It’s nice to forget the market feels a little like a shopping trolley with a rogue wheel.
It’s nice to forget the market feels a little like a shopping trolley with a rogue wheel. And yesterday, Programmable understood the assignment.
Unfortunately for our booth neighbours Vanguard, we also forgot our “inside voices”. You’re now fully aware of the racket involved in successfully liberating 200 plushies, and we’re sorry for that. ❤️🩹
Away from the claw machine duties, we managed to carve out time to catch some brilliant sessions:
👉 Lauren Peate packed the room to discuss how an AI-first culture must focus on people and quality practices.
👉 The effortlessly cool Michelle Duke showed us how to build anime in WhatsApp.
👉 Toby Allen’s “4 Pillars of Agentic Security” felt like essential homework for every engineering team this year.
👉 Cail Young‘s engaging, high-humor deep dive into Zero Trust Infrastructure proved that even in an AI world, infrastructure remains a major draw.
Meanwhile, the iterate booth hummed with happy people and good chat. It was great to see the Factor House and Traild teams, and a convo about the Jevons Paradox gave us a massive dose of optimism for the industry’s future. This high-brow theory balanced out the high-intensity hunt for Stitch, who was the undisputed claw-grab favourite. Until the sausage rolls arrived and we all clawed at those too.
Huge thanks to everyone who made this such a positive event: the friendly faces who swung by our booth, the incredible speakers, and Duncan Banks and the rest of the Programmable team. Massive credit to our own crew for their support on the day, especially our organisational icon Hannah Campbell.
Best of luck to the Sydney conference-goers tomorrow, you’re in for a treat! 🎁
