Welcome and Welcome to Country

Opening Keynote | Intralogistics & Supply Chain at a Crossroads

This opening address by the ASCLA CEO looks at the bigger picture: the industry is being told to automate, adopt AI and transform, but the hard part was never the technology, it is the decisions.

Steve Ballerini

From Optimised to Adaptive: How Leading APAC Supply Chains Are Rewriting the Playbook

Today's winners are those that adapt fastest to uncertainty. Discover the trends and approaches to business taking industry forward and practical, case-led examples bridging the gap between theory and practice.

Brett Marshall

Optimising Manual Warehouses with Automation: Maximising Capacity, Productivity and Operational Control

As supply chains face increasing pressure from labour and space challenges, compounded by rising customer expectations, companies are investing to get more out of their existing footprint with targeted automation.

David Rubie

Fireside Chat | Rethinking Retail Fulfilment

Peter Jones, founder of Prological, is joined by Erica Berchtold, one of Australia's most respected retail experts, whose career spanning Rebel Sport, The Iconic, and now David Jones has given her a front-row view of retail fulfilment.

Peter Jones · Erica Berchtold

Lunch

Automation Is Not the Starting Point: How to Take a Total Business Approach to Investment in Logistics 4.0

As organisations accelerate investment in Logistics 4.0, the challenge is no longer access to automation, it is deciding where and how to invest for maximum impact. Too often, automation is treated as the starting point.

Primo Danieletto

Automation Meets AI: What Works, What Breaks and What Scales

Automation promises simplicity. The reality is often more complex. As operations scale across Australia and New Zealand, the real pressure shifts from hardware to software, integration and decision-making.

Francis Meier · Talea Bader

Panel: What Should You Really Be Mapping in a Distribution Centre?

A discussion on critical data points vs. over-engineering.

Peter Jones · Scott Schryver · Anna Reid · Airyn Ong · Dominik Linder

Afternoon Break

Live Recording: Import Export TV Panel

Michael Harich · Lawrence Christoffelsz

AutoStore Case Study: From Business Case to Live Operation in Australia

How do you build a credible business case for warehouse automation — and what happens when implementation meets reality? Swisslog shares the real numbers, decisions and outcomes from a live Australian deployment.

Richard Bercich · Aaron Kumar · Shane Wright

Beyond the Warehouse: Infrastructure Challenges in the Rise of Intelligent Logistics Precincts

This presentation explores the challenge of evolving industrial precincts to meet the future demands of national distribution and logistics as supply chains become increasingly data-driven and automated.

Clayton Neil