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Sydney Monthly Social Tech Meetup!
Thu, Sep 24, 7:30 AM**Welcome to the Sydney Monthly Social Tech Meetup!** Last Thursday of every month. All welcome, or whether you're a hobbyist, student, or working as a software engineer, UI/UX designer, AI specialist or data scientist, in tech management or product, or maybe just like hanging out with techies. Basically for anyone in the Sydney tech scene. Mountain Goat always has some great craft beers and ciders on $5 beer+wine happy hour special until 6pm, so get in early! Also they run a food & drink special all night if you'd like a feed. It'll be great to see you there!

Women in Architecture (WIA) Australia - Sydney Coffee Catch-up
Wed, Sep 23, 10:00 PMSydney community ☕️ Let’s take a break from the meetings, roadmaps, and architecture reviews and catch up over coffee. Join us for a casual **[Women in Architecture (WIA) Australia](https://www.linkedin.com/company/women-in-architecture-wia-australia/)** catch-up to connect with fellow enterprise, business, and solution architects, share ideas, grow your network, and meet others who are passionate about architecture and diversity in tech. Whether you're a long-time member, new to the community, or simply curious about architecture as a career, we'd love to see you there. Hosted by **[Mimi Chattopadhyay](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mimichattopadhyay/)** and **[Maria B](https://www.linkedin.com/in/maria-b-286971234/)** 📅 Thursday, 24 September ⏰ 8:00 – 9:30 am 📍 Maximus Cafe, GPO Building, 1 Martin Place, Sydney

Welcome to the next 2026 AWS Sydney Well-Architected Meetup!
Thu, Sep 24, 7:30 AMHi Architects, Welcome to the next 2026 AWS Sydney Well-Architected User Group Meetup! Each month we cover off AWS best-practices across all pillars and give away drones - lots of drones 🥳 **Please also note that AWS Security now requests a company name and company email where it is available. If you are a student, please list your institution and your student email address at that institution 👍** We'll be announcing more speakers on [https://well-architected.me](https://well-architected.me/) and previewing presentations during the coming weeks - our speakers and details this month include: * **Shilin Wu, Principal Solution Architect — VeloDB / Apache Doris** **Cost-Efficient Real-Time Analytics on AWS: Storage-Compute Separation with Apache Doris** Real-time analytics have a reputation for being expensive — you pay for fast storage you barely use, and for compute that sits idle overnight. This session walks through VeloDB / Apache Doris's storage-compute separation architecture on AWS, showing how to push warm data down to S3 while keeping sub-second query latency on the data that matters. We'll round off with a **live demo** querying billions of rows against S3-backed storage, soattendees can see the latency-vs-cost trade-off in action rather than on a slide. * **Mystery Speaker** **Generative AI Cost Optimisation** Cost Optimisation is essential but with all the anecdotal stories of massive token budget blowouts, staying on top of Generative AI best-practices is essential to avoiding these scenarios. This month's menu will include: * Pizzas * Beer: Nastro Azzurro * Wine: Big and red 🤤 So come join us at 5:30 for a 6pm **SHARP** start, followed by beer, wine, pizza and friendly networking after our talks :-) Tired of Linkedin’s "thought leadership”, spam and advertising? Join https://well-architected.me/ , the AWS community built for architects, developers and cloud professionals. * Connect with experienced AWS practitioners * Preview upcoming AWS Meetups and relive past content * Create and review beautiful AWS case studies in minutes * Prepare for AWS certifications with curated quizzes * Show your manager and reports you’re well-architected (Please note that by registering to attend you agree to your details being shared as and where required with Amazon Web Services and AWS Well-Architected User Group partners)

Machine Learning to mRNA: How I Built a Personalised Cancer Vaccine for My Dog
Tue, Oct 6, 6:30 AM**Speaker bio:** * Paul Conyngham is the founder of Gamgee, a Y Combinator company developing personalised mRNA cancer vaccines for dogs. After 17 years in machine learning, Paul taught himself genomics and used AI to design a personalised vaccine for his dog Rosie, whose responsive tumours shrank by 50–75%. **Presentation outline:** \- Rosie’s cancer and why existing treatments were not enough \- Using AI to cross from machine learning into genomics \- The journey from tumour sequencing to an administered mRNA vaccine \- What worked\, what failed and what one patient can teach us \- Turning a year\-long manual process into repeatable software \- Why Gamgee is starting with dogs and where the technology goes next * Join our community on Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/groups/14297125/ to stay up-to-date on all our upcoming events We are grateful to our new hosts and sponsors the Centre for Business Intelligence and Data Analytics (BIDA) at the Business School, University of Technology, Sydney

