About us
Shipping with AI
Real tips from the people building with AI: product, design and engineering
What’s the purpose of the group?
AI is changing how we build products, and most of us are figuring it out as we go. Shipping with AI is a place for product managers, designers and engineers to show what’s actually working: new workflows, shortcuts, productivity gains, and the experiments that paid off (or didn’t).
No hype, no vendor pitches. Just practitioners demoing real work, sharing case studies, and being honest about what works and what pitfalls to avoid.
Who should join?
Anyone involved in building products who wants to work smarter with AI, whether you’re shipping with AI features to customers or using AI tools to ship faster.
We’re an inclusive meetup, open to anyone regardless of gender, role, technical background or experience level.
What will you do at the events?
- Watch live demos of how people are using AI day-to-day: prototyping, coding, research, specs, testing and more
- See workflow teardowns showing how teams have changed their process from idea to shipped feature
- Pick up tips, hacks and prompts you can try the next morning
- Join the occasional hands-on workshop
- Mingle with peers across PM, design and engineering
Want to share?
Everyone has something to teach right now. If you’ve found a new way of working, built something interesting or learned a hard lesson, we’d love you to demo it. Lightning talks (5–10 mins) are perfect. Get in touch via the group.
Formerly UX Design in SaaS. Same community, broader crew.
Upcoming events
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Shipping with AI
Nintex, 14/530 Collins St, Melbourne VIC 3000, Australia, Melbourne, AU// OVERVIEW
The Shipping with AI meetup (formerly UX Design in SaaS) has partnered with the Outlook AI Conference 2026 to bring you an in-person evening as part of the conference activities.Shipping with AI is a meetup for designers, product managers and engineers who want to move past the hype and learn how AI is actually being used to build and ship real products. No theory-heavy keynotes. Just demos, real workflows and practical tips you can take back to your team the next day.
// WHAT IS HAPPENING
Our three speakers come at AI from different angles: delivery in regulated industries, engineering and AI agents, and design quality. They'll each share how their teams are shipping with AI right now. That includes the tools, the workflows, what's working, and what they've learned the hard way.Expect presentations, live demos, Q&A, drinks, food, games, prizes and plenty of time to network.
// WHEN
6:00 – 8:30pm, Wednesday 11th November// WHERE
Nintex Offices, Level 14, 530 Collins Street, Melbourne VIC 3000// WHY COME ALONG
- See it, don't just hear about it. Live demos of real AI workflows, not slides about the future.
- Practical takeaways. Tips and tricks you can try with your team straight away.
- Three perspectives in one night. Delivery, engineering and design, so you get the full picture of what it takes to ship with AI.
- Ask the hard questions. How do you keep AI output on-brand? How do you bring AI into regulated businesses safely? How do you give coding agents the right context?
- Meet your people. Connect with Melbourne designers, PMs and engineers working through the same challenges.
- It's free, and there's food, drinks and prizes.
// OUR SPEAKERS
ANASTAS MANOJLOVSKI – Technical Director, Whitefox Cloud Consulting
Anastas has spent 20 years where customers, sales and engineering meet. He specialises in turning messy problems into solutions that actually get delivered. At Whitefox he leads sales and delivery for clients in financial services, insurance, health and logistics, and oversees 25+ engineers across Australia and offshore. His work includes governed Claude adoption with human review and audit trails for financial advice provider Padua, and AI road-defect detection models running in production. Before Whitefox, he spent nine years at Whispir, including five as AU/NZ Head of Solution Architecture. Anastas brings a grounded view on getting AI into regulated businesses without creating new risk.TOM PETERSON – Co-Founder, ctxpipe.ai
Tom is a builder who orchestrates local and cloud AI models to get things done, fast. He is co-founder of ctxpipe.ai, an open-source, Git-backed context layer for coding agents and software factories. He is also Head of Product at TRU Rec AI, building computer vision analytics with open-source models. With 15 years in tech across project management, business analysis, design, product and founding, Tom is passionate about developer experience and building tools that make engineers' lives easier. Previously, he co-founded Appear, an API discovery and automation tool.HAMISH O'NEILL – Founder, UI Rules
Hamish is a multi-award-winning design leader with more than two decades in digital product design across retail, telecommunications, finance and digital marketplaces. He is the founder of UI Rules, a governance layer that serves brand and design system rules to AI coding tools like Cursor, Claude Code and v0, keeping AI-generated interfaces on-brand. Previously, Hamish was Head of Design Systems at Carsales, where he led the team behind the Torq design system. Before that he was Design Chapter Lead and Design Lead for the Brand & Design System at ANZ.// OUTLOOK AI CONFERENCE
The Outlook AI Conference 2026 is on Thursday 12th November in Melbourne and is not to be missed. Tickets are on sale now.// SPONSORS
A big thank you to Nintex, our amazing sponsor, for making this event happen.9 attendees
Past events
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