7-9 September 2026
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Conference Plenary
08:30 - 08:40
Welcome to Country
08:40 - 08:45
Day One Chair’s Welcome
- Andrew Rowse, City of Melbourne
08:45 - 08:50
MINISTERIAL KEYNOTE | Victoria’s Digital Future
- The Hon Anthony Carbines MP - Minister for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Economy & Minister for Major Events, Victorian State Government
08:50 - 09:00
STRATEGIC PARTNER WELCOME | AIIA
- Izzy Whitelock - CEO, AIIA
09:00 - 09:10
STRATEGIC PARTNER WELCOME | DCA
- Belinda Dennett - CEO, Data Centres Australia
09:10 - 09:35
INDUSTRY KEYNOTE | Building the AI World From the Ground Up
- Anissh Pandey - Director for NVIDIA Cloud Partner, NVIDIA
09:35 - 10:00
HEADLINER SPONSOR KEYNOTE | From AI Potential to Real-World Impact: Reimagining Business in the Age of Physical and Agentic AI
- Mahesh Krishnan - Chief Technology Officer, Fujitsu Australia Limited
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The AI Summit • Conference
The AI Summit • Showcase Theatre
Masterclasses
10:00 - 10:30
Networking Break | Expo Hall Open (10am-5pm)
10:30 - 10:35
Day One Chair’s Welcome
- Emma Haller - Industry Program Manager, The National AI Centre
10:35 - 11:00
DIAMOND KEYNOTE | AI infrastructure – compute power to handle AI workloads
- Luke Anderson - Managing Director, AI & Data, Amazon Web Services
11:00 - 11:25
CASE STUDY | Achieving Decision Advantage: Artificial Intelligence in Modern Defence
- Colonel Clifford White - Director of Land Network Integration – Army, Australian Department of Defence
11:25 - 11:50
KEYNOTE | Who gets to write the rules for AI in healthcare?
- Miriam Makki - Global Head of Public Policy, Heidi Health
11:50 - 12:35
PANEL DISCUSSION | Executive AI Literacy – Training the board and C-suite to embrace AI
- Phil Laufenberg - Pro Vice-Chancellor (AI) and Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer, La Trobe University
- Rhys Weekley - CTAIO, Australia Post
- Simon Dugina - Head of State Government South, Amazon Web Services
- Bryon Baker - Principal Specialist Solution Architect - AI, Red Hat
- Maile Carnegie, Senior Leader Focused on Innovation & Growth
12:35 - 13:50
LUNCH AND NETWORKING BREAK | EXHIBITION HALL
13:50 - 14:15
CASE STUDY | AI-driven Personalization: How Bigtech Monetizes Data
- Sanchit Juneja - Sr. Director-Data & AI, Tripadvisor
14:15 - 14:40
The Sovereign Machine
- Milind . - Principal AI Scientist, Mercedes-Benz
14:40 - 15:05
KEYNOTE | Decision Advantage as Deterrence - AI Sovereign Capability and the Infrastructure of National Resilience
- Zoe Thompson - Head of Resilience, Thales
15:05 - 16:00
Networking Break on Exhibition Floor
16:00 - 16:25
CASE STUDY | Next-Generation Governance: Scaling AI Safely in Victoria
- Jayne Howley - AI Strategy and Assurance Lead, Department of Government Services (VIC)
- Su Liew - Principal Policy Offer, AI Strategy and Assurance, Department of Government Services (VIC)
16:25 - 17:15
PANEL DISCUSSION | Reshaping the World of Work – Winners, losers, and workforce transparency
- Izzy Whitelock - CEO, AIIA
- Rahil Garnavi - Director, RAIsE Hub, RMIT University
- Miriam Makki - Global Head of Public Policy, Heidi Health
- Milind . - Principal AI Scientist, Mercedes-Benz
10:00 - 10:10
Expo Hall Open (10am - 5pm)
10:10 - 10:15
The AI Summit Australia Showcase Theatre Welcome Remarks
10:15 - 10:45
Red Hat | Build the AI you want. Own the AI you build.
