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
- "Architecture as a Collective Practice: A Role-Playing Simulation"
- "Keynote: TBD"
Linda McIver
- "Keynote: The Art of Being Difficult"
Amruta Deshpande
- "Do LLMs Dream of Digital Transformation?"
Andrea Magnorsky
- "On the same page: EventStorming for Understanding processes and systems together"
Bethan Timmins
- "Do LLMs Dream of Digital Transformation?"
Dan Prager
- "Beyond Trade-offs: Let's Learn Polarity Mapping!"
- "Untangling Legacy with (or without!) AI"
Fadila Fidina
- "Change is only good when measurable: building confidence through experimentation"
Hannah Browne
- "Do LLMs Dream of Digital Transformation?"
Martin Chesbrough
- "Turn your project around with Joy-Driven Development"
Matt Goldman
- "Buying Engagement, Not Selling Solutions: A Quest to Revitalise Australia's First Digital Hospital"
Matthew Gillard
- "Do LLMs Dream of Digital Transformation?"
Paul Rayner
- "Baking Domain Concepts Into Code - Hands On"
- "On the same page: EventStorming for Understanding processes and systems together"
Rahul Trikha
- "Architecture as Narrative: Storytelling Your Systems to Life"
Susan Brander
- "Changing the engine mid-flight: A startup data pivot"
Pre-conference Workshops
123 Queen Street, Melbourne, Melbourne VIC 3000
One Day Workshops
Architecture as a Collective Practice: A Role-Playing Simulation
You’ve just joined Mago, a globally renowned digital publisher. It’s your first day as an architect… and a crisis is unfolding. This first-of-its-kind role playing workshop invites you to enjoy the egalitarian experience of “doing architecture” as a collective, cross-functional practice.On the same page: EventStorming for Understanding processes and systems together
Fast-forward into the future to see how a complicated business process works, so you can collaboratively address critical issues before you codeUntangling Legacy with (or without!) AI
Whether you're a tech lead, a developer or a technically minded tester, this workshop will help you approach legacy code with confidence.Agenda
Friday, 14 November 2025
9:00 am
9:15 am
10:00 am
10:30 am
11:20 am
11:40 am
12:30 pm
1:30 pm
2:20 pm
2:40 pm
3:30 pm
4:00 pm
4:50 pm
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
How systems can adapt over time
Responding to Change
Design & Architecture practices to facilitate responding to change
Predicting Change
Modelling & analysis techniques that enable predicting change
Socio-technical Systems Thinking
Mitigate the risk and impact of unexpected change across the organisation
Novel Approaches
Techniques that challenge 'best practice'
Case Studies
Case studies, experience reports & retrospectives
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