Day 1
- October 26th
- 9am–6:30pm AEST
8:00am
8:00am housekeeping
Registration
Get the world's best conference coffee (espresso, filter, cold brew and more), and register for two big days of amazing speakers.
9:00am
9:00am housekeeping
Welcome
Welcome to, or welcome back to, our biggest Web Directions Summit ever!
09:15am
09:15 keynote
The Mediated Web
Rupert Manfredi Designer Adept
10:15am
10:15am housekeeping
Morning Break
Fuel your morning with an excellent coffee, and morning tea we've specially chosen to pick-you-up.
11:00am
Design
Front End Dev
Design Systems
Marketing
Content
React
Product
11:00 Design, front end, design systems
The Dawn of Design Engineering: A New Era of Collaboration
Adekunle Oduye Design Engineer, Tech Lead Plaid
11:00 Marketing
Choosing the Right Strategy for Product Growth
Mags Hanley Digital Strategy Consultant
11:00 Content
Grow Your Content Career
Shannon Leahy Senior Content Design Manager Adobe
11:00 React
Architecture Patterns for App Modernisation
Simon Wardan Principal Engineer Terem
11:00am Product Management
Equitable Algorithms: Designing AI for Positive Impact
Aubrey Blanche-Sarellano CEO The Mathpath
11:35am
Design
Front End Dev
Design Systems
Marketing
Content
React
Product
11:35 Product Design
Dear Designer... Sincerely, the Development Team
Jo Minney Nerd in Charge House Digital
11:35 Engineering
Whose Job is Animation?
Matt Colman Engineering Manager Atlassian
11:35 Design Systems
The Who, When, Why, and What of Design Systems
Johanna Lynch Senior UX/UI Designer Pragma Partners
11:35 Marketing
Strategies for Elevating Annual Contract Values
Christopher Truce Advisor
11:35 Content
Content Strategy as Sensemaking
McGee Noble Content Strategist Weave
11:35 React
Why Would Anyone Need JavaScript Generators?
James Sinclair Senior Developer Atlassian
11:35 Product Management
The Art of Product Discovery
Mark Boehm Head of Design and Strategy Palo IT
12:15pm
Design
Front End Dev
Design Systems
Marketing
Content
React
Product
12:15 Product Design
Brand UX: The Power of Experience
Michal Golas & Lucila Tallone Product Designer & Founding Partner, Product Designer takemedia digital, Bilue
12:15 Engineering
What's New in CSS in 2023
Steve Harrison Senior Front End Developer NSW Department of Customer Service
12:15 Design Systems
Permaculture Design Systems for a Digital Landscape
Mick Real Designer & Creative
12:15 Marketing
Making better marketing decisions in a privacy first world
Will Marks, Marketing Science Director Mutinex
12:15 Content
Content Strategy for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Audiences
Carrie DeHaan Principal Content strategist Biotext
12:15 React
Exploring the Event Loop
Ikram Saedi Software Engineer Stile Education
12:15 Product Management
Customer Interviews & Storytelling for Innovation
Amanda Brown Product Manager Pretzel Lab
12:45pm
12:45pm housekeeping
Lunch
We've always got something special lined up for lunch. Visit our partners, connect in the games room, or reset in the quiet area.
