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Tricentis, a global leader in agentic quality engineering, today announced the featured keynote speakers and agenda for Transform 2026, its flagship industry conference dedicated to helping enterprises navigate the next era of software quality in the age of AI. This year's theme, The Power of Agentic Quality, reflects the growing need for organizations to harness the speed of agentic AI while maintaining the trust, reliability, and governance required to deliver software at enterprise scale. Transform 2026 will bring together technology executives, quality engineering leaders, software practitioners, and industry visionaries.
Tricentis announces Transform 2026 with featured speakers Jon Acuff, Steven Bartlett, Zack Kass, and Emmitt Smith.
Transform Dallas features Emmitt Smith and Jon Acuff on August 19-20.
Transform Singapore features Zack Kass on September 16-17.
Transform London features Steven Bartlett on October 21-22.
60% of organizations ship untested AI-generated code, per Tricentis Quality Transformation Report.
One in five organizations lose up to $5 million annually due to software quality issues.
As organizations accelerate the adoption of agentic AI, software quality has emerged as one of the defining challenges of the technology era. According to Tricentis' 2026 Quality Transformation Report, 60% of organizations are shipping untested AI-generated code, while one in five organizations lose up to $5 million annually due to software quality issues. At the same time, more than 80% of organizations expect significant productivity gains from agentic AI, underscoring the urgency of building modern approaches to quality engineering.
Transform Dallas will feature Emmitt Smith, legendary NFL Hall of Famer, businessman, and entrepreneur as a special guest keynote speaker. Smith will share lessons on leadership, teamwork, resilience, and sustained excellence from both the football field and the boardroom. Joining the Dallas lineup will be Jon Acuff, New York Times bestselling author and one of Inc.'s Top 100 Leadership Speakers. Acuff, author of 11 books including Procrastination Proof, Soundtracks, Finish and All It Takes Is A Goal, will share practical insights on navigating change, overcoming organizational inertia, and building the mindset required to thrive as AI reshapes how work gets done.
Transform Singapore will feature Zack Kass, global AI advisor, researcher, the former Head of Go-To-Market at OpenAI, and bestselling author of The Next RenAIssance: AI and the Expansion of Human Potential. Kass advises Fortune 1000 leaders on AI adoption and business transformation and will provide a forward-looking perspective on enterprise AI strategy and how organizations can harness AI responsibly while preparing for the next wave of technological change.
Transform 2026 will conclude in London, where Tricentis will welcome Steven Bartlett, founder of steven.com, entrepreneur, investor, bestselling author, and host of the world's second biggest podcast, The Diary of a CEO, as its feature keynote speaker. Bartlett will share insights on leadership, innovation and navigating change in an era of constant disruption, drawing from his experience building global businesses and investing in the next generation of technology.
Kevin Thompson, CEO of Tricentis, stated: "Organizations are under tremendous pressure to move faster with AI, but speed without quality is creating real risk. As AI reshapes how software is built, organizations need to put quality first with a quality engineering approach that's technology-driven, AI-enabled, and highly automated to realize the full value of AI and built for today's speed and complexity. Transform 2026 is designed to help technology leaders deploy AI responsibly, build confidence in every release, and scale innovation without sacrificing trust."
At Transform 2026, attendees will explore the technologies, strategies, and operating models required to deliver agentic quality at scale. Featured topics include delivering agentic quality at scale with an address from Kevin Thompson; meeting new quality colleagues with an update from Eran Sher, Chief Product Officer, on the product roadmap; agentic test creation from prompt to production; agentic test automation for AI-generated code; and reskilling teams for the agentic era. Eran Sher added: "Software development is rapidly becoming agent-driven, which means quality engineering must evolve just as quickly. Organizations need new ways to validate, govern, and trust software created with AI. At Transform, attendees will see how agentic quality engineering helps teams move faster, reduce risk, and build confidence in every release."
About Tricentis
Tricentis is a global leader in agentic quality engineering. The Tricentis Agentic Quality Engineering Platform leverages the power of AI and decades of Tricentis technology and expertise to provide a new and fundamentally different way to ensure software quality across large and complex enterprise application environments. An approach that's totally automated, fully codeless, and intelligently driven by AI. It addresses both agile development and complex enterprise apps, enabling enterprises to accelerate their digital transformation, by dramatically increasing software release speed, reducing costs, and improving software quality.
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