STARWEST 2026 - Product Owner
Customize your STARWEST 2026 experience with sessions for product owners.
Sunday, September 20
Software Tester Certification Foundation Level—ISTQB CTFL v4.0
Fundamentals of AI—ICAgile Certification (ICP-FAI)
Strategies for Testing AI-Based Systems
Monday, September 21
Become an AI Power User
Impostering a bit in the AI-verse? Overwhelmed by daily AI announcements? Unsure you're using AI most effectively? Tiny bit of FOMO? Jeremiah has you covered! In this workshop, he'll help you become an AI Power User. Become a boss at your job, whatever your role or industry! He'll show you where AI shines and where you'll want to be careful, plus toss you lots of hands-on practice. In the time together, Jeremiah will help you pinpoint YOUR niche, build a custom AI assistant, and develop a comms strategy to show off your new skills. You'll walk out with cutting-edge knowledge, a...
Become Your Company's Quality Consultant
Companies of all sizes face difficulties in achieving higher quality standards within their organization. As quality engineering includes various roles and activities, it is also challenging to find the right people to analyze the current state from a wide perspective and provide the recommendations that will allow these organizations to mature their teams, improving their DevOps culture in the process. Join Péter Földházi as he illustrates the knowledge and skills necessary to become your company's quality consultant. Péter's goal is to involve engineers from beginner to advanced levels...
This Is Our Agent, We Make the Call
Agents! Finally, a term that might be even more over-hyped than AI! But what exactly are Agents, and more importantly, how do you use them? Where do Agents fit within the overall AI toolkit? What capabilities do they add, and what tasks can they help us perform? Jeremiah will help you gain a solid understanding of Agents and the fundamental components of an Agent-based AI system. You’ll learn key design principles for Agents, as well as when to leverage them and scenarios where they may not be the best choice. He'll cover how to identify business problems that are well-suited for Agents,...
Tuesday, September 22
Agentic AI: From Rules to Reasoning
NewAI agents have existed for decades, but generative AI has fundamentally changed what agents can do and how they are designed and built. Come and explore the evolution of AI agents across two major waves. First, learn the foundations of Agentic AI through agents built using rules, heuristics, and traditional machine learning, examining where these approaches excel and why they struggle with complexity, ambiguity, and scale. Then dive into the second wave of agents powered by generative AI and multimodal large language models. These modern agents can reason, plan, use tools, and interact...
Thursday, September 24
Taming the Stochastic Beast: Building AI Evaluation Pipelines for GenAI Releases
If you've ever shipped a GenAI feature wondering “is this actually good enough?”, you're not alone. Traditional pass/fail QA breaks down when outputs are non-deterministic, and teams end up making release decisions based on subjective “vibe checks” rather than data. This session shows how Product Managers can partner with QA to replace intuition with a systematic AI evaluation pipeline. You'll learn how to define quality as measurable dimensions (groundedness, tone, helpfulness, safety), build a representative test set, and design rubrics that align product goals with engineering...