DDD Perth 2026 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 am8:50 am - 9:30 am
Welcome and Housekeeping
8:50 am - 9:30 am9:30 am - 10:15 am
10:15 am - 10:45 am
Morning Tea
10:15 am - 10:45 am10:45 am - 11:30 am
Authentication for humans, why passkeys finally make sense.
10:45 am - 11:30 amRiver Room 1 (Lv 3)
George Coldham
Building Software That Works for People Who Don't Look Like Your Team
10:45 am - 11:30 amRiver Room 2 (Lv 3)
Eunice Sari
I Didn’t Need to Work Harder — I Needed Better Systems
10:45 am - 11:30 amRiver Room 3 (Lv 3)
Flic Manning
Beyond Arrows and Boxes: System Diagrams People Can Actually Understand and Use
10:45 am - 11:30 amCygnet room (Lv 2)
Ashley Aitken
Psychological Safety in Uncertain Times: Leading When You Don't Have All the Answers
10:45 am - 11:30 amBlack Swan (Lv 2)
Tanya Hallett
11:30 am - 11:40 am
Changeover
11:30 am - 11:40 am11:40 am - 12:25 pm
What Women Want: What Every Ally Needs to Hear
11:40 am - 12:25 pmRiver Room 3 (Lv 3)
Cheryl Watts, Dale Field
12:25 pm - 1:25 pm
Lunch
12:25 pm - 1:25 pm1:25 pm - 1:45 pm
Teaching Programming After AI: If AI Can Write Code, What Should Beginners Learn?
1:25 pm - 1:45 pmBlack Swan (Lv 2)
Alisa Blakeney
1:45 pm - 1:55 pm
Changeover
1:45 pm - 1:55 pm1:55 pm - 2:40 pm
No Snakes on My Ladder: Winning at Software with Types
1:55 pm - 2:40 pmRiver Room 3 (Lv 3)
Kai Striega
The pursuit of spending $0 - building a zero-cost cloud data platform
1:55 pm - 2:40 pmCygnet room (Lv 2)
Sierra McDowell
2:40 pm - 2:50 pm
Changeover
2:40 pm - 2:50 pm2:50 pm - 3:35 pm
The Billion Dollar Blindspot: What happens when everyone thinks alike
2:50 pm - 3:35 pmRiver Room 1 (Lv 3)
Amanda Pitcher
AI-Induced Psychosis at Work: The hidden employee mental health risk organisations are ignoring
2:50 pm - 3:35 pmRiver Room 2 (Lv 3)
Dunja Lewis
Showing is cheap, knowing isn't: What changes when the cost of prototyping collapses?
2:50 pm - 3:35 pmRiver Room 3 (Lv 3)
Trent Cain
Change is only good when measured: building confidence through experimentation
2:50 pm - 3:35 pmCygnet room (Lv 2)
Fadila Fidina
3:35 pm - 4:05 pm
Afternoon Tea
3:35 pm - 4:05 pm4:05 pm - 4:45 pm
Locknote
4:05 pm - 4:45 pm4:45 pm
Wrap Up and Prize Draw
4:45 pm - 5:00 pm2026 sponsors not announced yet
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