Conference Talks & Webinars

These are the public conferences, podcasts and webinars I spoke (or will speak) at.
2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2017 | 2015 | 2009

Details and slides for the recent talks are available under the Talks & Events header menu.
If you are interested to have me speak at your conference, please contact me via LinkedIn.

Talk Slides and Details

• Old Tools, New Tricks
• Public Speaking and Procrastination
• Identifying Code Smells
• Smoke Tests and Mirrors - The Magic in Test Automation
• All About Cluecumber
• Of Plugins and Decorators - trivago's e2e test framework in the spotlight
• Simplifying Your Test Runs with Make
• The Road to QA - An Okayish Success Story

2025

TestCon Europe
2025-10-22 - 2024-10-24, Vilnius, Lithuania
"Extending a Java Test Framework with SPI" (talk)
Website

GitHub Open Source Friday
2025-07-11, online
"Cluecumber" (talk)
Website

TestBustersDay 2025
2025-06-25, Vienna, Austria
"The road to QA" (talk)
Website

trivago Tech Get Together
2025-05-12 - 2025-05-13, Mierlo, Netherlands
"Karate - Beyond API Testing" (talk)
trivago Tech Blog

Live2Test
2025-05-27 - 2025-05-28, online
"Karate - beyond API testing" (tutorial)
Website

Karate Webinar (as a moderator)
2025-03-20, online
"Streamlining Core Banking: Overcoming Challenges with Karate Test Framework"
Registration

Continuous Testing Meetup
2025-01-15, online
"Identifying Code Smells" (talk)
Website

2024

Continuous Delivery & Automation
2024-11-17 - 2024-11-19, Berlin, Germany
"Alte Tools, Neue Tricks" (talk, German)
Website

TestCon Europe
2024-10-23 - 2024-10-25, Vilnius, Lithuania
"Public Speaking & Procrastination" (talk)
Website

TestCon Europe
2024-10-23 - 2024-10-25, Vilnius, Lithuania
"Old Tools - New Tricks" (talk)
Website

AutomationSTAR
2024-10-09 - 2024-10-10, Vienna, Austria
"Old Tools - New Tricks" (talk)
Website

QA:Challenge Accepted
2024-09-28, Sofia, Bulgaria
Old Tools, New Tricks (presentation)
Website

QuaNTA NXT Conference
2024-08-29, online
Overcoming the Loopholes while Using Gen AI for Testing (panel discussion)
Website

Testμ Conference
2024-08-21, online
Old Tools, New Tricks (presentation)
Website

WeAreDevelopers World Congress
2024-07-18, Berlin, Germany
Identifying Code Smells (presentation)
Website

Selenium Conf 2024
2024-06-21, Online
"Old Tools - New Tricks" (talk)
Website

SIGiST Summer Conference
2024-06-19, online
The Road to QA (presentation)
Website

TestGuild
2024-06-14, online
Karate UI - The Hidden Beauty (presentation)
Website

Nordic Testing Days
2024-06-06, Tallinn, Estonia
Old Tools, New Tricks (talk)
Website

TestGuild Podcast
2024-05-26, online
Challenge Accepted: Rethinking Automation (podcast, online)
Recording

Live2Test
2024-05-22, online
"Smoke Tests & Mirrors - The Magic in Test Automation" (keynote)
Website

trivago Tech Get Together
2024-05-16, Düsseldorf, Germany
"The Benefits of Old Tools" (talk)
trivago Tech Blog

Agile Testing After Work
2024-05-07, Cologne, Germany
Old Tools, New Tricks (talk)
Website

trivago QA Meetup
2024-04-25, Düsseldorf, Germany
All About Cluecumber (talk)
Website

Girl's Day 2024
2024-04-25, trivago headquarter, Düsseldorf, Germany
"Deine eigene Website mit HTML & CSS" (workshop, German)
Website

Developers Who Test Podcast
2024-02-28, Online
"Episode 11 - Testing APIs using Karate" (podcast, online)
Website | Recording

New Work Düsseldorf Meetup
2024-02-22, Düsseldorf, Germany
Lean Coffee (moderator)
Website

zappletech Test Automation Meetup
2024-02-21, online
Identifying code smells (presentation)
Website | Recording

2023

Karate Webinar (as a moderator)
2023-11-22, online
"Selenium vs. Karate"
Registration

AgileTD Virtual Pass
2023-11-16, online
"Public Speaking and Procrastination" (talk)
Website

TestCon Europe
2023-10-26, Vilnius, Lithuania
"Identifying Code Smells" (talk)
Website

