Invite-only QA & Tech Leadership Conference
Invite-only Conference gathering Silicon Valley’s top QA & Tech Leaders
- March 20, 2026
- Palo Alto, CA
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150 Invited Leaders Shaping the Future of Engineering, Quality, and AI in Business.
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What is QonfX?
QonfX is our leadership-focused, invite-only conference that gathers top Engineering, QA, and Business Leaders under one roof to discuss the Present and Future of Software. Quality, AI, Leadership, and more. Designed to create focused conversations and high-value connections.
We’ll be hosting these exclusive gatherings in key cities across the US, Europe, and India, bringing together the region’s most influential leaders who are shaping the next decade of software quality and engineering.
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SF Bay Area
Talk: The Swiss Cheese Defense - Multi-Layer Testing in the Age of AI Agents
AI agents are shipping code faster than your test suite can keep up. As engineering leaders, we can no longer rely on testing strategies built for human-paced development. This talk introduces a multi-layered approach to verification in the age of autonomous code – inspired by the Swiss cheese model of risk management – and shares hard-won lessons from scaling testing strategy at a Series E company where AI is increasingly writing the first draft.
Luca Bonmassar
Exploratory Testing
Functional Testing
SF Bay Area
Talk: Engineering Trust in Agentic AI
As enterprises move from deterministic software to autonomous AI agents, traditional testing models are no longer sufficient. Agentic systems reason, plan, and act across applications — introducing non-determinism, emergent behaviors, and new categories of risk.
In this keynote, Kaushal Kurapati, who leads AI Agents platform initiatives at Oracle, explores how quality engineering must evolve from test automation to autonomous assurance. He will outline a new enterprise framework for validating AI agents — spanning model reliability, reasoning traceability, guardrails, governance, and runtime controls — and discuss how QA leaders can redefine their role in an era where intelligence itself must be governed.
Kaushal Kurapati
Exploratory Testing
Functional Testing
SF Bay Area
Talk: Faster Code, Faster Risk - Why Testing Is the New Control Plane
AI-assisted development has fundamentally shifted the velocity of software engineering. The constraint is no longer how fast teams can write code, it is how confidently they can verify it to ship it.
Tools like Copilot, Claude, Codex have dramatically increased development velocity, enabling engineers to generate features, integrations, and refactors at unprecedented speed. But as code volume scales, so does risk often in ways that are subtle, compounding, and difficult to detect.
AI-generated code is syntactically correct and may even be contextually relevant. What it is not is accountable. It does not understand organizational business logic, regulatory obligations, threat model, or customer trust boundaries. Without strong verification mechanisms, organizations risk accelerating technical debt, security exposure, compliance gaps, and systemic fragility.
In this talk, we will explore why traditional notions of testing are no longer sufficient in the AI era. Testing is no longer a downstream quality check, it is becoming the control plane for modern software delivery. We will examine how validation, security testing, and risk-based verification must evolve to match machine-scale code generation, and how product and security leaders can embed guardrails without slowing innovation.
The organizations that win in the AI era will not be those that generate the most code but those that can prove, continuously and at scale, that their systems are correct, resilient, and secure.
Siva I.
Exploratory Testing
Functional Testing
SF Bay Area
Panel Discussion: AI in the SDLC - Engineering Workflows in the Age of AI
The first wave of AI in software engineering introduced assistive tools that helped developers generate code, tests, or documentation faster. Today, engineering teams are beginning to experience the next shift where AI systems participate directly in development workflows.
From proposing code changes and generating validation artifacts to triggering actions within build and release pipelines, AI is moving beyond code suggestions into execution across the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC). This evolution is gradually transforming how requirements are translated into implementation, how validation is integrated into delivery pipelines, and how software changes flow from idea to production.
This panel brings together engineering leaders to explore how development and delivery workflows are evolving from AI-assisted practices towards models where AI becomes an active participant in build, test, and release processes.
Aswin Natarajan
Pankaj Bavishi
Exploratory Testing
Functional Testing
SF Bay Area
Panel Discussion: Engineering Leadership in an Autonomous World
As AI evolves from being a coding assistant to operating as an autonomous agent, the DNA of engineering organizations is undergoing a fundamental transformation. This shift calls for a new Engineering Quotient – one that blends systems thinking, deep domain expertise, and algorithmic governance. In this panel, leaders from Banking, Pharma, and Fintech share how their roles and responsibilities are adapting in real time to this emerging reality.
We explore which traditional roles are truly being displaced and which are being redefined and elevated. Is the ‘Junior Developer/Tester’ becoming obsolete, or is the role transforming into that of an ‘AI Orchestrator’? We examine how AI adoption varies across industries and why the journey toward autonomy looks markedly different for agile startups compared to highly regulated enterprises. Join us as we rethink legacy productivity metrics and address the Domain Velocity Gap-the friction that arises when AI-driven speed intersects with regulatory rigor in regulated industries.
Aprajita Mathur
Sukalyan Chakraborty
Exploratory Testing
Functional Testing
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Frequently Asked Questions
Yes, QonfX San Francisco is an invite-only, in-person conference.
QonfX is designed for testing and technology professionals, focusing strongly on leadership personas. The event is free to attend.
Apply for QonfX San Francisco, If selected, you’ll receive an exclusive invitation to join.
Invites are released based on limited slots available for each persona/seniority and are granted on a first-come, first-served basis.
No—in-person attendees must use their reserved invites. To ensure fairness, do not apply unless you can commit to attending.
QonfX San Francisco will be held on March 20, 2026, from 9:30AM IST.
QonfX is an invite-only event, and we aim to bring together a diverse group of attendees across various roles and expertise. While we have limited slots available, invitations are extended on a first-come, first-served basis to ensure a well-rounded representation of industry professionals.
Thanks for your interest! We’ll email you with the details if we have a spot for you. If not, we’ll notify you and keep you on standby for any last-minute openings.
No, invitations are non-transferable. If you are unable to attend, please let us know in advance.
No, session recordings will not be shared, as QonfX is an invite-only, in-person event.
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