Discotech — Australia's girliest tech event

Australia's girliest tech event

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the first one happened. it was a lot.

thursday 5 november 2026, uts underground, sydney. keynotes, a panel, workshops where people actually built things, prize draws and a sequin wall.

234people in the room
9women on the mic. zero panels of men.
1very full day. doors at 8:30am, home time 5:30pm.

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who it's for (and who it's not)

it's for you if

you're a founder, freelancer, creative — or the one at work everyone asks about AI
you want to build things with AI, not hear the word 'innovation' 47 times
you've been in the group chat for months and want to meet them IRL
you'd rather learn from a woman who's done it than sit through a keynote about 'the future of work'
you show up for the aesthetic and stay for the substance

it's not for you if

you want to sit in the dark for eight hours collecting slide decks
you think pink means it can't be technical
you're only coming to hand out business cards
you're waiting for the 'serious' version — this is the serious version. it's just wearing lip gloss

nodded at the green column? that's your sign.

the 2026 lineup

who was on the mic

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Candice Harvey
your MC — host of the whole day
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Candice Harvey
Keynote Speaker, Workshop Facilitator, MC, Best Selling Author and host of The Shake Up Podcast.
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Mariana Gaona López
panellist
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Mariana Gaona López
Mariana builds the AI systems and automations that help small business owners make more money while working less. Founder of Pink Ocean Virtual Solutions and a recovering hospo lifer — she breaks things so they don't break for you.
on the panel
Women Making Money with AI presented by Empire by Design
The practical one on the panel — real tools, real automations, and where AI is genuinely worth it vs where it's just noise.
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Jessica Williamson
panellist
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Jessica Williamson
Jess is an award-winning mindset and business mentor, a TEDx speaker and author who's been in Forbes and major publications. A serial entrepreneur, she's scaled five businesses across product, agency, travel and personal brand.
on the panel
Women Making Money with AI presented by Empire by Design
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Freya Stockman
workshop — she'll build your idea live
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Freya Stockman
AI-native designer and business owner who runs all her side businesses via Claude Code.
her workshop
An Unlikely Gameshow: Build a Business in <90 Minutes with AI
You're the co-founders — you pick the business, she builds it live. Idea to revenue-ready in front of the room, with a real chance it falls over. Vote, heckle, or just spectate.
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Michelle Duke
workshop — build an AI voice agent, live
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Michelle Duke
Better known as Mish Manners. A decade in developer advocacy, community and content at Twilio — 1,700+ articles, 400+ talks and 200+ hackathons won, organised or mentored.
her workshop
Make a voice agent with Twilio
90 minutes, properly hands-on. You'll build an AI agent that takes a request and responds — on your own laptop, not a demo you watch someone else drive.
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Angel Wen
workshop — build a website that reacts to sound
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Angel Wen
Creative technologist and AI educator behind @creativelyange (50k across socials). She's shipped 20+ apps without an engineering background — 20 of them in a single 30-day run — and invented the Invisible Violin.
her workshop
Building Creative Technology on the Web
Picture a website that reacts to sound, or to the person looking at it. That's the kind of thing you'll build in her 60-minute room, from scratch, with zero coding — and you'll walk out with a link to show people.
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Heidi Anderson
PR & media partner — the final keynote of the day
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Heidi Anderson
Former award-winning breakfast radio broadcaster turned keynote speaker, and the founder of Pitch Like a Publicist. She was the first Australian media personality to talk openly about anxiety live on air — a moment that reached two million people.
the final keynote
Shit Scared, Do It Anyway
The last talk of the day, and Heidi opens it the way she opens every room: by going first. Then she hands the room over. She pulls a few brave women out of the audience and workshops them live — one gets her story shaped into a headline in real time. You'll leave with your own answer to the only question that matters: what are you shit scared of, and going to do anyway? Not one day. This week.
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Karla Maree
founding partner + panellist
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Karla Maree
Founder of Empire by Design, the energetically intelligent business platform: Human Design and astrology applied to your content, offers and strategy. 500+ members inside.
on the panel
Women Making Money with AI presented by Empire by Design
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Fayoké Longe
workshop — keep your taste when you design with AI
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Fayoké Longe
Denver-based designer and creative strategist with a mild allergy to beige. She runs Facet Creative Design, helping brands look like themselves instead of like everyone else's AI-generated homepage.
her workshop
She Has Taste (and AI Doesn't)
Most AI design comes out the same: soft cream background, a fancy serif, one "earthy" accent colour. Fayoké shows you how to spot that default and break out of it, curate a look that's actually yours, and turn your taste into prompts AI will follow. Real examples, and if there's time, a live makeover.

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> that was 2026. the 2027 lineup gets announced on @discotech_fest and to the waitlist first▮

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the brands that backed 2026

founding partner

blotatopremier partner

premier partner

pr & media partner the old clareaccommodation partner

in-kind partner

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the woman behind discotech

brooke wright

founder · your host

brooke is the AI girl your feed already knows. she's spent the last four years implementing AI for female founders through her consultancy wright mode, built a 70K+ community across instagram, tiktok + youtube doing it, and got tired of waiting for someone to build a tech event that felt like us. so she's building it herself.

70K+ followers across instagram, tiktok + youtube — women in tech, AI + female founders
founder of wright mode — implementing AI for female founders since 2022
host of 'not another AI girl' — the podcast for women who are tired of the same five voices
discotech is hers — australia's first festival-format tech event for women

690women put their hands up for this. zero paid ads.

come say hi

instagram @wright_mode tiktok @wright_mode

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be first in line for 2027

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