Schedule

Tuesday 27 August - Workshops

9AM - 12.30PM Lunch 1.30 - 5PM
A re-introduction to IA - Donna Spencer Preventing Disability Dongles - Liz Jackson
Creating Great Voice-First Experiences - Trip O'Dell & Phillip Hunter
Foster collaboration by running more effective stakeholder workshops - Elena Sanchez & Loletta Cheng
Introduction to Service Design - Iain Barker & Karina Smith

Wednesday 28 August - Workshops & Welcome Party

9AM - 12.30PM Lunch 1.30 - 5PM
Communicating Visually - Zoe Green & Harold Kuan Storytelling & Pitching for designers - Andy Polaine
Endings. Designing for Off-Boarding, Closure and Aftermath - Joe Macleod
User Experience Research: A Practical Introduction - Hendrik Mueller
Designing for AI-Human Centaurs: Who is Doing the Work? - Chris Noessel
6 - 8PM
SOCIAL EVENT - Welcome Party at The Mint, 10 Macquarie Street Sydney NSW 2000. Beat the Thursday morning queue and register early at the party!

Thursday 29 August - Presentations & Social Event

Time Room 1 Room 2
8AM Level 1 - Cloaking/Luggage Drop & Childcare opens   |   Level 3 - Conference Registration opens
8.45AM Conference Day 1 commences - Introductions and Welcome to Country
9.15AM Opening Keynote - Small Technology, Aral Balkan
10.15AM Designing Agentive Technology, Chris Noessel
11AM Morning Tea - sponsored by Aquent
11.30AM Design in the Age of Synthetic Realities, Andy Polaine

Designing for people in crisis, Jonathan Roper & Lan Huang

The NextStep story: Young people, digital self-help and better mental health outcomes, Nadine Raydan

12.15PM

Bust the seven BIG digital content problems, Elle Geraghty

Break the rules, Phil Delalande

Making sense of ethics in design: a discussion, Harry Mann, Sophie Goodman, Grace Turtle Polifroni & Mitch Cullen
12.55PM Lunch 
1.55PM
2.25PM From sunset to sunrise. How Australia Post is empowering e-commerce, Pete Johnson

The Lorem Ipsum of data visualisation: How to design data-driven wireframes, Martin von Lupin

Increasing access for those hardest to reach - the trauma-informed story of Sunny, Celso Borges & Libbi Cunnington

3.10PM Afternoon Tea - sponsored by BCG Digital Ventures
3.40PM Synthetic Intimacy, Trip O'Dell
4.25PM Closing Keynote - Engaging in disability as a creative practice, Liz Jackson
5.25PM Conference Day 1 concludes
6 - 8 PM SOCIAL EVENT - BCG Digital Ventures Pizza Party, register here to secure your FREE spot!

Friday 30 August - Presentations & Closing Party

Time Room 1 Room 2
8.30AM Level 1 - Cloaking/Luggage Drop & Childcare opens   |   Level 3 - Conference Registration opens
8.45AM Conference Day 2 commences 
9AM Opening Keynote - The Design of Meaning for the Future of Humanity, Kate O'Neill
10AM Strategies for Conversational Product Experiences, Phillip Hunter
10.45AM Morning Tea - sponsored by Aquent
11.15AM Designing WITH, not for, vulnerable customers, Natasha Ballantyne & Chloe Hampton Laws to Norms - How Privacy can Influence Design, Tim Kariotis
12PM Respectful Curiosity: How and with whom are you building inclusion?, Zoe Green & Sam Frain Taking a half-done car, driving it at breakneck speed, and completing the assembly at the same time, Yoel Sumitro
12.45PM Lunch
1.45PM
2.15PM Bite sized activism for STREAT! Helping reduce our environmental footprint collectively, Fiona Meighan & Harriet McDougall Designing for tomorrows, Bridgette Engeler
3PM Afternoon Tea - sponsored by BCG Digital Ventures
3.30PM Designing around the brain, Tea Uglow
4.15PM Closing Keynote - Ends. A critical difference, Joe Macleod
5.15PM Conference Day 2 concludes
5.30PM SOCIAL EVENT - Closing Party, Zeta Bar on Level 4 of The Hilton Hotel