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Thursday
23 April
Friday
24 April
10:20 - 11:20 (UTC+11)
Room 1
Beyond the AI Hype: What's Real, What's Next

Richard Campbell
Room 2
Ask More. Build Better. Burn Out Less- Real Talk on AI, Devs & GitHub Copilot

Michelle Sandford
Room 3
The Wile E. Coyote approach to AI for backyard beast management

Todd Whitehead
Room 4
Effortless Distributed Systems with Aspire

Jason Taylor
Room 5
Designing technology for dirty gloves

Leanora Horne
11:40 - 12:40 (UTC+11)
Room 1
The Azure AI Ecosystem for Real-World Enterprise ROI

Adam Stephensen
Room 2
AI Agents Need Permission Slips

Heather Downing
Room 3
Build your own Flight Tracker with Microsoft Agent Framework

Arafat Tehsin
Room 4
Building the Ultimate Safety Net with Integration Tests

Jimmy Bogard
Room 6
Have I Been Pwned - A Passkey Journey

Stefán Jökull Sigurðarson
13:40 - 14:40 (UTC+11)
Room 1
Building fun and creative messaging experiences on WhatsApp

Michelle “MishManners” Duke
Room 2
Designing AI-Powered Backends with Azure OpenAI: Reliable, Structured, and Production-Ready

Mark Tinderholt
Room 3
10 tips to level up your ai-assisted coding

Aleksander Stensby
Room 4
Meditations on Code As Art

David Whitney
Room 5
Bulletproof - Designing for risk, resiliency and recoveryarchet

Andrew Cobb
15:00 - 16:00 (UTC+11)
Room 1
Are LLMs good software engineers?

Anthony Shaw
Room 2
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Legacy Code

William Brander
Room 3
Production-Grade LLM Architecture: Lessons from Processing 50 Million AI Requests

Vaishnavi Gudur
Room 4
Messaging Patterns for Modern Software Solutions

Irina Dominte
Room 5
Your website does not need JavaScript

Amy Kapernick
16:20 - 17:20 (UTC+11)
17:40 - 18:40 (UTC+11)
Room 1
Old API, New Tricks: Add MCP to Existing .NET REST Endpoints

Jonathan "J." Tower
Room 2
Spec-Driven Development: The Fast Track to 10x?

Jerry Nixon
Room 3
AI Agents That Don’t Suck: How to Build Ones That Actually Drive Business Value

Robert Koch
Room 4
Web APIs You Should Be Using in 2026: Unlocking Next-Level Web Experiences

Nhlanhla Lucky Nkosi
Room 5
Platform Engineering vs DevOps





