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Women in Tech: Connect & Grow
Wed, Apr 22, 8:00 AM**Women in Tech: Connect & Grow** is a fortnightly meetup designed to create a genuine, supportive space for women who are **working in — or thoughtfully exploring — careers** in technology, data, and artificial intelligence. Each session brings together women from diverse backgrounds and experiences to exchange ideas, share career insights, and build meaningful professional connections. Whether you’re a student exploring tech, an early-career professional, or an experienced practitioner, this community welcomes you. **Our purpose is simple:** To help women connect authentically, learn continuously, and grow confidently in their technical and professional journeys. Through open discussions, informal knowledge sharing, and collaborative problem-solving, the meetup provides space to: * Explore topics in data, AI, and emerging technologies * Discuss real-world career pathways, challenges, and wins * Build supportive peer relationships and professional networks * Encourage collaboration, visibility, and confidence for women in tech Meetups are held **fortnightly on Wednesdays**, offering consistency, community, and a chance to recharge through shared learning and thoughtful conversation. ✨ *A community where curiosity meets connection — and women in tech grow together with intention.*

Beyond the Hype: Building Trustworthy AI for Healthcare
Wed, Apr 22, 8:00 AM**About This Event** Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming healthcare — from clinical decision support and medical language models to patient-facing digital companions. This meetup brings together two experts working at the frontier of AI, language technology, and healthcare applications. Through perspectives spanning clinical natural language processing and speech-first healthcare interfaces, we will explore how AI systems are being applied in real-world health contexts and the challenges of building systems that are both useful and trustworthy. Whether you're a data scientist, AI researcher, clinician, engineer, healthcare innovator, or student, this session will offer valuable insights into where healthcare AI is heading. **Speakers & Topics** ***Talk 1: Deep Understanding vs Deep Learning — What's Missing in Healthcare NLP?*** **Dr Jon Patrick** — PhD\, MSc\, BSc\, Dip Behave\. Psych\, Dip LSurv\, FADIH\, FACS \| CEO\, HLA Global LLC Dr. Jon Patrick brings decades of experience in computational linguistics and clinical NLP. As the CEO of HLA Global LLC, he is a recognized expert in healthcare language processing and a Fellow of both the Australasian Institute of Digital Health and the Australian Computer Society. The dominance of neural networks and large language models has reshaped natural language processing — but has the field's rush toward deep learning come at the expense of deeper language understanding? This talk explores what computational linguistics brings to the table that purely statistical approaches often struggle to capture, particularly in high-stakes healthcare applications. Using illustrative examples of LLM-generated health content that can mislead by both omission and commission, Dr Jon argues that linguistically grounded approaches remain essential. In healthcare, where misunderstandings can have real consequences, deeper models of meaning aren't just an academic concern — they're a clinical safety imperative. ***Talk 2: The Speech-First User Interface as an Enabler for Smart Automation and Patient Engagement*** **Dr Allen Nugent** — BSc \(Physics\)\, PhD \(Biomedical Engineering\) \| Founder & CEO\, Virtual Nurse Pty Ltd Dr Allen Nugent is a senior data scientist and health tech entrepreneur whose career has spanned artificial heart valves, supply chain optimisation, and big data healthcare informatics. For the past six years, he has been building the Virtual Nurse Companion — a speech-first digital companion for seniors that provides continuous in-home monitoring, medication management, and connection to family and community. This talk introduces the concept of the speech-first user interface as an enabler for smart automation and patient engagement. Dr Nugent will explore areas where a virtual nursing solution can address real problems in health, aged care, and disability care — drawing on his own experience building and deploying the Virtual Nurse platform. As voice-driven AI becomes more capable, what does it take to design products that seniors will actually use, and that clinicians can trust? **Special Industry Update:** Data analytics & AI recruitment market insights from Heli Williamson, Managing Director, Krauss Partners **Who Should Attend?** This meetup is open to anyone with an interest in the intersection of AI, data science, and healthcare — including data analysts, data scientists, machine learning engineers, clinicians, health informaticians, researchers, product managers, and students. We are grateful to Krauss Partners, [Helpful Engines](https://helpfulengines.com/) and UTS Startups for supporting this event and helping us create a space for the Sydney healthcare AI community to connect and share ideas.

