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AWS Programming and Tools is hosting a special Kiro Night, a practical, fun, and fully hands on learning event focused on the Kiro Agentic IDE. This session is designed to be interactive and engaging, with two learning paths to choose from. A guided path will walk through the fundamentals, while an active path will have you building an application end to end. Whichever you choose, you will be coding along throughout the session. Expect a relaxed, builder friendly atmosphere with food and drinks provided. Perfect for anyone curious about agentic development or looking to learn Kiro in a practical way with the community. Bring your laptop and be ready to get hands on.

Hi Architects, Welcome to our first AWS Melbourne Well-Architected User Group Meetup for 2026, including more exceptional speakers and topics! :-D At each meetup we covered off various pillars in detail, best-practices and insights from industry leaders that specialise in the Well-Architected Framework. And giving away drones, of course. Lots of drones. Our speakers this month include: * **Mystery Speaker** **Can Cost Optimisation Improve your other pillars?** In this talk, we'll go through whether Cost Optimisation can improve your security, operational excellence, reliability, etc. and more importantly, how (spoiler alert - it can but it will be an interesting exploration). This month's menu will include: * Pizzas * Beer: Nastro Azzurro * Wine: Big and red 🤤 NB: Please check in up the stairs from the ground floor to the Mezzanine Level. So come join us at 5:30 for a 6pm **SHARP** start, followed by beer, wine, pizza and friendly networking after our talks :-)

Jewellers can hire a desk in our workshop to make or finish off their own pieces. This workshop is self run, you need to attend a health and safety induction before working daily unattended. Basic jewellery making tools are provided and some consumables such as flux, borax, tumbling polish, lathe polish and some drill bits. Aprons and safety glasses are provided, tie up loose hair, wear enclosed shoes. Please email claw.creative.studios@gmail.com for any questions or inquiries. Clara Carija, Director CLAW CREATIVE.

We're thrilled to invite you to our next Microsoft Student Accelerator event on **Wednesday, February 11th at 3:00 PM** at the **Microsoft Melbourne Office**! 🎉 Whether you're looking to understand different tech roles, strengthen your resume, or learn about what Microsoft internships look like, this meetup is for you. Join us for an engaging afternoon filled with insights, practical guidance, and opportunities to connect with industry professionals and fellow students. ## What’s on the agenda: 💬 **Intern Panel & Discussion** – Hear real experiences and insights from students who’ve navigated the internship journey. 📝 **Resume Building & Tips** – Learn practical ways to strengthen your resume and present your skills confidently. 🔦 **Role Spotlights** – Discover different tech pathways through short talks from professionals across multiple disciplines. 🤝 **Networking & Food** – Connect with peers and industry professionals to wrap up the afternoon. 📍 Microsoft Melbourne Office - Level 5, 4 Freshwater Place, Southbank VIC 3006 🗓 Wednesday, 11th February 🕒 3:00 PM – 6:00 PM (AEST) (Please note: meetup event shows time in AWST) We can't wait to see you there! 🤩 Best regards, The MSA Melbourne Team

🌿✨ **Healing Circle with Karina & Liza** ✨🌿 Join **Karina and Liza** for a supportive and heart-centred **Healing Circle** on **Wednesday 11th February**, created to gently explore **shiftful mindsets**, spiritual growth, and emotional healing. This circle offers a safe, welcoming space to pause, reflect, and realign. Through **gentle practices**, guided sharing, and intentional presence, you’ll be supported to reset your energy, reconnect with yourself, and move forward with greater clarity and balance. ✨ What to expect: • Exploration of mindset shifts • Spiritual and emotional healing • Gentle grounding and realignment practices • A calm, inclusive, and supportive environment 💫 **Cost:** $30 **cash on arrival** 🗓️ **Held every second Wednesday**, this ongoing circle is perfect for anyone seeking connection, restoration, and mindful growth — no prior experience needed. Come as you are, take what you need, and leave feeling lighter, clearer, and more aligned.

