2025 Sydney Program

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Friday 24 October 2025, Sydney International Convention Centre

8:15am – 9:00am Registration | Cockle Bay Foyer
9:00am – 10:00am Opening Plenary | Cockle Bay 1     
9:00am – 9:10am Welcome and Acknowledgement of Country
Niall Clerkin
9:10am – 9:25am Be Brief. Be Bright. Be a BA
Jon Buttriss
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9:25am – 10:00am Leadership in the Fast Lane: Thriving in the Age of AI and Always-On Customers
Tim Trumper
10:00am – 10:30am Morning Tea | Cockle Bay Foyer  
ROOMS Room #1 | Cockle Bay 1 Room #2 | Cockle Bay 2 Room #3 | Meeting Room C3.2
10:30am – 11:00am Introducing the Digital Twin of an Organisation (DTO)
Dr Terry Roach
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Moving your focus from ‘outputs’ to ‘adding value’ – a mindset shift for BAs
Vaughan Luckman
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From Requirements Gatherer to Strategic Powerhouse: How to be more effective with your stakeholders
Christina Arcane
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11:05am – 11:45am Aggregating Chaos: Where Machine Learning and the Real World Collide
Anna Rajander
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Workshop: Back to the essence of Business Analysis: Thinking before solving
Susie Moore & Abi Sachithanantham
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Triple B…Breaking the Back of Backlogs
Kalindi Chhabra
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11:50am – 12:30pm Panel: Business Analysis 2.0: Thriving Amid AI, Automation, and Agile Disruption
Niall Clerkin, Ella Morgan, Briana Ertanin & Filip Hendrickx
Leadership for the intelligent age
Trevor Hotten
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12:30pm – 1:30pm Lunch | Cockle Bay Foyer    
ROOMS Room #1 | Cockle Bay 1 Room #2 | Cockle Bay 2 Room #3 | Meeting Room C3.2
1:30pm – 2:15pm Securing the Digital Frontier: Ensuring operations remain operational – Business Analysis in the Age of increasing digitalisation.
Tara Sutherland
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Workshop: AI-Augmented Business Analysis: A Hands-On Workshop
Susan Yu
Practice Leaders Session
Featuring a keynote address for leaders by Delvin Fletcher and an exclusive IIBA Global Leaders panel with Sue Cummings, Russell Mears & Matthew Leach
2:15pm – 3:00pm Better Business Analysis with the BA Planning Canvas
Kathy Berkidge
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3:00pm – 3:30pm Afternoon Tea | Cockle Bay Foyer  
ROOMS Closing Plenary | Cockle Bay 1
3:30pm – 4:00pm Analysis in the Accelerated World
Shane Hastie
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4:00pm – 4:40pm Becoming antifragile is more important than ever in disruptive times
Jan de Vries
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4:40pm – 5:00pm 2025 IIBA Australia and New Zealand Business Analysis Awards ceremony & closing remarks
Abi Sachithanantham & Luigi Bini
5:00pm – 6:00pm Post-Event Networking Session | Cockle Bay Foyer