UiPath Community Meetup Sydney
Wed, Apr 22, 7:00 AMWhether you're an automation veteran or just getting started with UiPath, this meetup is your chance to learn from practitioners building real solutions, see Maestro in action, and connect with the local community — over great food and drinks. It's a room full of practitioners — people who are actually building, deploying, and scaling automation in the wild — coming together to share what they've learned. Expect candid stories, live demos, and the kind of peer-to-peer knowledge exchange ## **Who should join** RPA developers, automation architects, business analysts, IT leaders, and anyone curious about where intelligent process automation is headed — especially if you're exploring orchestration, case management, or applying AI agents to complex workflows. ## **Agenda** 5:00 – 5:30 pm \| **Networking, beers, burgers & bites** 5:30 – 5:35 pm \| **Welcome note by** Yannick Debruyne, Director - Sales Engineering, UiPath 5:35 – 6:00 pm \| **From task orchestration to case management** [Trace the evolution from simple task automation to full process orchestration and case management, and what it means for how you design solutions] 6:00 – 6:20 pm \| \*\*Life\-or\-death efficiency: What healthcare teaches us about automation \[\*\*Simon Foster \(formerly Gold Coast Health\, now with UiPath\) Real lessons from one of the highest\-stakes environments for automation: healthcare 6:20 – 6:40 pm \| \*\*Live demo on UiPath Maestro: turning workflows into performances \[\*\*Chatur Mishra \- Senior Consultant Pre Sales Engineering\, UiPath\] 6:40 – 7:30 pm \| **Wrap up, quiz, swag giveaway & networking drinks** Stick around for a community quiz, prizes, and more conversation over drinks. Spots are limited — register now and come ready to connect, learn, and leave with ideas you can put to work.

Find a Cofounder, Help or Join a Tech Startup
Mon, May 11, 8:00 AM**Welcome to Startup Oasis!** If you are a startup founder, investor, developer, marketer, or anyone else in the tech ecosystem looking to start, join, or help a tech startup, this event is for you! Entrepreneurs pitch their startups to the attendees; then, you can join a breakout room/area (that we curate) to talk to the founders, join their team, ask questions, and/or give feedback. People have been able to start a business as a result of this process. You are welcome to just watch as well. After the last pitch, the audience will be able to vote on a winner who will become eligible to pitch during the championship round at the end of the year to win the grand prize! The official registration page is [here](https://luma.com/k3hyfi17). **Schedule:** 6:00 PM - Doors open for networking. 6:30 PM - Sign up at the check-in table if you want to pitch your startup 6:45 PM - Startup Oasis Begins, founders pitch 7:30 PM onward - Founders break off into break-out rooms/areas, and attendees can move around and help one another for the remainder of the time, similar to a hackathon **Startup Oasis was created to pierce the illusion of accessibility of startups and tech by creating a grassroots forum for early-stage founders to pitch to those in the tech ecosystem to get real-time feedback for their idea or business.** Use this [link](https://www.startupoasis.org/contact-10 "https://www.startupoasis.org/contact-10") to: * Follow us on LinkedIn * Join our community * Donate to our cause * Visit our website * Sign up for our newsletter **Nearby Transit:** * Town Hall Station * Car Parking: parking garage nearby

TechWalking - Sydney - Networking Event for Tech Professionals
Sun, Apr 26, 12:00 AM**TechWalking is here to stay in Sydney!** 🌊🚶♂️A huge thank you to our co-hosts — Nitta, Ankisha, Akhil, Hima, Vishal, and Francesco — for making it happen! Are you a tech professional looking to network beyond the screen? Join us for a refreshing **#TechWalking** event along the stunning Royal Botanic Garden! It’s the perfect chance to connect with industry peers while getting in some steps! Whether you're in software development, cybersecurity, data science, or any tech-related field, this is the perfect opportunity to expand your network in a relaxed setting. 🌅 **Meeting Point:** Archibald Memorial Fountain, Hyde Park 🏖 **Route:** 4 km walk through the Botanical Garden to the Sydney Opera House 🕙 **Start Time:** 10 AM sharp—don’t be late, or you might have to sprint to catch up! Check out the photos from the last event in Sydney: https://www.meetup.com/it-career-in-australia/photos/35710580/ And video: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/H6_-ZET00I8 **Please note:** unfortunately, dogs aren’t allowed in the Botanical Gardens. A bit sad, we know 🐶💔 Looking forward to meeting you all in real life! *** Join the TechWalking group on LinkedIn! [https://www.linkedin.com/groups/14477058/](https://www.linkedin.com/groups/14477058/) Just moved to Australia? Grab your FREE guide to landing your tech job! [https://yanamartens.com/first-tech-job-in-australia/](https://yanamartens.com/first-tech-job-in-australia/) Follow me on LinkedIn for more information: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yana-martens/ Subscribe to YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@ITCareerinAustralia

Welcome to the next 2026 AWS Sydney Well-Architected User Group Meetup!
Thu, May 14, 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 updating throughout the month with more speakers and our speakers so far this month include: * **Mystery Speaker** **Well-Architected Agents** In this talk we will go into the detail of not only the launch of the first Well-Architected agents from both AWS and other AWS partners (and what they can and can't do) but will also go through best-practice agentic architecture as verified by AWS senior architects. 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 :-)
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