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TARWEST 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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55Speakers
32Sponsors
28Exhibitors
59On the bill · sessions
53Companies · 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
Alison Wade
Coveros · Coveros
Anand Chinnakannan
Staff Data scientist · Walmart
Andrew Knight
Senior Director of Product Management · Cycle Labs
Anna Petrosyan
Acba Bank
Chandana Mulpuri
IBM
Chris Loder
Senior QA Manager · Privacy Analytics
Christopher Leek
Quality Assurance Manager · ClearStar, Inc.
Dionny Santiago
Indeed
Filip Hric
Community Manager & DevRel · Replay.io
Gregory Goldshteyn
Manager, Quality Assurance · Fox Corporation
Heather Thacker
Gatling
Janna Loeffler
Director of Software Quality Engineering · Industry Expert
Jeffery Payne
Jeff Pierce
Jennifer dos Santos
Director of Quality Engineer · Imprivata
Jeremiah Marble
3rd Rodeo AI
Jonathan Miller Kauffman
Senior Consultant · Coveros, Inc.
Julie Gardiner
Principal Consultant · EPAM Systems
Júlio de Lima
Principal QA Automation Engineer · Capco, a Wipro Company
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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
CloudBeesGold
CoverosGold
InflectraGold
LeapworkGold
mablGold
PanayaGold
ProlificsGold
SmartBearGold
SofttekGold
Test IO, an EPAM CompanyGold
TestRailGold
XrayGold
digital.aiSilver
Digital.aiSilver
Checkpoint TechnologiesBronze
ParasoftBronze
Qt GroupBronze
testkubeBronze
TestkubeBronze
testsigmaBronze
TestsigmaBronze
TricentisPremier
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Agenda

Selected from 59 sessions on the bill.
  • Monday, September 21 - 1:00 PM–4:30 PM

    A Quality Engineering Introduction to AI and Machine Learning

    Half-day Tutorial - ML
  • Monday, September 21 - 1:00 PM–4:30 PM

    Automation Framework Essentials

    Half-day Tutorial - MO
  • Monday, September 21 - 1:00 PM–4:30 PM

    Becoming an AI-Native Testing Organization

    Half-day Tutorial - MJ
  • Monday, September 21 - 1:00 PM–4:30 PM

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

    Half-day Tutorial - MQ
  • Monday, September 21 - 1:00 PM–4:30 PM

    Cursor and Claude Code for Test Automation Engineers (Advanced)

    Half-day Tutorial - MN
  • Monday, September 21 - 1:00 PM–4:30 PM

    Leading Your Agent Team: From Agent to Agentic Orchestration

    Half-day Tutorial - MP
  • Monday, September 21 - 1:00 PM–4:30 PM

    Smarter Test Design with Classification Trees and Pairwise Techniques

    Half-day Tutorial - MK
  • Monday, September 21 - 1:00 PM–4:30 PM

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

    Half-day Tutorial - MM
  • Monday, September 21 - 1:00 PM–4:30 PM

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

    Half-day Tutorial - MR
Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

What does it mean when 53 companies show up — and 28 bet on three roles at once?

53 companies. 28 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.

01Fig. 01 — Composition of the House
28All threespeak · spons · exh
1Sponsoringsponsor only
1Exhibitingexhibitor only
23Companies Speakingspeaker only

The Triple-Threat

Coveros·Applitools·BrowserStack·Checkpoint Technologies·CloudBees·Digital.ai·Inflectra·Leapwork·LogiGear·mabl·OpenText DevOps Cloud·Panaya·Parasoft·Perforce·Prolifics·Qase·Q-Pros·Qt Group·SmartBear·Softtek·Testkube·TestMu AI

02Fig. 02 — Speakers, by Seniority

20% of the speakers carry senior titles — C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite35%
  • VP-level35%
  • Director / Head of59%
  • Manager / Lead916%
  • Engineer · IC35%
  • Research / Science24%
  • Other roles3055%

Of 55 on the bill · classified by free-text title

03Fig. 03 — The Heaviest in the Room
  1. 01CoverosSp·GEx2V
  2. 02ApplitoolsSp·GEx
  3. 03BrowserStackSp·PEx
  4. 04Checkpoint TechnologiesSp·BEx
  5. 05CloudBeesSp·GEx
  6. 06Digital.aiSp·SEx
  7. 07InflectraSp·GEx
  8. 08LeapworkSp·GEx
  9. 09LogiGearSp·PEx
  10. 10mablSp·GEx
  11. 11OpenText DevOps CloudSp·PEx
  12. 12PanayaSp·GEx
  13. 13ParasoftSp·BEx
  14. 14PerforceSp·PEx
04Fig. 04 — By Tier
platinum9
28% of 32
gold13
41% of 32
silver2
6% of 32
bronze7
22% of 32
premier1
3% of 32
05Fig. 05 — The Missing · who's 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.

06Fig. 06 — Adjacent Convocations · by shared underwriters