Matt Goldman
Innovation Consultant, Arinco
Wyoming, Australia
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Matt is a software developer, consultant, speaker, trainer, author, and co-host of the Beer Driven Devs podcast.
Matt is engaged in diverse projects for a variety of organisations, including renowned national and multinational companies, peak bodies and the Australian government. With responsibilities including development and management of applications for mobile, desktop and cloud platforms, he has been a key contributor to several significant projects, such as a secure mobile app for regulated industries and a novel authentication solution for interactive classroom displays. He also maintains and contributes to open-source projects.
Matt's passion for making technology accessible and enjoyable is central to his roles as author and regular speaker at industry events, as well as throughout his day-to-day work. Combining his academic background in science communication with industry expertise, he skilfully simplifies complex ideas and translates challenging technical concepts into easily digestible information.
He has a keen interest in health, the environment, and human and animal welfare, and actively champions initiatives aimed at making a positive and hopefully life-changing difference.
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Governance with Agency: Opportunities, Risks, and guardrails
Abstract:
As organisations experiment with agentic AI, systems empowered to make autonomous decisions, the opportunities for innovation are immense, but so are the risks. This session explores how leaders can embrace agentic technologies to stay competitive while maintaining the guardrails of compliance, governance, and trust. We’ll outline the promise of agentic AI, the challenges of adoption and risk management, and practical strategies to capture value without losing control. A live demo will show how small, well-governed innovations can deliver outsized business impact.
Agenda:
- Opportunities: what does the agentic world offer to organisations willing to embrace it?
- Challenges: what obstacles do we face, not just for adoption, but for success and risk mitigation too?
- Enablers: how can we overcome these obstacles and embrace innovation without losing control?
- Demo: demo of a small agentic solution
Everything Is Too Hard
I flipped my desk last week. Literally. Sent the monitor flying, stomped on my laptop in a blind rage.
Or at least, I did in my head. And then I heard my name through the haze and realised I was still on the daily call, knee-deep in fixing a broken build, updating secrets, and untangling merge conflicts I didn’t cause, just to reach the work that actually mattered.
And that’s the point: everything is too hard. Not meaningful-hard. Not worth-it-hard. Just absurdly, unnecessarily, needlessly hard.
We’ve normalised friction. We’ve glamorised struggle. We celebrate Git mastery as a badge of honour, when in truth it’s a symptom of dysfunction. We twist our models to fit relational schemas and write SQL incantations that make us feel superior, even though other languages and models show us it could be simpler. We tell ourselves this is maturity, when really it’s resignation.
This talk doesn’t offer a framework, or a fix, or five steps to simplification. It offers recognition. It’s a rallying cry for everyone who’s ever stared at some pointless obstacle and thought: Why am I even doing this?
Because you’re not the problem.
Everything is too hard.
And maybe the first step to fixing that is finally talking about it.
Cloudy with a Chance of Mobile
When Microsoft first launched .NET, the vision was to offer a viable alternative to Java and the JVM - a runtime and associated language(s) that could run anywhere. With MAUI, that original dream is becoming a reality.
Whether you're building for cloud, mobile, browser, desktop, IoT devices, servers, embedded systems...the list goes on and on - you can write code in .NET and it will run anywhere. With a dash of .NET, a pinch of Blazor, and a sprinkling of MAUI, you no longer need to React to any funny angles - you can have your .NET cake and eat it too.
In this talk, Matt welcomes you into his full stack .NET dream, and shows you how you can build anything in .NET, and run it everywhere.
Buying Engagement, Not Selling Solutions: A Quest to Revitalise Australia's First Digital Hospital
In 2010, I joined Macquarie University Hospital, Australia’s first fully digital hospital. It was meant to be a beacon of innovation, but while the equipment was new, the thinking behind it wasn’t. Instead of bold ideas, we got boilerplate rollouts. Instead of passion for doing better, we got a belief that shiny tools would fix systemic issues.
And yet, for a moment, it felt like something else. Amid the chaos - unfinished buildings, no desks, and only the vaguest of plans - people pitched in wherever they could. It felt like a startup, but it was something much rarer: a brief moment in a large, complex, heavily governed organisation where mission, urgency, and belief temporarily overcame bureaucracy.
This is the story of what happened next. Not a blueprint, but a lived experience. A journey from frustration to momentum, from disengagement to advocacy; and from seeing users as consumers to recognising them not just as collaborators, but as leaders.
I’ll share how we turned a disillusioned clinical workforce into passionate advocates through an internally branded movement called MUH on Tap, an initiative that reframed everything from login times to lunch payments around a single, unifying idea: make it seamless, and make it work for them. It marked a shift from “we must show off our technology” to “our technology should be invisible.”
This isn’t a story of technical heroics. It’s about listening, iterating, and reframing. It’s about how internal product thinking, trust-building, and a bit of endo-marketing changed the relationship between IT and its users. And it’s about how, in trying to change a system, I changed the way I work, the way I think, and the way I view technology's place in the world.
Clean Architecture with .NET MAUI, Blazor, and ASP.NET Core
We've heard a lot about how using .NET to build our UI applications lets us share code across our whole stack, but finding the best way to do this isn't straightforward. UI code and API code can sometimes seem at cross-purposes and it's not always obvious how using .NET code across your whole stack provides any advantages over using different technologies for your UI and API. It's easy to fall into the trap of underutilizing the right code-sharing techniques. Or, at the other extreme, butchering your architecture for the sake of sharing code.
In this talk, Matt Goldman (author of .NET MAUI in Action) will look at extending Clean Architecture to incorporate UIs built with .NET MAUI and Blazor. See sensible ways to write clean, testable, re-usable code that can be shared across the different layers of your solution, and across different solutions in your enterprise, to optimize efficiency and minimize duplication. We'll also see how to avoid the common pitfalls of over-engineering or under-sharing.
You will walk away knowing how to make full-stack code shared with .NET a reality.
Cross Platform Mobile and Desktop Applications with .NET MAUI
Over the course of two days you will build a real-world mobile and desktop app with .NET MAUI. This introductory session will teach you everything you need to get started and give you the tools and foundation to start your journey as a rich client developer.
Matt Goldman
Innovation Consultant, Arinco
Wyoming, Australia
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