TestCon Europe
2023-10-25, Vilnius, Lithuania
"How to lead testing teams and foster a learning culture" (panel discussion)
Website

QA: Challenge Accepted
2023-10-01, Sofia, Bulgaria
"Identifying Code Smells" (talk)
Website

Web Engineering Düsseldorf
2023-09-25, Düsseldorf, Germany
"Identifying Code Smells" (talk)
Website

DevTalks Romania
2023-06-21 - 2023-06-22, Bucharest, Romania
"Smoke Tests & Mirrors - The Magic in Test Automation" (keynote)
Website

Agile Testing Days Open Air
2023-06-13 - 2023-06-15, Cologne, Germany
"Identifying Code Smells" (talk)
Website

Agile Testing Days Open Air
2023-06-13 - 2023-06-15, Cologne, Germany
"Smoke tests and mirrors - The Magic in Test Automation" (talk)
Website

expo:QA 2023
2023-05-30 - 2023-06-01, Madrid, Spain
"The Road to QA - an okayish success story" (talk)
Website

TestBustersNight Vienna
2023-05-25, online
"Smoke Tests & Mirrors - The Magic in Test Automation" (talk)
Website

Test Guild Automation Testing Podcast
2023-04-30, Online
"How to Create Automation Magic" (podcast, online)
Website | Recording

Girl's Day 2023
2023-04-27, trivago headquarter, Düsseldorf, Germany
"Deine eigene Website mit HTML & CSS" (workshop, German)
Website

EuroSTAR Huddle
2023-04-26, Online
"How do the Global 500 approach API testing?" (webinar)
Website | Recording

SeleniumConf
2023-03-28 - 2023-03-30, Chicago, USA
"Identifying Code Smells" (talk)
Website | Video

KarateLabs
2023-02-23, online
"API vs. UI testing" (webinar)
Registration on LinkedIn | Recording

2022

trivago Tech Get Together
2022-11-22 - 2022-11-23, Düsseldorf, Germany
"Identifying Code Smells" (talk)
trivago Tech Blog

Codebarn
2022-11-09, online
Episode 20: “Works on my machine!” (podcast, German)
Recording

TestCon Europe
2022-10-27, online
"Smoke tests and mirrors - the magic in test automation" (talk)
Website | Speaker intro video | Recording

Ministry of Testing
2022-10-03, online
"TestSphere Roulette" (podcast)
Recording

Quality Assurance Group Ukraine
2022-09-05, online
"Smoke tests and mirrors - the magic in test automation" (talk)
Website | Recording

LambdaTest Testμ Conference 2022
2022-08-24, online
Simplifying your test runs with 'make' (talk)
Website | Video

Never Code Alone
2022-08-16, online
"API Testing mit Karate" (YouTube live stream, German)
Website | Video

Selenium Conf Online
2022-07-29, online
"Of plugins and decorators - trivago's e2e test framework in the spotlight" (talk)
Website | Video | Slides

BrowserStack Champions Panel
2022-06-28, online
Time to Market > Best Practices (fireside chat)
Website

Romanian Testing Conference
2022-06-17, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
"Smoke tests and mirrors - the magic in test automation" (talk)
Website | Video | Conference Review

Continuous Testing Meetup
2022-02-23, online
"The Road to QA" (talk)
Website | Video

BrowserStack
2022-02-01, online
"Identifying Code Smells" (webinar)
Website | Video

2021

Nordic Testing Days
2021-06-05, online
"Simplifying your test runs with make" (talk)
Website | Video

Ministry of Testing
2021-04-23, online
"Testability Panel" (podcast)
Recording

2020

BrowserStack
2020-11-10, online
"Finding the balance – Trivago’s End-to-End test strategy" (webinar)
Website | Video

BrowserStack BreakPoint Conference
2020-07-23, online
"How we reconstructed our releases at trivago" (talk)
Website | Video

2019

Nordic Testing Days
2019-06-09, Tallinn, Estonia
"The Road To QA – From Developer To Test Automation Engineer" (talk)
Website | Slides

2017

SeleniumConf Berlin
2017-10-10, Berlin, Germany
"The Bumpy Road To Continuous Delivery" (talk)
Website | Video

SeleniumConf
2017-10-09, Berlin, Germany
"Testing Horror Stories" (panel discussion)
Website | Video

2015

Ubisoft Developers Conference (UDC)
2015, Montreal, Canada
"Aggregating customer service workflows with games" (talk)
Company Website

2009

Multimediatreff
2009-03-28, Cologne, Germany
"Flash CS4 features in practice", (talk, German)
Website | Video