About Global Testing Retreat
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GTR 2025 – 10th Edition of Global Testing Retreat, let’s relive the journey so far
As they say, the journey of 1000 miles, begins with a single step. We at Agile Testing Alliance took the first step even before hosting the inaugural edition of Global Testing Retreat, before conceiving the idea and bring GTR to fruition, ATA hosted Global Gathering, #ATAGG in the years 2014 and 2015.
With two successful editions of ATA Global Gatherings and meeting of minds across the industry, we conceived the idea a larger conference and thus Global Testing Retreat was born.
The inaugural edition of GTR was held in 2016 in Pune, an emerging IT Hub in India, a city near to the financial capital of India, Mumbai. The inaugural edition was a 3 Day event, with one day dedicated to Hands on workshops. Proponent of practical and hands-on learning, ATA and GTR has always been on the forefront to give practical learning experience to all the participants.
Since the 1st Edition, we have come a long way in planning, hosting, and executing GTR over the years now. From the first edition, we have done continuous improvement to give the best experience to all the speaker, delegates and partners of GTR. GTR has always scaled new heights in the subsequent editions. From single track days to hosting parallel tracks with interactive sessions and workshops, we have focused on learning.
Till 2019, GTR was held in physical mode in Pune, Covid was a major disruptive event which not only impacted the world as we perceive it, but also the way we work and hosted events. We adapted to new ways of learning and hosting events. There were initial hiccups we rose to the occasion and GTR 2020 (5th Edition), this was held virtually.
The subsequent editions, 2021, 2022 were held in virtual mode. The virtual edition helped reach GTR reach a wider audience across the globe. With things returning to normalcy, editions of 2023 and 2024 were held in hybrid mode, catering to a world-wide audience and giving in person experience to our speakers and delegates.
We have covered a long journey with 9 editions of GTR, we envision that the upcoming 10th Edition will set new standards and give a wholesome experience to one and all.
The inaugural edition of Global Testing Retreat was in 2016 in Pune, the conference spanned across 3 days with one day dedicated to workshops from industry stalwarts
With the experience gained from the 1st year, the second edition witnessed a more elaborate event comprising of 4 tracks on each day. Along with Pre-conference workshops.
The 3rd edition further saw an expansion in the conference program, GTR 2018 was a 6 parallel tracks event, with 4 tracks dedicated to hands on learning experience.
2019 was the 4th edition of Global Testing Retreat, the conference was held in December. It was a 2 full day event added with AutomATAhon competition. We had 5 parallel tracks on each day making it a wholesome learning experience for all the delegates
We adapted to the uncertain times due to Covid, the 5th edition #ATAGTR2020 was held in Virtual mode. A 2 day event which had Keynotes, Panel Discussions, Interactive talks as well as Workshops.
The challenging times continued as well the journey of learning new things, 6th edition was also held in online mode with Day 1 dedicated to Interactive sessions and keynotes, and Day 2 comprising of hands-on lab sessions.
The 7th edition held in online mode comprised of 4 parallel tracks on Day 1, and 2 tracks of Hands-on Labs / Workshops on Day 2
With the return of normalcy, GTR 8th edition was held in hybrid mode, catering to a global audience and also giving in-perons expereince to all in India. It was a 4 day event, with Virtual Days held on 2nd and 3rd Dec, and In person event on 8th and 9th Dec in Pune
Continuing with the traditon, the 9th edition was also held in hybrid mode. 2 Virtual conference days in Nov and one day of in-person engagement in Dec 2024
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