TestSprite - 20 upcoming conferences with open CFPs for AI testing / testing / devtools talks

Format:
Conference | Dates | CFP deadline/status | Why it fits TestSprite | URL

1. Hands-On Testing 2026 | 2026-08-12 to 2026-08-15 | CFP deadline: 2026-04-30 | Direct fit for QA, software testing, test automation, and AI-driven testing | https://sessionize.com/hands-on-testing-2026/

2. CAST 2026 (Association for Software Testing) | 2026-08-03 to 2026-08-05 | CFP deadline: 2026-05-31 | Strong fit for AI-assisted testing, quality strategy, exploratory testing, and intelligent automation | https://sessionize.com/association-for-software-testing-cast/

3. Testing Assembly 2026 | 2026-11-04 | CFP deadline: 2026-05-10 | Focused on software testing, QA, and quality engineering; very strong fit for TestSprite topics | https://testingassembly.fistb.fi/cfs/

4. API + AI Summit 2026 | 2026-09-30 to 2026-10-01 | CFP deadline: 2026-05-27 | Good fit for AI systems in production, developer platforms, platform reliability, and API testing/tooling | https://konghq.com/events/conferences/api-ai-summit/call-for-papers

5. Applied AI Conference 2026 | 2026-06-13 | CFP deadline: 2026-04-30 | Good fit for production AI, agents, evals, reliability, and AI engineering tooling | https://sessionize.com/applied-ai-conf-2026/

6. WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America 2026 | 2026-09-23 to 2026-09-25 | CFP deadline: 2026-04-30 | Has Testing / QA / Reliability coverage; suitable for AI testing, evals, and devtools talks | https://sessionize.com/wearedevelopers-world-congress-2026-us/

7. WeAreDevelopers Conference India 2026 | 2026-11-25 to 2026-11-26 | CFP deadline: 2026-07-24 | Broad developer audience; suitable for AI engineering, tooling, testing, and platform topics | https://sessionize.com/wearedevelopers-conference-2026-india/

8. DevTalks Romania 2026 | 2026-06-03 to 2026-06-04 | CFP deadline: 2026-05-15 | Broad engineering event with AI/Product/DevOps tracks; workable for AI testing and developer tools | https://www.papercall.io/devtalksromania2026

9. DevTalks Cluj Napoca 2026 | 2026-09-24 | CFP deadline: 2026-08-16 | Accepts AI/ML/QA/testing/dev-focused topics; good fit for AI QA and test automation stories | https://www.papercall.io/devtalks-2026

10. SREday Munich 2026 Q2 | 2026-05-21 | CFP deadline: 2026-04-21 | Strong fit for reliability, observability, platform quality, and testing in production | https://www.papercall.io/sreday-2026-munich-q2

11. SREday NYC 2026 Q2 | 2026-06-06 | CFP deadline: 2026-05-01 | Good fit for reliability engineering, production quality, and AI/system evaluation in real environments | https://www.papercall.io/sreday-2026-nyc-q2

12. LLMday London 2026 Q2 | 2026-05-28 | CFP deadline: 2026-04-20 | Very good fit for LLM evals, AI testing, guardrails, and safety/reliability talks | https://www.papercall.io/llmday-2026-london-q2

13. Conf42 Database DevOps 2026 | 2026-06-04 | CFP deadline: 2026-05-04 | Good fit for test infrastructure, automation pipelines, observability, and devtools workflows | https://www.papercall.io/conf42-database-devops-2026

14. Conf42 Large Language Models (LLMs) 2026 | 2026-06-18 | CFP deadline: 2026-05-18 | Strong fit for hallucination testing, prompting evaluation, reasoning quality, and LLM benchmarking | https://www.papercall.io/conf42-large-language-models-llms-2026

15. Conf42 AI Agents 2026 | 2026-09-24 | CFP deadline: 2026-08-24 | Strong fit for agent evaluation, debugging, orchestration, memory, and quality/reliability topics | https://www.papercall.io/conf42-ai-agents-2026

16. BaselOne 2026 | 2026-10-14 to 2026-10-15 | CFP deadline: 2026-04-30 | Excellent fit because CFP explicitly welcomes Data/AI/ML, Testing and Quality, and Operations/Reliability topics | https://sessionize.com/baselone-2026/

17. BED-Con 2026 | 2026-05-20 to 2026-05-22 | CFP deadline: 2026-04-26 | Good fit for real-world engineering reports across software engineering, platform, data, and AI topics | https://sessionize.com/bed-con-2026/

18. Conf42 Platform Engineering 2026 | 2026-11-05 | CFP is open; directory lists CFP deadline: 2026-10-05 | Good fit for internal developer platforms, test infrastructure, quality engineering, and devtools enablement | https://www.conf42.com/platform2026

19. Conf42 MLOps 2026 | 2026-11-19 | CFP is open; directory lists CFP deadline: 2026-10-19 | Good fit for model evaluation, ML/LLM ops, AI reliability, testing pipelines, and production QA | https://www.conf42.com/mlops2026

20. Conf42 Chaos Engineering 2026 | 2026-12-03 | CFP is open; directory lists CFP deadline: 2026-11-02 | Good fit for resilience testing, failure injection, AI/system reliability, and production validation | https://www.conf42.com/ce2026