Introducing ADAConf

Your community for:

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

Rydges Melbourne
Thursday 19th Nov 2026
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.

Ghizlane Aroussi

Engineering Manager @PayFit
  • "Becoming a DDD Company - One Story, Two Lenses"

Krisztina Hirth

Staff Architect at PayFit
  • "Becoming a DDD Company - One Story, Two Lenses"

Paul Rayner

Consultant, Author, CEO of Virtual Genius
  • "Closing Keynote"

Andrea Magnorsky

Programmer and creator of "Bytesized Architecture Sessions"
  • "Residuality: Real World Comparative Case Studies"

Chris Simon

Technology Coach and Advisor
  • "Residuality: Real World Comparative Case Studies"

Elle Meredith

Engineer, Consultant, Coach and Founder at Blackmill Consulting
  • "Where's Your Butterfly? Leading Antifragile Organisations in a World You Can't Control"

Gretchen Scott

Co-Founder @ Kaleida
  • "Panel Discussion: The known unknowns and the unknown unknowns - preparing for the unpredictable."

Hazra Ali

WorkSafe Victoria, Senior Business Analyst
  • "Antifragility: Novel Approaches to Business Analysis in Uncertain Environments"

Jakub Jurkiewicz

Chief Product and Technology Officer
  • "Off-Script: Practicing Antifragility Through Improv"

Jay Morgan

MYOB - Software Architect
  • "Inside-Out Architecture: Connecting Code, Context, and Capability"

Mark Angrish

CTO - Beyond Bank
  • "Panel Discussion: The known unknowns and the unknown unknowns - preparing for the unpredictable."

Max Downey Twiss

Long-time open-source developer and second-year university student
  • "You Aren't Always Right: Resolving Technical Disagreements The Easy Way"

Susan Brander

Co-Founding CTO Kaleida
  • "Building with curiosity and a strategic mindset"

Agenda

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Thursday, November 19, 2026

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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: 14th March, 2026
  • CfS close: 30th June, 2026
  • CfS process closed and participants informed: 31st July, 2026
  • Public schedule published: 31st August, 2026
  • Conference day: 19th November 2026
  • Unconference day: 20th November, 2026

Conference Topics

The theme for ADAConf 2026 is “Antifragility” - you’ll hear all about:

Antifragile Systems

Antifragile Systems

Building systems that thrive under stress

Antifragile Organisations

Antifragile Organisations

People and organisations in a world of hyper-rapid change

Adopting Antifragility

Adopting Antifragility

Shifting organisational mindsets

Socio-technical Systems Thinking

Socio-technical Systems Thinking

The system is more than the sum of its parts

Novel Approaches

Novel Approaches

Techniques that challenge 'best practice'

Case Studies

Case Studies

Case studies, experience reports & retrospectives

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