Software is being written faster than it can be secured, and AI has widened the gap. AI assistants are producing code at volume, agents are reaching into repositories and pipelines, and the supply chain underneath keeps getting attacked where teams have the least visibility.
AppSec World is where the people responsible for that problem compare notes. Built on the AppSec summits that have hosted 519 practitioners from 325 organisations, it is a room of engineers, architects and security leaders rather than an audience of vendors.
Melbourne runs at the Event Centre on Collins on 3 June, with 150+ practitioners from across Australia and New Zealand.
At most security conferences, application security is a stream inside a much broader event, never the room itself.
AppSec World is that room: the executives, programme owners and engineers who own how enterprise software gets built and shipped, comparing notes with their peers.
CISOs, CTOs and VPs of Security and Engineering who set the strategy and approve investment.
Heads, directors and managers of AppSec, Product Security and DevSecOps who own the roadmap and evaluate platforms.
The AppSec, product security, DevSecOps, platform and software engineers who build and operate the controls every day.
At least 85% of the audience are engineers, architects and security practitioners: the people writing the code, running the programme and dealing with the same problems you are.
Small groups, real problems, peers in your seat. Ten to twelve practitioners around one table, chaired by someone who does the job, working through something the whole room is dealing with.
Practitioners sharing what worked, not vendor theory. What they built, what it cost, what broke, and what they would do differently.
Live debate. Vote and contribute from your phone. Three or four people who genuinely disagree, a chair willing to push, and the room's answers on screen as it runs.
Matched to your challenges. Short meetings with solution providers based on what you flag at registration, scheduled around the rest of your day at the summit.
Agenda drops, speaker announcements and registration windows for AppSec World Melbourne.
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