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A mix of dance classes, connections & laughter! We love offering a diverse range of moves to keep things fresh and exciting, and it’s always amazing to see our dance community connecting on and off the dance floor. It’s all about coming together, learning, and having fun! Brighton Beach Bowls Club 2B South Rd Brighton 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm Beginner & Intermediate levels $25 CASH or PAYID

Join Queer Meditation Melbourne for an evening of self-exploration and mindfulness in a safe and inclusive space. Start the event with a guided meditation session focused on promoting wellness, positive thinking, and spiritual growth. Connect with like-minded individuals from the LGBT community and enjoy meaningful conversations that nurture self-empowerment and consciousness. After the meditation practice, we will engage in social activities, promoting healthy living and dining out experiences. This event is designed for gay men and gay and lesbian friends who are looking to nurture their spiritual journey while building connections within the community. Come together to foster a sense of belonging and support each other in a space that celebrates diversity and self-care.

**Struggling with study or learning? You’re not alone.** This meetup suits people at all levels of study skill. Too many children, teenagers, and adults find studying difficult—not because they lack ability, but because they were never taught **how to learn**. This meetup introduces the basics of **Study Technology**—a practical, proven approach that shows how learning really works and how to overcome common study barriers. It applies to children, teens (and parents), teachers, and adults alike. You’ll discover simple, effective methods to improve understanding, confidence, and performance—whether at school, work, or online. Teachers and parents often see rapid improvements in both behaviour and results. Yes, it *is* possible to improve study performance—in just **five easy steps**. If you can’t attend in person, online options are available. **Join us and learn how to study effectively—once and for all.** See you at the meetup, **Pam** When learning clicks, confidence follows.

**Sahaja Yoga Meditation** offers free, guided collective meditation sessions for everyone. Each class includes a simple introduction to meditation, basic techniques for inner balance, and a short talk or discussion on a topic of the day. These meditation classes are suitable for **complete beginners** and **regular meditators**. No prior knowledge or experience is required. **Chairs are provided**, and there are **no physical exercises, postures, or special clothing** needed. Classes usually run for **60 to 90 minutes**, and **no booking is required**. Every session is free and led by volunteers who share Sahaja Yoga to help others experience peace, balance, and self-realisation.

Calling all \*\*female-identifying, non-binary and gender diverse \*\* filmmakers, actors, and film enthusiasts! Join us at **6pm** **Monday July 6th (the first Monday of every month)** at the Motley Bauhaus (NEW LOCATION) for a chance to build relationships in the film community. This event is an expansion of the very successful **Movie Mutuals Wednesday Night Networking group** which has grown remarkably, with a weekly turnout of over 50 participants, blending newcomers with regulars to create a vibrant, diverse community. Whether you’re a writer, actor, animator, or independent filmmaker, come share your experiences, discuss current projects, or chat about favourite films. This event fosters connections among like-minded women, non-binary and gender diverse people, encourages friendships, and opens doors for collaboration. **RSVP** to help us gauge attendance. You will become part of a growing network of film professionals and enthusiasts. **What to Expect:** *There’s no set theme, workshop, or speaker. It’s a relaxed gathering where filmmakers, actors, and creatives can connect, discuss projects, share needs, and learn from each other. Beyond this networking event, we also host weekly Wednesday night meetups, exclusive events such as table reads, cinematography workshops with Panasonic, member screenings, and more.* \*Note: Our community emphasizes collaboration, friendship, and goodwill rather than promotional activities. If you wish to promote a workshop, course, screening, or similar event, please contact the organizers first. Promotional privileges are generally reserved for trusted, long-standing members.

🤠 Monday nights — Boot Scootin’ Hustle (Line Dancing) Line dancing is an absolute blast — upbeat, energetic, and surprisingly addictive! Wonderfully warm, welcoming vibe — the kind of people you’ll want to dance with every week. Whether you’re a total beginner or just looking for somewhere fun to move, you’d fit right in! Brighton Beach Bowls Club 2B South Rd Brighton 6:00 pm – 6:45 pm $15 CASH or PAYID July Sale = 6 x line dancing classes for $65

