# Fiona Chan — AI Engineer Sydney 2026

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## The AI year: how we work, hire and grow now


For a lot of teams, this was the year AI stopped being an experiment and started being part of the job. Shipping got faster, but so did the pace, the pressure and the pile of code waiting for review. 

Drawing on Lookahead's 2026 research with people across Australian tech community and interviews with over 20 tech leaders, Fiona will share what's really changing: how the work feels, which skills are rising and fading, how roles are blending across engineering, product and design, and what it all means for hiring and careers.

## Fiona Chan

Partner & Technical Recruiter, Lookahead

Fiona is a partner & technical recruiter at Lookahead, where she's helped Australian product companies hire across engineering, product and design. Before moving into recruitment, she worked as a senior frontend engineer and was the co-founder of the meetup SydCSS.

## Conference

- [Conference overview](https://webdirections.org/ai-engineer/index.md)
- [Agent guide](https://webdirections.org/ai-engineer/for-agents/)
- [llms.txt](https://webdirections.org/ai-engineer/llms.txt)