Welcome back Rosie 
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Has it already been 3-5 years? What has indeed happened - great question!
A more fragmented industry network in two regards: After the implosion of Twitter, people are online at more different places: smaller community slack sites, mastodon, and BlueSky. Also, there is a larger range of cheap online conferences - and a handful of smaller testing conferences.
Congrats again to the team on the turnout for TestBash UK - there is power in meeting people live.
There is a better diversity of speakers and a whole new set of keynote-givers… in most of the places. A broader set of topics too. Like a TestBash almost always has something about mental health. Keep experimenting with formats that bring people together when we are together.
For me, the testing work is more about operational testing and compliance requirements than functional test cases and scalability. New Fields of Testing Activities | Complexity is a Matter of Perspective. I have a hunch that LLMs will hit all the document writing and test case stepping someday soon.
To me, it’s also more about the testing activity than the testers (formal roles). The Testing, not the Testers | Complexity is a Matter of Perspective. Plenty of different people are involved in doing testing in some capacity. Perhaps we can expand the scope of the MoT to be more about the testing activity, so we are not as siloed?
A last thing could be that people are stuck in previous ways of working, for various reasons. We have great up-to-date models for better deliveries but teams seem to lag enough of free processing power to notice that things can be different. Make MoT the place to experience that things can be improved.
/Jesper, a MoT fanboy since 2010.