Melbourne Python Meetup – August 2026

Melbourne Python's Meetup August 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, Thursday, August 27, 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: Sahil Devkota - Full Stack Developer, on Beyond LLMs : Why RAG is equally important? In this session, Sahil explores how RAG works, why is it really important in real-world and it's popular architectural pattern. We'll look at the core components of a RAG pipeline, discuss it's implementation approach, and cover some of the key things to think about when building an AI applications with RAG.

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

7:00–7:30 PM - Talk 2: Kriti Yadav - Researcher@RMIT,on From Messy Complaints to Meaningful Insights:Building Governed AI Classification Systems. This talk explores how AI and NLP can transform unstructured customer complaints into reliable, actionable insights. Kriti will share how I built semantic-scoring and classification pipelines using Python, sentence transformers, DistilBERT, Azure Machine Learning, Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, and LLM-based weak supervision.

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 August 27! 🎉