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Team on Tour Highlights | ACE Melbourne Breakfast
Atlassian 'Team on Tour' Highlights | ACE Melbourne Breakfast
Unpack what’s new across Atlassian’s System of Work and what it means for your team.
Breakfast and Rustica coffee included.
Curious about what’s changing across Atlassian’s System of Work?
Join us for a breakfast session unpacking the key takeaways from Team on Tour Sydney. We’ll explore what’s new, what’s evolving, and what it means in practice across delivery, service, marketing and operations teams.
This session brings together Atlassian perspectives and real-world practitioner insights, with space to compare notes and connect with others navigating similar challenges.
Limited spots to keep it interactive.
🎤 Panel Speakers
Chris Fok (Atlassian)https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisfok/
Andrew Meek (Atlassian)https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewmeek/
Michelle Letho (ACE Champion Melbourne)https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelleletho/
Andy Fleming (ACE Champion Melbourne)https://www.linkedin.com/in/aussieflem/
Juan du Toit (ACE Community Member Melbourne)https://www.linkedin.com/in/juandutoit/
Ryan Sztanski ACE (Community Member Melbourne)https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryansztanski/
📅 Event Details
Date: Tuesday 31 MarchArrival: 7:30amStart: 7:45am sharp
🥐 Breakfast provided
☕ Coffee voucher for Rustica Café downstairs
👥 Who Should Attend
Anyone looking to improve workflows and business value streams to stay competitive
Teams across delivery, service, marketing, operations and transformation
Jira admins and practitioners
Jira admins - bring a business or team peer to compare notes and connect the dots together!
Come for the insights. Stay for the conversation.
Agenda
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Hosted By
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.
Abbas Heidari, Engineer
With an IT career spanning over 30 years, I have always been passionate about bridging the gap between technical architecture and human collaboration. My journey began in 1995 in software engineering, and after completing my Master of Information Systems at the University of Melbourne, I transitioned my focus to the Atlassian ecosystem in 2015.
Currently, I serve as the Atlassian SME at Woolworths Group. Working within a high-impact team, I focus on delivering enterprise-grade solution consulting and sustainable governance to support thousands of users across a complex, large-scale environment.
I am particularly dedicated to:
■ Enterprise Solution Consulting
Architecting the Atlassian product lifecycle to meet the intricate, scalable needs of the Woolworths Group.
■ Community Leadership
Since last year, I have led the Atlassian CUG (Company User Group) within Woolworths, fostering a culture of knowledge-sharing and cross-functional best practices.
■ Product Influence
Active participation in Atlassian’s Early Access Programmes (EAPs), providing direct feedback to help shape the future of the tools we use every day.
■ Governance & Enablement
Establishing frameworks that balance operational efficiency with internal security while empowering teams through specialised training.
I believe the strength of the Atlassian suite lies in the community behind it. I’m always keen to exchange ideas on governance, scalability, and how to build a thriving internal user community.
Andy Fleming, Lead DevOps Engineer
G’day everyone, I’m Andy from Melbourne (Australia) and I've been a Community Champion since late 2025.
I’ve been an Atlassian geek since around 2008 when I started using Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, Bamboo, Fisheye and Crucible for my startup, and have been in a number of Atlassian Admin and advocacy roles across multiple industries since then.
Primarily a Developer and DevOps guy in office hours, I love tinkering with a new tool or process and working out how it can help teams do what they’re doing better, with more clarity and transparency.
Fair chunk of experience around JSM (and the alternatives) and a passion for DX and DevSecOps type processes. Bringing some order to chaos, helping people with work and processes and generally helping people get stuff done.
My undergrad was focused on AI 30 years too early, but now spending a lot of time there as it all comes full circle, so Rovo is of particular interest.
Looking forward to meeting hopefully lots of you 🍻
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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.
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Complete your event RSVP here: https://ace.atlassian.com/events/details/atlassian-melbourne-presents-team-on-tour-highlights-ace-melbourne-breakfast/.
