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The AI Summit Australia
7-9 September 2026
Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre (MCEC)

Agenda at a glance

MARKET SHAPING KEYNOTES (with Data Center World Australia)

Government Strategies and Investments in AI
  • What does the future hold?
One Company’s Vision for an AI World
  • Use cases and Australia's role as a digital computing leader

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Industry-Leading Case Studies
Learnings from the coal face of AI implementation:
  • Making the move to agentic AI – Transitioning from prompts to autonomous, multi-agent systems that plan, reason, and act across your enterprise.
  • Integrating AI into digital transformation: Unlocking new possibilities for innovation and growth
  • Why most businesses are stuck in neutral on AI
AI Solution Expert Talks
  • AI infrastructure – compute power to handle AI workloads
  • Data protection in the age of AI – secure, sovereign data requirements
  • AI and security – protecting models against attacks
  • Weighing the ‘SaaSpocalypse’ threat
Critical Panel Discussions
  • Executive AI Literacy – Training the board and C-suite to embrace AI
  • AI Sovereignty – Data residency, geopolitics, and LLM alignment
  • Reshaping the World of Work – Winners, losers, and workforce transparency
  • AI for the SME – Pilots and programs on a tight budget
  • The Ethics of AI – Guardrails, bias, privacy, and accountability
  • The AI Bubble: Real or Imagined?
  • Pilot-to-production challenges and what AI means for the future of software