In this hands-on workshop, you'll go from raw embeddings to a fully deployed, production-ready RAG agent on AWS — no prior RAG or AgentCore experience needed. We'll build a real document Q&A system, stage by stage: * **Basic RAG from scratch** — embed documents yourself with Amazon Titan Text Embeddings V2, store them in a local FAISS index, retrieve with cosine similarity, and generate answers with Claude. * **Bedrock Knowledge Bases** — swap the DIY pipeline for a fully managed service that handles chunking, embedding, and indexing (OpenSearch Serverless) from an S3 data source, with hybrid search and metadata filtering. Compare the results against your hand-built version. * **AgentCore Agent** — wrap your RAG into a Strands agent, containerize it, push to ECR, and deploy to AgentCore Runtime with session isolation, auto-scaling, and streaming. * **Production hardening** — add AgentCore Memory for conversation continuity, instrument with OpenTelemetry for traces in CloudWatch, run a RAG evaluation suite, and expose your knowledge base as a Gateway MCP tool. By the end you'll have a deployed, invokable RAG agent on AgentCore Runtime — with memory, full observability, and a real feel for the tradeoffs at every layer, from local FAISS to managed production. What to bring: * Laptop with Python 3.11+ (managed via uv) and AWS CLI v2 installed * An AWS account Skill level: Intermediate — some Python and basic AWS familiarity helpful. No prior RAG or agent development experience required.

Sunday evening meditation from 5.30 - 6.30. Join us in our cosy centre in Carlton North. Whether you are new to meditation or an experienced practitioner you are welcome at these relaxed and informal sessions. Simple instructions are provided and you can sit in a chair or on a cushion. Masks optional but not mandated. Bring your own sealed drink bottle. $10 for workers or $5 for concession. Browse our shop for books, incense and dharma items. Find out what our Centre is offering 803 Nicholson Street, Carlton North. Website: https://melbourne.rigpa.org.au/

