AI Engineer Melbourne 2026 — Software Engineering (Day 1 Midday)

Wednesday 3rd June 26 12:30 pm

AI Engineer Melbourne 2026 — Software Engineering (Day 1 Midday) features AJ Fisher (ajfisher.me) on Fail fast, fix faster: Why faster AI models beat smarter ones, Ally Macdonald (Stile Education) on Building Frameworks Building Systems, Jason Cornwall (SEEK) on Why AI coding tools might not make the slightest difference, Prem Pillai (Block Inc) on Constitutional Prompting: Making AI Coding Agents Reliable Without the Iteration Tax, Michael Zhang (MYOB) on From Zero to Production: How 15 Engineers Shipped a Production LLM Product with AI Coding Tools, and Ron Au (Canva (Leonardo.Ai)) on Multi-Armed Bandits: The Scientific Shotgun for Evals.

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AI Engineer Melbourne 2026 — Software Engineering (Day 1 Afternoon)

Wednesday 3rd June 26 3:30 pm

AI Engineer Melbourne 2026 — Software Engineering (Day 1 Afternoon) features Janna Malikova (Tomato Elephant Studio) on Engineering for the Agentic Web When 50% of Your Traffic is Robots, Bojan Zivic (V2ai) on The AI Control Plane: When Your Infrastructure Becomes the Context Window, Jeffrey Aven (StackQL Studios) on Treating Infrastructure as Data: Building an AI-Native Control Plane, Mike Chambers (AWS) on Your Agent Doesn't Like Your APIs, Jack McNicol (SuperIT) on Agentic Self-Healing in Production, and Sergey Lakovlev; Sahil Bahl (Canva) on How Canva built an Agentic Support Experience using Langfuse Observability.

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AI Engineer Melbourne 2026 — Software Engineering (Day 2 Midday)

Thursday 4th June 26 12:00 pm

AI Engineer Melbourne 2026 — Software Engineering (Day 2 Midday) features Nick Beaugeard (Released Pty Ltd) on Spec driven AI development - A Real World Perspective, Mark McDonald (Google DeepMind) on Building SDKs in the Agentic Era, Jakub Riedl (ctx|) on AGENTS.md is the wrong conversation, Ben Taylor (Stile Education) on Engineering without reading code, Josh Gillies (Prefactor) on The Death of Documentation, and Sajjad Kamal (OnSet Health) on Designing Inference-Native Systems.

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AI Engineer Melbourne 2026 — Software Engineering (Day 2 Afternoon)

Thursday 4th June 26 3:00 pm

AI Engineer Melbourne 2026 — Software Engineering (Day 2 Afternoon) features Danila Sashchenko (TikTok) on Agentic SAST: Building an AI Pipeline for Rule Synthesis and Root-Cause Vulnerability Analysis, Simon Knox (apartments.com.au) on AI After an Apocalypse, Justin Barias (Australian Government) on Stop vibing your agents to production: applying ML discipline to agent development, Daniel Rodgers-Pryor (Stile Education) on Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Engineering, Dave Slutzkin (Cadence) on 12TB of AI coding agent logs - what works, what fails, and David Lewis (Nine Entertainment) on Slop is a standards problem.

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