Achieve Your Goals!
***Gain the Personal Freedom to Achieve Your Goals.***
How can you gain personal freedom to achieve your goals?
How can you use Dianetics techniques to gain a greater sense of happiness and well-being?
Dianetics is the science of the mind and it is exact and useful.
What blocks you from attaining a higher level of ability and understanding of yourself?
Why do people react the way they do?
How does the mind affect your health?
How can you get in control of your own life instead of life controlling you?
The secret to successfully reaching your goals depends on knowing the exact actions that always lead to accomplishment.
Today's meetup will explain some of the essential fundamentals that you can easily implement.
Ask for Michael , Pam or Donovan
1 Hour Breath & Sound Class
**A 1-hour guided breathwork session to help you slow down, release built-up stress, and reconnect with yourself in a calm, supportive space.**
**What to bring:**
**• Comfortable clothes**
**• Water bottle**
**Booking link below**
**https://linktr.ee/Claire_louise_analu**
✨SPECIAL EVENT✨What does leadership & innovation look like in this moment?
**✨ SPECIAL EVENT✨ What does design leadership and innovation look like in this moment? - with Adam StJohn Lawrence**
*\*\* Highly acclaimed international guest speaker and global thought leader\*\**
Organisations today are under increasing pressure. Expectations are shifting, complexity is rising, and AI is rapidly becoming part of everyday work. At the same time, the more technology advances, the more distinctly human capabilities like judgment, facilitation, collaboration, and meaning-making are coming into focus.
What does design leadership and innovation look like in this moment at the interface of human, technology (AI) and business? How can designers not only protect their craft but continue to influence decision-makers to stay the course and make human-centred decisions?
Join Adam StJohn Lawrence for an interactive evening with the MelbourneDT community, exploring how we work at the intersection of humans, technology, and business in a time of ongoing transformation.
**This is not a traditional talk**. Expect an active, engaging session in Adam’s distinctive style, combining participation, reflection, and open discussion. The focus is on making design matter in real organisational contexts.
**Together, explore:**
✨ How to position design, innovation, and facilitation in ways that resonate in today’s business environment
✨ The language we use to communicate value and influence decisions
✨ The evolving role of facilitation as systems become more complex
✨ What changes when we begin working not only with humans but alongside AI
**About Adam StJohn Lawrence**
✨ Adam StJohn Lawrence is the co-author of the best-selling book "This is Service Design Doing" and co-initiator of the Global Service Jam. Named the Godfather of facilitation, Adam is one of the founding voices of Service Design and Design Thinking globally. *He's kind of a big deal.*
Adam is no ordinary facilitator. His background spans psychology, the automotive industry, and professional theatre and comedy. Improvisation and rehearsal-room practice are central influences in his work, not as performance but as disciplined ways of working with uncertainty, emotion, status and collaboration.
Much of Adam’s work takes place under real pressure, with ambiguity, competing agendas and difficult conversations present in the room, and he brings this wealth of real-world experience to his workshop sessions. He shows you how to work with status and egos, conflict, uncertainty and shifting power dynamics in real-life situations with real people, that you can transfer and apply in your next meeting.
What Adam teaches you is that "strategy" is not a separate conversation, held behind closed doors or in PowerPoint slides. Rather, it's expressed through behaviour, through how people listen, challenge, decide and create together. He shows you how to "see it" in action and influence the strategic process not matter what level you're at.
**Who is this for?**
Everyone.
Tickets limited. Book fast. Pizza & drinks included!
Tour of our Makerspace
Have you been interested in woodworking, 3D printing, CNC, cosplay or Electronics?
Come visit Maker Community to get a tour of our space, learn about our memberships, have a chat with our members and discuss your dream projects.
Tuesday Coffee/Brunch/Meeting Friends @ Brunetti Flinders Lane 3000 ☕️💞
Hi Radiant Ladies,
Brunetti on Flinders Lane is always a favourite with our Radiant Ladies—and it’s easy to see why! The coffee is great, and the cakes are simply delicious.