2:00pm
Design
Front End Dev
Design Systems
Marketing
Content
React
Product
2:00pm Product Design
Five Fundamental Principles of Inclusive Research
Bri Norton & Irith Williams OZeWAI.org - Australian Web Accessibility Initiative
2:00pm Engineering
How the Web can still win on mobile
Alex Moore Executive Director Open Web Advocacy
2:00pm Design Systems
Measuring the Value of REA's Design System
Chris Stonestreet Product Manager, Design System REA Group
2:00pm Marketing
Acquiring Users for Early Stage Products
Connor Cameron Marketing & Growth Lead Kinde
2:00pm Content
Put yourself in a box: Delivering humanity via email
Mathew Patterson Customer Service Educator Help Scout
2:00pm React
Hooked on Hooks
Erin Zimmer Senior Developer Cash App
2:00pm Product Management
Defining a New Product Vision for Australia's National Broadcaster
Tim Hardaker Group Product Manager, Product Futures ABC
2:35pm
Design
Front End Dev
Design Systems
Marketing
Content
React
Product
2:35pm Product Design
Microaggressions and Microaffirmations in Product Design
Laura Kerrison Product Designer RUSH
2:35pm Engineering
Taking advantage of AI to help you write code
Lachlan Hunt Senior Developer Atlassian
2:35pm Design Systems
From a Prehistoric Beast to a Modern Day Product Enterprise
Amir Ansari Design Leader and Coach
2:35pm Marketing
How Gamers Have Turned the Tables on Brand Trust
David O'Reilly Lifecycle Marketing Manager Microsoft
2:35pm Content
Sweat the Small Stuff
Lorien Kaye Content Designer and Strategist Weave
2:35pm React
How Server Components Change The Game Using Old Ideas
Julian Burr Engineering Lead Vouch
2:35pm Product Management
Radical Collaboration: How to Supercharge What Your Team can Achieve
Natalie Ferguson Co-Founder Powrsuit
3:10pm
Design
Front End Dev
Design Systems
Marketing
Content
React
Product
3:10pm Product Design
Annotating Designs for Accessibility
Sam Hobson & Claire Webber, Digital Accessibility Consultants Intopia
3:10pm Engineering
WebML: State of Machine Learning for Frontend Developers
Shivay Lamba Software Developer TensorFlowJS SIG and WG Lead
3:10pm Design Systems
Unspoken Value of Design Systems
Emily Pearce Product Design Manager Octopus Deploy
3:10pm Marketing
Out of the Marketing Wilderness: A CEO’s Journey
Anna Harrison Founder RAMMP
3:10pm Content
Power up Your Content Strategy with Experience Maps
Mary Sabotkoski Senior Content Strategist Canva
3:10pm React
React Server Components in Next.js
Richard Zhang Sales Engineer Vercel
11:00 Product Management
Visionary Product Leadership
Viveka Weiley Meta-scientist CSIRO
3:40pm
3:50pm housekeeping
Afternoon Break
Need more coffee? Or an increasingly hip tea? We've got you covered, plus a sweet afternoon pick-me-up.
4:10pm
4:10pm keynote
The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI
Maggie Appleton Product Designer Ought
5:00pm
5:00pm housekeeping
Happy Hour (and a half)
Share a drink, a bite, and a chat with your peers, right here at the venue.
Day 2
- October 27th
- 9am–5:00pm AEST
8:30am
8:30am housekeeping
Rebooting…
Get your heart started for another day of amazingness, with the best coffee you'll find at any conference, anywhere
9:00am
9:00am housekeeping
Welcome back
Welcome back for another in-depth day of amazing presentations
09:10
09:10am keynote
Steam Engine Time
Marl Pesce Broadcaster and futurist
10:00am
10:00am housekeeping
Morning Break
Fuel your morning with an excellent coffee, and morning tea we've specially chosen to pick-you-up.
11:00am
Design
Front End Dev
Design Systems
Marketing
Content
React
Product
11:00am Product Design
Design + AI = Good or Bad?
MC Monsalve & Phil Banks, Product Design Team Lead, Design Lead - ABC iview ABC
11:00am Engineering
The Soul of a New Application
Alex Danilo Founder Projectadoc
11:00am Design Systems
Pursuing Design Quality
Jina Anne Design Systems Advocate Design Systems Coalition
11:00am Marketing
Leveraging the B2C Experience for B2B SaaS Startups
Irina Smolina Tech Marketer Lentune
11:00am Content
How to Prevent Content Crimes
Scott Collins Content Design Manager Telstra
11:00am React
Understanding and Mitigating Third Party JS Risks
Dominic Lovell Head of Solution Engineering, ANZ Akamai Technologies
11:00am Product Management
When and How to Build Machine Learning into Your Product
Karla Belista Group Product Manager Playground XYZ
11:35am
Design
Front End Dev
Design Systems
Marketing
Content
React
Product
11:35am Product Design
Experimenting with AI at the ABC
Anna Dixon Senior Service Designer ABC
11:35am Engineering
Web Components: Another Tool in your Toolbox
Ben Taylor Staff Software Engineer Stile Education
11:35am Design Systems
Mapping Typography
Scott Kellum Founder Typetura
11:35am Marketing
Achieving growth through a hybrid product-led and sales-led GTM
Peter Ikladious Co-founder; Principal Unlocking Growth
11:35am Content
Content Strategy is Dead, Long Live Content Strategy
Tori Sanderson General Manager of Product, Content and Experience Design Pragma Partners
11:35am React
It is WWW (Is it though?)
