Day 1
9:00 am
9:00 am housekeeping
Welcome
Welcome, or welcome back to our first Summit in 3 years.
9:15 am
9:15 am keynote
Bridging the World through Cross-Cultural Creativity & Innovation
Yiying Lu, Fast Company Most Creative Person in Business
10:15 am
10:15 am housekeeping
Morning Break
Fuel your morning with an excellent coffee, and morning tea we've specially chosen to pick-you-up.
11:00 am
React
Front End Dev
Design
Product
Content
Career
11:00 am React
Remix, Server Components, NextJS: Navigating the future of React
Ben Teese, Principal Software Engineer Shine Solutions
11:00 am Engineering
Web Performance 2023
Henri Helvetica, Head of Developer Community WebPageTest
11:00 am Design
Better Onboarding
Krystal Higgins, UX leader & Author "Better Onboarding"
11:00 am Product
The Shapeshifting Product Manager
Daniel Kinal, GM Product Management Reivernet Group
11:00 am Content
The Content Strategy Practice Blueprint
Natalie Marie Dunbar, Author, Speaker, Teacher, Senior Manager, UX Content Strategy
11:00 am Career
5 habits I learned to climb the career ladder
Keerthana Krishnan, Software Engineer Yamdu
11:35 am
React
Front End Dev
Design
Product
Content
Career
11:35 am React
Working fluently with Data in React
Tejas Kumar, Director of Developer Relations Xata
11:35 am Engineering
Technically speaking: improve your code with documentation
Alexandra White, Technical Writer Google
11:35 am Design
Designing Digital for Reality
Oliver Weidlich, Director of Design & Innovation Contxtual
11:35 am Product
You Better Shape Up
Eli Ferrall, VP of Product VGW
11:35 am Content
Beyond good intentions: the secret sauce of content design
Angus Gordon and Lorien Kaye, Content strategist & Content designer Weave
11:35 am Career
A tale of the flip floppers. From engineer to manager and back again.
Matt Colman, Engineering Manager Atlassian
12:15 pm
React
Front End Dev
Design
Product
Content
Career
12:15 pm React
Vanilla Extract: CSS Preprocessing in the Age of Components
Mark Dalgleish, Co-creator of CSS Modules and Vanilla Extract, MelbJS organiser, Staff Front End Developer Shopify
12:15 pm Engineering
Trust me, I'm an open-source developer
Charlie Gerard, Senior developer advocate Stripe
12:15 pm Design
Fixing Frustrating Design Patterns in 2023
Vitaly Friedman, Editor-in-chief, Creative Lead Smashing Magazine
12:15 pm Product
OKRs are the new Git
Sten Pittet, Co-founder Tability
12:15 pm Content
Information Architecture: More than just a navigation menu
Jo Minney, Co-founder & Principal House Digital
12:15 pm Career
All the things I learnt as a junior developer (...so you don't have to)
Terence Huynh, Software Engineer Atlassian
12:45 pm
12:45 pm housekeeping
Lunch
We've always got something special lined up for lunch. But you'll have to come to find out.
