Melbourne Python Meetup – December 2026

Melbourne Python's Meetup December 2026!

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.

📅 When:
5:30 PM, Wednesday, December 16, 2026
📍 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
6:00–6:15 PM : Welcome and logistics 🎉
6:15–6:45 PM - Talk 1: Sakib Khan Inan - Graduate Research Fellow@Deakin University, on Time Series Data Analysis using Python. Time series data powers decisions in finance, energy, environmental monitoring and science. Sakib will tour Python’s modern time series toolkit (Sktime, Aeon and Nixtla’s NeuralForecast and MLForecast) and show how these libraries make classification and forecasting simpler and faster.

6:45–7:00 PM: Break – Connect with someone new!

7:00–7:30 PM - Talk 2: Lachlan Kingsford - Technical Lead@Vanguard, on Exploring the Monte Carlo Forest: Using MCTS to balance your game and enlighten your monsters. Testing whether complex, stateful systems actually work well together is hard, and manual testing and LLMs are expensive. Lachlan will show how Monte Carlo Tree Search, the algorithm behind AlphaGo, can be built in Python to give game villains smarter brains and to validate and tune complicated systems.

8:00 PM: Event concludes

🌟 Special Thanks 🌟
A huge shoutout to our sponsors Judo Bank, 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 16! 🎉