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**Why we’re here?** Give serious AI-native founders in Singapore an edge so they keep moving from *building* to *delivering.* **Who it’s for?** * Actively building *(pre-MVP, post-launch, late-stage)* * Want’s likeminded peers and structured problem-solving * Interested in at-least weekly cadence * Open to committing if the value is real *** ## **How the day plays out?** **10am — Doors open** As we say in Singapore, OTOT. **12.30pm — Lunch & Social** BYOF. Meet your peers. Build real relationships over food. **2:30pm — The Work Room** From founder topics that broaden your awareness, to real-time problem-solving. This is where you build your founder muscle and keep moving **5pm — “Next move”** We roundup & wrap here. *** ## **The Work Room** > We bring a veteran. > You come with something real: what you’ve done, what changed, what’s stuck. > This is *your* time to focus on being a founder, leader, business owner. Not just tech, not just AI, but running a business. > It could be: Pipelines. Product. Marketing. > Segments. Users. Traction. Flywheels. > Budgets. Teams. Funding. Pricing > Contracts. Taxes. Regulation… > Bring a problem, leave with a decision/direction/solution that’s yours. Follow-up next week. > **Weekly Founder Topic** > *20-30 mins, talk or learning* > Short session on a real founder topic, drawn from the room, or brought by someone who’s lived through it. > **Founder Cases** > *2-3 cases, up to 45 mins each* > Facilitated and collaborative problem-solving with your peers in the room. **This week's session will focus on: Testing what's real.** This will be an ongoing series for tuning your business engine: * Part 1: "Seeing your engine" (completed) * Part 2: "Testing What's Real" (completed) * Part 3: Strengthening the signals * Part 3a: customers (this week) * Part 3b: Scope * Part 3c: Economics * Part 3d: Repeatibility It will be facilitated by: Matthew Hillier Founder & Principal Navigator, The Third Way * *Angel Review Committee (ARC) Member, AngelCentral* * *Former EVP Product & Platform Innovation, CloudPay \~18 years across Product, SaaS, and global teams.*

Have you experienced the power of habits, dedication, and small actions over time? This is your sign to start, or continue building on your past efforts! “Consistency is what transforms average into excellence.” — Tony Robbins **Date:** 11 May 2026 (Mon) **Meeting Time:** 8am **Meeting point:** Lavender MRT Exit A **Route:** Lavender MRT Exit A ➝ Stadium ➝ Marina Barrage ➝ ArtScience Museum (\~8.5km) **Notes:** · Have some light snacks before the workout if required · Bring sufficient water and food/snacks for refuel · Waterproof your items and be rain-equipped (rain cover, rain jacket, poncho, umbrella, etc.) · Towel, small cloth or extra clothing for change out · Hiking poles (optional) · **RSVP**: If there is a change in availability, please update your RSVP at least one day in advance. **Please read this:** #1 – **Attendance.** This is a number-controlled event. Please come only if you are on the attending list. Please check your calendar and make sure you can come before RSVP, so as not to deny someone else who genuinely wishes to come. #2 – **Punctuality.** We will move out at 8.05am sharp. We are not able to wait for latecomers. #3 – **Early Departure.** Please inform the Event Host if you need to leave early. #4 – **Waitlist.** Please note that the waitlist may not be processed in order. We may prioritize spots for participants training for upcoming hikes/ trips. #5 – **Weather.** In case of severe weather conditions, we will provide an update or adjust the route accordingly. **Important Liability Notice:** By joining this training, you acknowledge that you are participating voluntarily and understand the physical risks inherent in this activity. AU is not responsible for any injuries, accidents, or health complications that may occur during the training. Please ensure you are medically fit and adequately prepared for the demands of the session. Thank you for your understanding! See you there! Join us on social media to keep updated with our latest adventures! [https://bit.ly/m/Adventures-Unlimited](https://bit.ly/m/Adventures-Unlimited) "Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out." — Robert Collier

Whether you are looking to buy your first home or considering investing in real estate properties, this meetup is perfect for beginners in real estate investing. Book Coach Douglas for an informative session on the basics of real estate, different investment strategies and how to make the most out of your property purchase for personal use or as an investment. Take the first step towards achieving your financial goals through property ownership. Don't miss out on this opportunity to learn and grow your real estate knowledge!

