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See all- The Testing Planet Episode Two: The MachineLink visible for attendees
The team scrambles to find an AI to support them. Meanwhile, the industry faces a dilemma.
This second episode of The Testing Planet will focus on the hot testing topic of AI (artificial intelligence), ML (machine learning) and LLMs (large language models).
We will be multi-streaming to LinkedIn and YouTube.### Schedule (UK Timezone)
- 2:00 PM - Previously on The Testing Planet with Veerle Verhagen and Simon Tomes
- 2:15 PM - The Testing Planet News with Simon Tomes, Rosie Sherry, Ash Winter and Lisa Crispin
- 3:00 PM - Talk & Live Q&A: AI Testing Expedition: Practical Insights from my 30-Day Journey with Rahul Parwal
- 3:45 PM - Ask Me Anything about Using AI Tools to Assist Your Manual Testing with Joyz Ng
- 4:30 PM - Fireside Chat: A Cosmic Conversation About the Evolution of AI with Bill Matthews and Jenna Charlton
- 5:30 PM - The End
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- The Future of TestingM1 7FS, Greater Manchester
We are delighted to announce our next event, where we will be covering all things Future of Testing! We have a great talk and a interactive panel discussion lined up!
Location;
No. 2 Circle Square,
1 Symphony Park, 5th Floors,
Manchester, M1 7FSWednesday 22nd May
The event will start at 6pm and last around 2 hours. The running of the evening will be as follows;- Arrival, networking, food and drinks will be provided.
- Talk- Angela Martland- QE Manager at Leeds Building Society- "Accelerating QE Maturity through the LBS Core Banking Transformation"
- This will be followed by a short break
- Panel discussion on The Future of Test, MC'D by Alper Mermer- Director of Services at Testinium. Panel members; **Dan Smart-**Engineering Manager at Booking.com, and others TBC (We are looking for more participants so please reach out if that is of interest)
- Fin!
This event is kindly being hosted by Accenture (https://www.accenture.com/gb-en) at their wonderful Manchester offices. It is a collaborative effort with Test Hive, another wonderful test community here in Manchester - https://www.meetup.com/test-hive-uk/
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