Ahead of Valentine’s Day, join us at the Atlassian Melbourne office for an Atlassian Community Event exploring modern service management - and why the best service experiences feel a lot like great relationships. In the coming months, customers using Jira Service Management (JSM) will automatically get access to the ‘Service Collection’!  This will be rolled out in phases from February to June. 2026 If you’re already using JSM, this session will help you understand what’s included and how to make the most of it. We’ll explore the Service Collection and how Jira Service Management (JSM) and Rovo AI support modern, human‑centred service teams. Tools included in the Service Collection Jira Service Management (JSM)AssetsCustomer ServiceRovo AI We’ll keep this high‑level and practical, focusing on how these tools come together rather than diving into detailed configuration. Who should attend This event is ideal for: Executive Customer Service Desk Leaders ITSM practitioners Enterprise Service Management (ESM) teams Operations & Support Managers Service & Delivery Leads Atlassian Administrators People, HR, Legal, Facilities & Internal Services teams Anyone using or exploring JSM and AI‑enabled service delivery Presenters Chloe Martin – Senior Solution Engineer, Service Collection Micky Rathod – Senior Solution Engineer, Service Collection Host Michelle Letho – Head of Partnership & Strategic Growth, Willyama Togetha (Atlassian Partner) Details: Date: 11 Feb, 2026 5:30pm – Arrival, drinks & nibbles, Valentine’s‑themed service icebreaker, group photo 6:00–7:00pm – Presentation & Q&A 7:00–7:30pm – Networking Spots are limited – RSVP required. Agenda --- Hosted By Mit Tolia, Atlassian practice & capability lead With 20 years of consulting experience, I specialize in helping organizations leverage Agile and technology to drive business outcomes. Passionate about Agile Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools, I work with enterprises to implement Atlassian solutions that foster business agility, enhance collaboration, and provide meaningful insights for informed decision-making. As an Atlassian geek, my expertise spans the entire Atlassian ecosystem, with a focus on Enterprise Strategy & Planning, Cloud Migrations, and Agile Scaling. I have extensive experience in implementing Jira Align, Jira, Confluence, and Jira Service Management (JSM)—helping teams optimize workflows, inculcate the right behaviors, and scale Agile practices from the team level to enterprise-wide adoption. Always eager to explore new possibilities in the Atlassian space, I thrive on enabling organizations to build adaptive, customer-centric solutions that embrace the future of work and to build communities to constantly learn from each other. Bonnie Emmerson, Atlassian Community Champion Andy Fleming, Atlassian Community Champion Michelle Letho, Account Executive & Networking Junkie Michelle (Miche) Letho is the Melbourne Atlassian Community Event (ACE) Champion and an Account Executive at Willyama Togetha, Australia’s only Indigenous-owned Atlassian Platinum Partner. She helps organisations imagine, build, and scale better ways of working through Atlassian solutions that boost collaboration, visibility, and impact. A member of the Transformers Unite leadership team, Miche supports national change and transformation events that bring practitioners together to learn and share. With a career spanning tech, FMCG, a Startup founder and consulting, she blends commercial know-how with curiosity and heart. If she's not at networking events, outside work, she keeps busy ubering teens at calisthenics and netball. and recharges through yoga, Pilates and hiking. --- Global Partner Atlassian (http://atlassian.com) Millions of users globally rely on Atlassian products every day for improving software development, project management, collaboration, and code quality. For over a decade, Atlassian customers have come together to network, share ideas, solve problems, and find new ways to use Atlassian products. Today, more than 15,000 people take part in Atlassian community events in more than 30 countries. --- Complete your event RSVP here: https://ace.atlassian.com/events/details/atlassian-melbourne-presents-service-collection-hearts-tickets-amp-happy-teams/.

