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17th International TestIstanbul Conference

AI Testing Agents & Agentic Design Patterns

Towards Autonomous, Reliable, and Trustworthy Testing Ecosystems

Online, October 8-9, 2026

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 Announced Speakers

*Some sessions may be pre-recorded or hybrid due to time zone differences.

Erik van Veenendaal

Director Improve IT Services BV, Management Executive @TMMi Foundation

Keynote Speech: Improve your testing with TMMi… and AI

Matthias Hamburg

Product Owner of the ISTQB® Advanced Test Analyst Syllabus

Keynote Speech: Evidence-Based Software Quality Assurance: Do We Know What We’re Doing?

Koray Yitmen

President @Turkish Testing Board,
Thought Leader

Opening Speech: From Yoda to R2-D2: What Star Wars Teaches Us About the Four Foundational AI Agent Design Patterns — Reflection, Planning, Tool Use, and Multiagent Systems.

Sadi Önal

Test Automation Team Manager @Dataroid
QA Automation & AI Enablement

Speech: TBA

Erik van der Kamp

Author and Founder @Kazandim Solutions

Keynote Speech:  Much Ado About Automation: 
A Playwright Roadmap from First Test to Enterprise Architecture

Nikhil Bhandari

VP of Quality Engineering @Moniepoint Inc.

Speech: From Scripts to Agents: Building Autonomous Testing Ecosystems That You Can Actually Trust

Anastasia Engelhardt

QA Engineer @Luxoft DXC Technology

Speech: How to Build a Manual Evaluation Framework for AI RAG Chatbots Without Code Access

Sanjay Kumar

Founder and Creator

Speech: From Pain Points to Productivity: Smarter Testing With and Without AI

Kailash Pathak

Sr. QA Lead Manager @3Pilllar Global

Speech: Building Scalable Autonomous Test Suites with Playwright and AI

Puja Jagani

Lead of OpenSource and Developer Advocacy, BrowserStack

Speech: Making AI-Generated Browser Tests CI-Stable: Lessons from Selenium

Mehmet Engin Sacan

Test Specialist @Eneco

Speech: Using MCP server for desktop applications via Pytest Framework

Rahul Dhepe

Test Architect @Microsoft

Speech: LLM-as-a-Judge: How to effectively use AI to Evaluate AI

Vipin Jain

Head QA and Deliveries

Speech: Turning Logs into Test Strategy

Nikita Gavrish

Consultant and Founder @Chiron Consulting

Speech: SDET role transfer – from tests and framework development to AI agent orchestrator

İbrahim Dokuzer

Test Automation Manager @Commencis

Speech: The End of Locators: Text-to-Test and the Evolution of Mobile Testing with Agentic AI

Panel Speakers

Panel Topic: Transition from Agents to Multi-Agents

Melih Çekingen

Software Test Engineer @Medsien

Panelist

Doç. Dr. Yenal ARSLAN

General Manager @4Dimension

Moderator

Koray Yitmen

President @Turkish Testing Board,
Thought Leader

Panelist

Serkan Cura

Test Automation Team Lead @Jotform

Panelist

Tickets & Registration

Personal Registration

800+VAT

Keynotes, Speeches, Panels, Q&A Sessions, and much more.

*The whole profit of the 17th International TestIstanbul Conference will be donated to non-profit organizations.

ISTQB® certificate holders will have 10% discount.

Valid until July 31st.

5 Passes

3800+VAT

Keynotes, Speeches, Panels, Q&A Sessions, and much more.

10 Passes

7200+VAT

Keynotes, Speeches, Panels, Q&A Sessions, and much more.

25 Passes

17000+VAT

Keynotes, Speeches, Panels, Q&A Sessions, and much more.

*Some sessions may be pre-recorded or hybrid due to time zone differences.

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Erik van Veenendaal

Director Improve IT Services BV, Management Executive @TMMi Foundation

Drs. Erik van Veenendaal CISA (www.erikvanveenendaal.nl) is a leading international consultant and trainer, and a recognized expert in the area of software testing. He is the author of more than 20 testing books and almost 150 papers within the profession, one of the core developers of the TMap testing methodology and the TMMi test improvement model. In the context of TMMi, he is also an accredited TMMi Lead Assessor. Erik is a frequent keynote and tutorial speaker at international testing and quality conferences. For his major contribution to the field of testing, Erik received the European Testing Excellence Award, the ISTQB® International Testing Excellence Award and holds a roll of honor of the TMMi Foundation. He has recently been voted to be a fellow for the ISTQB® organization.

Keynote Speech: Improve your testing with TMMi… and AI

With over 15.000 users, the Test Maturity Model integration (TMMi) is the world-wide leading model for test process improvement. Organization are increasingly adopting TMMi to improve their testing maturity. Practical experiences and research show that with TMMi one can achieve higher levels of product quality and improve test efficiency. How does TMMi interrelate with AI, and how AI be used within the TMMi process areas? These highly interesting questions will be discussed during this presentation. Examples of AI applications will presented that can support a TMMi implemention and jointly aim at even higher levels of results.

Erik van Veenendaal

Director Improve IT Services BV, Management Executive @TMMi Foundation

Drs. Erik van Veenendaal CISA (www.erikvanveenendaal.nl) is a leading international consultant and trainer, and a recognized expert in the area of software testing. He is the author of more than 20 testing books and almost 150 papers within the profession, one of the core developers of the TMap testing methodology and the TMMi test improvement model. In the context of TMMi, he is also an accredited TMMi Lead Assessor. Erik is a frequent keynote and tutorial speaker at international testing and quality conferences. For his major contribution to the field of testing, Erik received the European Testing Excellence Award, the ISTQB® International Testing Excellence Award and holds a roll of honor of the TMMi Foundation. He has recently been voted to be a fellow for the ISTQB® organization.

Keynote Speech: Improve your testing with TMMi… and AI

With over 15.000 users, the Test Maturity Model integration (TMMi) is the world-wide leading model for test process improvement. Organization are increasingly adopting TMMi to improve their testing maturity. Practical experiences and research show that with TMMi one can achieve higher levels of product quality and improve test efficiency. How does TMMi interrelate with AI, and how AI be used within the TMMi process areas? These highly interesting questions will be discussed during this presentation. Examples of AI applications will presented that can support a TMMi implemention and jointly aim at even higher levels of results.