Michał Lewczyk

Michał Lewczyk is a software engineer at Arista Networks, building the world’s fastest network switches. Earlier in his career, he pioneered LTE for Scandinavian telecom giants, and at Dolby made sure you could pump more bass out of anything with a speaker. He can program anything — from a washing machine to a Base Station Transceiver — all delivered with his signature East European accent and passion for sharing knowledge.

Hussain Nawaz

I am a low-latency developer at QRT. I work on systems for high-frequency trading, ranging from market data feeds to execution. Keeping software high-performance is a critical part of my role and requires me to understand and probe the layers of abstraction between my code and the physical hardware. I graduated recently from UNSW. During my time there, I spent 3 years with DevSoc. I worked on Circles – a project that I directed for a year, which later became the most widely used DevSoc project.

Luke Donnet

A Full Stack Software Engineer at SafetyCulture who specializes in identity, access management, and authentication for distributed systems. Years of maintaining business-critical infrastructure have provided firsthand experience with how systems fail, from routine timeout cascades to bizarre edge cases that surface at the worst times. These incidents have revealed surprising patterns about data flow and failure propagation across service boundaries, especially where legacy and modern architectures meet. At SafetyCulture, each production incident becomes an opportunity to strengthen system resilience and deepen the team's collective understanding. Rather than seeking simple root causes or assigning blame, they focus on uncovering the complex interactions and reasonable decisions that lead to unexpected outcomes. The most valuable lessons come from understanding not just what went wrong, but why it made sense at the time.

Dr. Hammond Pearce

Dr. Hammond Pearce is a Senior Lecturer in UNSW's School of Computer Science and Engineering. Previously he worked at NYU's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering / NYU Center for Cybersecurity as a Research Assistant Professor, and at NASA Ames on a research internship. His research interests lie in cybersecurity and hardware and embedded systems design, as well as the intersection of AI and industrial informatics in this area - in particular, Hammond is passionate about exploring the future of the design process in the hardware and firmware spaces, which involves the investigation of tools like ChatGPT and other Large Language Models and how they impact the development lifecycle. As part of his research work he won the Cybersecurity Award 2023 for the Best Machine Learning and Security Paper, the inaugural Efabless AI Generated Open-Source Silicon Design Challenge, and also previously won the Distinguished Paper Award at IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy in 2022. Hammond obtained his Ph.D. in 2020 from the University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Anthony Woodward

Anthony Woodward is the co-founder and CEO of RecordPoint, an innovative, fast-growing Australian SaaS solution focused on helping organizations discover, govern, and control their data for tighter compliance, more efficiency, and less risk. With a background in both technology and the law, Anthony has also held positions at Unique World, Commander, and Freehills. He also co-hosts the FILED podcast and writes the FILED newsletter, focusing on the intersection of data privacy and governance. Anthony is regarded as one of the leading thinkers on the intersection of data and privacy.

Anh Dao

Anh is the co-founder of Lyra, a digital product studio that has worked with over 40 clients from San Francisco and Australia to design, build, and ship incredible products. Earlier in his career, he worked with many venture-backed startups, corporations, as well as teams including 88Rising, Paraform, Soma Capital, Elsa Fertility and many more. Currently Anh leads a team of 50 employees, and when he's not dancing (breaking), he's building the future of products at Lyra.