2026 Agenda

Time

Main hall

Swanston room

Supper room

Yarra room

Hoddle room

08:00

Registration

08:45

Welcome and Housekeeping

Main hall

09:00
(45 min.)

09:45

Morning Tea

10:15
(45 min.)

Sponsor Hall + Networking

Main hall

11:00

Changeover

11:15
(45 min.)

Sponsor Hall + Networking

Main hall

12:00

Changeover

12:15
(20 min.)

Sponsor Hall + Networking

Main hall

12:35

Lunch

13:30
(45 min.)

Sponsor Hall + Networking

Main hall

14:15

Changeover

14:30
(45 min.)

Sponsor Hall + Networking

Main hall

15:15

Afternoon Tea

15:45
(45 min.)

Sponsor Hall + Networking

Main hall

16:30

Changeover

16:45
(45 min.)

17:30

Closing

Main hall

18:00 - 20:30

Afterparty

Beer Deluxe, Federation Square

2026 Agenda

Registration

Welcome and Housekeeping

Keynote: Sreyna Rath

AI: it's our responsibility

Morning Tea

Sponsor Hall + Networking

Joel Gallagher

Code is a Conversation: What Are You Really Saying to the Next Developer?

Renaldi Gondosubroto

The Safety First App: 12 product patterns that turn failures into recoveries

Gretchen Scott

Go Slow and Build Something: Why Speed Kills (Your Community)

Rakesh Lakshminarayana

From Bots to Brains: Patterns for Building Intelligent AI Agents

Changeover

Sponsor Hall + Networking

Evan Kohilas

Who tests the testers? Making and testing pipelines

Andrew Murphy

9 Management Habits Quietly Burning Out Your Best Engineers

Amy Norris

Managing for Failure

Rakesh Lakshminarayana

From Bots to Brains: Patterns for Building Intelligent AI Agents(continued)

Changeover

Sponsor Hall + Networking

Max Downey Twiss

You Aren't Always Right: Resolving Technical Disagreements The Easy Way

Dasith Wijesiriwardena

Throw Away The Vibes: Context Engineering Is All You Need

Emad Alashi

Beyond the Code: Building Robust Integrations That Work

Lunch

Sponsor Hall + Networking

Will Velida

Platform Engineering in the age of Generative AI

Randi Ratnayake

Refactoring Your Career: From First Commit to Last Pull Request

Kirsty McDonald

Dude where's my state file? Adventures with Infrastructure as Code

William Liebenberg

Real-Time Magic: Crafting Blazor WebAssembly Apps with SignalR and Fluxor (Workshop Edition)

Changeover

Sponsor Hall + Networking

Pavel Oborin

Breaking the PR Review Bottleneck

Callum Whyte

Designed To Fail: Building Resilient Applications

Baani Ahluwalia, Laura Schaufelberger

It takes a village: how internal platforms let companies build great products

William Liebenberg

Real-Time Magic: Crafting Blazor WebAssembly Apps with SignalR and Fluxor (Workshop Edition)(continued)

Afternoon Tea

Sponsor Hall + Networking

Lachlan Kingsford

How To Write Awful Unmaintainable Code

Amanda Pitcher

The Billion Dollar Blindspot: What happens when everyone thinks alike

Marin Niehues

Congratulations, you are agile. Your product is still late.

Changeover

Locknote: Daniel Fang

Hey LEGO robot, Grab me a Coke!

Closing

Afterparty

From Bots to Brains: Patterns for Building Intelligent AI Agents
(continued)

Real-Time Magic: Crafting Blazor WebAssembly Apps with SignalR and Fluxor (Workshop Edition)
(continued)