You are warmly invited to an intimate dinner gathering created for **individuals who value meaningful connection, thoughtful conversation, and shared experiences.** This evening offers a relaxed yet refined space to meet new faces, exchange stories, and connect across different walks of life. Designed for those who enjoy good food, warm company, and purposeful conversations, this gathering is an opportunity to expand your social circle beyond work and everyday routines. Come together with like-minded people to reflect, connect, and build lasting friendships over a shared table. We look forward to welcoming you to **The Social Table**, where meaningful connections begin. **Location:** Lau Pa Sat - Food Folks (seatings will be in the air-conditioned area) **Attendance Policy** * Attendance is limited. If the event is full, please join the waitlist. * If you are on the waitlist, please wait for confirmation before showing up. * Walk-ins without confirmation may be turned away, even if there appears to be space. This helps us honor those who registered properly and maintain the quality of the experience. **Note:** **The Social Table is a curated community rooted in authenticity, respect, and genuine connection.** While you are welcome to exchange contacts, we encourage you to do so at your own comfort and discretion.

Singapore, are you ready? Test Automation Summit is rolling into town — and this year’s edition might be our strongest yet. Think 10+ sessions, real-world automation stories, AI-in-testing deep dives, and speakers who bring actual experience, not recycled slides. 📅 Save the date: 15th May 2026 📍Singapore Come for the insights. Stay for the conversations. Leave with fewer testing problems than you came with

\*\* **Registration** **on** **[Luma](https://luma.com/3tr7g20i)** **is** **required** \*\* A vibrant gathering of technology, creativity, and community awaits! 🌴✨ Join fellow iOS developers and enthusiasts to dive into hands-on sessions, exchange ideas, and explore new ways to craft meaningful app experiences 📱💡. Whether you're refining your skills or discovering fresh inspiration, this is your space to learn, build, and connect with like-minded creators 🤝🌍. Let’s make this summer count. 🗓 **Date & Time**: Wednesday, 13 May 2026 🕒 **Time**: 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM 📍 **Location**: Apple Developer Center, Solaris, 1 Fusionopolis Walk, L5 South Tower, Singapore 138632 🌸 What's blooming this May: * 6:00 PM: 🍕 Food, drinks & mingling with fellow devs * 7:00 PM: 🎤 10-min host intro & community updates * 7:10 PM: **Messy Notes → Action Items: 0 Token Cost, 100% On-Device - Tc Pun** What if your chaotic handwritten meeting notes could instantly become structured action items, summaries, decisions, follow-ups, and tags—with zero cloud dependency? This demo reveals how Apple’s Foundation Models framework does exactly that: raw scribbles go in, clean Swift structs come out. No APIs. No token costs. No messy text parsing. Just SwiftUI + guided generation running entirely on-device. * 7:40 PM: **Building in Public in the AI Era: ASC CLI Journey - Rudrank Riyam** I share about my journey of building ASC CLI, an unofficial App Store Connect command-line tool, in public, and how AI-driven development helped me create, maintain, and grow it faster than I imagined. I will cover my workflows of using cloud agents + automation, the reality of maintaining open-source projects, and how one CLI unexpectedly led to 14 job opportunities, 3 acquisition offers, and the decision to move from 7 years of freelancing into a full-time role in the AI era! 🧑🏻‍💻 **Speakers** **1\. Tc Pun** **2\. Rudrank Riyam** **💖 Special Thanks** A huge thank-you to Apple for their continued support of iOS Dev Scout — and to you, our amazing community, for bringing the passion and curiosity that makes every meetup bloom! Come with fresh energy and your iOS spirit — let's make 2026 a year of growth and innovation! ✨ **Can't wait to see you there!** The iOS Dev Scout Team Hiring for iOS / macOS? Let the organisers know, and we'll give you a short airtime! \*\*\* "Everyone has some things to learn. Everyone has some things to teach."- Paul Hudson. \*\*\* We welcome everyone who wants to share their iOS / macOS learnings with the Singapore community! \*\*\* **iOS Conf SG** iOSConfSG 2026 just ended, let the chefs rest but details are always available at [https://iosconf.sg](https://iosconf.sg/)! Follow us on Twitter at [@iOSDevScout](https://twitter.com/iosdevscout) and [@iOSConfSG](https://twitter.com/iOSConfSG) for the latest updates: * LinkedIn: [https://www.linkedin.com/company/iosconfsg](https://www.linkedin.com/company/iosconfsg) * Facebook: [iOSConfSG](https://www.facebook.com/iosconfsg/) * YouTube: [@iOSConfSG](https://www.youtube.com/@iOSConfSG) * Instagram: [@iOSConfSG](https://www.instagram.com/iosconfsg/) * Discord: [https://discord.gg/xqbGpcjra7](https://discord.gg/xqbGpcjra7) \*\*\*

