Building Agents with OpenClaw and Hermes

NOTE: This is an in-person event, at University of New South Wales.
Thursday 28 May 2026

DSAi x UNSW Founders presents - 'Building Agents with Openclaw and Hermes'

DSAi is back with another meet up partnering with UNSW Founders.

Agents are everywhere right now! This month, DSAI is going hands-on with two of the more interesting open-source runtimes in the space: OpenClaw and Hermes.

With presentations from the DSAi team as well as:

• René Essomba (AI Engineer and Co-Host of "What the Tech" podcast
• and other speakers (TBA)

As usual with our meetups, this event will also include:

• AI tech, market and regulation updates by the DSAi team
• NETWORKING - network with fellow AI entrepreneurs, investors and professionals.

Investors, venture capital and talent folks are also invited to this event (and scout for promising AI startups).

Doors open at 5.30PM, for a 6PM Start!

Agenda
5:30-6pm: Check-in and networking
6:00-6:10pm: Opening remarks
6:10-6:30pm: Building with OpenClaw (DSAi)
6.30-6.40pm: Intermission market and regulatory updates by DSAi team
6.40-7:40pm: Building with Hermes (René Essomba)
7.40-8.00pm: Networking til close

Bio:
Rene Essomba is a Sydney-based AI Engineer and co-host of the What The Tech podcast — where they unpack AI and emerging tech for general audiences.
His engineering work centres on agentic AI systems: building production workflows with LangGraph and MCP servers on AWS, alongside modern data tooling like dbt and Supabase. With a background spanning actuarial science, data science and cloud architecture, he's especially interested in how teams move agentic systems from prototype to production responsibly.

Address: Michael Crouch Innovation Centre, UNSW Kensington Sydney NSW 2052 (take the L3 light rail)

Getting There:
Take the L3 Light Rail to UNSW. Then find the Hilmer Building (E10) Ground Floor. Here's a link to the campus map: https://www.making.unsw.edu.au/documents/77/UNSW_Making_MCIC_Campus_Map.pdf

Running Late?
If you arrive after 6:00 pm, please contact us at the number below for assistance:

Event Contact:
[dsai.sydney@gmail.com](mailto:dsai.sydney@gmail.com)