The session times below are listed in Australian Eastern Daylight Time (AEDT – Sydney).
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Monday, 12 October 2026
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| 11:00am – 1:30pm | Morning Session | |
| 11:00am – 11:10am | Welcome to FoBA 2026 Abi Sachithanantham & Luigi Bini |
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| 11:10am – 11:50am | The BA Ceiling: Why Being the Highest Paid BA in the Room is a Trap (and the 3 Shifts That Break It) Ehsan Ali |
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| 12:00pm – 12:40pm | Adapt, Align, Accelerate: How to Master the Shift to Leadership Premila Jina |
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| 12:50pm – 1:30pm | From Data to Decisions: Practical Analysis With and Without AI Jamie Champagne |
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| 3:30pm – 6:30pm | Afternoon Session | |
| 3:30pm – 4:10pm | Staying Relevant in the Age of AI: The Human Powers that Matter for Business Analysts Caio Diehl |
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| 4:20pm – 4:50pm | Resilience for Business Analysts Georgiana Mannion |
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| 5:00pm – 5:40pm | Busy Is Not Value: How High-Impact Business Analysts Thrive in Chaos and Deliver Real Outcomes Mark Bruins |
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| 5:50pm – 6:30pm | Creating Human Connections: A BA Toolkit Essential Kristy Dean |
Tuesday, 13 October 2026
| AEDT | ||
| 10:00am – 1:10pm | Morning Session | |
| 10:00am – 10:40am | AI Risks in Regulated Sectors Iryna Sizikova |
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| 10:50am – 11:30am | The Burnout Nobody Talks About in Delivery Teams Chris Hoquis |
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| 11:40am – 12:20pm | Think Like a Skydiver Lison Mage |
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| 12:30pm – 1:10pm | Agentic AI and the Evolving Role of the Business Analyst as an Agent Orchestrator Kalindi Chhabra |
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| 3:00pm – 5:00pm | Afternoon Session | |
| 3:00pm – 3:40pm | Brain Based Stakeholder Management Jason Cameron |
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| 3:50pm – 4:20pm | The End of Passive Analysis: Why Curiosity Defines the Modern BA Giorgos Sioutzos |
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| 4:30pm – 5:00pm | How to study a new business domain quickly Iurii Gomon |
Wednesday, 14 October 2026
| AEDT | ||
| 10:00am – 1:30pm | Morning Session | |
| 10:00am – 11:00am | Build What Matters: A Practical Guide to Minimum Viable Product in Evidence-Based Decision-Making for BAs and Product Owners Howard Podeswa |
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| 11:10am – 11:50am | Iteration Isn’t Enough: Making Value Visible Earlier in Complex Delivery Ashley Aitken |
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| 12:00pm – 12:40pm | Selling yourself without selling out – The importance of personal branding James Copperwaite |
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| 12:50pm – 1:30pm | Career Capital 2.0: From Documentation Clerk to Requirements Architect Trevin Nimaladasa |
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| 3:30pm – 6:50pm | Morning Session | |
| 3:30pm – 4:10pm | Trusted Under Pressure: 3 Traits Business Analyst’s Need In Time Of Rapid Change Adam Scott |
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| 4:20pm – 5:00pm | Inspiring BA Skills: Design Thinking Practice Augmentation By AI Rashan Senanayake |
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| 5:10pm – 5:50pm | Reframing and Reshaping Business Analysis: From Strategy to Reality, Now and in the Future, with BA Filip Hendrickx |
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| 6:00pm – 6:40pm | Business Analysis at the Frontier of Cybersecurity Mark Cross |
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| 6:40pm – 6:50pm | Closing Remarks Abi Sachithanantham & Luigi Bini |