Programme

Test Up North 2026

Please note that these timings are not guaranteed and are subject to change

• 09:15

  Arrival and welcome

• 09:45

  Introduction

• 09:55

  

  Who taught you to test?

  Crispin Read - The Coders Guild

• 10:30

  

  You can't test what you don't know

  Danielle Wainwright - Leeds Building Society

• 10:50

  Break

• 11:10

  

  Prompt Injection Is a Test Case: How to Break AI Features Before Users Do

  Damilare Bakare - MosaiQ Labs

• 11:45

  

  AI: Stories from the coal face

  Chris Aldred - Hippo

• 12:20

  

  Testing Availability at Scale: When 99.99% Almost Killed Our Mobile App

  Faith Sodipe

• 13:00

  Lunch

• 14:00

  

  Leveraging AI in a Shift Left Environment

  Jennifer Rose - Onstate

• 14:45

  

  The Reluctant Quality Coach

  Ash Winter - Diagram Industries

• 15:20

  Break

• 15:40

  

  Testing What You Can’t Control - Pixelmesh

  Adam Davis - Senior Software Engineering Manager

• 16:20

  Wrap up

• 16:30

  Finish and social