Michelle Duke

About Michelle

DevRel 🥑 | Hackathon Queen®™ | Founder | Esports Queen

Mish is a multi-talented personality in the tech and gaming communities. Mish has worked in the technology space for the last decade and has a tonne of experience in developer advocacy, community management, marketing, and content creation. Mish has spoken at over 380 events on topics like AI, the future of work, communication, teamwork, and has given technical demos. She's a respected leader in the hackathon community, having won, organised, and mentored over 100 hackathons.

Mish is a successful entrepreneur and founder, having co-founded several companies – including an artificial intelligence company, and as a result, sits at the forefront of Melbourne’s science, tech, esports, and startup scenes. In her 'spare' time she’s a streamer, journalist, loves playing sports, and is always working on something exciting.
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Programmable 2026 Presentation

Building fun and creative messaging experiences on WhatsApp

Melbourne & Sydney
Programming Languages, Cloud & Tools
In this talk, I’ll show how to turn a simple WhatsApp message into an AI-powered creative experience. Using Twilio, WhatsApp, and OpenAI’s image generation APIs, we’ll build a workflow where users can send images via WhatsApp; think selfies, pet pics, and photos from the conference, and receive a cartoon, sketch, or fun version of your photo to share on your socials, group chats, and company message boards.

In this talk we'll cover:
  • Why should we consider creating fun and engaging experiences via messaging
  • How OpenAI's API works
  • How to set up Twilio’s WhatsApp sandbox to send and receive incoming media
  • How to process and transform images with OpenAI’s latest APIs
  • Utilising existing libraries to transform images
  • Sending images through WhatsApp
  • Best practices for handling image input, latency, and user experience
  • Other cool things you can build once you have images
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This demo is practical, fun, and showcases how teams can blend communication APIs with AI to create delightful, interactive messaging experiences.
Programmable 2023 Talk

AI and the future of work: how to build resilience and ensure you still have a job!

Melbourne & Sydney
Data meets the real world
With the rise of AI and automation, how do we as humans find our value in the workplace? How do we work with these new technologies? How do we build resilience to changes? What skills are needed for us to thrive in this new world?

People have often felt apprehensive about change, especially big changes to the way we work. It happened in the industrial revolution and now it's happening with the rise of artificial intelligence. Five years ago these things existed, but now they are accessible to almost everyone.

In this session I'll cover:
  • Why people want to work
  • Why it's important for us to have a place in the world
  • What skills are needed for the "future of work"
  • how we build resilience, problem solving, and critical thinking
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