LAST Conf x ACE Melbourne 2025: 5pm Drinks Catch Up @ The Oxford Scholar
Details
LAST Conference Melbourne 2025 is on Friday 21 November at RMIT City Campus (Building 80, 435 Swanston St). It’s an all-day celebration of learning, collaboration, and connection.
This year’s theme, Imagine. Build. Scale., explores how ideas become meaningful action through shared learning and collaboration. Expect a smorgasbord of speakers, lightning talks, and interactive sessions where you can design your own learning journey and explore how imagination fuels innovation at every scale.
While LAST Conference Melbourne 2025 is not an ACE-hosted event, we will be there on the day supporting the community and sponsoring a relaxed 5pm catch up afterwards.
Everyone attending LAST is welcome to join.
🌟 ACE Member Ticket Discount
ACE registered members receive 10% off LAST tickets using code MELBACE at checkout.
Registration link: https://clubhouse.lastconference.com/offers/awxqKoWF/checkout
🎲 Join the Fun
Stop by the ACE booth during breaks for ACE Bingo and go into the draw to win a $400 Ticketek voucher - perfect for making the most of Melbourne’s summer, from the Boxing Day Test and Australian Open to outdoor cinemas, theatre, and music festivals.
Break times: 10.30am - 12.30pm - 3.10pmPrize drawn at 5.30pm. We will contact the winner whether you are there or not.
5pm Wrap Up Drinks @ The Oxford Scholar (pub next door)
Where the real conversations continue after the conference.
LAST attendees are invited to join us at The Oxford Scholar, right next door, for a relaxed end-of-day catch up.
Register via this event listing to receive your QR code and collect a wristband for your first drink on us - a small toast to the (almost) start of summer, Melbourne style. ☀️
Scan your QR code at the check-in table at The Oxford Scholar after 5pm to collect your wristband.
Light snacks provided. Alcohol-free options available.Please drink responsibly and make safe travel choices. Public transport and rideshare options are close by.
We’ll be introducing our ACE Melbourne Events Team on the day and giving a sneak peek at our 2026 calendar of community-driven meetups and themed gatherings - designed to help you imagine boldly, build smarter, and scale sustainably.
Let’s imagine, build, and scale - together. 💡
#AtlassianCommunity #ACEMelbourne #LASTConference #ImagineBuildScale #WaysOfWorking #Collaboration #Networking
Agenda
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Hosted By
Stephen Wright, Atlassian Community Leader
Mit Tolia, Atlassian practice & capability lead
With 20 years of consulting experience, I specialize in helping organizations leverage Agile and technology to drive business outcomes. Passionate about Agile Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools, I work with enterprises to implement Atlassian solutions that foster business agility, enhance collaboration, and provide meaningful insights for informed decision-making.
As an Atlassian geek, my expertise spans the entire Atlassian ecosystem, with a focus on Enterprise Strategy & Planning, Cloud Migrations, and Agile Scaling. I have extensive experience in implementing Jira Align, Jira, Confluence, and Jira Service Management (JSM)—helping teams optimize workflows, inculcate the right behaviors, and scale Agile practices from the team level to enterprise-wide adoption.
Always eager to explore new possibilities in the Atlassian space, I thrive on enabling organizations to build adaptive, customer-centric solutions that embrace the future of work and to build communities to constantly learn from each other.
Bonnie Emmerson, Atlassian Community Champion
Andy Fleming, Atlassian Community Champion
Michelle Letho, Account Executive & Networking Junkie
Michelle (Miche) Letho is the Melbourne Atlassian Community Event (ACE) Champion and an Account Executive at Willyama Togetha, Australia’s only Indigenous-owned Atlassian Platinum Partner. She helps organisations imagine, build, and scale better ways of working through Atlassian solutions that boost collaboration, visibility, and impact.
A member of the Transformers Unite leadership team, Miche supports national change and transformation events that bring practitioners together to learn and share. With a career spanning tech, FMCG, a Startup founder and consulting, she blends commercial know-how with curiosity and heart.
If she's not at networking events, outside work, she keeps busy ubering teens at calisthenics and netball. and recharges through yoga, Pilates and hiking.
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Global Partner
Atlassian (http://atlassian.com)
Millions of users globally rely on Atlassian products every day for improving software development, project management, collaboration, and code quality.
For over a decade, Atlassian customers have come together to network, share ideas, solve problems, and find new ways to use Atlassian products. Today, more than 15,000 people take part in Atlassian community events in more than 30 countries.
Complete your event RSVP here: https://ace.atlassian.com/events/details/atlassian-melbourne-presents-last-conf-x-ace-melbourne-2025-5pm-drinks-catch-up-the-oxford-scholar/.