Quality in Small Startups by Sam Connelly & 2026 Job Market by Andrea McHutchon
Wed, Sep 30, 7:30 AMFor our September in-person event generously hosted and supported by Salt Solutions Group, there are two great speakers offering diverse and prescient topics that people have asked us to cover for a while. Sam Connelly, the popular tester and public speaker and former chair of Sydney Testers, will be reprising her talk at Equal Experts: "Small Team, Big Stack", to talk about how she brought in quality practice into a small fintech startup. Andrea McHutchon (Regional Director at Salt) will be giving us the facts and intelligence on the current 2026 tech job market including salary trends and in-demand skills! **Sam Connelly: Small Team, Big Stack: A Quality Toolkit Built from the Ground Up** Most talks about quality assume you've got a QA team, a test framework someone already built, and headcount to spare. This one's for when you don't. **Sam Connelly a.k.a. BugHunterSam**, Principal Quality Consultant within the Equal Experts network in Australia, walks through how a small startup team builds and maintains confidence in what they ship — for a predominantly JavaScript web app — without any of that safety net. **What we'll cover:** * **Unit testing** — what we actually test (and, just as importantly, what we don't) * **BDD, pragmatically** — the test framework we built, and how we've kept it extensible as our underlying model evolves * **Debugging from the outside in** — using analytics frameworks to reconstruct what a user did right before something broke * **Where we're headed** — early experiments including a self-healing UI E2E agent, and using Claude Code as an exploratory testing partner rather than just a coding tool **Andrea McHutchon: An Update on the Sydney Tech Hiring Market and In-Demand Skills in 2026** As part of the event, we will provide an overview of the **current technology talent and hiring market,** sharing - * Real-time insights into candidate availability * Salary trends * In-demand skills * What we are seeing from businesses hiring across the sector. We will also be giving out prizes along with our usual chances for networking and socialisation! Not to be missed

AI Meetup for Forward Deployed Engineering
Tue, Sep 22, 7:30 AM**Important Note:** Registration on the [AICamp event website ](https://www.aicamp.ai/event/eventdetails/W2026092123) or on [luma](https://luma.com/vewa64gb) is required for admission. Welcome to AI Camp meetup in Sydney. Join us for deep dive tech talks on AI, GenAI, LLMs and Agent, hands-on experiences on code labs, workshops, and networking with speakers and fellow developers. In September edition, we team up with Atlassian to focus on Forward Deployed Engineering. Driven by need to shift from prototypes to production, Forward Deployed Engineering is becoming one of the most valuable skill sets an engineer can develop. In this panel session led by practitioners, we will discuss the role of forward deployed engineers and how they bridge the gap between powerful AI models and real business outcomes. Panelists will be sharing real experience and challenges that come along with this role. **Agenda:** \* 5:30pm\~6:00pm: Checkin, food and networking \* 6:00pm\~7:30pm: Tech talks and Q&A \* 7:30pm: Open discussion & Mixer **Speakers:** * \- Varun Nayyar \, Neara \, Director of Engineering * \- James Orton\, Snowflake\, Applied AI Deployment * \- Sushant Koshy\, Atlassian\, Senior Product Manager * \- Mayank S\, Atlassian\, Head of Engineering\, FDE\-AI * \- Aline Kontarero\, Lead FDE\, V2\.AI Stay tuned as we are updating speakers and schedules. If you have a keen interest in speaking to our community, we invite you to submit topics for consideration: [Submit Topics](https://forms.gle/JkMt91CZRtoJBSFUA) **Sponsors:** We are actively seeking sponsors to support our community. Whether it is by offering venue spaces, providing food/drink, or cash sponsorship. Sponsors will not only speak at the meetups, receive prominent recognition, but also gain exposure to our extensive membership base of 8,000+ AI developers in Sydney and 500K+ worldwide.
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