Melbourne Serverless Meetup Group event for February 2026

Welcome to 2026!! We need a second speaker please - if you are doing anything cool let us know Melbourne(at)serverless.org.au and we can get you on the agenda! Even for a future month if you are not quite ready yet.

THANKS TO MANTEL GROUP for sponsoring the location & refreshments again!

Thanks also to PROGRAMMABLE - we have tickets to give away for people who attend the meetup this month!

Please get in touch ASAP if you would like to talk at a future event, send us an email at Melbourne(at)serverless.org.au for more info!

First time speakers are more than welcome and we can provide you assistance if you need with your presentation beforehand. Please reach out Melbourne(at)serverless.org.au.

It can be a regular talk, lightning talk, demo, workshop, whatever is your thing our community will love it - as long as it is serverless related!

Venue: MANTEL GROUP, Level 2, 452 Flinders St. Melbourne

Look for the signs!

📅 Agenda 📅

5:30 PM - Doors Open!

6:00 PM - Welcome from the organizers / housekeeping

6:05 PM - "Build vs Buy - how LLMs are shifting the scales" - By Liam Johnston, Lead Consultant, V2 AI

This talk examines how LLMs are fundamentally changing the build vs buy calculus. Through a real project - a crossword generator using AI for clues and algorithms for word-fitting across 300k words - we'll explore why projects that were impossible side quests two years ago are now weekend builds.

6:35 PM - Pizza & Networking

7:00 PM - TBA

7:30 PM - Networking and finish the Pizza!

8:00 PM - Door Close, see you next time!