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Tuesday, December 3
Time	Sessions
09:00 - 17:00	1 Day In-Person Masterclass Technical Leadership Masterclass [Cliftons Melbourne, Level 1, 440 Collins Street, Melbourne, VIC 3000] Patrick Kua – Founder of the Tech Lead Academy

Wednesday, December 4
Time	Sessions
09:00 - 17:00	1 Day In-Person Masterclass From Dev to Defense: Understanding Server-Side Vulnerabilities [Cliftons Melbourne, Level 1, 440 Collins Street, Melbourne, VIC 3000] Adam Langley Ben Sadeghipour – Hacker & Content Creator Incremental Architecture: Building Domain-focused Systems that Welcome Change [Cliftons Melbourne, Level 1, 440 Collins Street, Melbourne, VIC 3000] Allen Holub – Authority. When Allen speaks the world listens Learn Modelling by Doing! Bytesize Architecture Sessions and C4 Together [Cliftons Melbourne, Level 1, 440 Collins Street, Melbourne, VIC 3000] Andrea Magnorsky – Programmer and Creator of Bytesize Architecture Sessions Technical Leadership Masterclass [Cliftons Melbourne, Level 1, 440 Collins Street, Melbourne, VIC 3000] Patrick Kua – Founder of the Tech Lead Academy

Thursday, December 5
Time	Sessions
08:00 - 08:45	Registration
08:45 - 09:00	Conference Opening
09:00 - 10:00	Morning Keynote Bridging the Digital Divide: A Path to Inclusive Innovation and Prosperity [Red Room] Nilesh Makwana – CEO at illuminance Solutions, Public Interest Technologist, Social Innovator
10:00 - 10:30	Morning Break
10:30 - 11:15	Parallel Sessions How to Lead your Organisation’s AI-transformation: Strategies, Skills, and Culture [Red Room] Rasmus Lystrøm – International Speaker and Chief Disruptor Ant Farm Entropy: Sugar Powered Encryption [Green Room ] Suz Hinton – Software Engineer Moldable Development in Practice — Patterns for Legacy Modernization [Blue Room] Oscar Nierstrasz – Professor Emeritus at U Bern & Soul Polisher at feenk.com
11:15 - 11:30	Break
11:30 - 12:15	Parallel Sessions Practical Gen AI: Building a Chatbot using Spring AI [Red Room] Rod Johnson – Creator of Spring and Co-founder and CEO at Atomist Tradeoffs, Bad Science, and Polar Bears – The World of Java Optimisation [Green Room ] Holly Cummins – Senior Principal Software Engineer on the Red Hat Quarkus team A Code Centric Journey Into the Gleam Language [Blue Room] Giacomo Cavalieri – Gleam Core Team Member
12:15 - 13:15	Lunch
13:15 - 14:00	Parallel Sessions Thinking about your Systems with Bytesize Architecture Sessions [Red Room] Andrea Magnorsky – Programmer and Creator of Bytesize Architecture Sessions Side-Effects Are The Complexity Iceberg [Green Room ] Kris Jenkins – Developer Advocate Java's Hidden Gems: Tools and Libraries [Blue Room] Johan Janssen – Software Architect at ASML
14:00 - 14:15	Break
14:15 - 15:00	Parallel Sessions Beyond Chat: Bringing Models to The Canvas [Red Room] Lu Wilson – Software Engineer at tldraw Microservices on Unison Cloud: Statically Typed, Dynamically Deployed [Green Room ] Rúnar Bjarnason – Co-Founder at Unison Computing The Beauty of Simplicity - Making Your Own Technology [Blue Room] Yan Chernikov – Director at Studio Cherno
15:00 - 15:30	Afternoon Break
15:30 - 16:15	Parallel Sessions Understanding Distributed Architectures - The Patterns Approach [Red Room] Unmesh Joshi – Principal Consultant at Thoughtworks & Author of "Patterns of Distributed Systems" Skills for the Age of AI [Green Room ] Michelle "MishManners" Duke – Senior Developer Advocate Bootiful Spring Boot: A DOGumentary [Blue Room] Josh Long – Spring Developer Advocate at Pivotal, Java Champion and author of 6 books
16:15 - 16:45	Break
16:45 - 17:45	Afternoon Keynote AI Powered Bug Hunting [Red Room] Ben Sadeghipour – Hacker & Content Creator
17:45 - 18:45	Welcome Reception

Friday, December 6
Time	Sessions
08:45 - 09:00	Conference Opening
09:00 - 10:00	Morning Keynote Getting Buy-In: Overcoming Larman's Law [Red Room] Allen Holub – Authority. When Allen speaks the world listens
10:00 - 10:30	Morning Break
10:30 - 11:15	Parallel Sessions Level Up: Choosing The Technical Leadership Path [Red Room] Patrick Kua – Founder of the Tech Lead Academy Adaptive Architectures - Building API Layers that Build Themselves [Green Room ] Marty Pitt – Founder at Orbital From Gamepads to Launchpads: What the Tech World Can Learn from Video Game UX [Blue Room] Theodora Bock – Associate Game Director at Level Ex
11:15 - 11:30	Break
11:30 - 12:15	Parallel Sessions How Autonomy Saved One of Spotify’s Most Loved Features From Being Killed [Red Room] Joakim Sundén – Founding partner at Better Product Work and co-creator of the Spotify model Unlocking the Magic: A Deep Dive into Copilot's Secret Sauce [Green Room ] Marco Celon – Senior Solutions Engineer at GitHub Communicating In Types [Blue Room] Kris Jenkins – Developer Advocate
12:15 - 13:15	Lunch
13:15 - 14:00	Parallel Sessions Pillars of Async Communication [Red Room] Anton Ball – Dev Team Lead at Doist Developer Productivity With IntelliJ IDEA [Green Room ] Trisha Gee – Software engineer, Java Champion, Author and PC Member Understanding Rust; Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying & Love the Borrow-Checker [Blue Room] Steve Smith – Roving Polyglot Developer
14:00 - 14:15	Break
14:15 - 15:00	Parallel Sessions Stop Drawing Pointless Arrows: Taming Complexity with Diagrams [Red Room] David Khourshid – Founder of Stately.ai All The World Is A Staging Server [Green Room ] Edith Harbaugh – Co-founder & Executive Chair of LaunchDarkly Concerto for Java and AI - Building Production-Ready LLM Applications [Blue Room] Thomas Vitale – Software Architect, author of "Cloud Native Spring in Action", CNCF Ambassador, Oracle ACE Pro
15:00 - 15:30	Afternoon Break
15:30 - 16:30	Evening Keynote The Efficiency Paradox and How to Save Yourself and the World [Red Room] Holly Cummins – Senior Principal Software Engineer on the Red Hat Quarkus team
16:30 - 17:30	Farewell Reception