**ANNOUNCEMENT – Registration via this [link](https://go.gov.sg/stackmeetup-14may2026-mc) only.** * Seats are on a first-come, first-served basis. * For admission into our event space, please register beforehand via GovEntry only. * Please present the QR code within your registration confirmation email upon check-in at our event space. **About this Meetup** Balancing speed and stability is a constant challenge in evolving multi-product ecosystems, where teams must make deliberate trade-offs between rapid iteration and long-term reliability. In this edition of ***STACK Meetup [Engineering]***, GovTech speakers from the ***GovWallet suite – GovEntry, GovRewards, GovSupply, and GovWallet*** – will share their grounded experiences from building and scaling across multiple products, offering a closer look at how engineering teams make decisions, prioritise effectively, and evolve systems as complexity grows. Whether you’re shaping architecture, building systems or driving delivery, gain practical perspectives on making better trade-offs, prioritising effectively, and building with greater clarity and intent. Learn with us today: **[go.gov.sg/stackmeetup-14may2026-mc](https://go.gov.sg/stackmeetup-14may2026-mc)**! Who should attend: Software engineers, backend developers, system designers, and engineering managers, who are building and scaling systems across multiple products. **Programme** 6:30pm: Networking 7:00pm: Introduction By STACK Community 7:05pm: Opening By ​Satoshi Hayashi, Lead Product Manager, Platform Products, Government Digital Products (GDP), GovTech Singapore 7:15pm: Our API-First Journey: Building the Engine Before The Car By Chia Wei Kang, Software Engineer, Government Digital Products - GovEntry, GovTech Singapore 7:35pm: The Art of Small Wins: Build Only What You Need, When You Need It By Alvin Choong, Engineering Manager, Government Digital Products - GovEntry, GovTech Singapore 7:55pm: Diving Into Various Multi-Product Use Cases and Our Learnings By Immanuella Lim, Engineering Manager, Government Digital Products - GovWallet, GovTech Singapore 8:15pm: Q&A 8:30pm: End of STACK Meetup Click **[here](https://go.gov.sg/stackmeetup-14may2026-mc)\*** to sign up! \*Registration will be accepted via GovEntry only.

Join us for an **advanced, hands-on session** focused on mastering best practices for development with Claude Code. We'll go beyond the basics to cover *planning, testing, and implementation, including deep dives into custom skills, subagents, hooks, context management, and maximising parallelisation using worktrees*. It's a walk-through of powerful agentic coding techniques on a live project, not slides about them. **What we'll cover** \- Claude Code configs\, plugins\, MCP\, and CLAUDE\.md \- The plan to review to implement workflow and why planning first prevents AI slop \- Power\-user territory: custom skills\, subagents\, and hooks\, and how to know when to reach for each \- Context management and progressive disclosure \- Worktrees: running multiple agents in parallel and trusting the output **Speakers** Aritejh — Senior Software Engineer working on agentic applications in the FinTech industry. He's used Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, and GitHub Copilot to ship agentic systems in production. Manaswini — Senior Backend Engineer passionate about tackling the hardest problems in this space. She's drawn to the start-up world and volunteers across communities to support women in tech. Eileen — Lead at Women Devs SG. She enjoys supporting others on their engineering journey and believes AI will reshape software development, pushing engineers to keep adapting how they learn, build, and think. **Who is this for?** Software developers already using Claude Code (or another agentic coding tool) who want to push their workflow further. Whether you live and breathe these tools or you're using them sometimes and want to level up, this one's for you! **What to bring** \- Your laptop with Claude Code installed beforehand\. This is hands\-on\, and we'd rather spend the time on techniques than on setup \- Your current workflow questions as there will be Q&A throughout **About the partners** Women Devs SG is a Singapore community for women developers that organizes events, mentorship, and spaces where engineers at every stage can learn from each other. General Assembly is a global learning community and our venue partner for the evening, providing the space for us to gather and build together. A community initiative by Women Devs SG, in partnership with General Assembly. Registration starts at 6:30pm and the actual session at 7pm!

