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Tech presentations
Interactive workshops
Live entertainment
Full kids’ track

We have an amazing program below – and even more being added soon!

Earlybird tickets now open!

We’ve managed to get some of Australia’s top talent for you again in 2017

BuzzConf again has an outstanding selection of Australia’s top tech talent, covering topics like Virtual and Augment Reality, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, IoT, Innovation, and more!

VIP Friday Track

We had so much interest from the country’s best technologists, innovators, and teachers that for the first year we will be running a special VIP FRIDAY TRACK with extra courses available for a tiny extra fee (look out for the VIP tickets during registration).

We have workshops running for 3 or 6 hours in Rapid Prototyping, Voice Interfaces, Augmented and Mixed Reality and Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. All courses are for very limited numbers so you get the most from our expert teachers – ideal if you are wondering how you can get your business started with these important innovative concepts.

Presentations

Future Sandwich Live

The Winner of ‘Australia’s Best Tech, Science and Gaming Podcast 2017’, Future Sandwich, is coming to Buzz Conf LIVE!

Using emerging technology to make life simpler for customers

Using emerging technologies such as Google Home, machine learning, biometrics and big data to make life simpler

Carmageddon is Coming

The smartphone, the electric vehicle and artificial intelligence, create conditions for a technological disruption so profound it’s going to change almost everything about the way we move in modern society.

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning 101

A broad overview of convergence machines, filters, and a look at what has happened this year in the field of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence.

Verity: An Advanced VR Midwife Simulator

The CADET VR lab has developed a first of its kind midwifery training system enabling nurses and midwives in training to know what it is like to examine a patient and physically feel contractions.

How much does Siri really understand?

The history of speech recognition research, the breakthroughs, and possible future applications of the technology.

How Makerculture will shape the future of tomorrow

Making is cool, but is it more than just people in a garage and learning a new skill?

Becoming Martian

Join physicist, comedian and Mars One astronaut candidate Josh Richards on a humorous and informative journey to the red planet

Art-ificial intelligence: creepy, frivolous and beautiful art made with machines

An exploration of digital art looking at the history of some of the delightfully frivolous uses of machine learning and how it impacts the future of art

How to Disappear Completely

If you’ve ever wanted to try out Harry Potter’s invisibility cloak, this talk is for you.

Insertables – You put what, where?

Within the last decade, individual hobbyists have begun voluntarily inserting non-medical devices in, through and underneath their skin. This talk presents the current use of insertable devices.

Workshops

Rapid prototyping with 3D printing

Learn how to rapidly prototype in this intensive hands-on workshop (Friday track)

Deep Learning A.I.

Learn how to build ML and AI solutions in this intensive hands-on workshop (Friday track)

Build AR Experiences on Steroids with Mixed Reality

Learn in this workshop how simple it is to get started developing with mixed reality (Friday track)

A crash course in building voice assistants and AI

A crash course in voice interfaces and AI and how you can take all of this and apply it to your own idea or connected device (Friday track)

A new reality

An entertaining and informative workshop to get you up to speed on how to create exciting VR applications

Rocket Surgery – Airborne IoT

This year the Nodebots team will be giving you the chance to work with hardware then strap it to a rocket and fire it.

Augmented Reality: 2017 is the year and it is time to get your hands dirty

Where AR has come from, how it is being used and where it will be going

3D-Printed Monsters

Using blender and a bunch of supplied parts, you’ll learn how to make your own monster!

Kids Track

CoderDojo: Build and Code musical instruments using Makey Makey

Participants will wire a Makey Makey board to household objects (like fruit) to compose music

CoderDojo: Rise of the Robots

Bring to life paper robots and light up ninja badges

CoderDojo: How to Train a Robot

Explore basic programming to teach mBot robots to beep and blink, to move, to see and finally to dance

CoderDojo: Build and Code a Car Robot using Arduino

Design and build a toy car, wire an Arduino to control servo motors and create and upload a sketch for the Arduino

Game development for kids

The team from Tinarastic Game Studio will be hosting a workshop in Game Development for beginners and kids aged 8 and upwards.

Minecraft; building time

Join the Tinarastic team in their wondrous Minecraft world for a Stampy and Squid style Building Time competition.

Nightmare Light

Ever wanted to create a creepy baby-spider with glowing eyes? Or a glowing many-limbed frankenstein doll which you can leave in the bathroom to scare the rest of your family?