- Mike Hepburn - AI Senior Principal Technical Marketing Manager, Red Hat
10:45 - 11:15
Workato | The Control Tower Fallacy
- Tristan Cox - Head of AI, ANZ, Workato
11:15 - 11:45
NetApp | Is Your Data Foundation Ready to Scale AI?
- Elaine Chan - Director and APAC Head of AI Sales & GTM, NetApp
11:45 - 12:15
AKAMAI | From Edge to AI Intelligence: Smarter Routing, Cost-Effective Compute, Faster AI
- Annie Hsu - Senior Major Account Executive - Cloud and AI, Akamai Technologies
- Javed Shaikh - Sr Technical Solutions Architect, Akamai Technologies
12:45 - 14:45
Startup & Innovation Showcase by XENON & NVIDIA
- Joao Almeida - GM and Director of Global Business, XENON Systems
- Nadine 'Noodles' Groves - Chief Operating Officer and Co-Founder, Natural Velocity
- Mahesh Bharadwaj - Global Enterprise Architect, Lenovo Solutions & Service Group
- Troy Smithells - Enterprise AI, XENON
- Paula Edwards-Moffat - Founder and Executive Director, Baula
- Shyeon Delnawaz - CEO & Co-founder, Puralink
- Tia Collings - Founder CEO, Enaxiom
- Dominic Lindsay - Founder CEO, Nexobot
- Kieran McLeod - Founder CEO, Heidi Health
- Seshnie Taylor - Founder & CEO, Vocare
- Mari Robert - Founder, CEO & CTO, InflaMed
- Hamish Cameron - Founder CEO, Accufind
- Matt Doughty - CEO/Co-Founder, Prefactor
- Rob Wilson - Founder & CEO, Quaxit
14:45 - 15:00
AKAMAI | LIVE DEMO - From Edge to AI Intelligence: Smarter Routing, Cost-Effective Compute, Faster AI
15:15 - 15:20
The AI Summit AUSTRALIA SHOWCASE THEATRE WELCOME REMARKS
- Natalia Crnomarkovic - Chair, Future Law Working Group, Australasian Society for Computers + Law
15:20 - 15:50
Quaxit | Calibrated Personality: The Foundation for Persistent Behavioural Stability, Auditable Compliance, and Vendor-Neutral Agentic AI
- Rob Wilson - Founder & CEO, Quaxit
15:50 - 16:20
Sharon AI | From Pilot Purgatory to Production: Building AI for Payoff
- Dan Mons - CTO, Sharon AI
- Pratik Jhaveri - CTO, World Wide Technology
16:20 - 16:50
Supermicro | Supermicro DCBBS and GPU total solution
- Philip Sheu - Senior GPU Product Manager, Supermicro
16:50 - 17:15
Nintex | All Gas, No Brakes: How to Deploy AI Without Crashing Your Compliance
- Bree Barsanti - Senior Solutions Engineer, Nintex
12:00 - 13:00
Masterclass 1: Redefining business in the agentic AI era: From strategy to scalable impact
- Paul Monks - Director AI, Fujitsu
- Mitch Tomazic - Partner, Uvance Wayfinders Consulting by Fujitsu
- Mahesh Krishnan - Chief Technology Officer, Fujitsu Australia Limited
15:00 - 16:00
Masterclass 2: Speed, Scale and Certainty in a Sustainable way: How Victoria is positioning itself to be a leading hub for data centre investment
- Brad Ostermeyer - Executive Director, Investment and Engagement Industry, Trade and Investment Group,, DJSIR
- Kane Thorton - Executive Director, Investment and Engagement, CDC Data Centers
- Charles Penny - Chief Executive Officer, GreenSquareDC
- Joel O'Halloran - Managing Director ANZ, Stack Infrastructure APAC
- Lachlan Carty - Director Investment Facilitation, Invest Vic
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Networking Drinks
17:15 - 18:45
NETWORKING DRINKS | EXHIBITION HALL
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