Sydney AI Developers Group

AWS virtual event - build agentic AI at scale

Fri, Jul 3 · 8:30 PM AEST

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Important: Register on the event website to receive the joining link. (rsvp on meetup will NOT receive anything).
This is on-demand event, you can register and start to watch any time.

Join senior enterprise leaders from Prudential Insurance, Siemens, GAF, HF Sinclair, and AWS and discover how to build resilient, scalable data foundations for enterprise AI. Learn practical strategies to build modern data architectures and production-ready AI agents, turning your data into a long-term competitive advantage.

Turn governed data products into faster, more informed decision-making at scale.

Key takeaways:

• Build safe, industrial-scale systems with classical and gen AI.
• Power analytics and AI with high-quality, governed data.
• Choose the right databases to support AI-based applications.
• Streamline solution discovery and deployment with AWS Marketplace.

Featured Speakers:

• Ram Kumar, Group Leader, Data & AI, Centre of Excellence, Prudential Insurance
• Michael Taylor, Chief Data Scientist, Siemens
• Dhanya Nair, Director, Data and Analytics, GAF
• Madhu Bangalore, Head of Digital Solution, Data, Analytics, and AI, HF Sinclair
• Jeff Falcon, Principal, AWS Marketplace, Center of Excellence (CoE)
• David Potes, Partner Solutions Architect Leader, AWS

Venue:
Virtual, join from anywhere

AI Meetup (July) with Confluent

Tue, Jul 21 · 5:30 PM AEST

Mantel Group, Sydney, L21/580 George Street, Sydney, AU

Important: Registration on the AICamp event website is required for admission.

Welcome to AI 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.

Tech Talk: Streaming systems, hidden risks, and AI-driven consequences
Speaker: Olena Kutsenko, Staff Developer Advocate, Confluent
Abstract: Modern AI systems don’t rely on static datasets, they depend on continuous streams of real-time data to train, update, and make decisions.
We explore streaming data pipelines as a critical attack vector for AI-driven applications. Instead of targeting models directly, attackers manipulate the data flowing into them. By injecting, modifying, or replaying events, adversaries poison training data, distort real-time features, and influence decisions without detection. We’ll examine how these attacks work in practice, from subtle data drift to targeted event injection, and why traditional security measures fall short. We’ll look at key weaknesses in modern pipelines and explore defensive strategies that go beyond infrastructure security.

Tech Talk: BOM for Agentic Engineering
Speaker: Principal Software Engineer, Mantel
Abstract: Agentic engineering is here, but most teams adopt it piecemeal: a tool here, a prompt there, no shared picture. This talk presents a Bill of Materials for the agentic SDLC: the layers (agents, capabilities, standards, MCP integrations, knowledge), the cross-cutting concerns (governance, measurement), and how an input becomes a delivered outcome. We’ll walk a target architecture rebuilt around agentic capability, name the real gaps, and show what it takes to make the SDLC self-continuous rather than just AI-assisted.

Speakers/Topics:
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

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.