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Friday
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Friday 28 August 2026
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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 - 11:15 am
The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly – Python in Secondary Education in Queensland
Matt Collyer
10:45 am - 11:15 am
Launching Rockets with Python
Freddy Mcloughlan, Amber Taylor
Cybersecurity
10:45 am - 11:15 am
40,000 CVEs and Counting: What 60 Years of AppSec Tells Us About 2025
Pedram Hayati
11:00 am
Education
11:20 am - 11:50 am
How Being Terrified of Code Helped Me Get Girls to Love It
Gwyneth De Guia
11:20 am - 11:50 am
Super secret python talk
(Session not yet published)
Cybersecurity
11:20 am - 11:50 am
Can I Trust You? Service-to-Service Identity with SPIFFE
Oliver Bassett
11:30 am
Education
11:55 am - 12:25 pm
Hash It Out: Teaching Password Security Through Code
Alex Penna
11:55 am - 12:25 pm
Experiments in Engineering without reading code
Ben Taylor
Cybersecurity
11:55 am - 12:25 pm
Not yet disclosed
(Session not yet published)
12:00 pm
Lunch
12:25 pm - 1:25 pm
12:30 pm
1:00 pm
Education
1:25 pm - 1:55 pm
The Neurospicy Toolbox: A Guide for Educators
Maddie Mackey
1:25 pm - 1:55 pm
Breaking the PR Review Bottleneck
Pavel Oborin
Cybersecurity
1:25 pm - 1:55 pm
Vibe-Check Your Vibe Code: Surviving the Era of Agentic Open Source Dependencies
Nicky Ringland, Ash
1:30 pm
2:00 pm
Education
2:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Assessment in the age of AI
Thea Koutsoukis
2:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Research Software Stories: Four Years of Lessons in Sustainable Science
Paula Andrea Martinez
Cybersecurity
2:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Authentication for humans, why passkeys finally make sense.
George Coldham
2:30 pm
Education
2:35 pm - 3:05 pm
Feed-Forward, Not Feedback: Rethinking Project Based Assessment
Stephen Tierney
2:35 pm - 3:05 pm
Why should I write software well?
Tennessee Leeuwenburg
Cybersecurity
2:35 pm - 3:05 pm
Privacy data encryption & deletion while preserving analytical integrity
XiaoHan Li
3:00 pm
Afternoon Tea
3:05 pm - 3:35 pm
3:30 pm
3:35 pm - 4:05 pm
The 20-Year Port: from PhD project to polished professional Python packaging
Paul Leopardi
Cybersecurity
3:35 pm - 4:05 pm
Disentangling formatted strings with T-strings
Simon Merrick
Education
3:35 pm - 5:35 pm
Student Showcase
Amanda J Hogan, Nicky Ringland, Alison Wong
4:00 pm
4:10 pm - 4:40 pm
From COBOL to Copilots: Why “No-Code” Never Kills the Coder
Sam Bishop
Cybersecurity
4:10 pm - 4:40 pm
From Trauma ICU to InfoSec: A Nurse's Pivot into Cybersecurity
Sam Marsh
4:30 pm
5:00 pm
5:30 pm
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