Schedule

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