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Guido Palazzo

Professor

From Yale to Jail

The Dark Pattern of Corporate Moral Failure

Corporate scandals like Volkswagen, Boeing, Theranos, Uber, FTX, and the UK Post Office often share a common thread: software at their core. Uncovering the dark pattern behind them can help protect your integrity and your organization.

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Luxshan Ratnaravi

Agile Coach

Comic Agile

Using Agile Antipatterns to Ensure Quality

In this keynote, Comic Agilé author Luxshan Ratnaravi humorously explores agile antipatterns and failures through his comic strips, offering sharp insights for QA practitioners, IT managers, and developers struggling with Scrum, Kanban, or SAFe.

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Das Unsichtbare Sichtbar Machen:
Der Entscheidende Faktor Softwarequalität

Software ist der unsichtbare Motor unserer modernen Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft. In dieser Podiumsdiskussion sprechen wir über die Verantwortung, die mit Software einhergeht und die dadurch wachsende Bedeutung von Softwarequalität. Wir beleuchten die Herausforderungen, aktuell nötige Skills und die Zukunft des Software-Testens.

Wolfgang Platz

Entrepreneur &
Founder

Ruedi Noser

Owner & Board
of Directors

Ina Schieferdecker

Member of the Academy of Technical Sciences

MODERATOR

Richard Seidl

Consultant, Speaker and Podcast Host

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Susanne Kunkel

Head of Test and Quality Management

Testing Around the World – Aufbau und Betrieb einer globalen Test Factory

Roger Reisch

Solution Architecture Owner

Continuous Integration over Multiple Virtual Layers to Production

Monika Golec

Product Owner Test Engineering

Thriving Without Approval: Testing When Nobody Wants You

Matthias Eichenseher

Principal Key Expert

Rock the W with GenAI

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Sven Schuetz

Senior Sales Engineer

AI powered, compliant testing in a Swiss cloud? Yes!

AI-powered testing in a Swiss cloud enables compliance with strict regulations while enhancing automation. The challenge now is seamless integration with CI/CD, bug tracking, and security while leveraging generative AI for smarter test management.

Elmar Jürgens

Founder

Dear AI, Which Tests Should We Run Now?

As our software expands, teams manage thousands to hundreds of thousands of automated and manual test cases, making it crucial to select the right tests efficiently. Over the past decade, my team and I have explored AI-driven solutions to optimize testing, and in this presentation, I will share our key successes and lessons learned.

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David Tabernero

Quality Engineering Lead - Architect - Product Owner

From Darkness to Light: Avaloq Test Automation Using Open Source, AI and More.

Oliver Zihler

Technical Trainer and Software Engineer

QA Can’t Fix What Bad Design and Culture Broke

Mikko Paloheimo

Expert QA Lead & Chapter Lead

Building a Stronger Quality Culture; Practical Strategies for Building and Maintaining a Thriving QA Community

Marco Achtziger

Principal Key Expert

Test Architect – Why everybody needs (at least) one

C-PANEL

The Efficient Path to Better Quality –
How Would You Proceed?

In this panel discussion, we explore how a small yet globally connected Sky Switzerland tackles the challenge of delivering a highly available service across a multitude of platforms—while competing with established industry giants like Netflix. We’ll delve into current testing strategies, from manual and exploratory testing to automated and crowdsourced QA, and examine how AI, cloud-native testing, and holistic test automation can drive quality forward. Join us to discover best practices, exchange insights on next steps in the ever-evolving testing landscape, and learn how even the smallest teams can chart an efficient path to top-tier quality.

Marco Baumgartner

Head of IT | Head of Branch Switzerland

Fabian Ringwald

CIO

MODERATOR

Daniel Glauser

Chief Product Officer

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Serge Wolf

Co-CEO

Building the Future of Quality: The Quality Tree Framework in Practice

Christoph Stock

Product Owner XDM

Modernisierung des Testdatenmanagement in drei Akten (Eine Fallstudie)

Oleg Gavriliuc

Test Manager & Senior QA Engineer

Unified Test Architecture + AI

Mehmet Aslan

Project Manager, Business Analyst

Testing Around the World – Aufbau und Betrieb einer globalen Test Factory

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Stephan Baumhoff

Head of Test Center Performance Testing

A Case Study of AI-Powered Software QA & Reliability Engineering

Traditional decision-making like Change Advisory Boards slows DevOps, requiring AI-driven smart quality gates. This talk introduces AI-SQUARE, an Innosuisse-backed project using machine learning and knowledge graphs to enhance continuous verification and software quality in CI/CD pipelines.

Alina Liburkina

Technical Trainer and Software Engineer

QA Can’t Fix What Bad Design and Culture Broke

More testing won’t fix a broken system, nor can QA compensate for poor design and dysfunctional development culture. This talk explores how bad processes create unmanageable legacy code and highlights the fundamental shifts needed to break this cycle, improve quality, and build systems that avoid legacy pitfalls from the start.

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Makram Hanin

Co-Founder

A Case Study of AI-Powered Software QA & Reliability Engineering

Lily Alemany

Senior Transformation Expert

The Human Edge: Why Testers Will Lead the AI Revolution

Jan Sabak

Co-author of Test Analyst 4.0 Syllabus

Beyond Technical Resilience: Revealing Organizational Challenges Through Security Testing

Andreas Wieczorek

Lead Test Manager SAP

Thriving Without Approval: Testing When Nobody Wants You

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Marcel de Vries

Global MD & CTO
Microsoft Services

Manuel Hintermayr

Quality
Ambassador

Maintainable and Scalable Test Automation with Playwright Cloud Services

Creating and maintaining automated tests can be challenging, especially when scalability and speed are key concerns. This session will show you how to build maintainable test suites using Microsoft Playwright on Azure, seamlessly integrated into CI/CD workflows on Azure DevOps or GitHub. You’ll also learn best practices like Page Objects, DRY, and DAMP tests to optimize test maintenance, scale execution, and speed up results.

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How Customer-Centric Testing Transforms Quality Assurance

Despite intensive automated testing, bugs still slip into production because most test automation is driven by technical feasibility rather than real user needs. Traditional frameworks test applications in isolation, while users interact with entire systems across multiple applications, like making a payment through e-banking. To truly improve quality and prevent defects, test automation must shift to a customer-centric approach, ensuring the full user journey works as expected—regardless of the underlying technology.