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Founder and NVDA lead developer, NV Access, Australia

Chief Scientist, Proofcraft, Australia

Scientia Professor, UNSW Sydney, Australia

Professor, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

Software Engineer; NVDA Co-founder, Canva, Australia

Consultant, DiUS; Co-founder, PactFlow; Pact maintainer, DiUS / PactFlow, Australia

Creator and Maintainer of Verify, Independent, Australia

Performance engineer, OpenAI, Australia

Engineering leadership coach and author, Independent, New Zealand

Open-source developer, rsync / ArduPilot / MAVProxy projects, Australia

Senior Lecturer; ARC DECRA Fellow, University of Melbourne, Australia

Applied AI and Engineering Leader, Planit; Selenium Project Leadership Committee, Planit Testing, Australia

OpenSSH developer, OpenSSH project, Australia

Founder and CEO, Wallaby Team (Wallaby.js), Wallaby Team, Australia

President, OpenSSL Corporation; CTO & Technical Director, Cryptsoft, OpenSSL Corporation / Cryptsoft, Australia

Professor, Monash University, Australia

Pact maintainer; PactFlow co-founder, SmartBear, Australia

Bouncy Castle co-founder; VP Software Engineering, Crypto Workshop, Australia

Founder of Planit Testing; founding Chairman of ANZTB; company director, Self-employed (company director), Australia

PostgreSQL developer and committer, Microsoft, New Zealand

CTO, Datarwe; Chairman and founder, KJR, Datarwe / KJR, Australia

Co-founder of PactFlow; Pact core maintainer, SmartBear (PactFlow), Australia

Technical Advisor and Co-Founder, Develocity, Australia

Principal Automation / Group Owner, Telstra / Testing Times, Australia

Vice President, Software Assurance, Oracle, Australia

Software Testing Author and Former Consultant (Retired), Dr Lee Consulting, Australia

Software testing researcher; co-originator of metamorphic testing, University of Wollongong (formerly); NIO Automobile Technology, Australia

Creator and maintainer, MicroPython, Australia

Director of AI Capability & Enablement; Founder, Testing Talks, NRI Australia & New Zealand, Australia

Cryptlib creator and developer, Digital Data Security, New Zealand

Global Quality Engineering Practice Director, Planit, Australia

Senior Research Scientist and UI Intelligence Team Lead, CSIRO Data61, Australia

Cryptographer; Adjunct Professor, Thinking Cybersecurity; UNSW Sydney, Australia

Software Tester and Test Coach; Co-founder, WeTest and NZTestingConf, Kiwibank, New Zealand

CEO, Proofcraft; CEO and Treasurer, seL4 Foundation, Proofcraft; seL4 Foundation, Australia

Senior Digital Specialist — Testing, LINZ; Co-founder and Director, NZ Tech Rally, LINZ / NZ Tech Rally, New Zealand

Associate Professor in Software Engineering, University of Queensland, Australia

PostgreSQL developer and committer, Microsoft, New Zealand

Project Manager, Arvida Group; founder of WeTest Auckland, Arvida Group, New Zealand

Founding Engineer, Amutable, Australia

Co-founder and CTO, Chromatic; Storybook core maintainer, Chroma (Chromatic), Australia

Principal PM, AI, Security & Cloud Transformation, Microsoft, Australia

Associate Professor, UNSW Sydney, Australia

Lecturer in Software Engineering, University of Sydney, Australia

Associate Professor in Software Engineering, Monash University, Australia

Senior/Lead AI QA Engineer and SDET; Chair, Sydney Testers meetup, UNSW Australia, Australia

Associate Professor, Department of Computing Technologies, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

Professor; MiniZinc researcher, Monash University, Australia

ARC DECRA Fellow and Senior Lecturer; Course Director, Software Engineering, Monash University, Australia

Forward Deployed Engineer, Amp Labs, Australia

Managing Director and Co-founder, Assurity Consulting, New Zealand

Chair, Australia and New Zealand Testing Board (ANZTB); Co-founder, TTC Global, ANZTB, New Zealand

Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Have I Been Pwned, Australia

Director of Engineering, Octopus Deploy, Australia

Founder, Unreasonable Magic; Founder, Buildkite, Unreasonable Magic, Australia

Test Manager Lead, Woolworths Group; Founder and Test Architect, Test-Fast Software Solutions, Woolworths Group / Test-Fast Software Solutions, Australia

Quality and Testing Practice Lead, NCS Group Australia; founder, OZWST, NCS Group Australia, Australia

Research Scientist; Professor of Computer Science, Google DeepMind; Australian National University, Australia

Enterprise Transformation and Capability consultant; ANZTB board member; former Planit practice director, Skills club, Australia

Technical Fellow, Honeycomb, Australia

Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Tritusa, Australia

Automation Lead, Auto & General; WatirMelon author, Auto & General Australia, Australia

Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Octopus Deploy, Australia

Emeritus Professor of Software Engineering, University of Queensland, Australia

SSLeay author — foundational contribution, SSLeay project, Australia

Senior Director of Product Experience, ScyllaDB; founder of Flood IO, ScyllaDB, Australia

Founder, AgileWay; test automation coach and author, AgileWay Pty Ltd, Australia

Staff Engineer (Remix / React Router), Shopify, Australia

Senior Lecturer, University of Auckland, New Zealand

Group Leader; Senior Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO, Australia

Professor in Theoretical Computing Science, University of Melbourne, Australia

Associate Professor, Software Engineering, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