Join the Docker Melb Crew for a deep dive into the next frontier of AI: **Agentic Systems**. We are moving beyond simple chatbots to discuss how to build, containerize, and deploy autonomous agents that can plan, reason, and act. This session brings together Melbourne’s engineers and architects to discuss the unique challenges of running multi-agent workflows. We will explore how containerization provides the isolation and scalability needed for complex agentic architectures. **🚀 Powered by: The DGX Spark** We will demonstrate what happens when Agentic AI meets extreme compute. See how agent workloads perform when accelerated by the **NVIDIA DGX Spark** (GB10 Blackwell / CUDA 13). We will look less at the metal and more at how this level of throughput unlocks real-time reasoning and massive parallel agent execution and prototyping. **📅 Agenda:** * **Networking & Food:** Connect with the local AI and Cloud-Native community. * **Topic 1:** **Prototyping Local AI Agents with Docker and DGX Spark** Learn how to use the Docker ecosystem to build private, powerful AI agents that live on your own hardware, by [Thiago Shimada Ramos](https://www.linkedin.com/in/thiago4go/), Docker Captain * **Topic 2: First Steps with Containers** Short, fast-paced lightning talks from new Docker users sharing their first projects. * **Containerised ELT Architecture** * *Speaker:* [Rodrigues Lopes](https://www.linkedin.com/in/rodrigueslopesdataarchiect/), Data Architect (D2i Consulting) * *What you will learn:* A real-world guide to Modern Data Architecture * **Socializing:** Huge networking opportunity to discuss your AI stacks. **📍 Logistics:** * **Date:** Thursday, February 12, 2026 * **Location:** Microsoft Office, Melbourne * **Time:** 5:30 PM (Doors Open) **Who should attend?** AI Engineers, DevOps professionals, and System Architects looking to build and scale autonomous agent systems using modern container standards.

Hello everyone! Join us for an Apache Kafka® x Apache Flink® meetup on **Feb 12th from 5:30pm**, in Melbourne! The address, agenda, and speaker information can be found below. See you there! **📍Venue**: 394 High Street Northcote, Victoria 3070 \*\*\* **🗓 Agenda:** * 5:30pm: Doors open * 5:30pm - 6:00pm: Pizza, Drinks, and Networking * 6:00pm - 6:30pm: Haswin Vidanage, Senior Product Engineer, Papercut Software * 6:30pm - 7:00pm: Zhengwen Peng, Staff Technical Support Engineer, Confluent * 7:00pm - 7:30pm: Additional Networking \*\*\* **💡 Speaker:** Haswin Vidanage, Senior Product Engineer, Papercut Software **Talk:** Incremental Microservices Migration Using Change Data Capture (CDC) **Abstract:** This session will focus on how teams can migrate to microservices without disrupting their roadmaps. **Bio:** Haswin Vidanage is a Senior Product Engineer, Papercut Software. With over ten years of experience in full-stack development and microservices architecture, Haswin is passionate about designing scalable software solutions, advocating for engineering best practices, and enhancing developer productivity. \-\-\-\-\- **💡 Speaker:** Zhengwen Peng, Staff Technical Support Engineer, Confluent **Talk:** All you need to know about Kafka Transaction **Abstract:** In this session, we will be covering: 1. Why we need Kafka transaction. 2. How it works under the hood. 3. Some facts that the developer should be aware. **Bio:** Zhengwen is the staff technical support engineer at Confluent where he possess a wide and in-depth knowledge with Confluent’s products, particularly on data streaming with Flink and Kafka. \*\*\* If you would like to speak or host our next event please let us know! community@[confluent.io](http://confluent.io/)

In this session, we’ll explore our internal emotional landscapes using colours, lines, shapes, symbols, and gestures. While language can help us label feelings, there are often deeper nuances and meanings that emerge when we allow ourselves to create freely. This is a quiet and reflective time for you to inquire into and connect with what you’re feeling beneath the surface through intuitive mark-making and creative play. Whether you're feeling emotionally overwhelmed, creatively blocked, or simply curious, this workshop offers a gentle invitation to slow down and listen inward. We will open up space for discussion: * What was the art making process like for us? * What do these emotions mean to us? * How do they relate to one another? * How have our relationship with them evolved over time and how might we want to continue to relate to them? No art experience necessary—just a curious and open body-mind. **Please try to arrive 15 mins before so you can find the Magic School Bus Room** and we can start promptly at 5pm :) There will be a 10 minutes grace as life, weather and traffic can sometimes surprise us but doors will close at 510pm. Please put in the promo code CONCESSION if you are facing financial hardship for a discounted ticket price of $25. **Please note:** * This is a creative wellbeing workshop informed by art therapy but is not intended as a substitute for individual or group therapy, which usually involves a deeper exploration of your personal history and beliefs, intentional collaboration and the building of a therapeutic relationship. It is also not intended for emergency crisis support or intervention. * If you are willing to allow me to take photos of you and/or artworks for my learning purposes and to allow others who have not experienced the workshop to get a sense of what it like, please let me know at the start of the session and I would greatly appreciate it! * If you are facing financial hardship and the concession price is still difficult, please contact me at greenhouse.arttherapy@gmail.com No one will be turned away.

