Schedule

9am - 5pm
Leading human centered organisations - Iain Barker (AUS)
Design thinking for fun and profit - Andy Budd (UK)
Interviewing users; uncovering compelling insights - Steve Portigal (USA)
Sketching with clarity and confidence - Eva-Lotta Lamm (GERMANY)

9am - 12.30	1.30 - 5pm
Thinking like a good ancestor; learning the language of responsible innovation - Alan Cooper (USA)
User experience research: a practical introduction - Hendrick Mueller (AUS)
Critical communication skills for designers - Nova Franklin and Karina Smith (AUS)	Help me, help you; closing the feedback loop together - Samantha Soma (USA)
Foster collaboration through effective stakeholder workshops - Elena Sanchez (AUS)	Mapping multi-channel eco-systems - Cornelius Rachieru (CAN)
6-8pm
Welcome party, Laneway at the Rialto (open to all main conference ticket holders; pick up your badge at the Grand Hyatt until 6pm)

Time	Room 1	Room 2	Room 3
8.00	Registration opens
8.45	Conference sessions begin - Introductions and Welcome
9.15	Opening Keynote: Lauren Currie
10.15	Morning Tea
10.45	Zeitgeist experience; shared attributes of the worlds mega events - Andrew O'Louglin	Healthcare is sick - Ash Donaldson	Finding ethical design in unethical products - Chris Harrison
11.05	Onboarding for the long run - Krystal Higgins	Healthcare is sick - Ash Donaldson
11.30	Personal UX is the only UX that matters - Andrew Harrison	Design culture (buckle up!) - Iain Barker	Capitalist realism and service design - Jim McCool
11.50	Making 'sticky' design principles - Amirul Nasir	Design culture (buckle up!) - Iain Barker	Good help is easy to find - Gordon McNenney
12.20	Lunch
1.30	10 Minute Talks
2.00	Design systems and agility - Catherine Hills	TV is dead! Long live TV - Molly Lafferty	Designing experiences for people who want to be somewhere else - Dave Hayes
2.20	Embedding machine learning into our design practice - Larissa Azevedo	TV is dead! Long live TV - Molly Lafferty	How to help (when people prefer not to talk to you) - Lyle Crombie
2.45	Afternoon Tea
3.30	Stop solving problems - Steve Portigal
4.15	Closing Keynote: Creative clarity; finding focus in the midst of ambiguity - Jon Kolko
5.15	Conference sessions complete for Day 1

Time	Room 1	Room 2	Room 3
8.45	Conference sessions begin - Welcome Back
9.00	Opening Keynote: Can being African make you bad at design? - Farai Madzima
10.00	Visual literacy and visual fluency - Eva-Lotta Lamm
10.45	Morning Tea
11.15	Voice UX, insights from the blindside - Tim Noonan	Usability testing Victoria's new trains - Alexandra Almond	Designing a corporate mission control - Erick Mohr
11.35	Voice UX, insights from the blindside - Tim Noonan	Usability testing Victoria's new trains - Alexandra Almond	Continuous improvement through continuous user insight - Dan Craddock
12.00	Disability as a driver of innovation in UX - Hamish McKenzie and Zoe Rose	You don't need to ask that; anticipatory design - Yogesh Moorjani	Keeping it real in quantitative research - Jolie Martin
12.25			Dealing with barriers to qualitative research in hospitals - Michelle Pickrell
12.45	Lunch
1.45	10 Minute Talks
2.20	The role of microcopy in UX - Richard Sison	The accidental leader - Andy Budd	Let's talk about the weather - Jaclyn Brown and Vicki Lane
	To write better UX copy, think like a journalist - Patrick Stafford	The accidental leader - Andy Budd	Cultivating the conversation of digitalisation in agriculture - Cara Stitzlein and Renzo Alvarado Avanto
3.05	Afternoon Tea
3.35	Design careers in the science fiction future - Bill DeRouchey
4.20	Closing Keynote: The Oppenheimer moment - Alan Cooper
5.20	Closing comments and thanks
5.30 - 8pm	Closing party, The Residence @ The Grand Hyatt (open to all main conference ticket holders)