See you!
Di & Lyn 🌸
SELF-CONFIDENCE! The key to your SUCCESS!
**Gain The Confidence to Be Unstoppable! Free Class.**
How to Achieve Self Confidence!
Without question, self confidence is the key to success. It determines how many of your goals you achieve in life and has an enormous impact on your happiness. It affects how people perceive you, your career achievements, your ability to take risks or try new endeavours, as well as your overall attitude toward yourself and others.
Self Confidence is something most people would like to have more of, but aren't sure how to get.
Did you ever feel more certain of yourself in the past?
Would you like to raise your self confidence ?
To increase self confidence, you have to understand what reduces it. If you know why this happens you can reverse the situation and rebuild your self esteem.
Self Confidence is self-determinism. One's belief in one's ability to determine his own course. As long as one has that, he's go the universe in his pocket. - L. Ron Hubbard.
This day you are able to Learn a few things about:
• The true source of security in life.
• How self-confidence, self respect and self trust interrelate, and what you can do to rehabilitate them.
• The exact steps to become more competent in whatever you do.
Today's free class will put you into a good position to help you achieve a new level of self-confidence, accomplish more and progress towards a higher level of personal survival.
Free parking, Free entree
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Todays free class is open to all people of goodwill and is held at the Life Improvement Centre located at Scientology. Our meetup classes contain universal knowledge that is applicable to all of us and can and is used by anyone of any faith as well as by those with no faith. Our meetups contain TOOLS for better living and they will assist you greatly in achieving your goals! These practical tools can be used straight away!
Dreams Events This Week
Discover what is happening in the next few days
Coffee & Dreams: Share Freely Over a Cup
☕ Let’s grab coffee and talk about what really matters our dreams.
Whether it’s something you’re working on, something you’ve been scared to start, or just a curious thought… this meetup is a safe space to share freely.
No pressure. No judgment. Just meaningful conversations with kind people.
🧠 Why come?
• Share your dream (or just listen!)
• Connect with thoughtful people
• Maybe get inspired to start something too
Bring: Yourself, a smile, and a dream.
[Telegram Group](https://t.me/+dV9wtoS3lzsxNDY1)
Saturday Morning Sketchathon ✏️🏡☕️✨
Hello everyone ✨
For 2026 my regular Saturday location will be Balam Balam Place in Brunswick 🏡 Bring any art supplies you like and a picnic blanket or chair. We will just be sat on the grass outside the building sketching together. If you aren’t sure what to draw the club has a weekly drawing theme, just ask me what the prompt is 😊 There is also a small cafe inside the building for those who want a drink while they draw ☕️
✏️ We welcome all artists of any skill level or medium, Whether you’re a beginner or pro, traditional or digital, absolutely anyone can join.
⚠️IMPORTANT⚠️ Please do not attend if you are sick. I have multiple chronic illnesses so my immune system is extremely weak. keep everyone safe by staying home if you are unwell
☔️ If the weather changes there is a small cafe inside we can move into
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Check out our instagram @shypeoplesdrawingclub to see more about our awesome group. We also have a Discord group for online events if you would like to join and chat with more artists. ✨
React Meetup - Kogan HQ -Kicking Off 2026🎉
**React Meetup - Speaker Lineup Confirmed** 🎉
🖥️ **Andrey Sidorov** - *Introduction to React Server Components* Ever wondered why RSCs exist and how they actually work under the hood? Andrey's got you covered.
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🤖 **Abhin Rustagi** - *Up and Coming with Generative UI in React* Your AI chatbot doesn't have to reply with walls of text. Abhin will show how language models and React components can team up to render dynamic weather cards, charts and forms mid-conversation. Live demo included, plus the lessons learned along the way. 🔥
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🔐 **Zach Jensz** - *The Padlock is Fake - How the Web Bootstraps Trust From Nothing on a Hostile Network* That little padlock in your browser? Not what you think. Zach breaks down how web trust actually works. This one will change how you see the internet.
