Modern mobile QA can move beyond scripts and CI pipelines into autonomous, cloud-executed agents. Traditional QA approaches struggle with flakiness, limited coverage, slow feedback loops, and not leveraging powerful mechanisms such as React Native's split between JS and native bundles. Teams need more reliable, automated ways to validate real user flows before code reaches production. Agent-based QA provides a scalable way to continuously verify app behavior on real devices and reduce risk in fast-moving codebases.

This talk shows how to design and operate QA agents that run against real iOS and Android devices hosted remotely. We’ll cover the architecture of a reliable agent, connecting Linux-based infrastructure to mobile devices running on macOS, and integrating outputs like screenshots, recordings, and logs directly into pull requests.

The React Native ecosystem is changing fast, and AI is now influencing everything from code generation and testing to debugging, tooling, and app architecture. This panel brings together voices from across the community to ask what that shift really means for everyday RN developers: which AI and agent workflows are already useful, where the hype still outpaces the reality, and what skills will matter most in the next wave of mobile development. Expect a candid conversation about productivity, code quality, maintainability, and the practical changes teams will need to make as AI becomes part of the React Native workflow.