Join this in-person hands-on workshop startup founders and developers to learn spec coding and build an app using spec coding in Singapore Join us for an exclusive in-person hands-on workshop on 16 May in Singapore to elevate your software development practice using Agentic Spec Coding with sam.navan.ai ### **Workshop Details:** * **Date:** 16 May (Saturday) * **Time:** 9:00 am - 11:00 am SGT * **Location:** The Working Capitol, 1 Keong Saik Road, Singapore. Map link for the venue: [https://maps.app.goo.gl/jNCzRCNXt6XyMWRe9](https://maps.app.goo.gl/jNCzRCNXt6XyMWRe9 "https://maps.app.goo.gl/jNCzRCNXt6XyMWRe9") * **Fee:** SGD 40 per participant ### **Agenda:** * Going beyond vibe coding: what is spec coding? * Difference between vibe coding & spec coding * Getting started with spec coding - tools, agents and setup * Hands-on: Building a web app using spec coding * Networking ### **Who is it for:** Startup founders and software developers ### **What you get:** * Learn Agentic Spec Coding hands-on. * Access to sam.navan.ai to build your application using agentic spec coding. * Access to SAM agents on Antigravity, Cursor, and Claude Code. * Understand how traditional software development works and how you can automate it using AI. * Learn to build your application using Agentic Spec Coding. * Networking with peers from the industry. ### **Trainer for the workshop:** Santosh Rout - Founder of navan.ai and Saaragh. Santosh is an alumnus of IIT Kanpur with over 25 years of experience in IT and AI. He has built and launched several AI and GenAI products and solutions. ### **Sponsors and Partners:** * Venue Partner: The Working Capitol: [https://www.theworkingcapitol.com/](https://www.theworkingcapitol.com/ "https://www.theworkingcapitol.com/") **Get a FREE 1-day pass at The Working Capitol's coworking space by attending this event.** ### **Organized by navan.ai:** [navan.ai](https://navan.ai/ "https://navan.ai") is an AI & Generative AI products and solutions company headquartered in Singapore with operations in Singapore and India. We also run a bootcamp to help founders to convert their ideas into scalable products using agentic spec coding. Know more about the bootcamp here: [asca.navan.ai](https://asca.navan.ai/ "https://asca.navan.ai") ### **Want to join us as a community partner? Contact Us:** For questions or further information: * **Website:** [navan.ai](https://navan.ai/ "https://navan.ai") * **Email:** varun@navan\.ai\| connect@navan\.ai * **Phone:** \+91 8655482220 \| \+65 8608 9171 ### **Register NOW to save your spot: [https://www.eventbrite.sg/e/beyond-vibe-coding-hands-on-workshop-on-spec-coding-25-apr-singapore-tickets-1986892100759](https://www.eventbrite.sg/e/beyond-vibe-coding-hands-on-workshop-on-spec-coding-25-apr-singapore-tickets-1986892100759)**

⚠️ **REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED VIA [THIS LUMA FORM](https://luma.com/numbjl55)**[ ](forms.gle/saLWmbr5XbwUX8Jp8)⚠️ SHELLgym is the regular cybersecurity workout you have been looking for! Whether you're just starting out and need some exercises, studying for a cert (hint: OSCP), looking at CTF challenges, or developing something cybersecurity-related (maybe your own automated tools?), SHELLgym aims to help you progress in picking up practical cybersecurity knowledge and skills. Come and go as you please, work on your own stuff with like-minded individuals, or just have fun during the workout! **AGENDA** Thematic activities for this session * General web frameworks and their administration * Dockerisation * Web enum and attacks * Web defences, logging and threat hunting **⚠️ NOTE** Bring your own laptops (and laptop chargers). Optional - Linux VM **TRAINER** **KK Tan — Founder, counterShell** As a mid-careerist convert to cybersecurity, **Tan KK** picked up his practical skills through getting OSCP certified and by participating in a variety of CTFs. In his career at CSIT, he performed a variety of red-teaming and vulnerability research roles and established the Cyber Training School at CSIT as the Lead Instructor. Besides the OSCP certification, KK is also OSCE and OSEE certified, and has a Bachelor's degree in Social Science (Psychology). He now sees psychology as a field of study where you fuzz humans until they produce unexpected behaviour. **SPONSORS** * VENUE SPONSOR: [CyberSG TIG Collaboration Centre](https://www.linkedin.com/company/cybersg-tig-collaboration-centre) **IMPORTANT NOTICES** * Code of Conduct: [https://www.div0.sg/code-of-conduct](https://www.div0.sg/code-of-conduct) * Terms of Use & Disclaimer Notice: [https://www.div0.sg/terms-of-use-disclaimer-notice](https://www.div0.sg/terms-of-use-disclaimer-notice)

