AWS Startup Dev Day returns to Melbourne! This time, we're joined by OpenAI who will deliver the opening keynote on building and shipping at the frontier of AI.

This is an event for builders, technical startup founders, and CTOs, who want to go deep on building with AI, designing architecture, and the technology decisions that define a successful growing startup.

Join AWS experts, OpenAI, and our other technology partners for in-depth sessions and patterns you can apply immediately.

Choose between two content tracks throughout the day:

1. Technical Founders — the decisions that scale a company: AI strategy, data pipelines, security as a business risk, and architecting for growth.
2. Builders — hands-on coding agents, agentic analytics, multi-tenant SaaS, and workshops you build alongside.

Spaces are limited, and we'll be selecting attendees to bring together the strongest possible cohort. You'll be contacted if a ticket has been allocated to you.

Agenda

9:00  |  Registration & coffee 

9:30  |  Keynote: OpenAI

15:30 |  Locknote: Rethinking AI From First Principles - Tom McLeod, i14

Track 1: Technical Founders

10:30 |  Building the Cage and the Leash: Agent Harnesses and Sandboxes

11:00 | Good UX AX Is Invisible: Interface Craft for Humans Agents

11:30 |  Scaling Engineering Velocity: Patterns for AI Agents That Handle the Toil

12:45 |  Running a newsletter using AI without making it terrible - Plerion

13:00 |  Building Production-Ready Voice Agents with AWS and Deepgram - Deepgram

13:30 | The New Shape of Auth Traffic: What Millions of Logins Reveal About AI Agents - Kinde

14:00 |  Conversational Analytics with AWS MCP Server

14:15 |  Data Observability Without the Pain - Matt Gilard, Cloud Dialogues

14:30 | Agent Evaluation: how to create systematically improving agents based on evaluation scorecard

14:45 | Building a Semantic Data layer - Samko Yun, Neo4j

Track 2: Builders

12:45 | OpenAI - Codex Workshop

14:15 |  Good Fences Make Good Tenants: Multi-tenant Agentic SaaS 

14:45 | Voice AI Demo

15:00 |  Claude Agent SDK on AgentCore

16:15 | Agentic Football Cup

Please:

• Arrive from 9:00am for registration and coffee.
• Bring a laptop for the hands-on workshops.
• Bring photo ID for entry.

Food and drinks provided!