2:15 pm
React
Front End Dev
Design
Product
Content
Career
2:15 pm React
The algebraic structure of functions, illustrated using React components
James Sinclair, Senior Software Engineer Atlassian
2:15 pm Engineering
When new CSS features collide: possibility and complexity at the intersections
Rachel Andrew, Content Lead for Chrome Developer Relations Google
2:15 pm Design
The leadership path for senior designers
Lucinda Burtt, Product Design Leader ex-Meta
2:15 pm Product
Grow Any Product 400% with Product-Led
Peter Ikladious, Principal and Co-founder Unlocking Growth
2:15 pm Content
Create a thoughtful content design practice using your existing design process
Janine Saunders, Senior Content Designer Canva
2:15 pm Career
Good Mentors Make Good Managers; a journey from IC to Management
Philip Boardman, Engineering Manager Red Bubble
2:50 pm
React
Front End Dev
Design
Product
Content
Career
2:50 pm React
Comparing JavaScript frameworks performance using real-world data
Dan Shappir, Performance Tech Lead NEXT Insurance
2:50 pm Engineering
Defensive CSS
Ahmad Shadeed, Design Engineer Freelancer
2:50 pm Design
Branding for accessibility: an inclusive approach to identity
Kate Linton, Head of Design Thoughtworks
2:50 pm Product
Reach your product vision
Ash Ma, Senior Product Manager Zip
2:50 pm Content
Agile content design in action
Judith Waller, Content Designer, Consumer Communications Australian Securities and Investments Commission
2:50 pm Career
Build you career with open source
Justin Mclean, VP Training Services Instaclustr
3:25 pm
React
Front End Dev
Design
Product
Content
Career
3:25 pm React
Hotwired Reactive Web Development - How LowJS Can You Go?
Josh Graham, CTO Cookaborough
3:25 pm Engineering
CSS Architecture with Layers, Scope, and Nesting
Bramus Van Damme, Chrome Developer Relations Engineer Google
3:25 pm Design
Behind the Story
Steph Troeth, Head of Research dxw
3:25 pm Product
The Road Atlas: Visual Storytelling with Roadmaps
Tadeh Hakopian, Program Manager
3:25 pm Content
BFFs: Content designers and engineers. The perfect pairing.
Mary Sabotkoski, Content Practice Lead Open Universities Australia
3:25 pm Career
The Autonomy of Developerhood
Nina Ajnira Karisik, Software Engineer, Founder of FiD, Coding Mentor at SheCodes MyPass Global
3:50 pm
3:50 pm housekeeping
Afternoon Break
Need more coffee? Or an increasingly hip tea? We've got you covered, plus a sweet afternoon pick-me-up.
4:20 pm
4:20 pm keynote
Q&AI
Mark Pesce Broadcaster & Futurist
Day 2
9:00 am
9:00 am housekeeping
Welcome back
Welcome back for another in-depth day of amazing presentations
9:15 am
9:15 am keynote
Make Joy Your Design's Source Code
Himanshu Bharadwaj, Centime Make Joy Your Design's Source Code
10:00 am
10:00 am housekeeping
Morning Break
Fuel your morning with an excellent coffee, and morning tea we've specially chosen to pick-you-up.
10:45 am
React
Front End Dev
Design
Product
Content
Career
10:45 am React
A Modern History of Front-End Best Practices
Ben Taylor, Staff Software Engineer Stile Education
10:45 am Engineering
Building amazing apps with Project Fugu APIs
Thomas Steiner, Developer Relations Engineer Google
10:45 am Design
Designing with friction, it’s irritatingly good.
Patima Tantiprasut, Managing Director PetRescue
10:45 am Product
Building The Strategy Bridge
Alejandro Patterson & Simon Hilton, Principal Product Manager, Honey Insurance & Director of Product, Karbon
10:45 am Content
Embracing the Power of Content Research
Erica Jorgensen, Product content strategy Independent
10:45 am Career
From Imposter Life to Imposter Moments: Tips from a Psychologist turned Engineer
Cristi Middag, Software Engineer VGW
11:20 am
React
Front End Dev
Design
Product
Content
Career
11:20 am React
Creating and maintaining front end APIs
Isabel Brison, Front end engineer Automattic
11:20 am Engineering
The state of passwordless auth on the web
Phil Nash, Developer Evangelist Twilio
11:20 am Design
Designing for positive social and environmental impact
Mel Flanagan, Founder Nook Studios
11:20 am Product
A11y All the Things
Amanda Mace, Vice President AbleDocs
11:20 am Content
Improve UX research with content design
Patrick Stafford, COO and Cofounder UX Content Collective
11:20 am Career
Becoming a design leader without becoming a design manager
Richard Sison, Staff Product Designer at Roam Digital Roam Digital
11:55 am
React
Front End Dev
Design
Product
Content
Career
11:55 am React
Rethinking state management in React
Keerthana Krishnan, Software Engineer Yamdu
11:55 am Engineering
Exploring Temporal
Steve Harrison, Senior Front End Developer NSW Department of Customer Service
1:50 pm Design
Bringing Business Impact and User Needs together with Jobs to be Done (JTBD)
Itamar Medeiros, Director of Design Strategy SAP
11:55 am Product
Building organisational WCAG maturity through accessibility audits
Danielle Johnson, Manager, Digital Experience Deakin University Library
11:55 am Content
A content measurement model
Elle Geraghty, Content Strategist Elle Geraghty Content Strategy
11:55 am Career
Should Designers ______?