Research Director, CSIRO, Australia

Senior Facilitator & AI Facilitation Specialist; founder of Disqover, Red Marble AI, Australia

Head of Engineering Excellence and Reliability, Macquarie Group, Australia

Independent facilitator and keynote speaker; KWST co-organiser, Independent, Australia

Group Chief Technology Officer, TTC Global, New Zealand

Associate Professor, Australian National University, Australia

Engineering Manager; Vue Test Utils maintainer, Microba Life Sciences, Australia

Engineering manager and software engineer, Canonical, New Zealand

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer; Testing Coach and Author (TestSheepNZ), Air New Zealand, New Zealand

Founder and CEO, Mechanical Rock (formerly MagenTys), Mechanical Rock, Australia

Chief Research Officer, Sonic Labs; Professor, University of Sydney, Sonic Labs / University of Sydney, Australia

Principal Software Engineer, Atlassian; Shouldly and TestStack maintainer, Atlassian, Australia

Founder and CEO; Adjunct Associate Professor, NeoHive / Logilica; UNSW Sydney, Australia

Associate Professor and Software Engineering Subject Leader, Massey University, New Zealand

Pact-JS maintainer; creator of ContractCase; independent consultant, Independent Consultant, Australia

BeeWare founder; Python core developer, BeeWare, Australia

Co-founder of Qual IT (sold to Planit 2022); currently self-employed, Self-employed, New Zealand

Kaihuawaere Matihiko; He Māwhitiwhiti Matihiko ki te kākahu o Hine-Raraunga, Catalyst IT / Te Kāhui Raraunga, New Zealand

Co-founder and Director of Accessible Technologies, Intopia, Intopia, Australia

Consultant, Core State Consulting; former Software Testing Practice Lead, SoftEd, Core State Consulting, Australia

Product Manager, Open Source Security & Insights, Google, Australia

AI Research Engineer, Common Defense, Australia

Group Chief Technology Officer, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Australia

iOS Developer; creator of NSubstitute, Australia

Contract Performance Tester, Breakpoint; KWST organiser, Breakpoint, New Zealand

Lecturer, School of Computing Technologies, RMIT University, Australia

Co-founder and Director, Turing Consulting; Quality Engineering and Automation Manager, Bendigo Bank, Bendigo Bank / Turing Consulting, Australia

Head of Quality Engineering Practice, Adactin Group, Australia

McKenzie Fellow, University of Melbourne, Australia

Rōpū kohinga Technical Lead, Catalyst IT, New Zealand

Associate Professor, Australian National University, Australia

Software engineer, Atlassian, Australia

Digital Accessibility & Inclusive Design Consultant (Retired / Freelance), Independent (formerly Intopia), Australia

Chair, IT-043 Artificial Intelligence Committee, Standards Australia, Australia

Professor; Deputy Dean (Research), University of Melbourne, Australia

Professor of Cybersecurity, Monash University, Australia

Senior Lecturer in Software Engineering, Monash University, Australia

Senior Lecturer in Software Engineering, University of Melbourne, Australia

Staff Engineer, Consensys; Adjunct Professor, Victoria University of Wellington, Consensys / Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Senior Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO; Emeritus Professor, UTS, CSIRO / University of Technology Sydney, Australia

Founder and Chief Executive Officer, AccessibilityOz, Australia

Professor of Computer Science, University of Auckland, New Zealand

Principal Accessibility Specialist, Department of Customer Service NSW / Service NSW, Australia

Associate Professor; MiniZinc developer, Monash University, Australia

Associate Professor of Computer Science, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Founder; open-source systems engineer, Code Construct, Australia

Associate Professor, University of Auckland, New Zealand

Senior Deputy Dean (Faculty of IT), Director of HumaniSE Lab & Professor of Software Engineering, Monash University, Australia

Software engineering consultant; MAVSDK maintainer, Independent, New Zealand

Associate Professor, University of Auckland, New Zealand

Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer, Buildkite, Australia

Founder, PentesterLab, Australia

Senior Lecturer in Software Engineering, University of Melbourne, Australia

Retired Professor; MiniZinc researcher, Monash University, Australia

Professor & Interim Head, Department of Data Science and AI; Deputy Director (Research), Monash AI Institute, Monash University, Australia

Linux PowerPC maintainer; software engineer, Tenstorrent, Australia

Lecturer in Software Engineering, University of Melbourne, Australia

Senior Lecturer, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Professor, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Professor of Software Engineering, Adelaide University, Australia

Digital Accessibility Consultant, Self-employed, New Zealand

Professor, University of Melbourne, Australia

Research Director, Oracle Labs, Australia

Associate Professor, University of Melbourne, Australia

Senior Lecturer in Software Engineering, University of Melbourne, Australia

Chief Engineer, Proofcraft, Australia

Professor of Software Engineering, Monash University, Australia

Co-founder & CTO, Ask Astro; CTO, Frankie; Director, Silverstripe, Ask Astro / Frankie / Silverstripe, New Zealand

Co-founder and Director, Intopia, Australia

Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder, Centre for Accessibility Australia, Australia

TIET-UQ Chair of Data Science; Professor of Artificial Intelligence, University of Queensland, Australia

Senior Research Scientist, CSIRO Data61, Australia

Professor, University of Melbourne, Australia

Professor of Computer Science, Australian National University, Australia

Associate Professor; ARC Future Fellow, University of Melbourne, Australia

Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO Data61, Australia

Professor of Computer Science, University of Auckland, New Zealand