1. 08:00
    90m
    Registration
    Zinc, Federation Square
  2. 09:30
    10m
    Welcome
    John Allsopp Keynote · Cinema 1
  3. 09:35
    5m
    Opening Words
    Ashling James Keynote · Cinema 1
  4. 09:40
    18m
    State of the AI Model Landscape
    George Cameron Keynote · Cinema 1
  5. 10:00
    20m
    Token Town (why compute strategy is product strategy)
    Sarah Sachs Keynote · Cinema 1
  6. 10:20
    20m
    Everything Is a Factory
    Geoff Huntley Keynote · Cinema 1
  7. 10:40
    20m
    Why Your Coding Agent Forgets Everything
    Igor Costa Keynote · Cinema 1
  8. 11:00
    20m
    Three Lanes Below One Millisecond: A Rust SDK for Gemini Live
    Vamsi Ramakrishnan Keynote · Cinema 1
  9. 11:20
    10m
    Keynote outro
    John Allsopp Keynote · Cinema 1
  10. 11:30
    60m
    Lunch
    Zinc & Cameo, ACMI
  11. 11:45
    20m
    Build long running AI agents that pause resume and never lose context with ADK
    Nakul Gowdra Hallway · Gandel Digital Future Lab
  12. 12:10
    20m
    AI Hamsters: Circling Your Way to Success
    Muhammad Ali Hallway · Gandel Digital Future Lab
  13. 12:30
    18m
    Fail fast, fix faster: Why faster AI models beat smarter ones
    AJ Fisher Software Engineering · Cinema 2
  14. 12:30
    25m
    Beyond Silicon Valley: Building AI Governance on the Fair Go Principle
    Aubrey Blanche Leadership · Swinburne Studio
  15. 12:30
    18m
    Evaluation Precedes Evolution: Rubrics as the Load-Bearing Infrastructure of Self-Improving Agents
    Tanya Dixit AI Engineering · Cinema 1
  16. 12:40
    20m
    Optimising GenAI at Runtime with Experimentation and Guardrails
    Aaron Montana Hallway · Gandel Digital Future Lab
  17. 12:50
    18m
    Beyond Forgetful Bots: Architectural Patterns for Persistent, Proactive Claw-Style AI Agents
    Navan Tirupathi AI Engineering · Cinema 1
  18. 12:50
    18m
    Building Frameworks Building Systems
    Ally Macdonald Software Engineering · Cinema 2
  19. 13:00
    25m
    Stop Blocking, Start Building: Rethinking Governance for the Agentic Era
    Hamish Songsmith Leadership · Swinburne Studio
  20. 13:10
    18m
    Why AI coding tools might not make the slightest difference
    Jason Cornwall Software Engineering · Cinema 2
  21. 13:10
    18m
    Shipping Sandboxed Workers for Notion Agents
    Adam Hudson AI Engineering · Cinema 1
  22. 13:10
    10m
    The State of the AI Engineering Job Market in Australia
    Jake Maloney Hallway · Gandel Digital Future Lab
  23. 13:25
    10m
    Who Needs a LoRA?
