The AI year: how we work, hire and grow now
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The AI year how we work, hire and grow now

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Speakers: Fiona Chan (Lookahead)

For a lot of teams, this was the year AI stopped being an experiment and started being part of the job. Shipping got faster, but so did the pace, the pressure and the pile of code waiting for review.

Drawing on Lookahead's 2026 research with people across Australian tech community and interviews with over 20 tech leaders, Fiona will share what's really changing: how the work feels, which skills are rising and fading, how roles are blending across engineering, product and design, and what it all means for hiring and careers.

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