ISTA 2026Fest Edition

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Latest InsightISTA 2026 adds Nikolay Avramov, who works on the test suites that still have to run in a year

ISTA speaker

Anton Turbinov

Automation QA & AI Engineer, SiteGround

Confirmed for ISTA 2026

The ISTA 2026 programme is not published yet, so no session is listed here for that edition. See what is confirmed.

Portrait of Anton Turbinov

Biography

Spending my early career in Customer Success, where I analyzed customer conversations gave me a sharp eye for natural interaction. I learned firsthand that all systems automated or not will only succeed when they are built around the nuances of real-world user behavior. Today, I leverage my 15-year IT background to build AI-native quality assurance systems from scratch. I spend my time engineering end-to-end automation workflows—using Playwright and TypeScript. Lately, I've been building "LLM as Judge" multimodal frameworks—essentially creating the evaluation layer where advanced models review and critique the work of other autonomous agents generating web and social content. I am a huge fan of the idea to make AI testing pragmatic and thorough so development teams have a clear, measurable data on how their AI is performing.

Edition history

One edition

Role and company as each edition published them — a title changes between years, and the archive is kept as it was.

  1. 2026

    Automation QA & AI Engineer

    SiteGround · 15 Oct 2026

ISTA 2026 · 15 October 2026

One day in October. A year of engineering knowledge.