Track: Quality Community | Topics: Quality 4.0, Next-Gen Quality, Conferences, Professional Development

In this short episode of All Things Quality, host Pablo Baez talks with Thomas Jones, conference chair for BosCon 2026, the ASQ Boston Section conference taking place November 5–6, 2026, at the Hilton Boston/Woburn.

Thomas shares what BosCon is, what attendees can expect from this year’s theme — “Next-Gen Quality: Where Innovation Meets Assurance” — and how a focused regional event like BosCon offers a different experience from larger conferences like WCQI.

This episode also includes ASQ News You Can Use, with updates on the upcoming ISO 9001 release, ASQ’s September Standards & Auditing Member Gift, and the final call for WCQI 2027 presenter submissions.

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Resources and links:

BosCon 2026 – ASQ Boston Section - Learn more about BosCon 2026, hosted by the ASQ Boston Section.

ISO 9001 Revision Update – ISO/TC 176/SC 2 - Official updates on the upcoming ISO 9001 revision.

ASQ Standards & Auditing Member Gift - Access ASQ’s September member resource collection on standards and auditing.

WCQI 2027 Call for Proposals - Submit to present at WCQI 2027 before the deadline.

ASQ Membership - Join ASQ for member discounts, resources, learning, and community access.

All Things Quality Podcast - Listen, follow, and subscribe to ASQ’s official podcast.

Track: Quality in Practice | Topics: ISO 9001:2026, Quality management systems, Standards, ISO 9000, Quality culture, Risks and opportunities, Change management.---

ISO 9001:2026 is coming — but what’s actually changing, what’s staying the same, and how should quality professionals prepare without overreacting?

In this episode of All Things Quality, we talk with Lisa Uhrig, ANSI lead US expert for the ISO 9001 revision and U.S. TAG voting member. Lisa explains how the revision process works, what consensus means, why some changes were made, and how organizations can avoid misinformation as the updated standard approaches.

Lisa addresses key questions including:

• Who decides when ISO 9001 needs to be revised?

• What stage is the ISO 9001:2026 update in now?

• What are the biggest changes you should know about?

• What is not changing from ISO 9001:2015?

• Why were risks and opportunities separated?

• What role do quality culture and ethical behavior play in the update?

• How does ISO 9000 support the use of ISO 9001?

• Where can quality professionals find reliable implementation guidance?

Resources mentioned:

• ASQ Standards 101

• Lisa Uhrig’s new Quality Progress article, “ISO 9001: 2026”

• “Standards in Sync” by Lisa Uhrig, Marnie Schmidt, Sheronda Jeffries and Susan L.K. Briggs

• ISO/TC 176/SC 2 homepage

• ISO/TC 176/SC 2 guidance on ISO 9001

• ISO 9001 Auditing Practices Group

• Questions or volunteer opportunities with ASQ Standards

• This episode is sponsored by BecomeMore Group — BecomeMore helps organizations build stronger leaders, strengthen ISO management systems, and use Lean Six Sigma through The DMAIC Way® to solve problems, reduce loss, and sustain gains. Learn more at https://www.becomemoregp.com/

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Track: Quality in Practice | Topics: Cybersecurity risk management; secure by design; KRIs; AI risk; vulnerability management

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Cybersecurity is no longer just an IT issue. In this episode of All Things Quality, we talk with Jayet Moon and Jeet Shah, authors of Cybersecurity Risk Management, live at the ASQ's World Conference on Quality & Improvement, about how cyber risk connects to quality, compliance, operations, AI, supply chain risk, and product safety.

They discuss secure-by-design thinking, foundational controls, KRIs, vulnerability management, and how quality professionals can partner with cybersecurity teams to build safer, more resilient systems.

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Resources & Links

• Cybersecurity Risk Management — Practical guidance for connecting cyber risk to quality, compliance, engineering, and trust.
• Expert Answers: Cybersecurity Risk Management — A quick primer on why cyber risk belongs in quality.
• Beware the Trojan Horse: Hidden Threats, Real Risks — A clear breakdown of assets, threats, vulnerabilities, impacts, and severity.
• NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0 — A common structure for managing cybersecurity risk.
• ISO/IEC 27001 Overview — Background on the ISMS standard discussed in the episode.
• CISA Secure by Design — Guidance on building security in earlier.
• Jayet Moon on Artificial Intelligence Fundamentals — Jayet’s ASQTV segment on AI through a quality lens.
• AI Fundamentals Q&A with Jayet Moon — Pablo’s earlier ATQ conversation with Jayet.

