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STARWEST 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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65Speakers
34Sponsors
32Exhibitors
272On the bill · sessions
85Companies · in total
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Speakers

Programmed at STARWEST, in alphabetical order.
Adam Auerbach
VP of Cloud and DevTestSecOps · EPAM Systems
Aditi Jain
SDE · Amazon
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
Janna Loeffler
Director of Software Quality Engineering · Industry Expert
Jason Arbon
Principal · IcebergQA
Jeffery Payne
CEO and Founder · Coveros
Jeff Pierce
Managing Consultant · Coveros
Jennifer dos Santos
Director of Quality Engineer · Imprivata
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Sponsors

The houses 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
XrayGold
Digital.aiSilver
Checkpoint TechnologiesBronze
KatalonBronze
ParasoftBronze
Qt GroupBronze
testkubeBronze
TestsigmaBronze
ThundersBronze
PractiTestBronze Sponsor
Test IOGold Sponsor
TricentisPremier
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Agenda

Selected from 272 sessions on the bill.
  • Monday, September 21 1:00 PM

    A Quality Engineering Introduction to AI and Machine Learning

  • Monday, September 21 1:00 PM

    Automation Framework Essentials

  • Monday, September 21 1:00 PM

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

  • Monday, September 21 1:00 PM

    Cursor and Claude Code for Test Automation Engineers (Advanced)

  • Monday, September 21 1:00 PM

    Leading Your Agent Team: From Agent to Agentic Orchestration

  • Monday, September 21 1:00 PM

    Smarter Test Design with Classification Trees and Pairwise Techniques

  • Monday, September 21 1:00 PM

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

  • Monday, September 21 1:00 PM

    Test Smarter, Not Harder: How to Design Test Suites for Continuous Delivery

  • Monday, September 21 1:00 PM

    A Quality Engineering Introduction to AI and Machine Learning

    Tutorials
Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

What does it mean when 85 companies show up — and 33 bet on three roles at once?

85 companies. 33 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
33All threespeak · spons · exh
1Sponsoringsponsor only
0Exhibitingexhibitor only
51Companies Speakingspeaker only

The Triple-Threat

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

Speakers by seniority

25% of the speakers carry senior titles — C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite46%
  • VP-level46%
  • Director / Head of812%
  • Manager / Lead1117%
  • Engineer · IC711%
  • Research / Science23%
  • Other roles2945%

Of 65 on the bill · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
  1. 01CoverosSp·GEx5V
  2. 02ApplitoolsSp·GEx
  3. 03Aspire SystemsSp·GEx
  4. 04BrowserStackSp·PEx
  5. 05Checkpoint TechnologiesSp·BEx
  6. 06CloudBeesSp·GEx
  7. 07Digital.aiSp·SEx
  8. 08InflectraSp·GEx
  9. 09KatalonSp·BEx
  10. 10LeapworkSp·GEx
  11. 11LogiGearSp·PEx
  12. 12mablSp·GEx
  13. 13OpenText DevOps CloudSp·PEx
  14. 14PanayaSp·GEx
Sponsors by tier
platinum9
26% of 34
gold14
41% of 34
silver1
3% of 34
bronze7
21% of 34
gold sponsor1
3% of 34
bronze sponsor1
3% of 34
premier1
3% of 34
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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