RSVP at https://www.meetup.com/melbourne-docker-user-group/events/312985492/ Join the Docker Melb Crew for a deep dive into the next frontier of AI: **Agentic Systems**. We are moving beyond simple chatbots to discuss how to build, containerize, and deploy autonomous agents that can plan, reason, and act. This session brings together Melbourne’s engineers and architects to discuss the unique challenges of running multi-agent workflows. We will explore how containerization provides the isolation and scalability needed for complex agentic architectures. **🚀 Powered by: The DGX Spark** We will demonstrate what happens when Agentic AI meets extreme compute. See how agent workloads perform when accelerated by the **NVIDIA DGX Spark** (GB10 Blackwell / CUDA 13). We will look less at the metal and more at how this level of throughput unlocks real-time reasoning and massive parallel agent execution and prototyping.

We're back for 2026! Our regular monthly presentation night on the second Thursday of the month from 6:30pm! Thanks to Mantel Group for hosting us again this month. If you're coming in person we're there with food and drinks from 6pm. We will be live streaming the presentations as usual from 6:30pm at [http://www.melbournecocoaheads.com/live](http://www.melbournecocoaheads.com/live) \-\-\- **Agenda** \| 6:00pm \| Food \+ Networking \| \| 6:30pm \| Event begins\. Introductions \| \| 6:40pm \| Andrew Murphy — Causes of Colour: More than meets the eye \| \| 7:15pm \| TBC \| \| 7:55pm \| Wrap up \+ social time at a nearby venue \| \* All times are approximate. Presentation order will be confirmed on the night. \-\-\-\- We are always looking for speakers and believe everyone has an interesting talk hiding inside themselves. If you are interested in letting that talk out at a future event you can get in touch on the website [https://www.melbournecocoaheads.com/talks](https://www.melbournecocoaheads.com/talks) or on Slack.

### **The Vibe** Are you curious about AI and automation, or are you already building complex workflows in **n8n**? Join us for a casual, after-work gathering in the heart of the Melbourne CBD. This is an "open floor" event—no rigid slides or formal pitches. Just a group of locals grabbing a drink and talking about how we use n8n to reclaim our time and supercharge our businesses. ### **Who This Is For** * **The Curious/Newbie:** If you’ve heard of n8n but haven't started yet, come see what’s possible. No question is too basic! * **The Pro/Builder:** Share your latest "Agentic" workflows, swap tips on self-hosting, or help troubleshoot a tricky expression. * **The Business Owner:** See how Melbourne SMEs are using automation to handle lead gen, reporting (Looker Studio), and internal apps (AppSheet)

### Tools in your AI's Toolbox : An introduction to MCP Servers The generative AI revolution has unlocked unprecedented capabilities, but the next frontier is agency: empowering models to interact with, query, and act upon the world. The current challenge is the “N x M integration problem,” where every AI model requires a custom, brittle integration for each external tool or data source. This approach simply doesn’t scale. How can we give an AI access to our sales leads, code repositories, or IoT devices in a standardized, secure, and reusable way? This session introduces Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP), the open-source framework designed to solve this challenge and become the universal connector—the USB-C port—for AI. MCP standardizes how AI models discover and use external tools, moving beyond simple function-calling to a robust, client-server architecture. We will dive into how this open protocol is creating a new ecosystem for building powerful, context-aware AI agents. Join this session for a developer-focused introduction where you will learn how to: Understand the core concepts of the open-source Model Context Protocol and its architecture. Utilize pre-built, open-source MCP servers to instantly connect AI to tools like Git, Slack, and databases. Build a custom MCP server to securely expose your own proprietary data and APIs as tools for any compliant AI. Move beyond bespoke integrations and contribute to a standardized, collaborative, and open ecosystem. Stop building one-off connectors and start building intelligent agents. This session will give you the practical knowledge to leverage MCP and create the next generation of AI that doesn’t just talk, but does. Want to be a speaker? submit your talk to our Call for Presenters!!! [https://sessionize.com/azure-cbus-2026/](https://sessionize.com/azure-cbus-2026/)

