Ania Mastalerz (Atlassian) at Design Research 2026: The Researcher as a Diplomat — carrying truth across boundaries between teams that don't speak the same language. Sydney, Wed Aug 26. webdirections.org/design-resea...

Sakib Jalil (UTS & CQU) at UX Australia 2026: Enjoyment as a Design Principle and Metric — taking seriously something often dismissed as fluff. Sydney, Aug 27–28. webdirections.org/uxaustralia/

Rachael Wilson & Sarah Fennelly (Deakin University) co-present at UX Australia 2026: Beyond Designers — Building a Culture of UX Through a Playbook. Sydney, Aug 27–28. webdirections.org/uxaustralia/

Peter Barber (Airwallex) at UX Australia 2026: The Human Margin — what stays human when the rest of the system gets automated. Sydney, Aug 27–28. webdirections.org/uxaustralia/

Patima Tantiprasut (PetRescue) at UX Australia 2026: Designing for disappointment — how to design systems that handle the moments people don't get what they hoped for. Sydney, Aug 27–28. webdirections.org/uxaustralia/

"You're not designing the experience. You're inheriting it." Mina Giang (Oexa) at UX Australia 2026 — a reckoning for any team trying to design the customer journey from scratch. Sydney, Aug 27–28. webdirections.org/uxaustralia/

Josephine Abbatangelo (Movember) at UX Australia 2026: The Masking Tax — how workplace products charge an invisible cost on disabled employees. Sydney, Aug 27–28. webdirections.org/uxaustralia/

Design leader Jessie Pahng at UX Australia 2026: From reactive systems to proactive intelligence — what it takes to build interfaces that anticipate rather than respond. Sydney, Aug 27–28. webdirections.org/uxaustralia/

Gian Wild (CEO, AccessibilityOz) at UX Australia 2026: History of web accessibility — where we've been, what's worked, what hasn't, what we're still getting wrong. Sydney, Aug 27–28. webdirections.org/uxaustralia/

Emma Buckland (Lead UX Designer) at UX Australia 2026: Why most Mobile UX increases risk — and how to reduce it. Sydney, Aug 27–28. webdirections.org/uxaustralia/

Emily Smith & Nadine Raydan (ReachOut Australia) at UX Australia 2026: The architecture of human mental health support — re-designing PeerChat for on-demand support. Sydney, Aug 27–28. webdirections.org/uxaustralia/

Elise Loeuille (Transport for NSW) at UX Australia 2026: Unplanned Disruption — Mind the Gaps. Designing for the moments when service journeys fall apart. Sydney, Aug 27–28. webdirections.org/uxaustralia/

Cornel Steyn & Jess Witt (Versent) co-present at UX Australia 2026: Design Shapes Context, Context Shapes Design. Sydney, Aug 27–28. webdirections.org/uxaustralia/

Ben Shelton & Cordelia Prangley (University of Newcastle) co-present at UX Australia 2026: Designing for the Mind — using cognitive load to measure UX effectiveness. Sydney, Aug 27–28. webdirections.org/uxaustralia/

Design leader Amir Ansari at UX Australia 2026: Leadership that lasts — how to build practice, principles and culture that outlive any one leader's tenure. Sydney, Aug 27–28. webdirections.org/uxaustralia/

Amanda Pitcher (Versent) at UX Australia 2026: Getting comfortable with the unknown — the muscle leaders need to build so teams can keep doing the hard work. Sydney, Aug 27–28. webdirections.org/uxaustralia/

Amanda Pitcher (Versent) at UX Australia 2026: Getting comfortable with the unknown — the muscle leaders need to build so teams can keep doing the hard work. Sydney, Aug 27–28. webdirections.org/uxaustralia/

Sam Alderton-Johnson (Impact Policy) joins Steve Baty for a keynote fireside at UX Australia 2026 — reframing co-design as a decolonising practice. Sydney, Aug 27–28. webdirections.org/uxaustralia/

Nila Rezaei keynotes UX Australia 2026. Co-Founder & Design Director of RK Collective. Good Design Australia Ambassador. Her project Crafted Liberation won the 2024 Good Design Award for Social Impact. Sydney, Aug 27–28. webdirections.org/uxaustralia/

Nathan Shedroff keynotes UX Australia 2026 — Your Strategic Future. Long-time educator at California College of the Arts and author of Make It Meaningful, Design Is the Problem, and Experience Design 1.1. Sydney, Aug 27–28. webdirections.org/uxaustralia/

What does a cluttered footpath have in common with a confusing navigation menu? Fatemeh Aminpour keynotes UX Australia 2026 — reframing neuroinclusion as a design systems challenge. Sydney, Aug 27–28. webdirections.org/uxaustralia/

Yicheng Guo: We shipped one of REA Group’s first generative AI features to production: Property Highlights, which turns long real-estate listings into three skimmable takeaways. AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4 aiengineer.webdirections.org

Notion ships sandboxed workers in their agent platform. Adam Hudson on safely executing third-party code inside agents. AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4 aiengineer.webdirections.org

Agent memory degrades over hundreds of sessions. Benchmarks miss this completely. Ananya Roy on memory as the real production failure mode. AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4 aiengineer.webdirections.org

Matthew Gillard: The email didnt have what I submitted... AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4 aiengineer.webdirections.org

Small language model beat Avni Bhatt's LLM for structured extraction. Lower latency, cut costs, better reliability. Hybrid patterns. AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4 aiengineer.webdirections.org

Lovee Jain: AI agents aren’t magic. AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4 aiengineer.webdirections.org

Stephen Sennett: Most developers pick their AI model the same way: use the biggest, smartest one available for everything. AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4 aiengineer.webdirections.org

Mic Neale: The current AI stack has a dependency most of us don’t talk about: a handful of closed models from a handful of providers, and an API call standing between every agent and every action. AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4 aiengineer.webdirections.org

Daniel Rodgers-Pryor: Autocomplete is *so* 2023. AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4 aiengineer.webdirections.org