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Melbourne Startup and Tech Networking Drinks & Dinner - #1
**The Bali Startup and Tech comes to Melbourne!**
**Our first Melbourne Community Networking Dinner/Drinks Event awaits you at 5:30pm on Tuesday, 24th of March 2026** hosted at the vibrant & relaxed Bells Hotel South Melbourne.
Join us for an evening of relaxed networking among the brightest minds in tech and entrepreneurship in Melbourne.
\*\*\ \*Admission is free\*\*\*
Rub shoulders with former Facebook and Amazon engineers, unicorn startup founders, local entrepreneurs, developers, solopreneurs, indiehackers, government representatives, and the likes
Don't miss this opportunity to connect, learn, and grow together.
Looking forward to continuing to welcome new faces as we grow
**Join the free BSTC Whatsapp community group chat here:** [https://chat.whatsapp.com/GkG5rXQsBcfIBGuuJSkjxm](https://chat.whatsapp.com/GkG5rXQsBcfIBGuuJSkjxm)
**We also have a free group for tech founders that are post-revenue and actively scaling:** [Apply Here](https://forms.gle/ALjYy3uNjpohorKQ6)
***Note:*** *The networking events are relaxed by design and don't follow a rigid/structured agenda outside of a quick open mic & some short presentations - typically from tech founders, leaders or VC's sharing their story and learnings with the group.*
**Most of the time is devoted to relaxed networking with other founders, digital nomads, agency owners & tech investors.**
Look forward to seeing you all again.
*\- Lachlan McRitchie\, Josh Morrow\, Matthew Carr & The BSTC Team*
General session
Visitors and newcomers are very welcome, please see https://hackmelbourne.com/newcomer-faq/ for more details.
COVIDSafe restrictions are also in place, please see https://hackmelbourne.com/covid-19-restrictions/ for the latest.
Short walk from Glenferrie train station. Car parking at Hawthorn town hall.
Bring a laptop and a project you are working on. There is also a number of group projects that you are welcome to join in.
We have starter kits for Arduino, a couple of 3D printers, various tools and equipment available for use.
Typically our sessions run from 6:45pm till later in the evening (depending on our members' availability to close) but if you're new please come early.
FABCON adn SQLCON Recap
**SQLCON** stands out as a premier conference within FABCON, featuring sessions and workshops that take you on a deep dive into **SQL Server, Azure SQL, SQL in Fabric, SQL Tools, AI Apps with SQL, migration & modernisation, optimisation & performance, database security**, and much more. Attendees will benefit from a keynote delivered by Microsoft leadership and engineering teams, unveiling the latest SQL roadmap and sharing major announcements that shape the future of data platforms.
**FABCON** is the largest conference dedicated to **Microsoft Fabric**, bringing together tech enthusiasts, innovators, and industry leaders to explore the future of **data, analytics, business intelligence, and AI integration**. This dynamic event showcases cutting-edge developments within Microsoft Fabric, offering attendees the opportunity to learn from expert-led sessions, gain insights from Microsoft keynotes, and network with like-minded professionals.
Both of these conferences sound amazing, but they are a really long way away, in Atlanta, USA. It would be great if more Australians could attend.
Kelly, your regular organiser, is a speaker at SQLCon. She returns to Melbourne on Tuesday, 24th March and will walk through the biggest announcements and learnings.
**Come and share pizza, great conversation and free learning.**
Schedule:
5.30-6.00 Pizza and Networking
6.00-7.30 FABCON and SQLCON Recap - interactive session
Unrealistic Expectations
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Comedy gold."
**Unrealistic Expectations** is an entertaining, slightly chaotic evening of impromptu speaking games designed to help you practise action over certainty.
**6:30** Networking
**7:00** The Event Starts
**8:00** Networking + Drinks
❓ **Why we do this**
Entrepreneurs are often told their ideas are unrealistic.
Too big. Too early. Too hard. This night is for people who feel that fear and want to build the courage to act before they have all the answers.
**Volunteers get 3-5 minutes to talk on wacky topics:**
* Pitching a slide deck they have never seen before
* Taking questions from the audience on a topic they know nothing about
* Being handed a random object from the office and explaining your "revoulutionary discovery"
* Explaining a graph that has no numbers or legend
* *More "fun" and chaotic games to come...*
**Spectators get front row seats to:**
* Brave attempts and clever recoveries
* Watch brilliance appear under pressure
* The exact moment someone realises they are more capable than they thought
* And...comedy gold!
