#CompanyRolesSpeakers
1CoverosSponsor · GoldExhibitor5
2PanayaSponsor · GoldExhibitor2
3QaseSponsor · PlatinumExhibitor1
4TricentisSponsor · PremierExhibitor1
5ApplitoolsSponsor · GoldExhibitor-
6Aspire SystemsSponsor · GoldExhibitor-
7BrowserStackSponsor · PlatinumExhibitor-
8Checkpoint TechnologiesSponsor · BronzeExhibitor-
9CloudBeesSponsor · GoldExhibitor-
10Digital.aiSponsor · SilverExhibitor-
11InflectraSponsor · GoldExhibitor-
12KatalonSponsor · BronzeExhibitor-
13LeapworkSponsor · GoldExhibitor-
14LogiGearSponsor · PlatinumExhibitor-
Sponsors by tier
platinum9
23% of 39
gold16
41% of 39
silver1
3% of 39
bronze9
23% of 39
gold sponsor1
3% of 39
premier1
3% of 39
bronze sponsor1
3% of 39
silver sponsor1
3% of 39
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.

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