🦉 Welcome to the 2026 AI Mega Meetup! 🦉
The AI Mega Meetup brings together AI-related communities from across Brisbane for an evening dedicated to learning, connecting, and celebrating the people who make our tech community stronger.
To make this event happen, the AI Paper Reading Club is bringing together some incredible Brisbane and Gold Coast meetups and user groups, including:
AI Horizons by Kube College
AWS User Group
Brisbane Azure User Group
Brisbane Python
Brisbane Women in AI
Build Club
Claude Community Brisbane
Codex Community Brisbane
Google Developer Group Brisbane
Her Tech Circle
International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) Brisbane & Gold Coast Chapter
Information System Security Certification Consortium (ISC2) QLD Chapter
Process Connect Community
Queensland AI
QUT AI & ML Society
The AI Collective Brisbane Chapter
Women in Technology Gold Coast
The evening will also feature an AI panel with three brilliant senior professionals deeply embedded in the Brisbane and Sydney AI communities, they are:
Dr Kanika Goel, Senior Manager in Deloitte’s Engineering, AI & Data practice and Co-Lead of Process Connect Community;
John Hawkins, Chief AI Officer at Intersect AI, Machine Learning researcher and author of "Data Science First" and "Getting Data Science Done";
Zac Konstas, Executive, Applied AI at Quantium.
Dr Haritha Thilakarathne, Senior Developer Relations Manager at NVIDIA.
Tickets are already sold out! Please join the waitlist if you're interested in joining.
Agenda
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Hosted By
Derek Van Tonder, Community Organiser
Sajan Gurung,
Shristi Gupta, Software Developer
Priyaank Parekh,
Peter Wei, Organiser
Peter Wei is a results-driven, human-centered full-stack developer with experience across e-commerce, AI, and enterprise systems.
With a strong foundation in both front-end and back-end technologies, including Flutter, Typescript, C#. He brings practical, scalable solutions to complex business challenges.
His passion lies in bridging strategy and execution, building products that work better for real people. Adept in Agile environments, Peter collaborates across functions to deliver outcomes, refactor legacy systems, and enhance performance.
Peter’s long-term goal is to grow into a Solution Architect role—one that integrates technical design with business analysis to deliver end-to-end solutions
His expertise spans cloud platforms (AWS, Azure DevOps, GCP), DevOps practices (Docker, GitHub Actions), and testing frameworks (Jest).
Peter excels in driving transformation initiatives and contributing to the evolution of business-critical programs. His work reflects a commitment to impact, quality, and progress.
subin choo, Software developer
Complete your event RSVP here: https://gdg.community.dev/events/details/google-gdg-brisbane-presents-ai-mega-meetup-in-collaboration-with-ai-paper-reading-club/.
