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Sydney Monthly Social Tech Meetup!

Sydney Monthly Social Tech Meetup!

Thu, Sep 24, 7:30 AM
From Sydney Tech Meetup
4.7

**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!

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177 attendees
Women in Architecture (WIA) Australia - Sydney Coffee Catch-up

Women in Architecture (WIA) Australia - Sydney Coffee Catch-up

Wed, Sep 23, 10:00 PM
From Architecting for Innovation
4.5

Sydney 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

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2 attendees
Welcome to the next 2026 AWS Sydney Well-Architected Meetup!

Welcome to the next 2026 AWS Sydney Well-Architected Meetup!

Thu, Sep 24, 7:30 AM
From AWS Sydney Well-Architected User Group
4.6

Hi 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)

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117 attendees
Machine Learning to mRNA: How I Built a Personalised Cancer Vaccine for My Dog

Machine Learning to mRNA: How I Built a Personalised Cancer Vaccine for My Dog

Tue, Oct 6, 6:30 AM
From Sydney AI + Data (formerly Data Science Sydney)
4.5

**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

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90 attendees
Quality in Small Startups by Sam Connelly & 2026 Job Market by Andrea McHutchon

Quality in Small Startups by Sam Connelly & 2026 Job Market by Andrea McHutchon

Wed, Sep 30, 7:30 AM
From Sydney Testers
4.5

For 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

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AI Engineering in Practice: Real Challenges to Production Solutions

