1. 07:30
    75m
    AI Leaders Roundtable Breakfast
    All · Cameo, ACMI
  2. 08:00
    60m
    Expo open, coffee available
    Zinc
  3. 09:00
    5m
    Welcome — Day 2
    John Allsopp Keynote · Cinema 1
  4. 09:10
    30m
    Keynote
    Jeremy Howard Keynote · Cinema 1
  5. 09:40
    18m
    Craft in the Time of Agents
    Annie Vella Keynote · Cinema 1
  6. 10:00
    20m
    What If You Never Needed an API Key Again? Building a Mesh LLM From Spare Compute
    Mic Neale Keynote · Cinema 1
  7. 10:20
    18m
    Towards Long-Horizon Tasks
    Zixuan Li Keynote
  8. 10:50
    5m
    Morning keynote outro
    John Allsopp Keynote · Cinema 1
  9. 11:00
    60m
    Lunch
    Zinc & Cameo, ACMI
  10. 11:15
    20m
    Build Agent-Powered Workflows on Notion Developer Platform
    Esti Frischling Hallway · Gandel Digital Future Lab
  11. 11:40
    20m
    Why Engineering Velocity Still Breaks
    Aldo Schumann Hallway · Gandel Digital Future Lab
  12. 12:00
    18m
    Spec driven AI development - A Real World Perspective
    Nick Beaugeard Software Engineering · Cinema 2
  13. 12:00
    25m
    Not Everything Needs an LLM
    Dave Hall Leadership · Swinburne Studio
  14. 12:00
    120m
    Observability and Evaluation for LLM Apps and Agentic AI with Langfuse
    Muhammad Ali Workshop · Gandel Digital Future Lab
  15. 12:00
    18m
    Deploying AI at the Edge: Model Compression and Hardware-Aware Optimization
    Shivay Lamba AI Engineering · Cinema 1
  16. 12:20
    18m
    When a Small Language Model Beat Our LLM in Production
    Avni Bhatt AI Engineering · Cinema 1
  17. 12:20
    18m
    Building SDKs in the Agentic Era
    Mark McDonald Software Engineering · Cinema 2
  18. 12:30
    25m
    The AI Tax and "legal" ways to minimise it
    Krishna kanth Mundada Leadership · Swinburne Studio
  19. 12:40
    18m
    AGENTS.md is the wrong conversation
    Jakub Riedl Software Engineering · Cinema 2
  20. 12:40
    18m
    Multi-Model Collaboration with Claude Code: How to Measure What Actually Works
    Jack Rudenko AI Engineering · Cinema 1
  21. 13:00
    25m
    Your engineers aren't afraid of AI. They're afraid of becoming junior again.
    Andy Kelk Leadership · Swinburne Studio
  22. 13:00
    18m
    Edge AI with Direct Device Control
    Jeremy Kelaher AI Engineering · Cinema 1
  23. 13:00
    18m
    Engineering without reading code
    Ben Taylor Software Engineering · Cinema 2
  24. 13:20
    18m
    COBOL and AI: Building a Self-Serve Knowledge Layer for 2,000 Batch Jobs
    Matthew Gillard AI Engineering · Cinema 1
  25. 13:20
    18m
    The Death of Documentation
    Josh Gillies Software Engineering · Cinema 2
  26. 13:30
    25m
    Panel: Engineering Reality
    AJ Fisher, Dave Hall, Krishna kanth Mundada, Andy Kelk Leadership · Swinburne Studio
  27. 13:40
    18m
    Legacy Software + Agentic Discovery
    Chris Rickard AI Engineering · Cinema 1
  28. 13:40
    18m
    Designing Inference-Native Systems
    Sajjad Kamal Software Engineering · Cinema 2
  29. 14:00
    60m
    Afternoon break
    Zinc & Cameo, ACMI
  30. 14:10
    20m
    Stop Rebuilding Authorisation: Accelerating AI Agent Development
    Daizen Ikehara, Kevin Akermanis Hallway · Gandel Digital Future Lab
  31. 14:35
    20m
    Hacking the Model: AI Red Teaming in Practice
    Hallway · Gandel Digital Future Lab
  32. 15:00
    18m
    Agentic SAST: Building an AI Pipeline for Rule Synthesis and Root-Cause Vulnerability Analysis
    Danila Sashchenko Software Engineering · Cinema 2
  33. 15:00
    18m
    Why LLMs Fall for Stories (And 5 Production Patterns That Actually Stop Them)
    Mal Curtis AI Engineering · Cinema 1
  34. 15:00
    25m
    From AI Survey to Production: What the Readiness Gap Actually Looks Like
    Dr Christian Dandre Leadership · Swinburne Studio
  35. 15:20
    18m
    Hacking the Model: AI Red Teaming in Practice
    Pas Apicella AI Engineering · Cinema 1
  36. 15:20
    18m
    AI After an Apocalypse
    Simon Knox Software Engineering · Cinema 2
  37. 15:30
    25m
    What We Learned Taking a Culture-First Approach to AI Adoption at scale
    Eric Grigson, Paul Hughes Leadership · Swinburne Studio
  38. 15:40
    18m
    Stop vibing your agents to production: applying ML discipline to agent development
    Justin Barias Software Engineering · Cinema 2
  39. 15:40
    18m
    Why Most AI De-Identification Fails in Production, And How We Built One Lawyers Actually Trust
    Moin Zaman AI Engineering · Cinema 1
  40. 16:00
    18m
    Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Engineering
    Daniel Rodgers-Pryor Software Engineering · Cinema 2
  41. 16:00
    25m
    Beat Burnout, Find Flourishing: The AI Edition
    Navin Keswani Leadership · Swinburne Studio
  42. 16:00
    18m
    Are Your AI Agents Secure? Defending the Privileged Agent
    Daizen Ikehara AI Engineering · Cinema 1
  43. 16:20
    18m
    Your Agents Pass Every Benchmark—Then Memory Breaks Them in Production
    Ananya Roy AI Engineering · Cinema 1
  44. 16:20
    18m
    12TB of AI coding agent logs - what works, what fails
    Dave Slutzkin Software Engineering · Cinema 2
  45. 16:30
    25m
    Panel: Culture & People
    Andrew Murphy, Dr Christian Dandre, Eric Grigson, Paul Hughes, Navin Keswani Leadership · Swinburne Studio
  46. 16:40
    18m
    AI Agents Are Distributed Systems
    Lovee Jain AI Engineering · Cinema 1
  47. 16:40
    18m
    Slop is a standards problem
    David Lewis Software Engineering · Cinema 2
  48. 17:30
    180m
    Closing Drinks with Optiver
    Victoria by Farmer's Daughters
  49. 17:30
    120m
    Closing Night Drinks presented by Sonar
    The Glasshouse, Transport Hotel, Federation Square