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⚡ **Eddie Weatherhead** *(Lightning Talk)* - *Just A Bit: Re-using a Customisable Component in Three Different Contexts* A React beginner's journey reusing a single core component across a dashboard, a logged-out preview, and a feed. Simple idea, surprisingly deep.
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👀 Looking forward to seeing everyone there! Drop a RSVP if you haven't already and spread the word. See you soon! 🚀
📅 **Date:** Wednesday April 1st
📍 **Location:** Kogan HQ South Melbourne
🍕 Pizza, Drinks and a good time provided :)
Looking forward to seeing everyone. See you there!
Unlock the Power of Generative AI
**Generative AI for Developers Meetup 2026**
***Building AI Applications with Agentic AI, GenAI Workflows & Multi-Agent Systems***
Join the **genAI for Developers** community for an evening of **developer-first learning**, demos, and networking - focused on what it actually takes to build and ship with GenAI and agentic workflows.
Each month we push deeper into practical patterns for **Agentic AI**, **RAG**, **tool-using agents, evaluation/observability, and workflow engineering** \- with real code\, real trade\-offs\, and real lessons learned from production\-minded builds\.
**What we’ll cover (typical themes)**
\* Agentic workflows: planners, routers, tool use, memory, and guardrails
\* RAG done properly: retrieval, chunking, reranking, citations, and grounding
\* Multi-agent systems: roles, coordination, failure modes, and cost control
\* Model ecosystem updates: OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, DeepSeek (and what’s actually useful)
\* Demos + notebooks: follow along with Jupyter + GitHub style examples
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**📅 AGENDA — March 31, 2026**
**6:00 – 6:20 PM** \| Arrival\, socialising & networking
**6:20 – 6:40 PM** \| Community updates \+ latest GenAI & Agentic AI news
**6:40 – 7:10 PM** \| 📊 **Anthropic's 2026 Agentic Coding Trends Report** A deep dive into 8 trends reshaping how software gets built in 2026:
* Where engineering teams are seeing the greatest productivity gains today
* Why effective AI collaboration still requires active human judgment
* How non-technical teams are building tools without engineering support
* Eight trends reshaping how software gets built in 2026
**7:10 – 7:40 PM** \| 🎵 **Creative GenAI: Song to Music Video — Instructor-Led Walkthrough** An end-to-end creative AI session: song idea → lyrics → full track → music video using modern generative AI tools.
* Prompting & iteration in **Suno** (structure, hooks, tone, vocal style)
* Building a consistent visual narrative in **VidMuse** (storyboard, scenes, pacing)
* 🎥 Watch the final clip we'll unpack: https://youtu.be/bAbIiy6jE6I?si=D_rVhtp775HsnCLF
**7:40 – 8:00 PM** \| Q&A \+ closing networking
**8:00 PM** \| 🍻 Optional: head to a nearby pub for dinner
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🌍 **Live-streamed globally** — YouTube link shared on the day (EU + US welcome!)
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**Why attend?**
If you’re building (or about to build) agentic AI systems, this is the room where you’ll pick up reusable patterns, avoid common traps, and meet others shipping in the same space - developers, data folks, founders, and technical leaders.
RSVP here: https://www.meetup.com/genai-for-developers/
Melbourne Foundational Models Meetup
[REGISTER HERE] ( https://luma.com/seab43vn )
Australia is entering a new era of AI, one where sovereignty, infrastructure, and local capability matter more than ever.
Join our Foundational Models Meetup, where for our first event in the series, we’re excited to host **[Simon Kriss](https://www.linkedin.com/in/simonkriss/), CEO of Sovereign Australia AI**, for a short talk on what it actually takes to build foundational models here in Australia.
While much of the global AI conversation is dominated by US and Chinese players, Sovereign Australia AI is working to develop foundational models locally, contributing to Australia’s capability in this rapidly evolving space.
