2025 Melbourne Program

Thursday 23 October 2025, Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre

8:15am – 9:00am Registration | Foyer
9:00am – 10:00am Opening Plenary | Eureka Room 1&2    
9:00am – 9:10am Welcome and Acknowledgement of Country
Malini Jayaganesh
9:10am – 10:00am Becoming antifragile is more important than ever in disruptive times
Jan de Vries
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10:00am – 10:30am Morning Tea | Foyer    
ROOMS Room #1 | Eureka Room 1&2 Room #2 | Eureka Room 3 Room #3 | Courtyard Room 1&2
10:30am – 11:00am Analysis in the Accelerated World
Shane Hastie
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Business Analysis as a Service
Igor Arkhipov
Career Capital for BAs: Becoming “So Good, They Can’t Ignore You” — by Creating IP, Building Influence, Delivering Value, and Leaving a Legacy
Trevin Nimaladasa
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11:05am – 11:45am Business Process Architecture – flowcharts with the right connections
Alan Harrison
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Workshop: Lead the Thinking: From Insight to Impact
Malini Jayaganesh
Embracing grey: How to strive in AI age
Rob Li
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11:50am – 12:30pm The Lost Art of Use Cases
Sheila Broadley
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Assessing and Advancing BA Maturity: A Roadmap of Continuous Improvement!
Maria Montgomery
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12:30pm – 1:30pm Lunch | Foyer    
ROOMS Room #1 | Eureka Room 1&2 Room #2 | Eureka Room 3 Room #3 | Courtyard Room 1&2
1:30pm – 2:15pm Solve any problem in any industry without having to be an SME
Reza Garshassebi
Workshop: Design Thinking + AI: The Innovation Edge for Business Analysts
Rashan Senanayake
From BA to BISO: The art of building enterprise resilience through better business analysis
Mark Cross
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2:15pm – 3:00pm Aligning to value by cutting through the complexity
Peter Lam
Process is at the Centre of the Universe
Adam Saad
3:00pm – 3:30pm Afternoon Tea | Foyer    
ROOMS Closing Plenary | Eureka Room 1&2    
3:30pm – 4:10pm Panel: IIBA Awards: The Journey to Excellence and Beyond
Arvind Arcot, Krishna Nandagopal, Connor Christie, Liza Laya & Kirsten Kiefer 
4:10pm – 4:50pm R.E.S.E.T. Your Thinking: The Analyst’s New Superpower in an Age of Acceleration
Alexandra Egan
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4:50pm – 5:00pm BA Awards nomination announcement & closing remarks
Malini Jayaganesh
5:00pm – 6:00pm Post-Event Networking Session | Foyer