Day 2 // May 28

We've outgrown CRUD. What comes next?

Tom Howard - Co-Founder of Well Financial Technology

Resilient by design: Strengthening incident response for compliance and stability

Kat McCrab - Managing Director at Flame Tree Cyber

The year of the AI Agent: Beyond Automation

Ulysses “Uly” Maclaren - COO of SSW and Product Owner of YakShaver

01:25-01:30

5 Minute Session Change Over

01:30-02:15

The Architecture of (Solution) Architecture

John Brøndum - Consultant

On Psychological Safety

Leigh Gibson - Group Owner AI Enabled Employees at TelstraSamantha Davies - Cloud and Infrastructure Centre of Expertise (CCOE) Lead at Telstra

Driving Transformational Change through Creative Research and Storytelling

Cordelia Prangley - User Experience Specialist at The University of NewcastleDr Ben Shelton - Senior Manager, Student Systems and Business Enablement at The University of Newcastle

02:15-03:15

Lunch

03:15-04:00

Maximise your coding potential - how AI-assisted coding helps you ship faster

Shweta Chenigaram - Shweta is a Senior Technical Lead with BMT Tax Depreciation Quantity Surveyors

When Home Networks Become Weapons

Adam Cassar - Co-Founder of Peakhour.io

From Legacy to Leading Edge: How Human-Centered Design Wins in Industry

Leanora Horne - Corporate Innovator | Product Strategist | Industrial UX Specialist

04:00-04:05

5 Minute Session Change Over

04:05-04:50

The Web is Your Ally — Building Accessible Web Apps By Using the Platform

Julian Burr - Senior Software Engineer at Askable

Rethinking the Building Blocks of Technology

Jay Rovacsek - IT Threat Management Lead at nib

Slow Coffee & Mental Wellbeing

Damian Hamilton - Founder – Pirate Coffee | Pirate Labs

04:50-05:20

Afternoon Tea

05:20-06:05

Human-Centered Design in the Age of AI: Building Better Tech Through Human Factors and UX

Shiva Pedram - Lecturer – School of Information and Physical Sciences University of Newcastle

How service design can make you a better engineer

Bethan Timmins - Leading Technology and Delivery as Chief Technology Officer at VND GLOBAL