14-16 October 2025 – See you in Budapest!

Keynotes, Tutors & Session Speakers of HUSTEF 2025

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Gitte OTTOSEN

KEYNOTE SPEECH: 30 years in testing – Battles won and battles lost

Tariq KING

KEYNOTE SPEECH: Human Experience Testing: Redefining Quality Engineering in the Age of AI

Simon STEWART

KEYNOTE SPEECH: Using AI, statistics, and set theory to know what to test

Gojko ADZIC

KEYNOTE SPEECH: Lizard Optimization

Sowmya SRIDHARAMURTHY

KEYNOTE SPEECH: Scaling testing & test automation without losing control

Kristel KRUUSTUK

KEYNOTE SPEECH: Adaptability in an AI-driven world

HEADLINE SPEAKERS

Marta FIRLEJ

Behind the Scenes: A Software Tester’s Journey in Understanding the Business

Martijn GOOSSENS

Putting the Q in DevEx

Laveena RAMCHANDANI

Beyond Code: The Power of Thought Leadership in Engineering

SESSION SPEAKERS

Dawid PACIA

API testing journey through web protocols

Maryia TULEIKA

Securing LLMs: Insights into OWASP top 10

Leandro MELENDEZ

Evolving performance assurance

József KREISZ

How to train your AI?

Linda van den VOOREN

A Comedy of Errors

Mesut DURUKAL

Zen of Testing

Andreea COSARIU

Leading QA Initiatives for Strategic Business Impact

Attila BULENDA

From generic to specific test automation architecture with Playwright

Camilla ELLYTON

Unlocking Inclusion, How to Get Started With A11y Testing

Ard KRAMER

AI is not a god that we can trust

Rob LAMBERT

8 insightful ways to climb YOUR career ladder

Sonja NESIC

Get a grip on your quality by using Quality Views

Prashant HEGDE

A Tester’s UX Diaries: Lessons Learned from Frustrating User Experiences

Fernando TEIXEIRA

Testing Cloud Applications Without Breaking the Bank: Testcontainers and LocalStack

Michal VANEK

When UFO Lands! Analyzing User Feedback During a Massive Customer Migration

Vitaly SHAROVATOV

Value, Money, and Costs: The Ultimate Common Language for the Testing Strategy

Szilárd SZÉLL

Building Trust in AI Agents: Solving the Communication & Oracle Problems in Agentic Development

Chris ARMSTRONG

When Life Gives You Lemons… Are You Counting Them or Making Lemonade?

Steve WATSON

Critical Thinking for Testers in the age of AI

Andrew BROWN

Taming your Dragon: Addressing your technical debt beast

Magdalena LISTWAN

Eureka! I Won’t Be an Automation Tester

Richard SEIDL

Quality as an attitude – From Testing to Quality Engineering to…what?

Péter ILLÉS

Stop Sabotaging Yourself: Break Mental Blocks to Actually Use What You Learn

Hugh McCAMPHILL

From Resistance to Results: Navigating a Test Automation Tool Shift

Davy KENIS

The Feedback Loop from Hell

Brijesh DEB

AI in Testing: Magic Wand or Pandora’s Box?

Craig RISI

Contracts for Hire

Irja STRAUS

How To Train Your Robot

Ernest Marza CLIMENT

Enhancing Performance Test Results with ML and LLMs: Communication Beyond the Numbers

Giuseppe DONATI

Beyond A/B: Test automation approaches for web variants from A to Z

Michal BUCZKO

Framework for Thriving Remote Leadership

Bryan JONES

Testing and Assuring AI-Based Systems

Michal VELJACIK

Testing and Assuring AI-Based Systems

Katja OBRING

Your Metrics Are Lying: How to Stop Reporting and Start Learning

TUTORIAL SPEAKERS

Dawid PACIA

API testing journey through web protocols using Postman

Thiago Ferreira MACHADO

Automated Tests with Cypress: From Zero to Hero

Tomasz KLEPACKI

Automated Testing in CI/CD with Jenkins & GitHub Actions

René van VELDHUIJZEN

Brik by Brik – Basic principles of Automation in Testing

Lia MOREIRA

Playwright – Walkthrough guide

Leandro MELENDEZ

Ramping up modern performance

Tariq KING

A Quality Engineering Introduction to AI and Machine Learning

Martijn GOOSSENS

Fix your Shift Left using BDD

Mike JARRED

Hannah REYNOLDS

Navigating the Job Market – The science and art of landing the job of your
dreams!

Ard KRAMER

Szilárd SZÉLL

The change game of quality