QA QuestConf PH · Manila · 10 April 2027
Speakers
The confirmed panel brings the people who write the global testing syllabi and govern ISTQB certification directly to Manila — the first ISTQB conference ever held in the Philippines.
Confirmed panel
Learn from the architects of the standard
Few conferences can gather the President, Vice-President, Executive Committee and Working Group chairs of the world's largest software-testing certification body. QA QuestConf PH does.
Speakers confirmed per the official ISTQB announcement. Session titles, times and final line-up are subject to change.
Dr. Klaudia Dussa-Zieger
Head of the ISTQB "Certified Tester AI Testing" task force and chair of the DIN "System & Software Engineering" committee since 2009. A core driver of the global testing standard ISO/IEC/IEEE 29119, connecting regulatory compliance with practical engineering (Automotive SPICE / TestSPICE).
Olivier Denoo
An international quality-strategy consultant based in France and official representative for IREB and IQBBA. Specialises in aligning product-quality metrics with ISO/IEC 25010 — building fitness-for-use into business requirements from the very start.
Sebastian Małyska
A digital-transformation strategist for the European testing sector. Focuses on aligning CI/CD pipelines with European testing regulations and modern IT-risk frameworks, moving continuous integration out of isolation and into standard compliance.
Joel Oliveira
Leads the team that audits and enforces process frameworks across international certification schemes. Deep domain expertise across aerospace, defense, telecommunications and finance, training executives to build audit-ready, compliant delivery pipelines.
Werner Henschelchen
Co-author of the international Certified Tester Foundation Level guide, founder and CEO of GASQ, ASQF Executive Committee member, and Conference Chair of the A4Q Testing Summit — a leading compliance and audit authority.
Michaël Pilaeten
Head of Engineering Quality at Sofico (Belgium), Product Owner and co-author of the worldwide ISTQB Certified Tester Foundation Level (CTFL) 4.0 syllabus and its Springer handbook, and architect of modern Test Manager and Analyst competencies.
Richard Seidl
Recipient of the German Prize for Software Quality and author of definitive books on agile coaching and continuous deployment. An IREB Certified Professional and a leading "shift-left" evangelist who teaches teams to eliminate bugs before code is written.
Lovelesh Beharry
He led the nationwide push to bring Mauritius into the official global testing infrastructure — the board behind ga2026.mstgb.com. An expert in generic Test Automation Architecture (gTAA), robotic process automation (RPA) and enterprise pipeline integration, he shows how developing tech nations systematically build national talent pools, upskill local engineers, and attract premium global IT projects.
The Excellence in Testing & Quality Innovation Program
Share the global center stage
A nationwide call for research, case studies and innovations — where homegrown ingenuity is judged by, and honoured alongside, the international panel above.
Who we invite
Organizations, working professionals, universities, academic researchers and industry practitioners across the Philippines — to showcase original ideas, peer-reviewed research and white papers, and battle-tested corporate case studies.
The technical scope
The frontiers of software quality: QA process improvements and maturity frameworks, AI and Agentic Testing, modern test automation pipelines, enterprise digital transformation, and robust cybersecurity standards.
Judged & honoured
Submissions are vetted by a distinguished panel of university deans, enterprise experts, software-quality directors and the ISTQB speaker panel. Winning authors receive center-stage recognition and official honours from the headline international speakers.
See them live in Manila
QA QuestConf PH — 10 April 2027. One day, the whole software-quality community, and the people who set the standard.