**Live demonstrations**
We’ll also feature 2–3 short live demonstrations from local builders working directly with foundational models.
These will be practical walk-throughs of what teams are actually building. Each demo will be concise, technical where relevant, and focused on real-world insight.
**What you'll learn:**
* Why AI sovereignty is becoming a strategic priority
* What it really takes to build foundational models
* The challenges of infrastructure, capital, and talent in Australia
* Lessons learned from building at the frontier
* Where Australia fits in the global AI landscape
This event is designed for engineers, researchers, founders, and builders who want a grounded perspective on what’s happening beneath the surface of the AI boom.
Join us at Melbourne Connect for an evening of practical insights, honest reflections, and thoughtful discussion on the future of foundational AI in Australia.
**Who should attend:**
* AI engineers and researchers
* technically minded founders
* people working on model infra, tooling or data
* students and academics curious about foundational models
**About SMEC AI**
SMEC AI is an initiative of Boab AI in partnership with Artesian, Cremorne Digital Hub, University of Melbourne, RMIT, La Trobe University, Victorian Medtech Skills And Devices Hub, TNG and Rockwell.
SMEC AI focuses on the agriculture, clean energy, medical and enabling capabilities industries as defined by the National Reconstruction Fund priority areas.
The SMEC AI project and activities has been funded by the Australian Government Department of Industry Science and Resources AI Adopt program and is aimed at enhancing the adoption of artificial intelligence by small to medium enterprises in Australia.
DDD by Night April - Hybrid event
It's DDD but \***lightning**\*.
The evening will be a hybrid event hosted by the DDD Melbourne crew and consist of short & sharp presentations of fifteen minutes in length on a dev related subject.
Venue space is limited, we cannot accommodate more than **90 people**. First come first served!
**ONLINE ATTENDANCE**
You can join us online, we'll aim to get the call started somewhere around 6pm before we have our introductions and first speaker.
Remote audience link --> **TBA**
You can ask questions of our speakers via Slido. We'll try to ask your questions as they come through on Slido, but we may not get to all of them.
**TALKS**
**Elmer Rokerick Niem Bool**
neurUL: Duplicateless Databases Using Biomimicry
In this talk, Elmer will present neurUL (neurUL Universal Language), a new neurobiological programming language, inspired by computer science, neuroscience, cognitive science, linguistics, and philosophy, that can enable a highly efficient and flexible method for data storage. Using neurUL, developers will be able to solve the ""unavoidable redundancies"" problem, wherein, despite the introduction of database normalization more than half a century ago, relational databases with their current limitations, are still plagued by costly, ever-growing redundancies across columns, rows, tables, as well as in schema definitions
**Suyogya Taneja**
CQRS in Modern .NET: Clean Architecture, Vertical Slice, Microservices, and AI-Assisted Development with Claude Code
The talk will explore implementing CQRS in modern .NET applications across Clean Architecture, Vertical Slice Architecture, and Microservices, along with demonstrating how AI-assisted development using Claude Code can help accelerate building CQRS-based features such as commands, handlers, and tests.
**Anderson Santos**
Automate Work and Build Tools with No-Code
Repetitive tasks are everywhere, copying data between systems, updating records, processing documents, and managing manual workflows. In this talk, Anderson will show how no-code automation platforms like Make allow anyone to connect systems, eliminate boring work, and build powerful workflows without writing code. He will also briefly explore how the same approach can be used to create internal tools and even launch small SaaS products.
**Ben Taylor**
Building MCP Servers is Surprisingly Easy
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is changing what is possible with LLMs and enabling general purpose agents. It turns out building MCP servers is super easy. Ben will talk about what an MCP is, some background around the security considerations involved, how to build one, and what you could use it for.
