This is the 2025 lineup.
The Lineup

SPOTLIGHT SPEAKER
Kate Dunne
Accenture
People Are the Real Integration Layer: Lessons from Building Robots as a Cross-Functional Team

SPOTLIGHT SPEAKER
Nikki Tugano
seenculture
The Employee to Entrepreneur Journey: from mute to mastery

SPOTLIGHT SPEAKER
Peter Laurie
inductive
What If We Ran Corporate Projects Like We Run Startups?

Alejandra Barboza
Accenture
Who Killed Leon Premise? – A Murder Mystery in System of Work (with Kit Friend, Anna Charles & Dan Hale)

Andrew Curthoys
Digital Enablement Advisor | Chair Australasian BIM Advisory Board
Panel Session: Digital tools! Cross-functional work! What can we learn from managing physical assets? (with Daniyal Mian, Lee Foster & Liz O’Brien)

Anna Charles
Atlassian Community Leader
Who Killed Leon Premise? – A Murder Mystery in System of Work (along with Kit Friend, Alejandra Barboza & Dan Hale)

Arthur Poropat
The performance relationship
The Neurodiverse Agile Professional

Bernadette Mahoney
givemore
Fail Loud, Learn Proud (with Graeme Mills)

Craig Smith
Unbound DNA
We’ve Seen the Movie Before: How to Rewrite Your Agile Ending (with Renae Craven)

Damian Karzon
Pinch payments
From Chaos to Clarity: Automating the Invisible Work

Dan Hale
Dominos’s Pizza Enterprises
Who Killed Leon Premise? – A Murder Mystery in System of Work (along with Kit Friend, Alejandra Barboza & Anna Charles)

Dan Prager
Everest Engineering
Streamlining Teamwork: Breaking Through Bottlenecks Together

Daniel Smith
WithYouWithMe
When Good Teams Meet Bad Systems: The Cost of Disorganisation

Daniyal Mian
Zam advisory
Panel Session: Digital tools! Cross-functional work! What can we learn from managing physical assets? (with Andrew Curthoys, Lee Foster & Liz O’Brien)

Demelza Green
Patient zero
Our glorious dysfunction of co-leadership – hosted live by our AI therapist (with Paul Seymour)

Emma Carter
Patient zero
Imagine, Build, Scale: Elevating Design Leadership for Tech Maturity

Evan He
Suncorp group
Aha Moments in My AI Journey: Rethinking Product Development with AI

Gabriela Guiu-Sorsa
Queensland fire department
From Silos to Champions: Transforming Cyber Security Through Cross-Functional Leadership

Ishan Roy
Ausrealtor ai
Start Small, Pivot Often: An Agile Journey from Painful Property Search to AI Startup

James Gauci
cadent
The Coming Wave: Knowing, Applying and Scaling Effective AI Governance

John Stathakis
Economic Development Queensland
Don’t Go Big Bang: Why It Rarely Works (and What to Do Instead)

Karyn Smith
bdna
Change Is Overland Adventure Travel, Not a First Class Flight – Lessons from the road for leading responsible AI adoption

Kit Friend
accenture
Who Killed Leon Premise? – A Murder Mystery in System of Work (with Alejandra Barboza, Anna Charles & Dan Hale)

Lee Foster
innovate wisely
Panel Session: Digital tools! Cross-functional work! What can we learn from managing physical assets? (with Andrew Curthoys, Daniyal Mian & Liz O’Brien)

Liz O’Brien
qld trust for nature
Panel Session: Digital tools! Cross-functional work! What can we learn from managing physical assets? (with Andrew Curthoys, Daniyal Mian & Lee Foster)

Matthew Casperson
Octopus deploy
What if ChatGPT could answer questions about your customers?

Mersija Mujic
workpac
Small Moves, Big Impact: Unlocking Cybersecurity Success with People, Processes & Technology

Natalia Curusi
Endava
Systems Thinking for Organisational Transformations

Paul Seymour
patient zero
Our glorious dysfunction of co-leadership – hosted live by our AI therapist (with Demelza Green)

Penelope Barr
Penelope Barr and Co
ProductYou. How finding a new role is like creating a product. And how Ai can help you do so.

Philip Grech
bupa australia
The Death of Human Centric Agile Practices & the Rise of Swarming AI

Renae Craven
Naecrave Pty Ltd
We’ve Seen the Movie Before: How to Rewrite Your Agile Ending (with Craig Smith)

Reshma Venugopal
Workday
Meeting Monsters

Ryan McKergow
Elabor8
How to speak to Senior Leaders in the era of AI

Shahid Zaman
How to Give Feedback That Grows People, Builds Teams, Not Tension
Canva

Soma Mazumder
Agile Twist
The Mindset That Matters: Shifting from Output to Value (with Mersija Mujic)

Steve Peacocke
dragonsarm ltd
A Real Life Team: From being sworn at, to pride of place in two weeks

Trev de Vroome
Go1
From Strategy to Roadmap: Bridging the Gap between Vision, Outcomes, and Action

Victor Conovalov
endava
Applying AI in Practical Problem Solving