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The AI Summit Australia
7-9 September 2026
Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre (MCEC)
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08:30 - 08:35
Day One Chair’s Welcome
08:35 - 08:45
Welcome to Country
08:45 - 08:50
MINISTERIAL KEYNOTE | Victoria’s Digital Future
08:50 - 09:00
STRATEGIC PARTNER WELCOME
  • Izzy Whitelock - CEO, AIIA
09:00 - 09:10
STRATEGIC PARTNER WELCOME
  • Belinda Dennett - CEO, Data Centres Australia
09:10 - 09:35
INDUSTRY KEYNOTE | Building the AI World From the Ground Up
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
10:00 - 10:30
Networking Break
10:30 - 10:35
Day One Chair’s Welcome
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
  • Colonel Phillip Ellsmore - Director for Land Command, Control, Communications and Computing,, Australian Department of Defence
11:25 - 11:50
DIAMOND KEYNOTE | Weighing the ‘SaaSpocalypse’ threat
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
  • Craig Lawton - Principal AI & Data Technologist, AWS
  • 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
DIAMOND KEYNOTE | AI and security – protecting models against attacks
15:05 - 15:50
Networking Break on Exhibition Floor
15:50 - 16:15
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)
16:15 - 17:00
PANEL DISCUSSION | Reshaping the World of Work – Winners, losers, and workforce transparency
  • Izzy Whitelock - CEO, AIIA
  • Ben Morley-John - GM Digital and Data, Anglicare
  • Rahil Garnavi - Director, RAIsE Hub, RMIT University
17:00 - 17:20
NETWORKING PARTY | EXHIBITION HALL
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.
10:45 - 11:15
Workato | Solutions Spotlight Session
11:15 - 11:45
NetApp | Is Your Data Foundation Ready to Scale AI?
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
12:15 - 12:45
Session close
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 Business Development Manager, XENON
14:45 - 15:15
Session close
15:15 - 15:20
The AI Summit AUSTRALIA SHOWCASE THEATRE WELCOME REMARKS
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 | Solutions Spotlight Session
16:20 - 16:50
Supermicro | Solutions Spotlight Session
16:50 - 17:20
Solutions Spotlight Session | No-Code to Low-Code AI: Empowering Business Users Without an Army of Data Scientists
17:20 - 18:30
NETWORKING PARTY | EXHIBITION HALL
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