Arrival

Coffee and a light brekkie snack will be available so you can get in early on some networking.

Welcome

Acknowledgement of Country

Opening remarks

Proptech 2026

What are the opportunities and challenges Australian proptechs face over the next 12 to 18 months? Proptech Australia President Kylie Davis sets the scene.

The Human Cost of AI

One of the indisputable facts about AI is how quickly it has conquered the world. Two years ago, OpenAI didn't have a product on the market. Now AI is integrated into workplaces, team processes, households and governments around the world. If, as technologists, we can't control the pace of change, how do we influence what an AI-enabled future will look like?

Tim Duggan is an award-winning author and co-founder of Junkee Media. who will bring our focus to some of the big questions around where we are heading in this AI arms race, and help us consider some of the moral, ethical and legal questions around AI at work - and in life - at what is a pivotal moment in history.

AI Enabled Real Estate

How is AI impacting the real estate business model? What does that mean for proptechs and how we position our businesses as leaders? What will the impacts be on our businesses and our own people?  The 2025 Proptech Leader of the Year, Scott Bateman, discusses the transformation that AI is having not just on our customers, but on all of us.

Navigating the Challenges of AI

AI isn’t foolproof. Hallucinations, context rot, workshop, privacy and security are the real and legitimate concerns that counterbalance full-scale adoption. So how are proptechs addressing the challenges presented by AI to deliver safer adoption. This session covers practical recommendations from the frontlines.

Making AI Safe

As AI adoption accelerates, it enables incredible innovation, while also accelerating threats to security. Volker Rath, the CISO of Cloudflare  explores the essential balance between AI innovation and robust cybersecurity. Discover the foundational principles and next-generation defenses required to manage complex AI-specific vulnerabilities and ensure your AI initiatives are both powerful and protected.

Morning Tea

The Future of AI

The pace of AI is faster than anything we’ve ever experienced so where is it likely to go? In this session, Michael Scutt, the AI Lead at Google Cloud AUNZ steps us through the work that Google are doing in AI, where AI is likely to go next and how you can prepare.

The Future of APIs & Integrations  

Being able to connect different proptech solutions is key to reducing friction for clients and creating seamless technology experiences. But our current integration models can be expensive and difficult to navigate. Three key proptech ecosystems explain how their systems work, and the challenges that need to be understood and overcome to create an easier, fairer and AI-enabled future.

How Data Driven is your Proptech?

Proptechs provide solutions for their clients to help them deliver better services to their clients through capturing and managing their data better. But do we walk our own talk here? And how do we create proptechs with best practice data intelligence that can support our own growth?

Big New Data

As AI inhales all the information available on the internet, it is new data sources that will provide the opportunity for unique insights and applications. We explore data that is coming from some surprisingly unexpected sources.  

Lunch

CRE's Tech Evolution: From Resistance to Urgency and how Proptechs can win

Commercial real estate's desperate need for technology solutions has created a massive opportunity window for agile proptech startups. This session reveals how labour shortages, institutional scale demands, and competitive pressure are forcing conservative CRE players to finally embrace tech—creating unprecedented market openings for small companies and how to maximise those opportunities.

How AI Helped Me Successfully Exit

Seth Watt, 2024 Enterprise AI Leader of the Year, was Co-Founder of CampaignAgent, Australia's pioneering property marketing finance platform which was purchased by Realestate.com in 2023. He explains how he made it happen and what’s next.

How AI is Solving the Housing Crisis

Australia is facing a housing crisis that demands new thinking, bold partnerships, and innovation at scale. The recently launched Australia’s Housing Future Centre of Excellence brings together leading researchers and industry partners to chart a path toward a more affordable, sustainable, and inclusive housing system. Our panel explores the role of the proptech sector and AI in shaping Australia’s housing future.

Tales from the Trenches

All proptech has its challenges but how much bigger are they when the subsector you’re working in has legal obligations to be 100% accurate - and then your technical co-founder dies. Three times Proptech Award winner Kylie Dillon shares her experiences.

The Neuroscience of Change

Why is it so damn hard at the moment to convince property professionals of the benefits of AI, efficiency and savings and to get them to change? Why are people so resistant to new tech solutions when the benefits are so obvious? Neuro change solutions consultant, master NLP practitioner trainer and peak performance coach, Tanja Lee runs us through what is literally going on in the heads of our prospects and how you can use these insights to support greater adoption.

Wrap of the Day & Close

Networking Drinks