Armağan Ersöz Software Engineer GitHub
11:35am Product Management
Bringing AI Magic to Canva
Ivy Hornibrook Product Lead, Magic Design Canva
12:15pm
Design
Front End Dev
Design Systems
Marketing
Content
React
Product
12:10pm Product Design
Conversational AI Has a Massive, UX-Shaped Hole
Peter Isaacs Senior Conversation Design Advocate Voiceflow
12:10pm Engineering
CSS Between the Pages
Phil Nash Developer Advocate Sonar
12:10pm Design Systems
Evolving the Australian Government Design System
Jordan Overbye Senior Engineer Department of Agriculture, Fisheries & Forestry
12:10pm Marketing
The Marketer's Guide to Behavioural Economics
Julian Peterson Managing Director APAC Dianomi
12:10pm Content
Building Community in a Content Team
Beatrix Holland Content Design Manager Indeed
12:10pm React
Adventures in Rendering Off the Main Thread
Simon MacDonald Head of Developer Experience Begin Corp
12:10pm Product Management
The Product Manager's Guide to Navigating Corporate Politics
Carl Rigoni CEO and Founder sixsix
12:40pm
12:40pm housekeeping
Lunch
Like everything else we do, expect the best conference food you'll have anywhere, and plenty of it.
2:00pm
Design
Front End Dev
Design Systems
Marketing
Content
React
Product
2:00pm Product Design
Feedback Fortitude: Designing Success in High-Stakes Scenarios
Carolyn Wilkinson Design Leader Australian Government
2:00pm Engineering
Breaking up Long Tasks
Nishu Goel ePilot Full Stack Engineer
2:00pm Design Systems
Baking Accessibility into Your Design System
Simon Mateljan Design Manager Atlassian
2:00pm Marketing
Growth Hacking with Heart: Applying Behavioural Science Ethically for More Impact
Vidhika Bansal Group Design Manager Intuit
2:00pm Content
How Embracing Complexity Can Deliver Award-Winning Content
Kylie Evans Director & Principal Content Developer Biotext
2:00pm React
Building Type-Safe Forms in React
Brendan Allan Software Engineer Spacedrive
2:00pm Product Management
Scale Your Product Career with Mentoring
Justin Farrell Lead Product Manager VMware Tanzu Labs
2:35pm
Design
Front End Dev
Design Systems
Marketing
Content
React
Product
2:35pm Product Design
Defending design: writing to influence
Matt Fenwick Communication strategist True North Nontent
2:35pm Engineering
Fantastic Load-Time Savings and Where to Find Them
Quynh-Chi Nguyen Staff Software Engineer Stile Education
2:35pm Design Systems
WCAG 2.2 - What it Means for Designers
Julie Grundy & Zoë Haughton Senior Digital Accessibility Consultants Intopia
2:35pm Marketing
Handle Chaos and Scale Your Growth Experiments
Terence Huynh Software Engineer, Growth Atlassian
2:35pm Content
Best Practice AI Explainability for Content Strategists
Emily Meller & Aden Rolfe Content Strategists Craig Walker
2:35pm React
TypeScript Utilities Every Developer Should Know About
Meligy Senior Tech Lead Telstra Purple
2:35pm Product Management
How to Develop and Use a Customer Journey Framework
Stefan Schroeder Senior Manager, Member Experience Design Cbus Super
3:10pm
Design
Front End Dev
Design Systems
Marketing
Content
React
Product
3:10pm Product Design
Designer to CEO – The Path Less Travelled
Ross Chaldecott Co-Founder and CEO Kinde
3:10pm React, Engineering
Frontend's Lost Decade & The Market for Lemons
Alex Russell Partner Product Manager Microsoft
3:10pm Design Systems
Closing Panel
Design systems speakers
3:10pm Marketing
Dark Patterns and How to Avoid Them
Kate Linton Head of Design Thoughtworks
3:10pm Content
The state of content conversation
Content track speakers
3:10pm React, Engineering
Frontend's Lost Decade & The Market for Lemons
Alex Russell Partner Product Manager Microsoft
3:10pm Product Management
Building Principles-Driven Product Culture
Simon Hilton Director of Product Karbon
3:40pm
3:40pm housekeeping
Afternoon Break
Need more coffee? We've got you covered, plus an awesome surprise sweet afternoon treat.
4:10pm
4:10pm keynote
All the Things That Seem to Matter
Tea Uglow Director Dark Swan Institute
5:00pm
5:00pm housekeeping
Farewell
Farewell, but hopefully for not too long after two days filled with learning, connection and inspiration.