Joshua Gorospe
Joshua Gorospe is a Staff Test Engineer at webAI with roughly 20 years experience in the tech industry helping fellow testers craft test strategies for various companies and products. Very interested in Web3, blockchain, AI agents, model based testing, James Bach's Rapid Software Testing methodology, and combining them with Robot Framework RPA.
Fun fact, he was combining Robot Framework with conversational AI chatbots years before ChatGPT became famous. Joshua uses that experience to create and maintain Robot Framework community projects in GitHub, do Robot Framework presentations or workshops at conferences, writing Robot Framework articles on medium.com, and continue writing his book.
Session
The field of automation is constantly evolving. Currently there is a common misconception that LLMs and AI agents are only useful in the vibecoding trend. That trend has captured the attention of the tech industry since the start of 2025 and has sparked a lot of discussions on several social media platforms. Also there are at least 60+ agent projects and 4000+ MCP projects tracked in pulse.com today. My talk will demonstrate how combining Robot Framework's ecosystem with locally running AI Agents and LLMs can lead to a powerful combination.