Corey Ginnivan, Lead Designer Appbot
12:30 pm
12:30 pm housekeeping
Lunch
Like everything else we do, expect the best conference food you'll have anywhere, and plenty of it.
1:50 pm
React
Front End Dev
Design
Product
Content
Career
1:50 pm React
Reactive Programming in Modern Web
Aliaksei Kuncevič, Google Developer Expert Angular Consulting
1:50 pm Engineering
Controlling, designing and improving text on the web
Mandy Michael, Staff Software Engineer Hireup
10:45 am Design
Why Data Science and UX Research should be Best Friends
Grishma Jena, Data Scientist, UX Research Operations IBM
1:50 pm Product
Substitution To Be Announced
Due to a last minute challenge, our scheduled speaker will be replaced. Stay tuned
1:50 pm Content
How to deliver at-scale personalisation through content fragments
Kanika Bhatia, Sr Digital Content Strategy Manager ANZ Bank
1:50 pm Career
Neurodiversity: A Paradigm Shift from the Silent Disability to the Super Power
Shaila Man, Culture Amp Lead Technical TA & People Geek
2:25 pm
React
Front End Dev
Design
Product
Content
Career
2:25 pm React
Refactoring Components
Erin Zimmer, Software Engineer Cash App
2:25 pm Engineering
Mobile accessibility: testing mobile sites and native apps for accessibility
Gian Wild, CEO AccessibilityOz
2:25 pm Design
Operating a global fully remote product design team
Natalie Harper, Director of Product Design Platform.sh
2:25 pm Product
From 0 to 1 million users: The secrets to building products that scale
Carmen Chung, Director of Product Fl0
2:25 pm Content
Selling an idea to try something new in a large org
Anna Dixon, Senior Service Designer ABC
2:25 pm Career
Sync to Async - adjusting to the new work style
Anton Ball, Full stack team lead Doist
3:00 pm
React
Front End Dev
Design
Product
Content
Career
3:00 pm React
React Native Everywhere
Taz Singh, Founder Guild
3:00 pm Engineering
Making Content Creation Tools Accessible
Julie Grundy, Senior Digital Accessibility Consultant Intopia
3:00 pm Design
A New Future for the Interface: Reaching Toward True Adaptation
Liam Spradlin, Interface Designer Google
3:00 pm Product
How to Be Relentlessly Resourceful in Building A Bootstrap Design Education Startup
Stella Guan, Founder & CEO, Multidisciplinary Designer Path Unbound
3:00 pm Content
Content Strategy Round Table
Elle Geraghty leads a wrap up panel of speakers so bring your questions!
3:00 pm Career
CV Makeover
Mags Hanley, Steve Gilles and Georgina Robilliard,
3:30 pm
3:30 pm housekeeping
Afternoon Break
Need more coffee? We've got you covered, plus an awesome surprise sweet afternoon treat.
4:00 pm
4:00 pm keynote
The infrastructures of everyday life
Dan Hill, Professor and Director, Melbourne School of Design Melbourne School of Design
5:00 pm
5:00 pm housekeeping
Farewell
Farewell, but hopefully for not too long after two days filled with learning, connection and inspiration.