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Friday 28 August 2026

Overview Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
Ballroom 1
Ballroom 2
Ballroom 3
9:00 am
9:00 am - 10:00 am
Conference welcome & Friday keynote Jack Skinner, Sophie Quinn-Graham, Nic Crouch
9:30 am
10:00 am
Morning Tea 10:00 am - 10:45 am
10:30 am
Education
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
Launching Rockets with Python Freddy Mcloughlan, Amber Taylor
Cybersecurity
10:45 am - 11:20 am
40,000 CVEs and Counting: What 60 Years of AppSec Tells Us About 2026 Pedram Hayati
11:00 am
11:30 am
Education
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
Super secret python talk (Session not yet published)
Cybersecurity
11:30 am - 12:00 pm
Can I Trust You? Service-to-Service Identity with SPIFFE Oliver Bassett
12:00 pm
Education
12:05 pm - 12:35 pm
Hash It Out: Teaching Password Security Through Code Alex Penna
12:05 pm - 12:35 pm
Experiments in Engineering without reading code Ben Taylor
Cybersecurity
12:05 pm - 12:35 pm
Not yet disclosed (Session not yet published)
12:30 pm
Lunch 12:35 pm - 1:30 pm
1:00 pm
1:30 pm
Education
1:30 pm - 2:00 pm
The Neurospicy Toolbox: A Guide for Educators Maddie Mackey
1:30 pm - 2:00 pm
Breaking the PR Review Bottleneck Pavel Oborin
Cybersecurity
1:30 pm - 2:00 pm
Vibe-Check Your Vibe Code: Surviving the Era of Agentic Open Source Dependencies Nicky Ringland, Ash
2:00 pm
Education
2:05 pm - 2:35 pm
Assessment in the age of AI Thea Koutsoukis
2:05 pm - 2:35 pm
Research Software Stories: Four Years of Lessons in Sustainable Science Paula Andrea Martinez
Cybersecurity
2:05 pm - 2:35 pm
Authentication for humans, why passkeys finally make sense. George Coldham
2:30 pm
Education
2:40 pm - 3:10 pm
Feed-Forward, Not Feedback: Rethinking Project Based Assessment Stephen Tierney
2:40 pm - 3:10 pm
Why should I write software well? Tennessee Leeuwenburg
Cybersecurity
2:40 pm - 3:10 pm
Privacy data encryption & deletion while preserving analytical integrity XiaoHan Li
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
Cybersecurity
3:55 pm - 4:25 pm
Disentangling formatted strings with T-strings Simon Merrick
Education
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
Cybersecurity
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
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