AI Engineering in Practice: Real Challenges to Production Solutions

Wed, Sep 23, 7:30 AM
From KSUG.AI Australia
4.7

**1-Click to register =>** [https://ksug.ai/au-68](https://ksug.ai/au-68) **<=** **Latest promotions** discovered by our community! * **70%** OFF **[Google Agentic Architect Beta](https://ksug.ai/paa)** Certification * **40%** OFF **[Kubernetes](https://sf2.ksug.ai)** Certs - Code: **30K8SUG** * **20%** OFF **[FinOps](https://ksug.ai/finops/?ref=meetup)** Certs Code: **KSAI_20** * Missed **65%** off [LF / CNCF](https://lf.ksug.ai/)? [Get Notified](https://ksug.ai/?notify&ref=meetup) for next BIG drop! We're excited to welcome you to the upcoming **KSUG.AI Australia #68 - Sydney Meetup** — happening both in-person at at Nutanix and online (Visit **[KSUG.AI](https://ksug.ai/?ref=meetup)**, Click "**Join online via Zoom**")! 🎉 We're actively seeking more awesome K8s and AI topic speakers! 👉 [https://sessionize.com/ksug-au-syd](https://sessionize.com/ksug-au-syd) **Agenda and topics preview:** * Food, drinks and Socializing * Welcome / Introductions by the Organizers @**[KSUG.AI](https://KSUG.AI/?ref=meetup)** * **Topic 1:** From Demo to Prod: Building Reliable Software with AI * **Topic 2:** Governing AI in Investment: From Data Integrity to Decision Accountability Food and drinks will be provided between **5.30 and 6 pm** on a first-come, first-served basis. This is a great opportunity to learn and network with our peers. Thanks to our sponsors **[Nutanix](https://www.nutanix.com/)**! **[1-Click to register here](https://ksug.ai/au-68) to secure your spot!** See you all there! **Location:** Nutanix Pty Ltd, Uluru (room), Level 10 [Maritime Trade Towers, 201 Kent Street, Sydney, NSW 2000](https://maps.app.goo.gl/rkehsQD4yn82ZLPt6) 👉 Join our [Discord](https://discord.com/invite/Rp9WzYyKua) and [WhatsApp](https://chat.whatsapp.com/D9a9IDiCS7U4cqQ0Sh60cz?mode=gi_t) for latest update! **✨ Event Highlights** **​🎯 Start with Real Business Problems** ​Explore how to identify practical AI use cases from real user and business needs, then translate them into clear, testable product and engineering goals. **​🛠️ Focus on Production Engineering** ​Understand the challenges involved in moving from a prototype to a live application, including system architecture, data pipelines, model integration, evaluation, business workflows, and reliability. **​📈 Build for Long-Term Operation and Scale** ​Launching an AI application is only the beginning. Learn how ongoing monitoring, cost management, performance optimisation, and iteration help systems support more users and evolving business needs. **​🤝 Connect with Sydney’s Tech Community** ​Meet engineers, developers, product leaders, and AI practitioners from the local community. Exchange project experiences, discuss technical challenges, and explore opportunities to collaborate. **🎙️ Meet the Speakers** ​**Mark** ​**Senior Data & AI Engineer @ [Rainmakr.AI](http://rainmakr.ai/?utm_source=luma) & Savana ETFs** ​Mark focuses on AI and data-driven applications in financial technology, designing and optimising data pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and AI-powered investment systems. He drives internal research and innovation, integrating large language models, agentic AI, and advanced analytics into investment research and operational workflows to improve automation and support better investment decisions. **​Junyi Men** ​**Founder & Engineer @ Proairesis** ​Junyi combines a founder’s product perspective with an engineer’s technical approach to bring ideas to life. Her work connects product discovery with software development, bridging user needs and technical implementation to build useful products and applications. **​Jignesh (Jiggy) Kakkad** ​**Principal AI Engineer / Software Engineering Lead @ Quantium** ​Jiggy brings experience across software engineering, artificial intelligence, and cybersecurity, with a focus on robust, scalable enterprise systems and cross-team technical leadership. His current work centres on large language models and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), using Azure and the OpenAI API to integrate AI capabilities into enterprise platforms. **​Blaise Paradeza** ​**Senior AI Software Engineer @ Quantium** ​Blaise focuses on production AI applications and full-stack systems. His current work includes conversational AI systems built with LangGraph and the Model Context Protocol (MCP). He also works across frontend and backend development, Kubernetes deployments, LiteLLM, Langfuse, cloud infrastructure, and CI/CD, bringing hands-on experience in deploying and operating AI systems in production. **🔍 What You’ll Learn** ​Through the talks and discussions, we’ll explore: * ​How to identify valuable, practical AI use cases * ​How to turn loosely defined AI ideas into clear product and engineering goals * ​What it takes to move from prototypes and proofs of concept to production * ​How to build AI systems that are reliable, maintainable, and robust * ​How to integrate AI into existing products, platforms, and enterprise workflows * ​How to establish evaluation, quality control, and feedback mechanisms * ​How to balance accuracy, response time, operating costs, and user experience * ​How to address performance, reliability, and scalability challenges * ​How to improve AI applications through monitoring, feedback, and continuous iteration **👥 Who Should Attend?** ​This event is for: * ​AI and machine learning engineers * ​Software engineers and solutions architects * ​Data engineers and data scientists * ​Technical leads and engineering managers * ​AI product managers and digital transformation leaders * ​Founders exploring practical AI applications * ​Technology professionals interested in AI engineering and production systems ​Whether you’re already building AI applications or exploring a move into AI engineering, join us for practical perspectives and conversations with people working in the field. **💬 More Than a Technical Talk** ​This meetup is also a space for open, practical conversations within Sydney’s AI and engineering community. ​Bring a project you’re building, an engineering challenge you’re working through, or a question about applying AI. 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Frequently asked questions

Meetup helps connect people with similar hobbies, professions, or goals in local areas through events and gatherings.

You can search for biotech groups in Sydney on Meetup and check their scheduled events, all designed to connect industry professionals and enthusiasts.

Event frequency varies by group; some may host regular gatherings while others are occasional but aim to provide meaningful connections.

Joining Meetup itself is free, but some group events may have fees for materials or venue costs as decided by the organizer.

Biotech meetups are organized by local groups who schedule events to help professionals network, share knowledge, and explore innovations.

Yes, you're welcome to join multiple biotech groups to expand your network and participate in different event types across Sydney.

While Meetup helps bring like-minded individuals together, specific professional encounters depend on event participants.

Some groups may offer online events. Availability depends on the organizers and their respective meeting setups.

Many groups design their events to be welcoming to newcomers and people at different career stages for maximal community engagement.

Many groups welcome suggestions from members to shape events around interesting and relevant industry topics.

Networking potential exists, but making connections is a participant-driven effort and depends on individual engagement.

Meetup focuses on group gatherings and typically does not facilitate one-on-one meetings.

Interest levels vary, with some periods seeing more events than others based on user activity and organizer availability.

While many interests are represented, not every niche may have an existing group. Consider starting your own to unite others.

Once you've registered on Meetup, you can RSVP for events by visiting the group’s webpage and selecting the event you're interested in.