DDD Melbourne By Night

DDD by Night June- Hybrid event

Wed, June 10 · 18:00 AEST

Fabric Group, Level 9, 446 Collins Street, Melbourne VIC 3000, Victoria, AU

It's DDD but *lightning*.

The evening will be a hybrid event hosted by the DDD Melbourne crew and consist of short & sharp presentations of fifteen minutes in length on a dev related subject.

Venue space is limited, we cannot accommodate more than 130 people. First come first served!

ONLINE ATTENDANCE
You can join us online, we'll aim to get the call started somewhere around 6pm before we have our introductions and first speaker.

Remote audience link --> https://meet.google.com/pvg-uqer-pui

You can ask questions of our speakers via Slido. We'll try to ask your questions as they come through on Slido, but we may not get to all of them.

TALKS
Rupesh, Head of Quality Engineering at Fabric Group:
Validating AI Systems in a Probabilistic World

Traditional software testing assumes deterministic behavior—the same input produces the same output every time. Modern AI systems, particularly LLMs and agentic workflows, behave differently. Responses can vary based on context, prompts, model state, and external dependencies, making conventional testing approaches insufficient.

This presentation explores how organisations can establish confidence, quality, and governance for non-deterministic systems through new testing methodologies, evaluation frameworks, and observability practices. It will cover emerging tooling such as DeepEval and Botium, along with strategies for measuring accuracy, relevance, safety, hallucination risk, and user experience in AI-driven applications.

Leah Garrett
From Web Apps to Robot Eyes: What Stays the Same When Everything Changes

Leah's newest project is a screen that moves. This talk is about what changes when your software has a body -- and what doesn't. From designing for a display that physically moves through the world, to testing with simulated warnings you can trigger live, I'll share how the skills you already have are more portable than you'd expect, and how AI-assisted development is making these leaps more accessible than ever.

James Westall
No Idea What I’m Doing: Shipping Software Anyway

I spent five years at uni, racked up a healthy HECS debt… and never actually graduated. I work in sales now, and my background is in Security and Windows Server infrastructure. I’ve never written a line of code anyone has paid for. Which for many, might disqualify me from building software.
Apparently, not anymore.
This talk is a mix of introspection and light comedy, walking through what happens when someone like me starts building and shipping with LLMs. It’s about capability vs. credibility, vibes vs. reality, and what we’re all supposed to do when the rules of “who gets to build” have quietly changed.

Gordon Chen
From Request Chaos to Flow: Using AI to Auto‑Route DevOps & Data Requests

Engineering teams spend a surprising amount of time triaging DevOps and JIRA requests — figuring out what the requester actually wants, who should handle it, and whether it’s a data problem, an IT problem, or an access request.
In this talk, Gordon shares how he built OpsSense, an AI copilot that reads requests, classifies intent, routes work, and automates access approvals using Copilot Studio, Power Automate, and Azure DevOps.
A fast, practical walkthrough of how AI can automate the messy operational layer that slows teams down.

Tensorfish
"Ok claude, real-time transit map of melbourne. Make no mistakes."

This talk walks through building MykiMap: a live, GPU-accelerated map of every tram, train, and bus moving across Melbourne’s transit network.
Along the way, we’ll get into the agentic coding workflow: what it’s genuinely productive for, and what’s just hype.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

CODE OF CONDUCT
All DDD events are subject to the DDD Code of Conduct available at https://www.dddmelbourne.com/code-of-conduct/

VENUE AND FOOD SPONSOR
Fabric Group

FUTURE EVENTS
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