Traveling Conference Series
The Agentic
Quality Summit
Atlanta, Georgia
A full-day conference for engineering leaders who are ready to transform their Quality Organizations with AI. Hosted by ContextQA and Spearsoft, in partnership with Innovate QA.
Hosted by
ContextQA
Spearsoft
Innovate QA
May
01
Friday, 2026
8:00 AM - 4:00 PM EDT
2569 Peachtree Pkwy #210, Cumming, GA 30041
Ticket Price
$35.00
General Admission
Limited seats. Intentionally small.
Atlanta | May 1st
The Agentic Quality Summit 2026
A full-day conference for engineering leaders who are ready to transform their Quality Organizations with AI.
| Time | Session | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 8:00 – 9:00 AM | Breakfast & Registration | — |
| 9:00 – 9:10 AM | Welcome & Opening Remarks | — |
| 9:10 – 9:50 AM | Keynote Scaling Trust, Not Automation | Walter Zimmerman Sr. Developer, Amazon |
| 10:00 – 10:30 AM | Faster Delivery Through Higher Quality | Francisco Zenteno Smith Sr. Operations Research Scientist, American Airlines |
| 10:35 – 11:05 AM | Live Demo Testing AI Agents and Automating the Web with ContextQA | Deep Barot CEO, ContextQA |
| 11:05 – 11:35 AM | Scaling AI Initiatives Across QA | Mary Pombares Senior Quality Engineering Executive |
| 11:40 AM – 12:00 PM | The Vendor Trap: What to Ask Before You Sign | Praveen Puram Co-Founder & CEO, Spearsoft |
| 12:00 – 1:00 PM | Lunch | — |
| 1:00 – 1:30 PM | Software Testing Using AI Agents | Bhiku Swami Sr. Director of Technology, Elevance Health |
| 1:35 – 2:05 PM | Agentic Success by Design: A Framework for Feasibility and ROI | Costa Avradopoulos AI Coach & Trusted Technology Advisor, Avracom |
| 2:10 – 2:20 PM | MCP for Agentic Testing | Jenna Beckett Developer Advocate, Cypress |
| 2:25 – 2:55 PM | TBC | Harpreet Kaur Gill |
| 2:55 – 3:10 PM | Snacks & Break | — |
| 3:10 – 3:40 PM | Closing Keynote AI in Quality: Why Most Initiatives Stall — and What Leaders Must Do Differently | Irene Thong Global Technology & Transformation Leader |
| 3:45 – 4:00 PM | Wrap Up | — |
| 4:30 – 6:30 PM | Networking Happy Hour & Networking | — |
Meet the Speakers
Walter Zimmerman
Sr. Developer
Amazon | Former QAE/SDET
About: 8 years building Alexa at Amazon. 17 years in test automation. Built frameworks running millions of tests per month. Hosted Dublin's largest QA meetup (2,000+ members).
🎤 Topic
Scaling Trust, Not Automation
AI fails confidently, not loudly. Traditional tests fail loudly. This talk explores what that shift means for quality engineering — and why you can't retrofit measurement. Learn how to build trust in AI systems while maintaining rigorous quality standards.
Francisco Zenteno
Senior Operations Research Scientist
American Airlines
About: Builds large-scale optimization systems for flight operations. Master's in Computer Science from UC San Diego. Bridges operations research and production-grade engineering.
🎤 Topic
Faster Delivery Through Higher Quality
Agentic development for decision-support software. A case study from American Airlines on how quality became the enabler of speed, not a trade-off. Discover practical strategies for implementing AI agents in complex operational environments.
Bhiku Swami
Sr. Director of Technology
Elevance Health (CarelonRx)
About: 26 years across QE, DevOps, Cloud, and AI. Leads 100+ engineers for a $40B+ pharmacy business. Achieved 99.999% availability for cloud-native infrastructure.
🎤 Topic
Software Testing using AI Agents
How to leverage AI agents for test generation, execution, and maintenance. Moving from script-driven to agent-driven quality engineering at enterprise scale. Real-world lessons from a $40B healthcare organization.
Costa Avradopoulos
AI Coach & Trusted Technology Advisor
Avracom | Founder, Agentic Feasibility Framework (AAF)
About: 30+ years in AI, Cloud, IoT, and Mobile. Featured speaker at 70+ global events. President of QAI Atlanta. Delivers up to 50% efficiency gains for clients.
🎤 Topic
Agentic Success by Design: A Framework for Feasibility and ROI
Why 95% of AI pilots fail — and how to beat the odds. The Agentic Feasibility Framework (AAF) scoring model for objective prioritization and ROI measurement. A systematic approach to AI agent implementation success.
Irene Thong
Global Technology & Transformation Leader
Global Enterprise
About: Accomplished global technology leader specializing in digital transformation and AI adoption. Extensive experience guiding organizations through major technological shifts.
