TUTORIAL DAY

Tuesday, 6 October 2026

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FULL DAY TUTORIALS
9:00-16:30 Kristoffer NORDSTRÖM: Testing Your AI: A Hands-On Workshop Building Evaluation Frameworks for LLM Systems – Powered by ERICSSON
9:00-16:30 György Márk VARGA: AI Agents Take the Wheel: Hands-On End-to-End Testing with Browser MCP and Agentic Automation – Powered by FORTIX
9:00-16:30 Dragan SPIRIDONOV & Lalikumar BAHMARE: The 70% Problem: Reclaiming Testing’s Intellectual Core with Agentic Quality Engineering – Powered by PONT SYSTEMS
9:00-16:30 Paula Bassagañas: One Agent to Watch Them All: Building an AI Test Monitor – Powered by NOKIA
9:00-16:30 Sai Krishna & Srinivasan Sekar: MCP Playwright & Playwright Agents – Powered by NOKIA
HALF DAY TUTORIALS
9:00-12:30 Lisi HOCKE: Secure Development Lifecycle Applied – How to Make Things a Bit More Secure than Yesterday Every Day – Powered by TIGRA

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CONFERENCE DAY 1

Wednesday, 7 October 2026

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08:20-8:55 Registration
Plenary Session
9:00-9:15 Grand Opening with Attila FEKETE, Programme Chair of HUSTEF 2026 & Tibor CSÖNDES, Head of HUSTEF
9:15-9:20 Márton Siska: From Threat to Opportunity: How AI is Writing the Next Chapter of Software Testing – Diamond Partner Speech by Hungarian Testing Board
9:20-10:05 KEYNOTE – Kristoffer Nordström – Beyond Vibe Coding: What It Actually Takes to Build with AI and Stay Accountable
10:05-10:15
Cristiano Cunha: AI Meets Test Management: Unlock Faster, Smarter QA with Xray – Platinum Partner Speech of Xray
10:15-10:45 Coffee Break
  Track 1 Track 2 Track 3 Track 4
10:45-11:15 Szilard Szell – Quality Model for Agentic SDLC Dawid Pacia – From chaos to confidence: building rock-solid stability in mobile E2E testing Clare Norman – The art of getting out of the way: Facilitation for quality professionals

10:45-12:25

MASTER CLASS

Dragan Spiridonov: Memory as a Quality Signal: Building Agents That Learn From Their Own Mistakes
 
 
 
 
5-minute-break to select session
11:20-11:50 Benjamin Bischoff – The Rubber Duck that talks back Maryna Didkovska – The Dark Side of AI Metrics: Why High Numbers Don’t Mean High Quality Mesut Durukal – A/B Testing in a Nutshell — with a Live Demo
5-minute-break to select session
11:55-12:25 Maryia Tuleika – AI applications security puzzle Richard Seidl – Testing Is a People Business – Humanity as superpower in the AI Era Suzanne Kraaij – The Fear Factor in Software Testing: Recognize It, Address It, Transform It
12:25-13:35 Networking Lunch 
Plenary Session

13:35-14:20

14:20-14:25

14:25-14:26

14:27-14:28

KEYNOTE – Nicole van der Hoeven: Asimov’s Zeroth Law of Robotics: Observability for AI

Saif Rizvi: Your Agents are Confidently Wrong: Let’s Fix That – Gold Partner Speech by TestMU AI 

Silver Partner intro by Masterfield

Silver Partner intro by EMIB
  Track 1 Track 2 Track 3 Track 4
14:35-15:05 Martijn Gooseens – Be a Better Test Friend Lisi Hocke – Out of Security Exception – What to Do Without an Expert to Secure Your Software Camilla Ellyton – From Requirements Chaos to Clarity: Using Test Design as a Superpower

14:35-16:10

MASTER CLASS

Kevin Pyles: Leading Your Agent Team: Practical Agent Orchestration for Modern Testing
5-minute-break to select session
15:10-15:40 Michael Kutz – WTFM: Where’s the F****** Manual⁈ Davy Kenis – My tasks are replaceable. My creativity Isn’t. Mazin Inaad – TestOps: A Journey to Story-Based Releases
5-minute-break to select session 
15:45-16:15 Sonja Nešić – Stop Waiting on Environments: Testing in Isolation with an API-First Mindset Jitesh Gosai – How quality is created, maintained and lost in complex software systems Andreea Cosariu – Insights in QA Leadership – What Parenthood Taught Me About Managing Teams
16:15-16:40 Coffee Break
Plenary Session
16:40-16:45
István Madarász: Software Development Lifecycle – AI Maturity – Gold Partner Speech of EPAM
16:45-16:50 Gábor Kapros: The WHAT is Technical. The HOW is Human – Platinum Partner Speech of HTB
16:50-17:35 KEYNOTE – Steve WATSON: Could Personas Be Your Insight Superpower?
17:35-17:40 Closing the First Day
17:40-19:00

