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Founded in 2008, this is Melbourne's longest-running and is one of the largest groups of its type. Come to our meetings and develop your understanding of Scrum, Agile, Lean etc.
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LAST Conference Melbourne 2025
RMIT , Building 8, level 4, room 012, 383 Swanston Street, Melbourne , AU⚠️ IMPORTANT: REGISTRATION REQUIRED
RSVPing to this Meetup event is NOT official registration for the conference.
You must register separately at the LAST Conference website to secure your spot. Use discount code MELMEET_10 for 10% off.
Regular price: $399 → $359 with your meetup discount
Register here: https://www.lastconference.com/melbourne***
About This Event
LAST Conference Melbourne grew directly out of this meetup community. Since 2008, this group has been one of the longest-running gatherings in Melbourne for Agile, Scrum, and Lean practitioners. Ed and Craig, founded LAST Conference having met while organising its meetups.
Just as the meetup has evolved over 17 years—from Scrum and Agile fundamentals to the broader practices of building digital products and services—LAST Conference has grown to bring together the entire digital product ecosystem.
Whether you're a delivery lead, engineer, product manager, designer, data scientist, startup founder, or agilist, you'll find your people and your insights at LAST Melbourne.
This year's theme: Imagine. Build. Scale.
Real practitioners. Real insights. Cutting through the noise.***
Spotlight Speakers
Tim Gentle – Founder of Think Digital "I drew a bus 10 years before I won it. Manifesting ideas through visuals, solving real problems with XR & AI."
Tim turned a bus into a mobile VR classroom and brought digital education to 150,000+ people across regional Australia (now international). His story about visualising the future you're building, innovation under constraints and finding new markets is inspiring.
Vivek Katial – Lead Data Scientist at Multitudes "What's actually working with AI adoption."
Sharing research on what's actually working with AI adoption in engineering teams—beyond vendor hype, backed by real data.
Adel Smee – Engineering Director at Ferocia "Grow fast AND grow well. The antidote to doom-and-gloom stories."
How she doubled her engineering team in a year while maintaining quality and job satisfaction.***
For the Agile Community: Delivery & Organizational Agility
Here are a few sessions that speak directly to delivery, agility, and organizational transformation:- Team Topologies in Action – REA Group Case Study - Real-world implementation of Team Topologies principles at one of Australia's leading tech companies. How they restructured for flow and reduced cognitive load.
- Polarity Mapping: Beyond Trade-offs – Daniel Prager (Everest) - An 80-minute workshop on navigating complex organizational tensions that can't be "solved," only managed. Essential for anyone dealing with competing priorities and organizational change.
- Transforming IT Operations – Gabor Devenyi - Case study on evolving ways of working in IT operations. Moving from reactive to proactive, from silos to collaboration.
- Innovation through Experimentation – Gareth Lees-West (Bupa ANZ) - A 50-minute skills workshop on building a culture of experimentation. How to scale innovation without chaos.
- Why "Move Fast and Break Things" is Killing Your Community – Gretchen Scott (Kaleida) - Challenging the "move fast" orthodoxy. Why sustainable pace and community health matter more than ever.
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Some other examples of what's on the programme:
AI & Product Development- From AI Skeptic to Builder – Nhung Nguyen's 3 prototypes in 21 days
- Designing Human-Centred AI Experiences – Lara Woodhead from SEEK
- From Vibes to Production: GenAI Frontier – Ben Hogan
Delivery & Team Dynamics
- Kill the Feature Factory – Tim Newbold's Product Model Blueprint
Leadership & Scaling
- One Big Idea: Turn Your Deck into One Simple Story – Megan Davis workshop
- Design Leadership in Practice – Emma Carter
Product & Strategy
- The Ultimate Guide to Stakeholder Interviews – Olga Belokourova
- Bytesize Sessions Workshop – Andrea Magnorsky
Vibe-coding/Low Code, Rapid Prototyping
- Hands-on hackathon-style workshops exploring AI tools in product discovery and development, led by local practitioners using these approaches daily
Plus more sessions across the day!
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Your Meetup Member Discount
As a member of Melbourne's longest-running Agile and Scrum community, you get 10% off.
Use code: MELMEET_10 at checkout
Regular price: $399 → $359 with your discount
View full programme and register: https://www.lastconference.com/melbourne***
Remember
✅ Register on the LAST Conference website (link above) ✅ Use discount code MELMEET_10 ❌ Meetup RSVP alone does NOT register you for the conference
Questions? Contact Ed at [your email/contact]***
Friday, 21 November 2025 | RMIT University
To the community that started it all. See you there!3 attendees
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