PNSQC Pulse - August 19, 2026
Speaker Spotlight: Millan Kaul | New Sponsor: TestDino | Panels at PNSQC
Speaker Spotlight: Millan Kaul
We are thrilled to welcome Millan Kaul as an invited speaker!
Millan is a Quality Engineering leader with global experience building engineering-first quality cultures across startups, scale-ups, and enterprises on four continents. Spanning domains like banking, IoT, fuel analytics, and payments, his focus centers on scaling teams, driving business-aligned outcomes, and owning the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for quality to balance speed with control.
In recent years, Millan has spearheaded practical AI initiative: running local LLMs, engineering MCP-based agents, and implementing trusted, organization-level guardrails. A regular global conference speaker, he frequently shares his ongoing work and practical technical insights on his blog, Quality With Millan.
Keynote Session Details
Topic: From experimenting with AI to owning its total cost: What leaders often underestimate
What to Expect: As AI accelerates code generation, output increases—but certainty often drops. Moving past the initial hype, Millan will explore what happens when AI scales in production environments. Drawing from hands-on experience running local models and MCP-based systems, he will lead an interactive conversation on managing AI’s total cost of ownership (TCO)—including infrastructure, signal quality, team decision-making, and responsible leadership.
New Sponsor: TestDino
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Panels at PNSQC
Get ready for deep-dive discussions and honest, practical insights from industry leaders. We are excited to announce three featured panels bringing real-world experience to the biggest challenges in quality engineering today:
🤖 AI in the Testing Room: Real Results, Real Limits
Beyond the buzz, where is AI actually delivering value in quality assurance—and where does it fall short? Join practitioners as they separate hype from reality, discussing the practical impacts, hidden maintenance costs, and realistic boundaries of integrating AI into modern test strategies.
📈 Quality at Scale: Building Test Programs That Actually Work
Scaling software delivery shouldn’t mean scaling chaos. This panel examines how teams build sustainable quality programs that keep pace with rapid releases, maintain reliable signal quality across environments, and foster team-wide quality ownership.
🌐 Quality Beyond the Screen: Testing Devices, Systems, and the Real World
Software doesn’t live in isolation. Explore the unique quality and testing challenges of complex ecosystems—from IoT devices and embedded systems to hardware-software integration and real-world edge environments.