IMPORTANT: PLEASE RSVP ON BEVY FROM THIS LINK: https://gdg.community.dev/events/details/google-gdg-melbourne-presents-gdg-melbourne-build-with-ai-event-july/ Join GDG Melbourne this month to Build with AI (#BuildwithAI)? 💻 What do you need to bring? * Make sure to bring your laptop (better if fully charged) for hands-on training. Also, check the workshop descriptions and prerequisites to stay ahead of the game! Join us for an evening of interesting talks/hands-on workshops, delicious food, awesome networking, and some surprise swag you won’t want to miss. 🎉 Whether you're a seasoned developer, a cloud enthusiast, or just dipping your toes into the world of AI and tech, this is the place to be. 📍 Where? Mantel Group Office, Level 2/452 Flinders St, Melbourne Doors open at 5:45 PM—message us on Meetup or Slack if you're arriving after 6:00 PM, as the lifts won’t let you up. 🎤 Agenda: 6:15 - 6:30 Welcome & Intro 6:30 - 6:55 Talk: Building Agentic Applications with Google ADK and MCP Servers - Dr. Poo Kuan Hoong (GDE) 6:55 - 7:05 Break 7:05- 8:00 Workshop: Build with AI Studio and Antigravity - Brett Morgan (Googler) 8:00 - 8:15 Closing and Door prizes From 8:15 Continue networking, chat & drinks at Insignia on Flinders, 502 Flinders St. 🍻 Talk: Building Agentic Applications with Google ADK and MCP Servers - Dr. Poo Kuan Hoong (GDE) Agentic AI is moving beyond simple chatbots into systems that can reason, use tools, retrieve context, and take meaningful actions. In this session, we will explore how to build agentic applications using Google’s Agent Development Kit (ADK) and connect them to official Google MCP Servers. Participants will learn the core concepts behind agents, tools, and the Model Context Protocol (MCP), followed by a live demo showing how an AI agent can interact with services such as BigQuery and Google Maps. This session is designed for students and developers who want to understand how modern AI applications are built using real-world Google technologies. Workshop: Build with AI Studio and Antigravity - Brett Morgan (Googler) Got a great product idea but no time to write thousands of lines of code? Welcome to the era of "vibe coding". This beginner-friendly session introduces you to the combined power of Google AI Studio and Antigravity, a revolutionary development ecosystem that builds full-stack applications straight from natural language instructions. Perfect for product managers, founders, developers and creators, this workshop breaks down how to orchestrate autonomous AI agents to handle the heavy engineering lifting while you focus purely on features and user experience. Bring your laptop and your best ideas - let’s build and deploy together. 🎁 What’s in it for you? ⚡Workshop on AI from industry experts 🍕 Cloud-shaped snacks (okay, maybe not literally, but the food will be delicious!) 🤝 Networking that’s as smooth as a well-architected cloud solution 🎁 Surprise swag 💡 NOTES: This is an in-person-only event, but if you have any accessibility requirements, reach out to us via Meetup or Slack, and we’ll do our best to accommodate you. Doors open at 5:45 PM at our host, the Mantel Group, Level 2/452 Flinders S,t Melbourne. Message via Meetup or Slack if you are arriving after 6:00, as the lifts won't let you up. Don’t miss this epic night of learning, networking, and fun! RSVP now and we’ll see you there! 👋 #gdgMelbourne #BuildwithAI #fluttermelbourne Agenda *** Speakers Dr. Poo Kuan Hoong - Data Engineering Lead @ Roche (Google Developer Expert - AI/ML) Dr. Poo, with 15 years of academic and research experience, specializes in Data Engineering, Big Data Analytics, and scalable data systems. As Section Lead for Data & Analytics (Data Engineering) at Roche, he designs robust data platforms that drive advanced analytics and AI at scale. Brett Morgan - Google Australia (DevRel Engineer) Brett builds samples, codelabs, documentation and other fun things to encourage developers to use Flutter and Dart to the fullest. Hailing from Sydney, Australia, he has worked across the entire range of companies from Australia’s largest bank to secretive startups. His interests include all things technical, from mastering Sous Vide cooking in the kitchen to embedded programming on the RP 204… Hosted By Katie Barnett, GDE Android / GDG Organiser Katie is passionate about all things Android. She has taken on a wide variety of challenging projects including in the live event, media and travel space. Her favourite thing is to see someone having a delightful experience using something she has worked on. Katie is very active in the development community, she is a Google Developer Expert for Android, one of the organisers of GDG Melbourne and is a Women Techmakers Ambassador. She frequently runs events, speaks on technical and non-technical topics and enjoys writing blog posts to share her experience with others. Katie is based in Melbourne, Australia but loves to travel the world and outside of tech she enjoys boardgaming and attempting to finish many craft projects. Suesi Tran, Senior Flutter Developer Google Developer Expert in Dart, Flutter & Firebase, Women Techmaker Melbourne ambassador, GDG Melbourne & Flutter Melbourne co-organiser. In short: Flutter is love, and mobile is life. Poornima Sivakumar, GDG Organiser Lovee Jain, GDG Organiser Lovee is a Software Engineer at Prezzee, a GDG Melbourne Organiser and also a Women Techmakers Ambassador. A tech inquisitive philomath, she loves problem solving and solution design. She has worked at a city council where she developed a lot of useful system integrations and while at Prezzee she develops and works on multiple gift card solutions to cater the B2B2C market. Zach Jensz, GDG Organiser Passionate about the web, seamless UX and accessibility. I love attending meetups, find me and come say hi! Ujjawal Raj, GDG Organiser Bramley Turner-Jones, GDG Organiser Yuba Raj (UV) Panta, GDG Organiser Kartik Arora, Android Engineer Google Developer Expert in Android Android Engineer @ Bilue Carolyn Ai Chi Wong, Complete your event RSVP here: https://gdg.community.dev/events/details/google-gdg-melbourne-presents-gdg-melbourne-build-with-ai-event-july/.