🎲 **How the night works**
Some people will step up. Some people will sit back and enjoy the show. Both are welcome. *You don’t have to participate but most people end up tempted as the night goes on.*
We’ll rotate through a variety of short games across the evening. Each one stretches a different entrepreneurial muscle:
• Thinking out loud
• Explaining half-formed ideas
• Handling pressure
• Committing before certainty
😉At the end of the night, one brave participant will receive a completely meaningless but highly coveted honour.
👀 **Who this is for**
• People building something and tired of waiting until they feel ready
• Anyone who wants to build the courage to act before they have clarity
You don’t need confidence
You don’t need experience
You just need a willingness to give-it-a-go
**Because most worthwhile things start with unrealistic expectations.**
Shut Up & Write!® at Melbourne Connect
We are a multi-disciplinary group of PhDs and academic staff who write together regularly and help one another to achieve our writing goals through supportive community, focus and a structure that works. We welcome anyone who wants to get some writing done in a collegial, supportive, encouraging environment. You don’t have to be from University of Melbourne (you don’t have to be from university at all!).
We use the Pomodoro method, which means we write in timed intervals of silence, then chat and catch up for 5 mins and repeat the cycle. Arrive when you like, leave when you like. The goal is to keep our writing projects progressing and reduce the isolation that can be part of the academic and/or writing life.
**Session Outline:**
Welcome: 9.00-9.05 (5 mins)
Pomodoro 1: 9.05-9.30 (25 mins).
Break: 9.30-9.35 (5 mins)
Pomodoro 2: 9.35-10.00 (25 mins)
Break: 10.00-10.05 (25 mins)
Pomodoro 3: 10.05-10.55 (50 mins)
Break: 10.55-11.05 (10 mins)
Pomodoro 4: 11.05-11.30 (25 mins)
**A note about the format**
We don’t host critiques or readings. These events are a safe space for writers of all skill levels and genres to work on their craft, so no one will read or critique your writing.
For our full event schedule, visit [https://shutupwrite.com](https://www.shutupwrite.com).
**Other Important Details:**
WiFi name/password: There is free public wifi available at the Melbourne Connect Superfloor (speak to the concierge for details). University of Melbourne staff and students can connect to the university wifi; staff and students from other universities can join Eduroam using their home institution's log in credentials.
Travel / Parking info: Public bike parking along Swanston and Grattan Streets. Tram routes 1, 3, 3a, 5, 16. 16, 64, 67, 72 along Swanston Street (Stop 1) and 19 along Royal Parade (Stop 10). The nearest train station is Parkville Metro Station. Bus routes include 200, 207, 250, 251, 401, 402, 403, 505, 546. There is no public parking available at Melbourne Connect, however the area is well serviced by nearby public carparks, including Cardigan House Parking at 96 Grattan Street and the University of Melbourne Eastern Precinct Car Park at 375 Grattan Street. A taxi rank is located on Grattan Street.
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Melbourne AWS User Group #157 - March 2026
🎉 **Melbourne AWS User Group – March Meetup** 🎉
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📅 Wednesday, 25 March
📍 NAB Events Hub – 395 Bourke Street, Melbourne
⏰ Food at 6:00 pm, talks from 6:30 pm (with live stream)
Join us for our March for our March meetup as we explore two important areas of modern cloud architecture: **security and resilience**.
This month we’ll look at how organisations can improve least-privilege access using IAM Access Analyzer, and how to design highly resilient architectures using AWS fault isolation and multi-region patterns.
This month’s lineup features:
• **Hazra Ali**, a brand new **AWS Community Builder for 2026**, is presenting on how business analysis techniques can improve outcomes when using AWS IAM Access Analyzer.
• **Anshika Gupta** sharing architectural principles for building resilient systems using static stability, fault isolation, and multiple AWS Regions.
A huge thank you to our sponsors: 🥇 **Mantel Group – Gold Sponsor**, 🥈 **Cevo – Silver Sponsor**, 🏛 **NAB – Venue Sponsor**
The event will be live-streamed on YouTube as always.