AI Engineer is coming to Singapore - and Google DeepMind (as a sponsor of the event) also wants to contribute to its general aura of awesomeness! Talks (subject to updates...): **"Prototyping fast in Antigravity" - Ivan Leo** Ivan has been using Google Antigravity to rapidly build and prototype systems-level Zig libraries like teul and gil. He’ll walk through his actual day-to-day workflow and share the biggest lessons he's learned about steering AI when writing low-level code. Before joining Google DeepMind, Ivan worked on building agents at Manus AI (SG) before its acquisition by Meta in 2026, and so brings a practical view on what it takes to turn agent capabilities into products developers can actually use. **"Robotics Planning with Gemini" - Chaitanya Jadhav & Anurag Roy** Seizing the opportunity to do a lightning talk at the intersection of Robotics (the subject of the April MeetUp) and Gemini, Anurag and Chaitanya will demonstrate how Gemini's multimodal and reasoning capabilities can power a pipeline that converts photos of an indoor space into a map and generates executable task plans for robots with different embodiments. **"Something cool with TTS" - Martin Andrews** In this lightning talk, Martin has been playing with the Gemini Flash TTS models - and will demo both its regular API, and how it can be incorporated into various workflows. **"From Lab to Laundry: Scaling Robot Autonomy in the Real World" - Daniel Ng & Siddharth Krishnan** Google DeepMind’s ALOHA accelerated robot learning and model development, yet a gap remains between successful lab demos and robots working reliably in production. Daniel and Siddharth share their experience deploying ALOHA-based teleoperated robots in real work environments to bridge this autonomy gap; and explain why teleoperation will play key role in autonomous deployment. Apparently, there will be hardware! **FOOD UPDATE :** Google has told us that **there WILL BE** pizza at the event \-\-\- Talks will start at 7:10pm (entry at 6:45pm) and end at around 9:00pm, at which point attendees can come up to the front for a bit of a chat with each other, and the speakers. Due to some recent security incidents at the venue please take note of the new DevSpace security procedures [https://bit.ly/devspace-security](https://bit.ly/devspace-security) Attendees will not be admitted later than 15min after the talks have started. As always, we're actively looking for more speakers - both '30 minutes long-form', and lightning talks. For the lightning talks, we welcome folks to come and talk about something cool they've done with keras, PyTorch, JAX and/or Deep Learning for 5-10mins (so, if you have slides, then #max=10). We believe that the key ingredient for the success of a Lightning Talk is simply the cool/interesting factor. It doesn't matter whether you're an expert or an enthusiastic beginner: Given the responses we have had to previous talks, we're sure there are lots of people who would love to hear what you've been playing with. If you're interested in talking, please just introduce yourself to Martin at one of the events.

