Introducing ADAConf

Your community for:

  • Software
  • Analysis
  • Design
  • Architecture
  • Socio-technical Systems
  • Collaboration
  • Modelling

Rydges Melbourne
Friday 14th Nov 2025
8:30am-5:30pm

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Speakers

ADAConf’s mission is to support the building of software that is more valuable for its users and owners, more pleasant to work with for its builders and maintainers, and more collaborative in its conception and design.

Diana Montalion

Mentrix: Architecting Systems
  • "Architecture as a Collective Practice: A Role-Playing Simulation"
  • "Keynote: TBD"

Linda McIver

Managing Director - Australian Data Science Education Institute
  • "Keynote: TBD"

Andrea Magnorsky

Programmer and creator of "Bytesized Architecture Sessions"
  • "Building a Decentralised Architecture Practice"

Bethan Timmins

Technology and Product Advisor for startups and scale ups
  • "Panel Discussion: Change"

Dan Prager

Director of Coaching and Learning, Everest Engineering
  • "Beyond Trade-offs: Let's Learn Polarity Mapping!"
  • "Untangling Legacy with (or without!) AI"

Fadila Fidina

Senior Software Engineer at Atlassian
  • "Change is only good when measurable: building confidence through experimentation"

Hannah Browne

Founder and Managing Director - Midnyte City
  • "Panel Discussion: Change"

Martin Chesbrough

Data Architect
  • "Turn your project around with Joy-Driven Development"

Matt Goldman

Innovation Consultant, Arinco
  • "Buying Engagement, Not Selling Solutions: A Quest to Revitalise Australia's First Digital Hospital"

Matthew Gillard

Chief Technology Officer, CuidadoConnect
  • "Panel Discussion: Change"

Paul Rayner

Domain Remodeler
  • "Baking Domain Concepts Into Code - Hands On"

Rahul Trikha

Director of Internal Platform @ Domain (Cloud, DevEx, Data/ML)
  • "Architecture as Narrative: Storytelling Your Systems to Life"

Susan Brander

Co-Founding CTO Kaleida
  • "Changing the engine mid-flight: A startup data pivot"

Agenda

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Friday, 14 November 2025

Main Stage Workshops

9:00 am

Main Stage
9:00 am → 15 min

Intro & Welcome

9:15 am

Main Stage
9:15 am → 45 min

Keynote: TBD

10:00 am

Main Stage
10:00 am → 30 min

Morning Tea

10:30 am

11:20 am

11:40 am

12:30 pm

Main Stage
12:30 pm → 60 min

Lunch

1:30 pm

2:20 pm

2:40 pm

3:30 pm

Main Stage
3:30 pm → 30 min

Afternoon Tea

4:00 pm

Main Stage
4:00 pm → 45 min

Keynote: TBD

4:45 pm

Main Stage
4:45 pm → 10 min

Closing Announcements

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Analysis, Design & Architecture Conference

Welcome to ADAConf, an Australian one-day community conference for those interested in software analysis, design and architecture. It is an off-shoot of the Domain-Driven Design Australia meetup community.

ADAConf’s mission is to support the building of software that is more valuable for its users and owners, more pleasant to work with for its builders and maintainers, and more collaborative in its conception and design.

Key dates:

  • CfS open: 3 February 2025
  • CfS close: 30 June 2025
  • CfS process closed and participants informed: 31 July 2025
  • Public schedule published: 18 August 2025
  • Conference day: 14th November 2025

Conference Topics

The theme for ADAConf 2025 is “Architectural Change” - you’ll hear all about:

Evolutionary Architecture Practices

Evolutionary Architecture Practices

How systems can adapt over time

Responding to Change

Responding to Change

Design & Architecture practices to facilitate responding to change

Predicting Change

Predicting Change

Modelling & analysis techniques that enable predicting change

Socio-technical Systems Thinking

Socio-technical Systems Thinking

Mitigate the risk and impact of unexpected change across the organisation

Novel Approaches

Novel Approaches

Techniques that challenge 'best practice'

Case Studies

Case Studies

Case studies, experience reports & retrospectives

Sponsors

Platinum

CBA

Gold

Contextive
AWS

Silver

REA
DDD Academy

Networking Drinks

Everest Engineering
Interested in joining as a sponsor?

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