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🗓️ **Agenda**
6:00 pm – Food & Socialising
6:30 pm – Introductions
6:40 pm – What’s New in AWS
6:55 pm – **Business Analysis in AWS IAM Access Analyzer (Level 100)**; Speaker: Hazra Ali
7:25 pm – **Reinforcing Resilience in the Real World with Static Stability, Fault Isolation and Multiple Regions (Level 200)**; Speaker: Anshika Gupta
7:55 pm – Marketplace (Who’s Hiring)
8:00 pm – Networking + Close
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🎤 **Talk Details**
**Business Analysis in AWS IAM Access Analyzer**
Speaker: Hazra Ali
Level: 100
Business analysis plays a crucial role in helping organisations implement change to address challenges and leverage solutions that deliver value. AWS IAM Access Analyzer helps organisations grant precise permissions as requirements evolve, guiding users toward least privilege by enabling them to set, verify, and refine permissions.
In this presentation, Hazra will explore how business analysis practices can enhance the effectiveness of IAM Access Analyzer when solving real-world problems. The session will also discuss how AI can support business analysis workflows and assist in understanding the core concepts behind IAM Access Analyzer.
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**Reinforcing Resilience in the Real World with Static Stability, Fault Isolation and Multiple Regions**
Speaker: Anshika Gupta
Level: 200
At AWS, resilience is viewed as a continuous process, built on years of experience working with customers operating critical workloads.
In this session, Anshika will explore how to design systems using AWS fault isolation boundaries and the concept of static stability to achieve predictable recovery times and high availability.
You’ll learn:
• How AWS Regions are designed and operated for resilience
• Key architectural patterns AWS services use to maintain operations during disruptions
• How static stability helps maintain availability under failure conditions
• Practical architecture patterns for building multi-region resilience
This session will showcase design principles, best practices, and example architectures that can help you meet your resilience requirements for mission-critical workloads.
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🙌 **Want to Speak at a Future Meetup?**
We’re always looking for new speakers and believe everyone has an interesting talk waiting to be shared.
If you’d like to present at a future event, reach out at the meetup or via our website:
👉 [https://melb.awsug.org.au/speak/](https://melb.awsug.org.au/speak/)
1. How Bad Terraform Reaches Prod 2. the Fight Against Techno-Authoritarianism
**\*\* NEW VENUE \*\***
Room 080.02.002 at RMIT (Building 80) - 445 Swanston St, Melbourne
**\*\* NEW VENUE \*\***
**How Bad Terraform Reaches Prod: Building Azure Guardrails That Actually Work** - **@Maple**
Terraform makes it easy to ship cloud changes fast, including the risky ones. This talk is a hands-on walkthrough of a small Azure lab where I intentionally introduce common "oops" changes (public exposure, missing tags, unsafe configs) and show how they slip through a typical IaC workflow unless you build real guardrails.
**"Do not obey in advance" - Cybersecurity in the Fight Against Techno-Authoritarianism - @Mendas**
Cybersecurity protects free speech and human rights. It plays an important role in resisting authoritarian regimes and protecting democratic freedoms. This talk discusses how encryption, anonymity tools, and similar technologies can help activists, journalists, and citizens evade state surveillance and censorship. Discussion highlights how digital resistance strategies can be used to counter oppression.
**Streaming**
If you can't attend the event in person the talks will be streamed in the "ruxmon-stream" voice channel in the Ruxcon Discord in the day of the event! (join now by clicking here: [https://discord.gg/g2CpEbkXmM](https://discord.gg/g2CpEbkXmM)
GDG Melbourne - Build with AI Event March
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 pre-requisites to stay ahead of the game!