Track: Quality in Practice | AI Adoption, ISO 42001, Quality Management, Q5.0

What’s missing from AI adoption? Natalia Brattan says the answer is You!

🎧 In this episode of All Things Quality, Natalia joins ATQ to talk about why Artificial Intelligence (AI) needs more than tools, prompts, and experimentation.

From hallucinations and hidden failure costs to SPC, governance, ISO/IEC 42001, and human judgment, this conversation explores how quality professionals can help make AI adoption safer, more repeatable, and more valuable.

This episode also includes Quality News You Can Use — a quick roundup of timely ASQ updates, resources, events, and member conversations to keep on your radar.

📚 Learn more -

• AI’s Missing Ingredient — Natalia’s Quality Progress article behind the conversation.
• AI Risks and Rewards — Internal audit’s role in responsible AI adoption.
• Taking Responsibility — ISO/IEC 42001 and AI management systems.
• Leveraging AI to Support Your QMS — Practical AI uses in QMS work.
• ISO 42001:2023 Foundations — Training on AI management systems.
• 3 Transformative Trends in Quality — Revisit Natalia’s earlier All Things Quality conversation on emerging trends shaping the quality profession.

🗞️ Quality News You Can Use Links

• ASQ Pocket Guide Series Promo — Use promo code PocketGuides2026 through August.
• All Things Quality on Spotify — Catch up on the latest episodes.
• myASQ Community — Log in to join the ISO 9001 update discussion.
• The Quality Show Registration — Register for the October event in Rosemont, IL.

Follow, share, and subscribe to All Things Quality for more conversations on quality, innovation, standards, and the future of the profession.

Track: Thought Leadership

Topics: Quality Strategy; Benchmarking; Supplier Quality; Cost of Quality; KPI Alignment; AI and Digital Transformation

In this episode of All Things Quality, we talk with Russ Snyder, Founder & Principal Consultant of 6 Sigma Supply Chain, about the 2026 ASQ/ASQE Insights on Excellence Benchmarking Highlights Report.

Russ shares practical takeaways on supplier quality, cost of quality, AI and technology, KPI alignment, and how organizations can turn benchmarking insights into action. He also challenges quality professionals and business leaders to look beyond assumptions — especially when it comes to supplier issues — and use better data to connect quality work to business performance.

Plus, Pablo shares a few quick ASQ updates, including the August Member Gift, an upcoming member benefit session on ASQ certifications, improvements to the ASQ Mobile App, and a free on-demand eQMS webinar that provides practical lessons on building a modern QMS roadmap. (0.1 RUs)

Resource links

• August Member Gift: Quality as a Business Strategy
• 2026 ASQE Insights on Excellence Benchmarking Highlights Report
• ASQE Insights on Excellence
• IoE Benchmarking Tool
• ASQ Mobile App
• Member Benefit Session: Unlocking ASQ Certification — What You Need to Know to Get Started
• The Right Formula for Quality: Scaling Your QMS, a free on-demand webinar from Octave, formerly ETQ.
• Russ Snyder on LinkedIn

Track: Quality in Practice

Topics: Responsible AI, Healthcare Quality, Human-Centered Care

Neha Chowrasia returns to All Things Quality to take the conversation about AI in healthcare from principles to practice. We explore human oversight, workflow integration, trust, ethical implementation, future-ready skills, and how healthcare organizations can embrace AI without losing sight of patients and people.

Related resources:

• Listen to Part 1: AI, Empathy, and the Future of Care
• Read Neha’s Quality Progress article, “Hand in Hand”
• Connect with Neha on LinkedIn
• Explore ASQ healthcare quality resources
• Download the ASQ Mobile App for additional tools and member resources
• Join ASQ

Track: Thought Leadership

Topics: Data center quality, AI infrastructure, standards, future of quality

In this episode of All Things Quality, Pablo Baez talks with Govind Ramu, Senior Technical Program Manager for AI Infrastructure Quality at Google, about the emerging field of data center quality, the role of DCE 9000, and why quality professionals should pay attention to the infrastructure powering the AI era.

Key takeaways:

• Why data center quality matters to the future of AI and cloud computing
• How DCE 9000 could help define quality expectations for data centers
• Where risk, reliability, supplier quality, auditing, and continual improvement fit in
• What quality professionals can learn from this fast-growing field
• Why NextGen quality professionals should watch the intersection of AI, infrastructure, and standards

This episode also includes quick ASQ updates on Quality Progress, the 2026 ASQE Insights on Excellence Report, the July Member Gift on applying AI in quality, recent Quality Press titles, and recent ATQ episodes listeners may have missed.