    Charli Posner Hallway · Gandel Digital Future Lab
  24. 13:30
    18m
    Constitutional Prompting: Making AI Coding Agents Reliable Without the Iteration Tax
    Prem Pillai Software Engineering · Cinema 2
  25. 13:30
    25m
    Having your cake and eating it: An implementation guide for privacy with AI
    Nick Lothian Leadership · Swinburne Studio
  26. 13:30
    18m
    Close your agentic loop
    Moss Ebeling AI Engineering · Cinema 1
  27. 13:40
    10m
    Don't Be Cheap: AI and the Appearance of Engineering
    Birger Halfmeier Hallway · Gandel Digital Future Lab
  28. 13:50
    18m
    How Many Agents Are Too Many? The Hidden Cost of Multi-Agent Systems
    Anannya Roy Chowdhury AI Engineering · Cinema 1
  29. 13:50
    18m
    From Zero to Production: How 15 Engineers Shipped a Production LLM Product with AI Coding Tools
    Michael Zhang Software Engineering · Cinema 2
  30. 13:55
    10m
    The Software Engineer Who Don't Code
    Yasith Fernando Hallway · Gandel Digital Future Lab
  31. 14:00
    25m
    Panel: Governance & Ethics
    Andrew Murphy, Aubrey Blanche, Hamish Songsmith, Nick Lothian Leadership · Swinburne Studio
  32. 14:10
    18m
    Kill the God Agent
    Adesh Gairola AI Engineering · Cinema 1
  33. 14:10
    18m
    Multi-Armed Bandits: The Scientific Shotgun for Evals
    Ron Au Software Engineering · Cinema 2
  34. 14:10
    10m
    How to Get Fired as an AI Engineer
    Kanish Gosain Hallway · Gandel Digital Future Lab
  35. 14:25
    10m
    The Red Flags of Vibe Coding a Dating app
    Karina Pamamull Hallway · Gandel Digital Future Lab
  36. 14:30
    60m
    Afternoon break
    Zinc & Cameo, ACMI
  37. 14:40
    20m
    One Tool to Rule them all: Building a Fast AI Agent for Real-Time Response
    Ryan Samarakoon Hallway · Gandel Digital Future Lab
  38. 15:30
    18m
    Agent Observability: Monitoring and Understanding Agents at Internet Scale
    Daniel Nadasi AI Engineering · Cinema 1
  39. 15:30
    18m
    Engineering for the Agentic Web When 50% of Your Traffic is Robots
    Janna Malikova Software Engineering · Cinema 2
  40. 15:30
    25m
    Regulatory AI: Building Intelligent Compliance into Financial Operating Systems
    Theo Adis Leadership · Swinburne Studio
  41. 15:40
    20m
    Everyone Wants AI Capacity Now. Few Are Actually Running It.
    Daniel Apps Hallway · Gandel Digital Future Lab
  42. 15:50
    18m
    Our AI Hallucinated in Production: How We Fixed It With Evals
    Yicheng Guo AI Engineering · Cinema 1
  43. 15:50
    18m
    The AI Control Plane: When Your Infrastructure Becomes the Context Window
    Bojan Zivic Software Engineering · Cinema 2
  44. 16:00
    25m
    19Cabs: 1115 drivers, 500 customers, 90 days from idea — and why we still had to stop and rethink AI
    Balram Singh Leadership · Swinburne Studio
  45. 16:10
    18m
    Treating Infrastructure as Data: Building an AI-Native Control Plane
    Jeffrey Aven Software Engineering · Cinema 2
  46. 16:10
    10m
    The Agentic Contract: A practical framework from enterprises shipping agents to production
    Matt Doughty Hallway · Gandel Digital Future Lab
  47. 16:10
    18m
    The Application Layer Is the New Research Lab
    Abdul Karim AI Engineering · Cinema 1
  48. 16:25
    10m
    Democratizing Frontier LLMs - Cloud-cluster scale intelligence running on any Desktop PC
    Obadiah Pewee Hallway · Gandel Digital Future Lab
  49. 16:30
    18m
    Orbital Lasers vs For Loops: Economically Matching Models to Tasks
    Stephen Sennett AI Engineering · Cinema 1
  50. 16:30
    18m
    Your Agent Doesn't Like Your APIs
    Mike Chambers Software Engineering · Cinema 2
  51. 16:30
    25m
    Enabling Safe AI Experimentation for Non-Technical Founders
    Inga Pflaumer Leadership · Swinburne Studio
  52. 16:40
    20m
    Code Trust and Verification for the AI Era
    Andre Kolodochka Hallway · Gandel Digital Future Lab
  53. 16:50
    18m
    Your AI Can’t Engineer (Yet)
    Theodoros Galanos AI Engineering · Cinema 1
  54. 16:50
    18m
    Agentic Self-Healing in Production
    Jack McNicol Software Engineering · Cinema 2
  55. 17:00
    25m
    Panel: Case Studies
    AJ Fisher, Theo Adis, Balram Singh, Inga Pflaumer Leadership · Swinburne Studio
  56. 17:05
    10m
    Vibe-coded Multiplayer Video Games
    Dr Sam Donegan Hallway · Gandel Digital Future Lab
  57. 17:10
    18m
    Flue: The Agent Harness Framework, at Cloudflare
    Michael Hart AI Engineering · Cinema 1
  58. 17:10
    18m
    How Canva built an Agentic Support Experience using Langfuse Observability
    Sergey Iakovlev, Sahil Bahl Software Engineering · Cinema 2
  59. 17:30
    120m
    Reception
    Zinc
  60. 19:30
    120m
    Speaker dinner
    Lightwell, ACMI