Google is leading the AI revolution—don't miss your chance to stay ahead of the curve. Join GDG Cloud Indy for an immersive session where we bridge the gap between AI experimentation and enterprise production. We are thrilled to feature two expert-led deep dives into the Google AI ecosystem, designed for Cloud Architects, Developers, and AI enthusiasts alike. **The Lineup:** **11:00 AM \|** **Getting Started with Google Gemini** Speaker: Vaidehi S. Tripathi\*\*,\*\* Cloud Advisor, GDE, GDG Organizer (Cloud Indy) Focus: A walk-through of Gemini and multimodal models to boost daily productivity. **11:30 AM \|** **Google AI Studio vs. Vertex AI: The Path to GenAI** Speaker: Olga Scrivner, PhD, Google Cloud & GenAI Leader, WTM Ambassador, IEEE Humanitarian Tech Chair (Indy) Focus: Navigating the journey from rapid prototyping in AI Studio to production-ready deployments in Vertex AI. **The Perks:** 🎁 Exclusive GDG Swag for attendees! 🍕 Pizza & Soft Drinks (for in-person guests). 🤝 Networking & Q&A with local industry leaders. **Meeting Link:** meet.google.com/wia-ygtn-fmc Also, Check our Meetup page at https://www.meetup.com/gdgcloudindy/ See you there! This is a hybrid event. Join the event virtually at: https://gdg.community.dev/events/details/google-gdg-cloud-indy-presents-level-up-your-ai-game-with-google-gemini/ or in person at: Zionsville Town Hall - 1100 West Oak Street Zionsville, 46077 *** *** **About the Speakers :** **Olga Scrivner -** PhD\*\*,\*\* a certified Google Cloud and GenAI Leader, IEEE Humanitarian Technologies Chair (Central Indiana), and Women Tech Makers Ambassador In this talk, we’ll walk through Google’s primary generative AI platforms: **Google AI Studio** and **Vertex AI**. We’ll explore what each tool is designed for and how developers typically begin their journey with Google’s AI ecosystem. Using **Google AI Studio**, we’ll demonstrate how you can experiment with Google’s **Gemini models** to create and test ideas, from text generation to image and video creation. We’ll also discuss how these early experiments can later connect to **Vertex AI** for production use cases. **Vaidehi Tripathi** \- Elevance Health \(Cloud Advisor\) Founder and Organizer GDG Cloud Indy. Google Developer Expert-GDE. Vaidehi is a Cloud Advisor at Elevance Health (Formally Anthem) and before that worked as Solution Architecture Manager in Accenture focused on designing solution based on Google Cloud Platform. Vaidehi is a Google certified Architect, Data, Network, Security, Developer, DevOps and Machine Learning Engineer. **Hosted By :** Vaidehi Tripathi, GDG Organizer Complete your event RSVP here: https://gdg.community.dev/events/details/google-gdg-cloud-indy-presents-level-up-your-ai-game-with-google-gemini/.

**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 **Abstract** TBD **YouTube Link** TBA

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Want to be a speaker? submit your talk to our Call for Presenters!!! https://sessionize.com/cbus-hug-2026/

Attend a free seminar on how to have successful and lasting relationships. At this seminar you will learn: How to spot and handle negative and toxic relationships. How to get through the "rough patches" in a relationship. How to choose the right people to work with. The three things that make or break any relationship. How to make a good relationship great. All are welcome. Be sure to click on the red "Attend" button below to come to this local event. We look forward to seeing you there. Hosted by the Dianetics and Scientology Life Improvement Center of Central Ohio.

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