Schedule

Friday 28 August 2026

Overview Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday

Ballroom 1

Ballroom 2

Ballroom 3

9:00 am

9:00 am - 9:15 am

Conference welcome Jack Skinner, Sophie Quinn-Graham, Nic Crouch

9:15 am - 10:00 am

Why Australians don't trust AI and what that means for all of us Cam Wilson

9:30 am

10:00 am

Morning Tea 10:00 am - 10:45 am

10:30 am

10:45 am - 11:20 am

The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly – Python in Secondary Education in Queensland Matt Collyer

10:45 am - 11:20 am

40,000 CVEs and Counting: What 60 Years of AppSec Tells Us About 2026 Pedram Hayati

10:45 am - 11:20 am

Productivity: a dialogue Benno Rice, Daisy Leigh Brenecki

11:00 am

11:30 am

11:30 am - 12:00 pm

How Being Terrified of Code Helped Me Get Girls to Love It Gwyneth De Guia

11:30 am - 12:00 pm

Can I Trust You? Service-to-Service Identity with SPIFFE Oliver Bassett

11:30 am - 12:00 pm

Launching Rockets with Python Freddy Mcloughlan, Amber Taylor

12:00 pm

12:05 pm - 12:35 pm

Hash It Out: Teaching Password Security Through Code Alex Penna

12:05 pm - 12:35 pm

Whoops! I Accidentally Leaked My Credentials (again) Eve Martin-Jones

12:05 pm - 12:35 pm

Experiments in Engineering without reading code Ben Taylor

12:30 pm

Lunch 12:35 pm - 1:30 pm

1:00 pm

1:30 pm

1:30 pm - 2:00 pm

The Neurospicy Toolbox: A Guide for Educators Maddie Mackey

1:30 pm - 2:00 pm

Vibe-Check Your Vibe Code: Surviving the Era of Agentic Open Source Dependencies Nicky Ringland, Ash

1:30 pm - 2:00 pm

Breaking the PR Review Bottleneck Pavel Oborin

2:00 pm

2:05 pm - 2:35 pm

Assessment in the age of AI Thea Koutsoukis

2:05 pm - 2:35 pm

Authentication for humans, why passkeys finally make sense. George Coldham

2:05 pm - 2:35 pm

Research Software Stories: Four Years of Lessons in Sustainable Science Paula Andrea Martinez

2:30 pm

2:40 pm - 3:10 pm

Feed-Forward, Not Feedback: Rethinking Project Based Assessment Stephen Tierney

2:40 pm - 3:10 pm

Privacy data encryption & deletion while preserving analytical integrity XiaoHan Li

2:40 pm - 3:10 pm

Why should I write software well? Tennessee Leeuwenburg

3:00 pm

Afternoon Tea 3:10 pm - 3:55 pm

3:30 pm

3:55 pm - 4:25 pm

The 20-Year Port: from PhD project to polished professional Python packaging Paul Leopardi

3:55 pm - 4:25 pm

Disentangling formatted strings with T-strings Simon Merrick

3:55 pm - 5:35 pm

Student Showcase Amanda Hogan, Nicky Ringland, Alison Wong

4:00 pm

4:30 pm

4:30 pm - 5:00 pm

From COBOL to Copilots: Why “No-Code” Never Kills the Coder Sam Bishop

4:30 pm - 5:00 pm

From Trauma ICU to InfoSec: A Nurse's Pivot into Cybersecurity Sam Marsh

5:00 pm

5:30 pm

9:00am

9:00am – 9:15amConference welcome

Jack Skinner, Sophie Quinn-Graham, Nic Crouch

9:15am – 10:00amWhy Australians don't trust AI and what that means for all of us

10:00am

Morning Tea10:00am–10:45am

10:45am

10:45am – 11:20amThe Good, The Bad, and the Ugly – Python in Secondary Education in Queensland

Ballroom 1Matt Collyer

10:45am – 11:20am40,000 CVEs and Counting: What 60 Years of AppSec Tells Us About 2026

Ballroom 2Pedram Hayati

10:45am – 11:20amProductivity: a dialogue

Ballroom 3Benno Rice, Daisy Leigh Brenecki

11:30am

11:30am – 12:00pmHow Being Terrified of Code Helped Me Get Girls to Love It

Ballroom 1Gwyneth De Guia

11:30am – 12:00pmCan I Trust You? Service-to-Service Identity with SPIFFE

Ballroom 2Oliver Bassett

11:30am – 12:00pmLaunching Rockets with Python

Ballroom 3Freddy Mcloughlan, Amber Taylor

12:05pm

12:05pm – 12:35pmHash It Out: Teaching Password Security Through Code

Ballroom 1Alex Penna

12:05pm – 12:35pmWhoops! I Accidentally Leaked My Credentials (again)

Ballroom 2Eve Martin-Jones

12:05pm – 12:35pmExperiments in Engineering without reading code

Ballroom 3Ben Taylor

12:35pm

Lunch12:35pm–1:30pm

1:30pm

1:30pm – 2:00pmThe Neurospicy Toolbox: A Guide for Educators

Ballroom 1Maddie Mackey

1:30pm – 2:00pmVibe-Check Your Vibe Code: Surviving the Era of Agentic Open Source Dependencies

Ballroom 2Nicky Ringland, Ash

1:30pm – 2:00pmBreaking the PR Review Bottleneck

Ballroom 3Pavel Oborin

2:05pm

2:05pm – 2:35pmAssessment in the age of AI

Ballroom 1Thea Koutsoukis

2:05pm – 2:35pmAuthentication for humans, why passkeys finally make sense.

Ballroom 2George Coldham

2:05pm – 2:35pmResearch Software Stories: Four Years of Lessons in Sustainable Science

Ballroom 3Paula Andrea Martinez

2:40pm

2:40pm – 3:10pmFeed-Forward, Not Feedback: Rethinking Project Based Assessment

Ballroom 1Stephen Tierney

2:40pm – 3:10pmPrivacy data encryption & deletion while preserving analytical integrity

Ballroom 2XiaoHan Li

2:40pm – 3:10pmWhy should I write software well?

Ballroom 3Tennessee Leeuwenburg

3:10pm

Afternoon Tea3:10pm–3:55pm

3:55pm

3:55pm – 4:25pmThe 20-Year Port: from PhD project to polished professional Python packaging

Ballroom 1Paul Leopardi

3:55pm – 4:25pmDisentangling formatted strings with T-strings

Ballroom 2Simon Merrick

3:55pm – 5:35pmStudent Showcase

Ballroom 3Amanda Hogan, Nicky Ringland, Alison Wong

4:30pm

4:30pm – 5:00pmFrom COBOL to Copilots: Why “No-Code” Never Kills the Coder

Ballroom 1Sam Bishop

4:30pm – 5:00pmFrom Trauma ICU to InfoSec: A Nurse's Pivot into Cybersecurity

Ballroom 2Sam Marsh

Student ShowcaseContinues in Ballroom 3

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