16–17 September 2026 · ICC Sydney · Darling Harbour
Southern Ledger Summit brings developers, researchers, founders, and public-sector teams to Sydney for two days of hard technical talks, hands-on workshops, and the hallway conversations that actually move things forward.
What it is
Southern Ledger Summit exists for the people who ship: protocol engineers, infrastructure teams, security researchers, founders, and the policy and enterprise folks working alongside them. The program favours substance over spectacle — expect architecture deep-dives, honest post-mortems, and workshops you can actually follow along with.
Now in its third year, the summit has become the fixture where Australia's distributed-systems community compares notes with peers from Singapore, Tokyo, Seoul, and beyond. Two stages run technical talks, a third hosts policy and enterprise sessions, and the lab room runs hands-on workshops all day.
It is an educational and professional-networking event. We don't sell tokens, we don't pitch investments, and nothing on the stage is a recommendation to buy anything. Come to learn, build, and meet the people doing the work.
Program
Sessions are curated by an independent program committee. Topics reflect what practitioners are building and debating right now.
Research-grade talks on consensus design, data availability, and scaling approaches — with the trade-offs made explicit.
Nodes, indexing, rollups, and developer experience. The unglamorous infrastructure that everything else depends on.
Market structure, stablecoins, settlement, and risk — examined as engineering and economics, minus the hype.
Audits, formal methods, incident response, and key management, told through real cases and what went wrong.
Identity, supply chain, and government pilots across Australia and the region — what shipped and what stalled.
Where Australian and APAC rules are heading, discussed with some of the people actually drafting them.
Agenda
Highlights below; the full schedule with room assignments is published closer to the event.
Speakers
// Program and speakers are illustrative and subject to change.
Venue
ICC Sydney sits on Darling Harbour, a short walk from the CBD, Central Station, and dozens of hotels. Light rail and ferries stop nearby, and the airport is about 20 minutes by taxi or train.
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Every pass includes both days, all stages, catering, and the community after-hours. Prices in AUD, GST inclusive.
// Checkout opens on our ticketing partner. Refunds available up to 14 days before the event; passes are transferable any time.
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16–17 September 2026 · Sydney
Two days, one venue, and the community actually doing the work. Early passes are limited.