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