**SCHEDULE**
**5.45pm** Open doors, food served
**6.10pm** Intro and three talks
**7.30pm** Break for networking and drinks
**8.00pm** Two more talks
**8.45pm** Close
**CODE OF CONDUCT**
All DDD events are subject to the DDD Code of Conduct available at https://www.dddmelbourne.com/code-of-conduct/
**VENUE AND FOOD SPONSOR**
[Luminary](https://www.luminary.com/)
**FUTURE EVENTS**
Are you interested in speaking at a future DDD by Night? That's awesome, we'd love to have you! We take speakers of all experience levels and offer training too. [Fill out this form](https://forms.office.com/r/12c0CvLwQk) and we'll be in touch.
**FEEDBACK**
Feedback, whether it's good or constructive, helps us grow and improve these events and so we'd love for you to fill out the form here --> https://forms.office.com/r/MB8WGKv9Bi
Drawing Challenge! ✏️🏃⏰ -Public Holiday-
✨Good Friday Public Holliday✨
Let’s gather to do a drawing challenge together at Fed Square!
We will be drawing the people we see walking around but you’ll have to be quick! they might walk away 🏃 Let’s see how many people we can draw before times up! We will have until 1:30pm ⏰
What to bring checklist 📋
- A mat or picnic blanket if you don’t want to sit on the floor
- A sketchbook
- Any art supplies
☔️ If the weather turns bad the event will be cancelled
⚠️ Please do not attend if you are sick ⚠️
Dreams Events Near You
Connect with your local Dreams community
Wednesday Morning Breakfast Meeting
Let’s get together at the Crowne Plaza and talk deals, creative finance, problem solving, whatever you want! Hubert Bruce Hosts, COREE members share ideas and resources. Open to the public!
IN PERSON in Columbus: Creative Deal Autopsies + Wholesaling 101
(Note: RSVPing here on Meetup does NOT reserve your seat. To do that, you'll need to register at our website, **[HERE](https://www.coreerocks.com/Events.aspx?ID=IN-PERSON-in-Columbus-Creative-Deal-Autopsies-Wholesaling-101-14-4-7-2026)**.)
The market changed—and most investors are still operating like it didn't.
Deals that used to work don't.
Buyers want different things.
And a lot of what's being taught right now is outdated or just wrong.
And, since 2011, it's been our job to make sure that our members are armed with the most up-to-date, real-world strategies for building wealth in Central Ohio real estate…
…so our mission with this meeting (and every meeting) is to give you the no-hype, warts-and-all info you need to succeed.
First, Wholesaling 101—a clear, real-world look at how wholesaling actually works today, what to pay, and how to stay out of trouble.
Then, Creative Deal Autopsies—real investors breaking down real deals with real numbers, real conversations, and real outcomes.
You'll also get the chance to put the presenters in the hot seat and ask any and every question you have about how they did their deals.
You'll learn:
1. What wholesaling actually is
2. How to calculate real offers
3. Where deals are coming from now
4. What buyers want
5. How creative deals are structured
6. What contracts and terms are used
7. What can go wrong—and how to avoid it
**Agenda:**
5:00–6:00: Free Light Dinner and Networking
6:00: Earlybird Meeting – Wholesaling 101
7:00: Buy-Sell-Trade (members only)
7:30: Creative Deal Autopsies
Members: Free
First-time guests: Free
Non-members: $35 (or join for $30 instead)
Remember, to actually reserve your seat, you have to go **[HERE](https://www.coreerocks.com/Events.aspx?ID=IN-PERSON-in-Columbus-Creative-Deal-Autopsies-Wholesaling-101-14-4-7-2026)** and register on our website!
The Power of the Subconscious Mind - Free Lecture
**How to take control of your subconscious and harness its power!**
Join us for an eye-opening lecture where the speaker will break down complex ideas in a clear and practical way.
You’ll gain insights into:
✅ The true definition of the subconscious
✅ How it generates unwanted emotions
✅ Its real purpose and function
✅ What determines the pressure it exerts on you
And the most important topic:
**How do you take control of your subconscious!**
But this isn’t just another lecture where you sit and listen passively. It’s interactive and engaging—you can ask questions at any time.