🎤 Topic
AI in Quality: Why Most Initiatives Stall — and What Leaders Must Do Differently
Closing keynote exploring why AI quality initiatives fail and the critical strategies leaders must adopt to succeed. Learn from real-world transformation stories and actionable frameworks.
Deep Barot
Founder & CEO
ContextQA
About: Founder and CEO of ContextQA, the only AI testing platform that truly understands context. Brings decades of experience across DevOps, full-stack engineering, cloud systems, and large-scale platform development.
🎤 Live Demo
Testing AI Agents and Automating the Web with ContextQA
Watch a live, unscripted demo of ContextQA in action. See why traditional testing breaks with autonomous AI agents and how to test agentic systems at scale without flying blind.
Mary Pombares
Transformative Technology Leader
Former Head of Quality Engineering, Amazon Music
About: Mary doesn't just improve quality processes — she reimagines quality as a culture. With 15+ years leading global quality engineering, automation, and digital transformation across healthcare, entertainment, and hospitality, she brings a rare combination of strategic vision and hands-on delivery.
🎤 Featured Talk
Scaling AI Initiatives Across QA
What most organisations get wrong when it comes to AI in quality — and what it actually takes to scale it across an enterprise. Moving from isolated AI pilots to organisation-wide QA transformation, building unified automation frameworks across complex ecosystems, and scaling AI-driven quality without sacrificing velocity.
Harpreet Kaur Gill
Manager, IT
Wipfli Advisory
About: Harpreet brings over 16 years of experience across program management, product, quality, and scaled agile. She currently leads enterprise IT at Wipfli, managing ERP (Workday), CRM (D365), Power Platform, D&A, M&A integration. She also serves as National Vice Chair of Women of Wipfli (WoW).
🎤 Topic
Applying Agentic AI for Synthetic Test Data Generation
How agentic AI can generate synthetic test data at scale. Why test data is one of the biggest bottlenecks in quality engineering and how AI solves it. Practical approaches to implementing synthetic data generation in enterprise environments.
Jenna Beckett
Sr. Developer Relations Engineer
Cypress.io
About: Jenna bridges the gap between complex technology and developers — translating technical concepts into actionable insights through tutorials, livestreams (The Bug Bash 🐛), and conference presentations at CypressConf. With a foundation in full-stack development across .NET and JavaScript ecosystems, she champions testing as the foundation of reliable software.
🎤 Topic
MCP for Agentic Testing
How MCP enables structured interaction between AI agents, browsers, CLI tools, and test frameworks. Practical approaches to integrating MCP into your agentic testing workflow. Real-world examples of AI agents interacting with testing tools.
Praveen Puram
Co-Founder & CEO
Spearsoft
About: Praveen is a results-driven technology entrepreneur and global business leader with 25 years of experience across the USA, UK, and India. He has led large-scale enterprise transformations and client engagements across financial services, insurance, healthcare, airlines, and supply chain. He also hosts the podcast "Insight with Praveen Puram."
🎤 Topic
The Vendor Trap: What to Ask Before You Sign
The hidden traps teams fall into when choosing testing vendors. Critical questions you must ask before signing any agreement. How to avoid costly mistakes that set you back months when evaluating testing tools, platforms, or AI vendors.
What Makes This Different
This isn't a typical conference
AI is rewriting the rules of software quality. Agentic systems are shipping code at a pace traditional QA was never designed to match. The teams winning this shift aren't waiting.
No vendor-heavy pitches
No recycled theory
No surface-level conversations
Engineering leaders sharing real transformation
Candid AI adoption stories and lessons
Practical frameworks you can act on immediately
Audience
Who should attend
Designed for leaders who own quality outcomes and are ready to lead transformation.
VPs & Directors
Quality Engineering leadership
CTOs & Engineering Execs
Technical leadership driving AI adoption
QA Architects
Automation and framework leaders
Engineering Leaders
Responsible for AI adoption in QA
Senior Practitioners
Exploring AI-driven quality transformation
Why Attend
A full day of real transformation. Zero fluff.
Walk away with frameworks, connections, and clarity you can act on the next Monday.
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Peer-Level AI Stories
Hear candid AI adoption stories and lessons learned from leaders who've done it
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Actionable Frameworks
Walk away with transformation frameworks you can act on immediately
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Live Platform Demo
See ContextQA's AI testing platform live, unscripted and unrehearsed
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Executive Network
Connect with engineering leaders across Atlanta tackling the same challenges
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Founding Team Access
Get direct access to the ContextQA founding team and product roadmap
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Hardest Questions Welcome
Bring your toughest QA transformation questions. This is the room to ask them.
Venue
Location
Venue
Celebrations Banquet
Address
2569 Peachtree Pkwy #210
Cumming, GA 30041
Cumming, GA 30041
Date & Time
Friday, May 1, 2026
8:00 AM - 4:00 PM EDT
8:00 AM - 4:00 PM EDT
Ready to lead the shift?
Space is intentionally limited to ensure a high-caliber mix of experience and perspective. If you're leading a Quality Organization and actively exploring AI, we want you in the room.
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