Program Tue 19 – Wed 20 May 2026 • Melbourne Cricket Ground
Kindly note speakers and session times are subject to change.
Day 1: Tue 19 May 2026 • MCG, Melbourne
8:15am
Registration opens
Betty Cuthbert Lounge - Level 2, Olympic Stand (Gate 3)
Room
8:40am
No Session
Olympic A
No Session
No Session
9:00am
Olympic A + B
Keynote – From Clever to Competitive: Lifting Productivity Through Innovation
Andrew Leigh MP
Federal Member for Fenner, Assistant Minister for Productivity, Competition, Charities and Treasury
Keynote – Designing the economy for our collective wellbeing
No Session
No Session
10:50am - 11:20am
Morning Tea
Room
11:20am - 11:50am
Why Work Feels Broken - And What Fixes It
John Rizzo
Joyous Work
Olympic A
No Session
Five levels of letting go
Deep Dive
12:00pm - 12:30pm
Scaling Up engineering management
Adel Smee
Ferocia
Olympic A
The AI-Enabled Product Owner: Powered by Human Wisdom
Sam Bowtell
Grow Your Agility
Play & Do
AI Makes Agile Work Visible: What to Automate, What to Protect, and Where Humans Stay Accountable
Mike Boutel
PRINCE2 Ambassador
No Session
12:40pm - 1:10pm
AI within Agile: PM to Engineer
Bojan Zivic
V2 AI
Olympic A
The AI-Enabled Product Owner: Powered by Human Wisdom
Sam Bowtell
Grow Your Agility
Play & Do
The shift muscle: Mastering the social physics of connection
No Session
1:10pm - 2:00pm
Lunch
Room
2:00pm - 2:30pm
Humans in the Loop: Designing Human-AI Collaboration That Works
Xharmagne Carandang
Lorikeet
Beyond Structure and Silos: Funding for Impact
Catherine Drury
Roche
No Session
2:40pm - 3:10pm
LLMs to Agents to Teammates
Rashina Hoda
Monash University
Less Firefighting, More Flow: Chase the Value
Adam Murray
AGL
Vibe Analytics Deep Dive
Bryn Goodey
SEEK
3:10pm - 3:40pm
Afternoon Tea
Room
3:40pm - 4:10pm
Lightning talks
Penelope Barr
Benjamin Chee – Westpac
Ganesh Karthik Jonnalagadda – Reserve Bank of Australia
Kate Rutledge – NAL
Ishi: The Discipline of Determined Intent
4:20pm - 4:50pm
Agile Change: The dance party for the neurodivergent
Dr Jen Frahm
Agile Change Leadership Institute
Marco Di Santis
UniSuper
Turning Constraints into Levers: How ABC listen Competes on Its Own Terms
6:00pm
AgileAus26 Dinner - hosted by Lucid
The George on Collins (ticketed event)
Day 2: Wed 20 May 2026 • MCG, Melbourne
9:00am
Registration opens
Room
9:30am
Olympic A + B
Keynote – The Contradictions of Building AI Products and Teams
Sherif Mansour
Distinguished Product Manager and Head of AI, Atlassian
Keynote – Leadership & Management in the AI Era
Nigel Dalton
Social Scientist, ThoughtWorks
No Session
No Session
11:10am - 11:40am
Morning Tea & Tim Tam slam
Room
11:40am - 12:10pm
Your Brain on AI: The Ethics of Cognitive Automation
Olympic A
Structured Dissent
Adam Murray
Subtle Disruptors
Play & Do
Play & Do
(Interactive double session)
Stop Reporting. Start Translating. What Execs Really Need!
Rachael Collins &
Samantha McIntyre
Tech Boosters
No Session
12:20pm - 12:50pm
Operationalising Product Strategy with Bets & Flight Levels
Chris Howard
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Brendan Marsh
Organa
Deep Dive
Nigel Dalton
ThoughtWorks
12:50pm - 1:40pm
Lunch
Book launch kicking off at 1:10pm (Olympic B) – "Win the Night to Win the Day" – Penelope Barr
Room
1:40pm - 2:10pm
AI delivers speed, people deliver value
Adam Boas
Mable
Olympic A
Out of Sight, Out of Mind, Out of Influence: How AI Keeps You in the Room
Dallas Jackson
Humaneering
Play & Do
Play & Do
(Interactive double session)
Lights, Camera, Agile! Using Theatre to Bring Teams to Life
Alanna Cresp
ANU
Play & Do
Play & Do
(Interactive double session)
Bets Deep Dive
Chris Howard
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Brendan Marsh
Organa
2:20pm - 2:50pm
How Kmart unleashed new value from within
Martin Kearns &
Dara O’Sullivan
Kmart+Target
Olympic A
Out of Sight, Out of Mind, Out of Influence: How AI Keeps You in the Room
Dallas Jackson
Humaneering
Play & Do
(Interactive double session)
Stop Teaching Agile. Start Performing It.
Alanna Cresp
ANU
Play & Do
(Interactive double session)
2:50pm - 3:20pm
Afternoon Tea
Room
3:20pm - 3:50pm
Less, but better: strategies for maximising customer and business value
James Ratsasane
MECCA
Olympic A
No Session
No Session
4:00pm - 4:30pm
Olympic A
No Session
No Session
4:30pm - 5:00pm
AgileAus26 - Closing Drinks & Retrospective
Kindly note speakers and session times are subject to change.