📅 Reserve your spot now!
Seats are limited, so don’t wait too long to sign up.
Location: 1266 Dublin Rd, Columbus, OH 43215
Hosted by the Hubbard Dianetics Foundation
Speak Easy (Storytelling)
The topic for April is "Water"
Speak Easy: true stories, told live.
The idea is simple: an audience, an open microphone, and great stories. Hilarious, gripping, poignant- it's up to you. Audiences are invited to come to listen or come to tell as folks from all corners of Columbus offer their stories live on stage! Held at Wild Goose Creative's warm, intimate space, this night of tales occurs on the 3rd Thursday of every month. Doors open at 6:30 pm, show starts at 7:00 pm. Please arrive early if you want to tell, as we generally only have room for a limited number of tellers, and the sign-up sheet has a tendency to fill up fast.
Formed around the idea that people need stories--they're what hold and draw us together--SpeakEasy celebrates the strangeness and commonness of being human. And in a world of smartphones, Facebook, Twitter, and more . . . it gives people a real, breathing, in-person way to connect.
The night is geared for true stories of all kinds, taking the best tales told around kitchen tables, in darkened pubs, on the street corner, and at late-night parties and giving them an audience. Speak Easy is also a great outlet for performers, writers, and artists looking to share their favorite stories and perfect their skills. We strongly encourage tellers to please tell the story rather than read it so we keep within the spirit of good storytelling and stay engaged with the audience. All are welcome. Hang around after the show for a drink and build community!
Fun & easy way to play more tennis (read event description)
We’re still working to get more people into these Meetups, but our goal is to give PlayYourCourt members a few social tennis outings each week in addition to your practice sessions and Challenge League matches.
These Meetups are co-ed, super laid back, and all skill levels are welcome. Post your skill level and a suggested court in the comments section so we can round up as many players as we can for some tennis fun!
Also, if you’re looking to meet new practice partners or play some matches and you aren’t already in the PlayYourCourt Community, you can go here to see what we’re all about and sign up:
https://www.playyourcourt.com/tennis-community/columbus-oh/meetup/
If you love tennis, we’d love to have you! Be sure and watch the quick video that explains how everything works.
Happy hitting!
- Scott
How LLMs Like ChatGPT Actually Work and How to Build With Them
**First meetup of the Columbus AI Engineering group.**
We’ll kick things off with a practical, beginner-friendly discussion on:
**How LLMs like ChatGPT actually work — and how to build real applications with them.**
We’ll cover:
* what’s actually happening under the hood (at a high level)
* why LLMs behave the way they do (hallucinations, prompt sensitivity, etc.)
* how people are building real systems with them today
* where things break in practice
This will be a **short, informal talk (\~15–20 min)** followed by open discussion and Q&A.
Whether you’re an engineer, builder, or just curious about how modern AI systems work, you’re welcome to join.
No slides, no fluff — just real conversation about real systems.
We’ll hang out afterward and get to know each other.
Movie Night - You, Me & Tuscany
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🎬 Movie Night
You, Me & Tuscany
Join us for a cinematic escape to the sun-drenched vineyards and romantic landscapes of Italy as we gather to watch You, Me & Tuscany, the new feel-good romantic comedy starring Halle Bailey and Regé‑Jean Page.
Set against the breathtaking beauty of Tuscany, the film follows a spirited young woman whose impulsive decision to stay in a Tuscan villa leads to unexpected adventure, heartfelt moments, and a romance she never saw coming.
Expect an evening filled with:
🍿 A beautiful cinematic escape to Italy
🍷 Relaxed social vibes and great conversation
✨ A feel-good romantic story perfect for movie lovers
Whether you’re a fan of romantic comedies, stunning travel settings, or simply enjoy experiencing great films with great people, this will be a perfect night to unwind and connect.
Come ready to relax, laugh, and be transported to Tuscany for the evening.
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