AI Mega Meetup (In Collaboration with AI Paper Reading Club)

🦉 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/.