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The AI Summit Australia
7-9 September 2026
Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre (MCEC)
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07:30 - 08:30
Masterclass 3: How to Scale AI Without Breaking the Bank: Escape Cloud Costs and Boost Performance
  • Jay Jenkins - Field CTO, Akamai Cloud Computing
  • Vineeth Varughese - Principal Product Marketing Manager, Akamai Technologies
  • Yaoquan Zhu - Senior Product Manager, GoVeda
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08:55 - 09:00
Day Two Chair’s Welcome
  • Nadine 'Noodles' Groves - Chief Operating Officer and Co-Founder, Natural Velocity
09:00 - 09:35
INDUSTRY KEYNOTE | Democratising AI and building compute capacity to spread the benefits of AI
  • Corentin Petit - Global Solutions Director, Mistral AI
09:35 - 10:00
HEADLINER KEYNOTE | Preparing for the Future: AI and Defence, Reflections from Chief Defence Scientist Prof Tanya Monro AC
  • Professor Tanya Monro - Chief Defence Scientist, Defence, Science and Technology Group, Australian Department of Defence
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10:00 - 10:30
Networking Break | Expo Hall Opens (10am-2pm)
10:30 - 10:35
Day Two Chair’s Welcome
  • Michael Barnes - Chief Analyst, Omdia
10:35 - 11:00
CASE STUDY | AI Innovations at the ATO
  • Andrew Watson - Deputy Commissioner & Chief Data Officer, ATO
11:00 - 11:25
AI That Acts: What Government Needs to Get Right
  • Chris Fechner - Chief Executive Officer, Digital Transformation Agency
11:25 - 12:20
PANEL DISCUSSION | The AI Bubble: Real or Imagined?
  • Nadine 'Noodles' Groves - Chief Operating Officer and Co-Founder, Natural Velocity
  • Nicole Livingstone - CEO, Victorian Institute of Sport
  • Elicia McDonald - CEO & General Partner, AirTree
  • Tristan Cox - Head of AI, ANZ, Workato
  • Victor White - Regional Sales Manager, Datadog
12:20 - 13:30
LUNCH AND NETWORKING BREAK | EXHIBITION HALL
13:30 - 14:15
PANEL DISCUSSION | AI for the SME – Pilots and programs on a tight budget
  • Emma Haller - Industry Program Manager, The National AI Centre
  • Anu Karunkailaka - Chief Technology Officer, Intrepid Travel
  • Tim Gauci - Founder & Director, Design and Diplomacy
  • Nick Clare - Head of Partnerships, Market Intelligence & Growth, Victorian Chamber of Commerce & Industry
14:15 - 14:40
CASE STUDY | Making the move to agentic AI
  • Prerit Mishra - Domain Director, DHL
14:40 - 15:25
PANEL DISCUSSION | The Ethics of AI – Guardrails, bias, privacy, sovereignty and accountability
  • Chris Fechner - Chief Executive Officer, Digital Transformation Agency
  • Jinan Zou - Sr. AI Technologist, UNSW
  • Himanshi Juneja - Head of Data & Analytics, CBRE
15:25 - 15:30
Closing remarks
15:30 - 15:35
Conference close
10:00 - 10:05
Expo Hall Opens (10am-2pm)
10:05 - 11:45
The Future AI Leaders Experience sessions | Sponsored by RMIT
  • Rahil Garnavi - Director, RAIsE Hub, RMIT University
  • Sherman Young - Deputy Vice-Chancellor Education, RMIT University
  • Peita Davis - Director, Skills, Education and Research, Business Council of Australia
  • Yasminka Nemet - Future Skills Lead, Australia & NZ, Microsoft
  • Alexander McIntosh - Student, RMIT University
  • Dr Tim Wiley - Senior Lecturer, School of Computing Technologies, RMIT
  • Farahan Wazer - Founder, Occivar
12:10 - 12:15
The AI Summit Australia Showcase Theatre Welcome Remarks
  • Dr Simona John von Freyend - Managing Director, PTNG Scientific
12:15 - 12:45
Datadog | Something will go wrong: lessons from 1,000 companies implementing AI
  • Hilary Harrington - Strategic Account Executive, Datadog
12:45 - 13:15
Nagarro | Building the Autonomous Service Workforce – Headless Service, Automated Resolution
  • Paritosh Bhardwaj - Head of Zendesk Practice, Nagarro
  • Greg Van Rensburg - Director, Sales Engineering, Zendesk
13:15 - 13:30
Prefactor | Your Agent Passed Its Evals. Now What?
  • Matt Doughty - CEO/Co-Founder, Prefactor
13:30 - 13:45
Lithic Blue | Lessons from 100+ firms in high-stakes AI adoption
  • Tom Niven - Co-CEO, LithicBlue
13:45 - 14:00
Veltora | The Cost of Knowing Too Late: Predictive Decision Intelligence for AI Data Centres
  • Aan Mahta - Founder & CEO, Veltora
14:00 - 14:05
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