Customer identity resolution becomes increasingly complex as organizations scale across multiple systems, regions, and data formats. Traditional rule-based approaches often fail to keep up with data variability, require constant manual tuning, and struggle with real-time processing needs. This session presents a practical approach to building a scalable identity resolution pipeline using AWS services and modern AI techniques. The architecture combines data ingestion through Amazon S3 and AWS Glue, transformation pipelines using Spark on EMR, and machine learning models deployed via SageMaker for entity matching and standardization. Graph-based relationship modeling is implemented using Amazon Neptune to improve resolution accuracy by incorporating household and shared attribute context. We will walk through how machine learning models can be used for name and address normalization, how intelligent blocking strategies improve matching efficiency, and how feedback loops can be introduced to continuously improve accuracy. The session also highlights how serverless components such as AWS Lambda can be used for orchestration and real-time processing. **SPEAKER BIO** Mosaic Syed is a Senior Data Engineering and Cloud Solutions Architect with over 20 years of experience designing and delivering scalable, secure, and high-performance data solutions across global enterprise environments. https://www.linkedin.com/in/mosaic-basha-syed-92300856 **CALL FOR SPEAKERS** Learn more: [https://www.awscolumbus.com/get-involved/](https://www.awscolumbus.com/get-involved/) **THANK YOU** *VEEAM* for hosting our meetup! To learn more about *Veeam*, please visit their website: [https://www.veeam.com/](https://www.veeam.com/) **DIRECTIONS** 8800 Lyra Dr #450 · Columbus, OH go to 4th floor. **Want to sponsor the pizza and/or bar tab?** Please contact me if you would like to sponsor this meetup's pizza and/or bar tab: angelo@mandato.com

We will show how to build custom agents with Microsoft Agent Framework. Attendees will learn how to build and custom host agents when Microsoft Foundry is not a viable option.

Communication is everything in life You are only as successful as your ability to communicate. \- What if you could confidently talk to anyone? \- What if you had the ability to calmly control every conversation? \- What if you could close that sale\, ask for that date\, make new friends\, repair problematic relationships\, get that raise\, or effortlessly express any idea with confidence? You can! The secret to success relies on your ability or inability to effectively communicate. Attend a free seminar and gain a better ability to communicate. Hosted by the Church of Scientology of Central Ohio 1266 Dublin Road, Columbus, OH 43215 For more information, contact Rhiannon, the Event Host at 614-221-5024

**Building a great product is one thing—building momentum behind it is another.** Join **Senior Product Manager Adam Solaiman** and **User Experience Manager Tyson Smith** for a behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to turn complex ideas into scalable products inside large organizations. In this session, they’ll share how teams move from ambiguity to execution—navigating organizational complexity, aligning stakeholders, and continuously evolving products after launch. You’ll walk away with insights on how to: * Build and sustain momentum across teams * Adapt to changing priorities without losing direction * Scale products thoughtfully in complex environments Whether you're driving a new initiative or growing an existing product, this conversation will give you practical strategies to keep things moving forward. Come connect, learn, and swap stories with fellow product professionals. \-\-\- Food and drinks will be provided by Switchbox, our generous host. Free parking will be available at the front and back sides of the Switchbox Office.

Wild Ones Columbus Annual Native Plant Sale Saturday, May 23th, 2026 9:00 am to 1:00 pm (Eastern Time) Overbrook Presbyterian Church Parking Lot, 4131 N High St, Columbus, OH, 43214 Public Welcome, Family-Friendly Free Event A wide variety of native flowering plants, grasses, shrubs, and trees will be available from Wild Ones Columbus and local vendors Natives in Harmony, Leaves for Wildlife, and Scioto Gardens. Wild Ones will publish a list of plants that will be available at this year's sale closer to the event date. Be sure to stop by! Show up anytime!

Practical AI for Power BI Developers A year ago, “agentic AI” was mostly hype for Power BI teams. Today, it deserves your undivided attention. For Power BI pros, there is now a real opportunity to reduce repetitive development work, accelerate delivery, and help developers do more, but only when strong DataOps practices are in place to make AI workflows effective. This session is a no-nonsense introduction to effective AI patterns for Power BI and Fabric development. Along the way, we will make sense of the growing pile of terminology, including skills, plugins, hooks, and MCP. You will see examples of how modern AI tooling can help with development tasks across Power BI and Fabric, along with the prerequisites, guardrails, and DataOps principles needed to use it responsibly. Whether you're burned out on AI hype or already using Copilot CLI daily, this session will show you the foundations that are finally making AI-assisted development genuinely useful.

**Important time note:** Please plan on arriving between 5:30 and 6:00 as the elevators lock after 6 and you'll need to message us and we'll need to come get you. The building address is 4450 Bridge Park The entrance is 6620 Mooney St, Suite 400 You will need to scan your ID at the door to get a visitor badge. **Abstract** TBD **YouTube Link** TBD