Signal Not Noise Brisbane

Friday 30 October 2026

Building a compelling schedule

The Brisbane organiser team have put together a schedule designed to be useful to you, as you address challenges in your work. There are a number of sessions that are designed to address our 6 tough questions, drawn from Queensland and around Australia. There are only a handful still to be announced.

Spotlight Sessions

Cherie Curtis

Cherie Curtis

Chief People Officer, Trilogy Care

How AI is changing the relationship between people and technology, and what Trilogy Care is learning as everyone figures it out together.

Marcos Kurowski

Marcos Kurowski

Chief Technology Officer, SwyftX

A technical leader's view on where AI is actually taking engineering teams.

Yas Grigaliunas

Yas Grigaliunas

Chief Experience Officer, Videopro

Closing the day by pulling the six guiding questions together, and turning insight into action.

Session Leaders announced

Asma Qureshi

Experience Research & Insights Director, A2 Online

Engineering Trust

Autonomous AI raises a design question, not just a technical one: how do you build trust when nobody is watching every decision?

Daniel Prager

Director of Coaching & Learning, Everest

Engineering Trust

Some challenges aren't problems to solve. They're tensions to navigate. A practical look at disagreement as a signal, not a failure.

Jacinta Streat

Leading Faster Teams

Delivery finally got faster. Now governance and funding cycles are the bottleneck. Tools for redesigning the system before it grinds to a halt.

John Bristowe

One team's journey to using AI without the hype — a DevOps view on separating real gains from the noise.

John Stathakis

Building What Matters

A government delivery case study: a six-month deadline against a two-year estimate, and what changed when the team redefined what "delivered" meant.

Milad Dakka

Leading Faster Teams

Your team got faster on AI tools, so why hasn't delivery sped up? A model for diagnosing where responsibility and control get stuck, and the handoffs that quietly eat the gain.

Natalia Curusi

Agile Coach and Scrum Master roles are drying up in Australia. A look at around 200 job ads to separate perception from reality.

Olga Belokourova

Olga Belokourova

Principal Consultant, Escient

Building What Matters

A practical, human-centred approach to running internal stakeholder interviews, developed since the pandemic ended casual hallway chats.

Olivia Burmester

Olivia Burmester

The Board Question

The board wants an AI strategy. This workshop argues the strategy document only works if the culture underneath it can carry it.

Patrice Miller

Kit Friend

Discovery in Flux

Product discovery reframed as a continuous sensing system. A hands-on session on staying calibrated when customer expectations move faster than research.

Reshma Venugopal

Reshma Venugopal

Engineering Trust

AI has changed how engineers work day to day. The systems used to hire, onboard and promote them haven't caught up.

Rowan Gobey

Gobey Consulting

Leading Faster Teams

Five groups, five stalled-team artefacts, one live diagnosis. Why does everyone's confident read on the bottleneck differ?

Steve Peacocke

Building What Matters

Building what matters is harder when you're not the one setting the strategy. A practitioner's view from the middle.

Tim Hardaker

Group Product Manager, Platforms, ABC

Discovery in Flux

AI can automate plenty. What's left is the human advantage, and knowing where to spend it.

Tony Ponton

Phil Gadzinski

The Board Question

Governance frameworks built for rigid hierarchies keep clashing with AI-inflected ways of working. A modernised playbook, drawn from their upcoming book.

Trev de Vroome

AI makes a convincing prototype trivial to build. Proving it's safe, reliable and solves the right problem is the harder part.