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DDD Perth 2026 Agenda

My agenda
River Room 1 (Lv 3)
River Room 2 (Lv 3)
River Room 3 (Lv 3)
Cygnet room (Lv 2)
Black Swan (Lv 2)

8:00 am - 8:50 am

Registration

8:00 am - 8:50 am

8:50 am - 9:30 am

Welcome and Housekeeping

8:50 am - 9:30 am

9:30 am - 10:15 am

When Agents Act, Who Answers?

9:30 am - 10:15 am
River Room 1 (Lv 3)
Kesha Williams

10:15 am - 10:45 am

Morning Tea

10:15 am - 10:45 am

10:45 am - 11:30 am

Authentication for humans, why passkeys finally make sense.

10:45 am - 11:30 am
River Room 1 (Lv 3)
George Coldham

Building Software That Works for People Who Don't Look Like Your Team

10:45 am - 11:30 am
River Room 2 (Lv 3)
Eunice Sari

I Didn’t Need to Work Harder — I Needed Better Systems

10:45 am - 11:30 am
River Room 3 (Lv 3)
Flic Manning

Beyond Arrows and Boxes: System Diagrams People Can Actually Understand and Use

10:45 am - 11:30 am
Cygnet room (Lv 2)
Ashley Aitken

Psychological Safety in Uncertain Times: Leading When You Don't Have All the Answers

10:45 am - 11:30 am
Black Swan (Lv 2)
Tanya Hallett

11:30 am - 11:40 am

Changeover

11:30 am - 11:40 am

11:40 am - 12:25 pm

Hacking GitHub Actions

11:40 am - 12:25 pm
River Room 1 (Lv 3)
Patrick Dwyer

Asynchronous Microservices in Practice

11:40 am - 12:25 pm
River Room 2 (Lv 3)
Damian Maclennan

AI-Induced Psychosis at Work: The hidden employee mental health risk organisations are ignoring

11:40 am - 12:25 pm
River Room 3 (Lv 3)
Dunja Lewis

Rethinking Web: Can we do more with less?

11:40 am - 12:25 pm
Cygnet room (Lv 2)
Matthew Pierce

Beyond the Hype: What Quantum Computing Can Teach Us About Responsible Technology Governance

11:40 am - 12:25 pm
Black Swan (Lv 2)
Amanda Tolfo Porto

12:25 pm - 1:25 pm

Lunch

12:25 pm - 1:25 pm

1:25 pm - 1:45 pm

5 Years in the Trenches: Things I Wish I Knew as a Grad

1:25 pm - 1:45 pm
River Room 1 (Lv 3)
Nam Pham

A PM and a Dev Walk Into an Epic

1:25 pm - 1:45 pm
River Room 2 (Lv 3)
Bright Qi, Jimmy Li

Growth begins outside your comfort zone

1:25 pm - 1:45 pm
River Room 3 (Lv 3)
Quentin Qi, Ken Lin

Building Software for Humans Who Are Already Busy

1:25 pm - 1:45 pm
Cygnet room (Lv 2)
Jayden Kur

Teaching Programming After AI: If AI Can Write Code, What Should Beginners Learn?

1:25 pm - 1:45 pm
Black Swan (Lv 2)
Alisa Blakeney

1:45 pm - 1:55 pm

Changeover

1:45 pm - 1:55 pm

1:55 pm - 2:40 pm

To Be Interesting, Be Interested

1:55 pm - 2:40 pm
River Room 1 (Lv 3)
Alex Corcoran

The One True Law of Software Engineering

1:55 pm - 2:40 pm
River Room 2 (Lv 3)
Piers Williams

No Snakes on My Ladder: Winning at Software with Types

1:55 pm - 2:40 pm
River Room 3 (Lv 3)
Kai Striega

The pursuit of spending $0 - building a zero-cost cloud data platform

1:55 pm - 2:40 pm
Cygnet room (Lv 2)
Sierra McDowell

Managing your Manager to get Ahead

1:55 pm - 2:40 pm
Black Swan (Lv 2)
Donna Edwards

2:40 pm - 2:50 pm

Changeover

2:40 pm - 2:50 pm

2:50 pm - 3:35 pm

The Billion Dollar Blindspot: What happens when everyone thinks alike

2:50 pm - 3:35 pm
River Room 1 (Lv 3)
Amanda Pitcher

What Women Want: What Every Ally Needs to Hear

2:50 pm - 3:35 pm
River Room 2 (Lv 3)
Cheryl Watts, Dale Field

Showing is cheap, knowing isn't: What changes when the cost of prototyping collapses?

2:50 pm - 3:35 pm
River Room 3 (Lv 3)
Trent Cain

Newly Acquired Powers of the Web Platform

2:50 pm - 3:35 pm
Cygnet room (Lv 2)
Declan Chidlow

[Sponsor Talk] It Worked on My GPU: Tales from icetana AI Engineering

2:50 pm - 3:10 pm
Black Swan (Lv 2)
icetana AI

3:35 pm - 4:00 pm

Afternoon Tea

3:35 pm - 4:00 pm

4:00 pm - 4:45 pm

Dabakarn Koorliny: Going Slowly

4:00 pm - 4:45 pm
River Room 1 (Lv 3)
Rhys Paddick

4:45 pm

Wrap Up and Prize Draw

4:45 pm - 5:00 pm

Meet the Experts

Table 1
Table 2
Table 3
Table 4

10:30am – 11:25am

  • Table 1
  • Table 2
  • Table 4

11:25am – 12:20pm

  • Table 1
  • Table 2
  • Table 3
  • Table 4

12:20pm – 1:15pm

  • Table 1
  • Table 2
  • Table 3
  • Table 4

1:15pm – 2:10pm

  • Table 1
  • Table 2
  • Table 3
  • Table 4

2:10pm – 3:05pm

  • Table 1
  • Table 2
  • Table 4

3:05pm – 4:00pm

  • Table 1
  • Table 2
  • Table 3
  • Table 4

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It's such a privilege to be able to run this conference and DDD Perth would love to acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land in which DDD is created, presented, and shared, the Whadjuk people of the Noongar Nation and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their Elders past, present and emerging, and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.