Meta Operations Conference II
Hellenic Club Woden, Canberra · Friday 23 and Saturday 24 October 2026 (optional )
MetOpCon II is a two-day working conference on running business processes through AI agents, using infrastructure and models held in Australia. This is the second Meta Operations Conference. The first ran at the National Press Club in Canberra in May 2026 with 27 attendees.
Themes for the conference
AI agent managed software development lifecycle, and self healing systems
Sovereign AI model capability
Agentic business processes, moving beyond individual productivity
Keynote — Matt Ryan
Agent driven hyper development and ChimeDeck. The models and processes behind delivering high quality, well engineered, fully testable, reliable bespoke solutions.
Who is this for?
Anyone curious about the software development disruption
Risk managers in business and the public sector
Anyone ready to test their business ideas
If you want to keep up, this will be important
Format and rules
All sessions are recorded and summarised
Chatham House Rule
Logistics
A$350 per person
Friday 23 October — 08:30 to 17:00, networking to 18:30. Covers venue, catering and administration.
Saturday 24 October — 09:30 to 16:00, deep dive workshops.
Accommodation discounts are available with Abode Apartments through the Hellenic Club. Contact a convenor for details.
Book: trybooking.com/DPWCK
Convenors
Tony Winmill
tony.winmill@covate.com.au
Maree Winmill
maree.winmill@covate.com.au
Friday 23 October — agenda
| Time | Session |
|---|---|
| 08:30 | WelcomeTony Winmill |
| 08:45 | Keynote: the zeitgeist, five months on from MetOpCon IMatt Ryan, JourneyHorizon |
| 09:15 | Implementing AI in a modern data centre: GPU and RAM supply chains, a case studyJames Braunegg, Micron21 |
| 09:45 | Agentic data centre managementPiers Cockram, Mineracks |
| 10:15 | Bitcoin red team: adversarial testing, and cyber defence of a mission-critical system using agents at the perimeterTim Dargavel, Escape Hatch |
| 10:45 | Morning tea |
| 11:00 | Sovereign AI in an Australian context, and what building a frontier lab capability for Australia would requireMichael Gately, Trellis Data |
| 11:45 | Agentifying organisations: from individual productivity to agentified business processGaurav Singhal, Revio Labs |
| 12:30 | Lunch |
| 13:15 | Agentic software engineering: ADHD and ChimeDeck progressMatt Ryan |
| 14:00 | The impact of AI on an agentified product development businessMatt Ryan |
| 14:15 | Deriving deterministic answers from AI to produce provably correct results: a new, old approachDr Andrew Blair, Model-B |
| 14:45 | Afternoon tea |
| 15:00 | Panel: where does this go from here?Matt Ryan, Michael Gately, James Braunegg and Gaurav Singhal |
| 16:00 | Day 2 planning: 3 workshops, what do we want to do? |
| 17:00 | Drinks, in the room |
Saturday 24 October
09:30 to 16:00. Three deep dive workshops. The workshops are chosen at 16:00 on the Friday, in the day two planning session, so the room decides what it works on.
Resources
Background reading for MetOpCon II. More will be added before the conference.
| Resource | Format | Updated | Download |
|---|---|---|---|
MetOpCon 2 — 6 Month Review A six-month tracking review of the AI landscape since MetOpCon I: model releases, decision models, personal AI agents, agent frameworks and harnesses, model routers, and advances in mathematics, physics, medicine and robotics. | PDF · 9 pages · 4.3 MB | 22 October 2026 | Download PDF |
