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Day 1 // May 27

10:00-11:00

Registration

11:00-11:10

keynote

Welcome to the Conference

Conference Organisers

11:20-12:20

keynote

Keynote: Importance of tech in the current capital raising landscape and unlocking product led growth with diversity

Carolyn Breeze - CEO of Scale Partners

12:20-12:50

Morning Tea

12:50-01:35

teal

Tackling the developer inner loop

Aaron Powell - Cloud Advocate at Microsoft

magenta

Root access required – A Guide to Technical Mastery and Team Leadership

Sara Gray - Senior Product Security manager at Atlassian

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Building High-Value Relationships between Technology and the Business: Three Essential Strategies to Delivering Successful Projects

Claire Quigley - Founder Tech Team Whisperer

01:35-01:40

5 Minute Session Change Over

01:40-02:25

teal

Building Cutting-Edge Military Simulators with LS Core 2.0

Craig Williams - CTO at Applied Virtual Simulation

magenta

Decentralising Data at Scale: Lessons from Building ANZ Plus's Data Mesh on GCP

Jacob Moran - Product Owner: Data Mesh & Data Ops at ANZ

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Platform Strategy - why it matters & how to do it

Brendan Marsh - Organisation and Product Coach at Organa

02:25-03:25

Lunch

03:25-04:10

teal

Digital Forensics in the Intensive Care Unit

Andrew Goodwin - Research Collaborator at The Hospital For Sick Children

magenta

Meeting Them Where They're At: Designing a Product to Help All Australian Schools

Tim Kelso - Data Analyst/Data Manager at University of Newcastle

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Panel: How cool, interesting, and innovative tech can be driven from regional areas

James MacDonald - Managing Director at NTPAndrew Cresp - CIO at NGM GroupSam Davies - Core Networks, Cloud and Infrastructure COE LeadVictoria Aspden - Executive General Manager - Digital and Transformation at Ampcontrol

04:10-04:15

5 Minute Session Change Over

04:15-05:00

teal

Improve SaaS applications availability using Cell-based Architecture

Islam Ghanim - Principal Technical Account Manager at AWS

magenta

Case study – Managing a complex engineering project

Nelly Sattari - Senior Engineering Manager at Atlassian

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Continuous Product Discovery: How to Democratise Conversations with Customers to Build a Better Product

Ashlea Rendel - Research Manager at Bupa

05:00-05:30

Afternoon Tea

05:30-06:15

teal

Let’s build an AI agent

Phil Nash - Developer Relations Engineer at DataStax

magenta

Shaping your tech career through self-directed learning

Matt Shepherd - Senior Engineering Manager at Octopus Deploy

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Slow Coffee & Mental Wellbeing

Damian Hamilton

06:15-06:20

5 Minute Session Change Over

06:20-07:25

teal

Eff-Off Money - Financial independence for tech workers

Kris Howard - Retired

magenta

How we are building a National Energy Analysis Centre from the ground up

Stephen Craig - Director, National Energy Analysis CCenter (NEAC) at CSIRO

blue

How I used GitHub Projects to move my house

Michelle Duke - Developer Advocate at SSW

07:25-07:55

Drinks

07:55-08:45

keynote

Conference Feud

08:45-

End of day 1