Resources mentioned:

• Govind Ramu’s QP article: https://asq.org/quality-progress/articles/field-notes-surge-protection?id=0ace73751ba7458a9c8c2b0ae821d80a
• July QP cover story: https://asq.org/quality-progress/articles/beware-the-trojan-horse-hidden-threats-real-risks?id=237f940b497f419eafaf7538be45ebc6
• 2026 ASQE Insights on Excellence Report: https://asq.org/quality-resources/benchmarking-reports/2026-asqe-ioe-benchmarking-highlights-report
• July ASQ Member Gift — Putting AI to Work in Quality: https://asq.org/membership/member-gift/july-2026
• ASQ Quality Press: https://asq.org/quality-press

Track: Technical Corner
Topics: AI, QMS, auditing, ISO 9001, risk

If AI helped write the CAPA, summarize the audit evidence, or suggest a root cause… what should the auditor ask next?

In this AI-assisted episode of All Things Quality, we explore how AI is showing up in quality management systems — and how auditors can respond without losing sight of the fundamentals. From data and risk to evidence, controls, and human oversight, this episode walks through practical questions every quality professional should keep in mind when AI enters the QMS.

Follow the links below to learn more about this topic:

• When the QMS Thinks for Itself — What QMS auditors should know about AI.
  https://asq.org/quality-progress/articles/standard-issues-when-the-qms-thinks-for-itself?id=c460fb5bcf3b444b9ac370c65582bdb8
• AI Risks and Rewards — How internal audit can support responsible AI adoption.
  https://asq.org/quality-progress/articles/ai-risks-and-rewards?id=d345dd464be743c09fbf2856912c0466
• Leveraging AI to Support Your QMS — Examples of how AI can support QMS work.
  https://asq.org/quality-progress/articles/expert-answers-leveraging-ai-to-support-your-qms?id=e2506c6d5c1d432b839fc566ef6fde5a
• Taking Responsibility — A look at ISO/IEC 42001 and AI management systems.
  https://asq.org/quality-progress/articles/taking-responsibility?id=de9ba88edd064801a1537532d65430e9
• AI’s Missing Ingredient — Why human judgment and quality thinking still matter.
  https://asq.org/quality-progress/articles/ais-missing-ingredient?id=11d1df5360e84606ba169800e08cdd39

Track: Thought Leadership
Topics: Agentic AI, healthcare quality, Quality 4.0, automation

In this episode of All Things Quality, we talk with Darshi Bassi, quality improvement advisor at Mayo Clinic, about her quality journey, digital transformation, and the role of Quality 4.0 in healthcare.

Darshi shares lessons from her “My Quality Story” article and discusses how systems thinking, process improvement, AI, automation, and classic quality tools can help organizations improve — when they are used with purpose, discipline, and a clear focus on people and outcomes.

Also included is our “Quality News You Can Use” segment featuring ASQ updates, member resources, upcoming events, certification support, and more.

Featured Links and Resources:

• Darshi Bassi’s Quality Progress article: “My Quality Story: Evolving from ‘bug queen’ to ‘diamond’”
• Darshi Bassi’s Quality Progress article: “Catch All”
• ASQ Quality 4.0 resources
• ASQ Ascend Webinars: “Turning Crisis into Opportunity: Managing Quality Issues and Supplier Challenges Beyond Your Control”
• Quality Progress 40 Under 40 nominations
• ASQ Certified Six Sigma Green Belt
• QuINCY Study Assistant for Certified Six Sigma Green Belt

• Related episode: ATQ Podcast: “AI, Empathy, and the Future of Care” with Neha Chowrasia

Recorded live at WCQI, Doug Wood and W. Frazier Pruitt — coauthors of Principles of Quality Costs, Fifth Edition — join All Things Quality to discuss the hidden costs organizations often miss, and why the future of quality depends on fundamentals, communication, business fluency, and people.

More resources:
What is Cost of Quality? — ASQ
2025 ASQE Insights on Excellence Cost of Quality Report
Targeting Quality Costs — Quality Progress
Cost of Quality: Finance for Continuous Improvement — ASQ Training
Connect with Doug Wood on LinkedIn
Connect with W. Frazier Pruitt on LinkedIn