HUSTEFest – Social Party in Eiffel Art Studios (the venue of the conference)

  • Beer & Wine Tasting
  • Snacks
  • Games: Table Soccers, Giant Jenga
  • VR Corner
  • Music & Networking
20:00-23:59

Party in Akvárium Club, Downtown of Budapest

  • We cover your first drink! (a beer or glass of wine, or a non-alcoholic beverage)
  • Snacks
  • Board Games Corner
  • A fantastic Pub Quize (starts at 20:30! – arrive on time)
  • VR & Cornhole Championship (starts from 20:00)
  • Beerpong
  • DJ & Dance 🙂

 

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CONFERENCE DAY 2

Thursday, 8 October 2026

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08:00-9:00 Registration & Lean Coffee with Gáspár NAGY, our former keynote speaker!
Plenary Session
9:00-9:10 Opening of the Day
9:10-9:15 Ádám Dallos: AI Changes Everything. Or Does It? – Gold Partner Speech of Nokia
9:15-10:00 KEYNOTE – Heather REID: Now You See Me
10:00-10:05 János Kövesdi: Behind the Scenes of Ericsson’s Test Automation Ecosystem – Gold Partner Speech of Ericsson
10:05-10:10 Gold Partner Speech of Inflectra
10:10-10:40 Coffee Break
  Track 1 Track 2 Track 3 Track 4
10:40-11:10 Adam Sandman – Don’t Be a Fool Mr. Bond: It Takes an Agent to Test an Agent Léna Nyström – “As is” is not a requirement – it’s failure in a fancy suit Alex Cusmaru – Lessons Learnt from Testing Safety Critical Systems 10:40-12:20
MASTER CLASS

 

Kristoffer Nordström: 
Reading an eval you didn’t write
5-minute-break to select session
11:15-11:45 Christine Pinto – Looks Perfect. Runs Fine. Completely Wrong. A Live Hunt. Mark Hrynczak – How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Bot: Career Acceleration in the Age of AI Lalitkumar Bahmare & Affaf Malik – Intelligent Accessibilty for “Very Busy” Teams
5-minute-break to select session
11:50-12:20 Phil Royston – Old Dog, New Tricks? Andrew Brown & Gek Yeo – Gain your superpowers by equipping yourself with your own superpower toolkit Marco Andrade – Quality Signals on Pull Requests: How We Stopped Shipping Bugs Without Slowing Delivery
12:20-13:30 Networking Lunch 
Plenary Session

13:30-13:35

13:35-14:20

14:20-14:21

14:21-14:22

14:22-14:23

Gayerhosz Gergely: TaaS: Myth, Magic or Reality? – Gold Partner Speech by TestIT

Rising Star KEYNOTE – Callum Akehurst-Ryan: You’re not really ready for AI (but testing can help)

Silver Partner Intro by PTC

Silver Partner Intro by MSCI

Silver Partner Intro by Idomsoft
  Track 1 Track 2 Track 3 Track 4
14:30-15:00 Chris Armstrong – The Tale of Two Pipelines: Why Your CI/CD Can’t Fix Cultural Debt Vitaly Sharovatov – Leading Cost-Cutting Initiatives by Improving Quality Tina Fletcher – The Moving Target of Software Quality
14:30-16:10
MASTER CLASS

 

Dawid Pacia: Beyond the Collection: Rapid API Test Engineering with Postbot and IDE Agents
5-minute-break to select session
15:05-15:35 Marta Firlej – AI open space experiences – round table with speakers on experiences with AI in testing Dragan Spiridonov – When Your AI Testing Partner Lies to Your Face: Detecting and Defeating Completion Theater Ronald Veth – Your Test Data Is Lying to You. Take back control!
5-minute-break to select session
15:40-16:10 Kevin Pyles – The Quality Nervous System Imola Mészár – Is It a Bug If It Works as Designed? Chris Harbert – BDD is Back! Why every AI project should have feature files
16:10-16:35 Coffee Break
Plenary Session
16:35-17:20 KEYNOTE – Richard Bradshaw: Rethinking the Automation in Testing Principles
17:20-17:40 Drawing, Closing the Conference

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