Twenty slides. Twenty seconds each. The deck moves whether you're ready or not.

That's Pecha Kucha, and it's landing at FoF Sydney for the first time on 24 September at Atlassian. And no, before you ask, this is not another AI talk. Just three leaders, one very unforgiving clock, and the oldest skill in the room: telling a story well.

Sarah Stokes (Co-Founder and Coach, Humanify) brings The Creativity Muscle. The neuroscience of creativity, and why it behaves less like a talent and more like a muscle. Use it or lose it, and what that actually looks like for teams trying to stay sharp while everything else moves fast.

Michel Ferreira (Designer Advocate, Figma) presents 5 Countries. 30 Years. 20 Slides. Thirty years of design across five countries, told as one story. Shifting technology, shifting cultures, shifting ideas of what design even is, and what comes next for the profession.

Shruti Bansal (Senior CX & Product Designer, Zurich Insurance) unpacks The Art of Observation: What Are We Missing When We Think We're Looking? Art and theatre as the lens, the pause before someone answers and the workaround nobody mentions in the debrief as the subject.

Aniruddha Kadam (UX & Web Design Manager, UNSW) shares Rearranging the Layout of My Design Life. Mumbai to San Francisco to Sydney, a career that never went in a straight line, and what it actually takes to keep adapting, rebuilding and growing every time the map changes.

You'll leave with two things. A handful of ideas worth sitting with, and a masterclass in saying more with less, watched live, three times in a row, with nowhere to hide behind a slide.

Bring your own take on the night's stories and find the people worth swapping them with. Product, design, engineering and AI leaders from across Sydney will be in that room, all with an opinion.

Agenda

5:00PM: Doors open
   5:00PM - 6:00PM: Arrival, registration, food & drinks
   6:00PM - 7:30PM: Talks & Q&A
   7:30PM - 9:00PM: Networking
9:00PM: Event ends

⚠️ Registration Notice

• We'll be placing you on a waitlist before approving registrations based on capacity. 

• Please arrive on time. After 6pm, there may be no one at door to let you in.

• Be ready to present your ID and ticket at the entrance, as attendee identities will be verified against their tickets.

• If you can’t attend, please cancel your spot as soon as possible. Cancellations made less than 48 hours before the event will not be valid.