We are excited to host Andrew and Bill for our next Melb.NET event where we discuss how to resolve P1 incidents using AI, Context & Data the right way, and why Logic Apps and Azure Functions are awesome for integration workloads. **Agenda:** * 5:30pm arrival - Food and drinks provided in-person * 6pm kickoff - Welcome & Introduction and few words from our Sponsors - 10 min * 6:10pm - Session 1 * 6.45pm - Session 2 **Session 1:** P1 Incident Resolution with AI, Context & Data by [Andrew Rickard](https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-rickard-2600594/) A real client. A real P1 incident. A production issue that needed answers fast. This session tells the story of how a critical incident was investigated and resolved using an AI-assisted approach grounded in the right context, relevant system knowledge and raw operational data. We’ll explore what worked, what mattered, and why AI was useful not because it “knew the answer”, but because it helped connect the dots across logs, system behaviour, client context and engineering judgement. **Session 2:** Why Azure Logic Apps are Better for Integration Workloads by [Bill Chesnut](https://www.linkedin.com/in/billchesnut/) Bill's talk will detail how features of Azure Logic Apps make them the best choice for Integration workloads. As we all know, integration workload tends to be the most volatile because we typically control only the source or the destination, not both. We will look at the Design, Development, Deployment, and Support aspects of Azure Logic Apps and Azure Functions to determine how they fit with integration workload. **Hosts:** * [William Liebenberg](https://www.linkedin.com/in/william-liebenberg/) \- Microsoft \.NET MVP \| Consultant at Arinco * [Bron Thulke](https://www.linkedin.com/in/bronthulke/) \- Microsoft \.NET MVP \| CTO / Co\-Founder at YouLi * [Bill Chesnut](https://www.linkedin.com/in/billchesnut/) \- Microsoft Azure MVP \| Consultant at SixPivot **Sponsors:** We have some amazing sponsors that help make this event possible: * [Arinco](https://arinco.com.au/) \- Venue\, Food and Drinks **Location:** In-Person at Arinco Melbourne. Level 6 / 440 Collins Street, Melbourne CBD 🗣 Apply to speak now: [https://bit.ly/melb-dotnet-cfp](https://bit.ly/melb-dotnet-cfp)

Hi Gophers! We're at Stile Education this July. Join us to explore the essential infrastructure of modern AI, featuring David Leadbeater on securing AI agents through advanced sandboxing techniques and Sahil Devkota on building accurate, real-world applications using Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). * **Agenda** **5.45pm — Food & Networking** **6:30pm — Intro** **6:45pm — Talks** **8.00pm — Wrap up then head out for kick ons** * **Talks** 🎤 **David Leadbeater** **Sandboxing in the age of AI** Sandboxing is more important than ever, with AI agents running code everywhere. This talk will look at options from VMs to "self isolation" such as with Landlock (using go-landlock). 🎤 **Sahil Devkota** **Why to use RAG?** In this talk, I'll break down 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. We'll also briefly explore the fundamentals of Agentic RAG, how it extends traditional RAG by allowing AI systems to reason, plan and make decisions about what information to retrieve and when. While this won't be a deep dive into Agentic RAG, you'll gain a practical understanding of the concepts and how they fit into the evolving AI landscape. Whether you're working with AI or building application that need accurate responses, you'll leave with a practical understanding of when RAG make sense - and when it doesn't. \* **Interested in speaking at an upcoming event?** We will aim to have a mix of short (\~10min) and in-depth (20-30min) talks. If you’re keen to give a talk on a topic, share a project, or idea, please let us know [bit.ly/GolangMelbourneSpeakersForm](https://bit.ly/GolangMelbourneSpeakersForm)

