Schedule

• The Developer’s Pivot: From Delivering Features to Delivering Value
• More Than the Build: Helping Clients Grow Their Business
• Advising, Not Just Developing: The Path to Consultancy
• Developer to Advisor: Redefining the Client Relationship
• Architecting Solutions and Success

Whether you’re a solo developer or part of a team, you’ll learn how to position yourself as a partner in your client’s growth — not just a software developer.

Discover how we turned vision into reality by building LENS, our all-in-one FileMaker platform. In just two years, we’ve unified disconnected systems, eliminated manual workarounds, and created a single source of truth for our entire business.

With LENS, we've:

• Streamlined NDIS claims and compliance,
• Empowered staff with real-time insights,
• Laid the foundation for scalable growth and innovation. Join our session to see the real impact of FileMaker in action—and learn how building LENS has changed the way we work, support, and deliver every day.

Native app development isn't a foreign language when you understand how your existing knowledge translates. In this fast-paced session, we'll bridge the gap between FileMaker development and React Native, showing you how to leverage what you already know to create cross-platform apps powered by your FileMaker data.

• How FileMaker's visual approach to interface design maps directly to React development patterns
• Connecting your React Native apps to FileMaker data using OData
• Demo of a cross-platform iOS and Android app that pulls live data from FileMaker.
• Discover how you build for iOS, Android, macOS, Windows, web browsers, and even VR platforms. You're already a problem solver—this session will show you how to extend that problem-solving power into native apps across every platform.

Experienced developers know the limits of traditional scripting patterns, particularly when working with multi-record operations and external APIs. This session shows how combining the Execute FileMaker Data API script step with the While function can reduce overhead, improve clarity, and boost performance.

Using real-world integrations, we'll explore where these newer techniques offer advantages over established methods.

• Use Execute Data API to query record sets without context switching
• Build multi-record JSON payloads for efficient API calls
• Parse and respond to API data with minimal scripting
• Design scalable, maintainable logic flows with While

You’ll leave with practical techniques and patterns to simplify multi-record operations, improve performance, and modernise your FileMaker workflows.

In FileMaker 2025, Claris has delivered significant improvements in AI for users. But what about consultants and developers? How can AI help me be a more efficient and better developer?

• What does that long calculation or script actually do? how can it be improved?
• How can we match similar data in different systems with different data structures?
• Can we use an assistant to help respond to clients about their dev requests?

In this session, you will discover a selection of ways AI can make complex problems much simpler and seem like just another day at the office.

Ready to crack open the hidden treasures of FileMaker Server logs (and more) using the ELK Stack? This ripper of a session will show you how to spot cyber nasties and keep your FileMaker universe as safe as a kangaroo’s pouch!

• Integrating FileMaker Server with the ELK Stack: Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana—what’s it all about?
• Catch sneaky login attempts, script hiccups, and performance gremlins in a live demo.
• Build beaut Kibana dashboards for real-time monitoring and instant incident response.
• Turn boring logs into a lightweight SIEM for visibility, alerting, and compliance.

Pairing FileMaker with Elastic is like giving your Claris solution a high-powered security camera and analytics engine. Join this crossover skills session and see your data from a darker—yet far more informative—perspective.

Every FileMaker solution is a “Product”, even if you’re building it for your own use; Product Management is about ensuring the right solution gets built — one that meets actual user needs, aligns with business goals, and is delivered effectively by managing vision, priorities, and trade-offs throughout the development process. This session will cover:

• What Product Management means in the world of FileMaker development
• Why FileMaker projects need Product Management — and what happens when no one fills that role well
• Roles of the Product Manager and the skills and time required to do that well
• How developers can support and help good Product Management

FileMaker 2025 introduces a new script step: Perform SQL Query by Natural Language. On the surface it sounds simple, just write what you want, and the system figures out the query. But in practice, getting accurate and consistent results requires careful setup and clear prompting.

• Understanding the Perform SQL Query by Natural Language script step
• What it does, and what it expects from your solution
• Using LLM comments in your field definitions
• Giving the AI the context it needs to interpret your data correctly
• Writing and structuring prompt templates
• Encouraging consistent and accurate results from the model

You will come away with a clear understanding of how to support AI-driven functionality within your FileMaker solution.

We’re all makers and tinkerers. Building in FileMaker is what we do, and with every project, we sharpen our skills. But one of FileMaker’s real strengths is its ability to drive other tools.This session is about letting go of the “I can do it all in FileMaker” mindset and learning to use it as an orchestrator—connecting the right tools for the job.

• You can build it in FileMaker—but should you?
• How to evaluate and choose external tools
• Orchestrating third-party tools from within FileMaker
• Real-world demos of integrations in action

We’ll discuss and challenge what it means to be an expert. Come away inspired to approach customer requests differently—and ready to explore the sometimes confusing, but often rewarding, world beyond FileMaker.

Claris Studio and Claris Connect are often treated as afterthoughts tools you might use if you have time. In this session, you will discover what happens when you treat them as core components of your FileMaker architecture.

We will explore various use cases:

• Why Claris Studio is more than just “a web form builder”
• What Claris Connect can really do when you push it
• How to combine the two into a seamless, low-friction workflow
• Where these tools shine—and where they don’t

We all have our own ways of working and ideas on how to be productive, but are there things that you could be doing better? In this opinionated talk, Steve will share the best way to set up your development workstation, no matter the FileMaker task you’re trying to solve.

• What are the ‘must have plugins’ to make your life easier?
• How do I debug JavaScript when I’m building that awesome UI?
• How do I get my work to production most efficiently?
• What do I do to keep the data I’m working with fresh?

Surprised and astounded at the capabilities now at their fingertips! Deploying chaplains into disaster Evacuation and Recovery Centres is so much easier than it was during the Australian Black Summer Bushfires (2019-20). This case study delves into the operations and development of the Chaplain Deployment Support System (CDSS) – now fully embraced in NSW, and established for use in SA.

• Consider the nature of disasters and the characteristics of volunteer users
• Discover the functional requirements and how they have been resolved
• Understand development challenges, including WebDirect and the User Interface
• See how the CDSS coped during Cyclone Alfred in 2025

The CDSS has proven to be a great success for this not-for-profit organisation.

This is the story of how a stone benchtop fabrication business moved beyond Word, Excel, Timely, and whiteboards—embracing FileMaker across desktops, laptops, mobile devices, and digital signage to gain insights and control they never thought possible.

• How the client became aware of an alternative to whiteboards and paper.
• Pitching and deploying a solution interstate during COVID to an industrial estate on the Sunshine Coast.
• Replaced Word/Excel with a FileMaker database, Timely with FullCalendar, whiteboards with digital signage, and deployed iPads for job details, site measurements, and photos.
• How can you say no? Although the Queensland system is based on the ACT instance both continue to evolve independently.
• Both systems are on premise and virtualised, but Linux deployed on Proxmox (PVE) provides a flexible platform including robust backup and disaster recovery.

This session highlights management and productivity gains, and also shows how remote system management of an on-premise solution can mirror cloud-based approaches.