Melbourne Python's Meetup – December 2025

Melbourne Python's Meetup December 2025!
Join Melbourne’s Python community for another night of learning, sharing, and connecting. Whether you’re just starting out or you’ve been coding in Python for years, our monthly meetup is the perfect place to learn something new and connect with fellow developers. This group is for developers, data scientists, web programmers, and anyone passionate about Python.

Join us to for the meetup to wrap 2025.

📅 When:
5:30 PM, Tuesday, December 16, 2025
📍 Where:
Judo Bank, Queen and Collins Building
Level 26/376-390 Collins St, Melbourne VIC 3000, Australia
👉 https://maps.app.goo.gl/A9JQTYGrMqGn8AzAA
Note:
The entrance is next to Rustica Cafe. Press level 26 when you arrive, and you'll find us there!

Agenda for the Evening
5:30 - 6:00 PM: Networking, pizza, and drinks 🍕🍹
6:00 - 6:15 PM: Welcome and logistics 🎉
6:15 - 6:45 PM - Talk 1: Gordon Chen - Managing Director @ GordonData on Building a Self-Hosted AI: The Cost-Effective Path to Knowledge Management System. Tired of generic AI answers or high cloud costs? This talk dives deep into how we solved the enterprise knowledge challenge by building a secure, self-hosted RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) system. It details the specific open-source stack, from SharePoint ingestion and FAISS indexing to running DeepSeek-LLM locally, all integrated directly into Microsoft Teams.
6:45 - 7:00 PM: Break – Refresh your drinks and connect with someone new!
7:00 - 7:30 PM - Talk 2: Akshat Soni - Software Engineer @ NBN on Build Your First MCP Server with Python
8:00 PM: Event conclude

🌟 Special Thanks 🌟
A huge shoutout to our sponsors Judo Bank, Stile Education, and AWS for making this meetup possible. Your support means the world to us!

Interested in Speaking or Sponsoring?
We’d love to hear from you! Email us at **melbournepython@gmail.com** or fill out our speaker interest form at https://forms.gle/S5T1SL4ULY5aogf47.

We can't wait to celebrate Python and the incredible Melbourne community with you. See you on December 16th! 🎉