Hello all, It's been a little while, but we're excited to finally get everyone together again for our first meetup of the year. We hope to see both familiar faces and newcomers alike! On **9th July 2026 at 6:00 PM**, we'll be meeting at **[Apas Canteen](https://maps.app.goo.gl/UgZkfnqxtoHkTxVP8)**. We picked this spot and look forward to catching up over some great food and conversation. 📢 **A quick update:** We're still using Meetup for now, but we're not sure how much longer we'll have this space. We're exploring alternative platforms and will keep everyone updated if anything changes. In the meantime, Meetup remains the best place to RSVP and stay informed about upcoming events. 🚨*There's NO BOOKING. If you're the first to arrive, please grab a table for the group and post a picture of the table's location in the comments of this meetup event. We'll use it to locate each other. (If you don't see a post, you're lucky first. Please grab us a table and post a pic. 😉)* Please remember to update your RSVP if you can no longer attend, even if it's just 30 minutes beforehand. It'll help whoever arrives first know how big a table to get. We do take note of no-shows, and to make sure we've got space for those who actually attend, your RSVP may be deprioritised for future events. **If you're having trouble finding us**, send a message to [Dan on Signal](https://signal.me/#eu/4yti0PmJCFvXhLH_vmLcxO7Xy3VAM_yY9wRhOQCA1qn7UqWh1nFBa4rNCccfHyhW) or [Gyle on Signal](https://signal.me/#eu/i0oZi6pmvttc3E_NXOFH1HVSj8MuB2PCurXqP7aDZTxDlv4EXJRBX7EmvWfEekuh). See you there. More details on the format, and what to expect below: **The Practitioner's Roundtable** It's a monthly meetup, for AppSec/ProdSec practitioners to participate discussing AppSec/ProdSec topics and share knowledge. There's no speakers, or sponsors; just a facilitator, with the expectation that you'll join the conversations. Broadly, the idea is that you're swinging by after work, for a regular catch-up with our peers over dinner (with F&B at your own cost) with a known format. \-\-\- **So, what's happening?** The format: 1. At 6pm all attendees arrive, and order (and pay for) their own meals - we'll do the rest while waiting for the meals to arrive and as we eat. 2. All attendees write down on a card 1-2 AppSec/ProdSec related topics they'd like to discuss. 3. We'll all each cast 3 votes on the cards we'd like to discuss. 4. We'll sort the cards, and discuss the topics with the top 3-4 highest votes. Starting with the topic with the highest votes. 5. After 5(?) minutes, we all decide if we'd like to continue or move on to the next topic. 6. If we continue, after 15(?) minutes, we all move on to the next topic of discussion. 7. At 7pm, we wrap up and officially end. Before everyone leaves, we vote on the next restaurant that we'll meet at. This is[ inspired by Lean Coffee](https://agilecoffee.com/leancoffee/), and intended for participants to be collaborators in the conversation focused on AppSec & ProdSec topics. *You are expected to participate in the AppSec/ProdSec conversations constructively if you attend*. This isn't the place for BizDev focused conversations. For the location selection, here are the considerations we work with: 1. It must be within 1 "city block" of the Melbourne Free Tram Zone. 2. The typical price for a whole meal (without alcohol) should be under $50 per person. 3. It must allow individual orders - you'd be ordering and paying for your own meal. 4. It will need to have seating space for the group to say, just walk-in to the restaurant ( this may change if it grows beyond 10 regular attendees ). 5. It must be quiet enough for us to have meaningful conversations. 6. It must not be a restaurant we've been to in the past 6 months. (Just to keep things fresh ) Also, although we use the word “restaurant” this is used broadly to mean food establishment - if we’re all keen on hitting up a decent kebab place, that works. As a courtesy to the venue, there's an expectation that you'd order something there.

You can sleep in on the Semiquincentennial (observed), we’re shifting to the following Friday. But join the local UX community for a chat and some biscuits to catch up. If you were in CA for Figma Config, tell us all the lines and you can tell me how I can animate an SVG without coding it by hand, and why I’d even want to. Thanks to the team at Nationwide of supporting the group.

Ciao a tutt\*! Let's meet Monday at 6.30pm at the Upper Arlington Library (Tremont Branch) in **Meeting Room A** to speak in Italian for 1 hour.

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

Highlights and Hidden Gems in SQL Server 2025 With so much emphasis on cloud data platforms and AI these days, SQL people can feel left behind by all the marketing hype. SQL Server 2025 was officially released in November of 2025, though, and contains a ton of improvements that will make our SQL Server deployments a bit faster, better, and more secure. There are even more improvements tucked into the release that never made a marketing blog or press release that you'll likely be learning about for the first time in this session! Join this session to learn about what makes your high availability a little more available, your performance a bit more performant, and your database more developer and app-friendly. Come spend an hour with SQL people talking SQL Server 2025 – the good, the "not quite ready for prime time", and the hidden awesomeness.

All levels of Meditators or welcome. In person or on Facebook Live! There will be instructions and inspiration for new inexperienced meditators. The hosts, meditators and Kriya Yoga initiates for over 50 years, are direct disciples of Yogacharya J. Oliver Black one of Paramahansa Yogananda's most advanced male disciples. He is the founder of Golden Lotus, Inc., which owns & operates 'Song of the Morning' an 800 acre Yoga Retreat Northest of Gaylord, MI on the Pigeon River. Paramahansa Yogananda founded Self Realization Fellowship, headquartered in Los Angeles, CA and is the author of the Spritual Classic, 'Autobiography of a Yogi.'

Topic to be announced. **CALL FOR SPEAKERS** Learn more: 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/ **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