Jan. 29, 2026

The Call for Papers for Agile Testing Days is officially open.
We’re looking for practical, experience-based sessions from people working in testing, quality, development, leadership, and product—hands-on stories, lessons learned, experiments that worked (and those that didn’t).

Whether you want to submit a talk, workshop, interactive session, or experience report, we’re excited to hear from you.

Key facts:

CFP open until: March 28th,2026
Notification of acceptance: May 2026
Conference dates & location: Potsdam, GERMANY- November 16-19, 2026
Audience: testers, developers, quality engineers, managers, leaders, coaches
Submission Link: https://cfp.trendig.com/atd_ger_2026

In addition to our main conference topics, the community shared a number of very specific theme wishes. These are intentionally not official tracks—but rather inspiration for proposals we’d love to see.

Community-Requested Topic Inspiration

Real stories of how teams overcame major challenges or significantly improved team spirit
Practical approaches to building and sustaining a learning culture
How managers can reduce burnout, friction, and overload in their teams
Personal strategies for resilience, mental health, and coping with constant change
Making developers care about testability (beyond “testing says so”)
Shift-left without shifting responsibility:
What testers do when developers write most or all tests
Creating and nurturing a strong quality culture across roles
Knowledge bases, documentation, or learning systems that actually helped teams achieve their goals
Work-life balance in reality: managing meetings, focus time, and cognitive load
Facilitation and communication techniques that work in real teams
Leadership in the quality space—formal and informal
Behavioural and communication patterns that impact quality and collaboration
Interactive formats like a Facilitation Dojo:
real scenarios, role switching, observation, reflection, and learning by doing
Core testing skills revisited:
- Writing effective bug reports
- Onboarding new people into testing
- Surviving—and thriving—in difficult projects
AI and technology in higher education, viewed through different cultural lenses
Keeping up with agentic development and AI-accelerated delivery as QA:
experimentation, pace, complexity management, avoiding burnout, and still ensuring quality beyond “good enough”
Embedded software testing and experience-based stories from the field

If any of these additional topics resonate with you, or spark an idea, we’d love to see your proposal.

Please note: submitting a proposal related to any of the topics listed above does not guarantee acceptance, nor does it significantly increase the chances of being selected for this year’s program.

👉 Submit your session now and help shape Agile Testing Days with your experience, insights, and lessons learned.