Software delivery is accelerating. Release cycles are compressing, applications are growing more complex, and AI-assisted development is quietly increasing the volume and pace of change entering production — sometimes faster than organisations have consciously decided to allow. Yet for many teams, testing practices haven’t fundamentally changed: quality assurance remains heavily manual, automation is patchy or brittle, and coverage depends on the time and people available at the end of the cycle. The result is a widening gap between the speed at which software is built and the speed at which it can be confidently validated.

Join iTnews and senior technology leaders for an exclusive roundtable, sponsored by ACCELQ, to explore how testing can close that gap. The conversation will examine where the pressure is felt most acutely today, how AI and emerging agentic capabilities in testing tools — from intelligent test generation to self-maintaining automation — might realistically help, and what conditions around trust, governance and skills need to be in place before organisations hand more of the quality process to intelligent systems. This conversation will take place under the Chatham House Rule.