Being invited to present at the 23rd edition of the QA&Test Embedded conference was both a professional milestone and a personal challenge for me. It has been 3 years since I was able to attend the online edition of the conference and it has been my dream since then to go to Bilbao, Spain, and become a part of the event that brings together some of the world’s leading minds in the field of quality assurance and embedded systems testing. Not only that, I was also about to become a speaker at my first international conference! Sounds scary, right? Thankfully, I very quickly learned that one of the conference’s distinguishing factors, besides technical excellence, is a unique atmosphere of support, friendliness, and feedback that is cultivated by the organizers and all attendees.