Join us for an evening of not 1 but 2 hands-on workshops, delicious food and 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 PM - Welcome & Intros
6:30 PM - Cloud credits setup
6:45 PM - Workshop 1: I build with AI and you can too
7:00 PM - Break
7:15 PM - Workshop 2: Build It, Guard It, Ship It: Building Secure AI Apps with Model Armor
8:00 PM - Closing and Networking, chats, and optional drinks 🍻
💻 Workshop 1: I build with AI and you can too
A workshop about how you can be build better with AI. The workshop will explore concepts that make LLM and agents more useful by integrating with your projects as first party agents.Pre-requisites:
An idea you want to work on
Antigravity or IntelliJ with Gemini Code Assist. Or Just Gemini CLI
💻 Workshop 2: Build It, Guard It, Ship It: Building Secure AI Apps with Model Armor
In this hands-on workshop, we'll build a real AI chat app and layer in enterprise-grade security using Google Cloud's Model Armor — before shipping it to production on Cloud Run. We'll explore real-world attack vectors like prompt injection and system prompt hijacking, see how modern LLMs handle them, and then add Model Armor as a dedicated security layer that screens every prompt and response — independent of the model. Finally, we'll containerise the whole thing and deploy it to Cloud Run. You'll walk away with a working, secured, production-ready AI app and a security pattern you can apply to any LLM project.
🎁 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
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Speakers
Yuba Raj Panta - PageUp (SRE/DevOps Engineer)
Yuba Raj (UV) Panta is a Melbourne-based SRE/DevOps Engineer at PageUp, with a strong focus on cloud architecture, infrastructure automation, and AI integration. He is passionate about building scalable systems, streamlining developer workflows, and exploring the intersection of cloud and emerging technologies. A known face to Darwin, UV spent several years actively contributing to the local m…
Kartik Arora - Bilue (Android Engineer)
Android Engineer @ Bilue | Google Developer Expert Android
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 Cloud 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-march/.
How the mind works
The optimum computing machine is a subject many of us have studied. If you were building one how would you design it?
First the computer should be able to compute with perfect accuracy on any problem in the universe and produce answers which were always and invariably right.
Second the computer would have to be swift, working much more quickly than the problem and process could be vocally articulated.
Third the computer would have to be able to handle large numbers of variables and large numbers of problems simultaneously.
Forth, the computer would have to be able to evaluate its own data and there would have to remain available within it not only a record of its former conclusions but the evaluations leading to those conclusions.
Fifth, the computer would have to be served by a memory bank of nearly infinite capacity and would have to be available to the analytical portion of the computer in the smallest fractions of a second.
Sixth, the computer would have to be able to rearrange former conclusions or alter them in the light of new experience.
Seventh, the computer would need no exterior director, but would be entirely self determined about its programing guided only by the necessity –value of the solution which it itself would determine.
Eight the computer should be self servicing and self arming against present and future damage and would be able to estimate future damage.
Ninth the computer should be served by perception by which it could determine necessity –value.
Tenth ,the memory bank should store perceptions as perceived ,consecutive with time received with the smallest possible time divisions between perception .It would then store in color-Visio (moving),tone audio (flowing),odor ,tactile and self sensation ,all of them cross –coordinated .
Eleventh, for the purposes of solutions, it would have to be able to create new situations and imagine new perceptions hitherto not perceived and should be able to conceive these to itself in terms of tone –audio ,color-visio ,odor, tactile, and self sensation –and should be able to file anything so conceived as imagined ,labeled “memories”
Twelfth, the entire machine should be portable.
It might be somewhat astonishing at first to conceive such a computer .But the fact is, the machine is in existence .There are billions of them in use today and many ,many more billions have been made and used in the past .
In fact you’ve got one .for we are dealing with the human mind.
L.RON .HUBBARD
Do you want to learn how the mind works?Then do not miss this meetup.
RSVP now !!
Bevy and Entity Component Systems
Hello Rust Melbourne!
Join us this Thursday for another Rust Melbourne Adventure!
Matt Andrews will be giving a talk on the wonderful Bevy platform, with the talk titled "Bevy and Entity Component Systems".
As for venue, food, and drinks sponsorship, Arkeus (https://arkeus.com/) have been kind to offer all three!
Speaking & Leadership - CONFIDENCE workshop
Smashing! Try something new Friday night
Interactive workshops - Become the charismatic leader
Serious about improving your leadership - **Why mess, come to the best**
Why is Smashing different to other speaking clubs?
Just one member's thoughts, "The fun/laughs factor is definitely a point of difference. We keep it moving with high standards so it’s a nice balance. Too strict makes it tense and boring, too loose and the commercial feel is lost. SmashSpeak's vibe is in the sweet spot."
**Free parking** close: O'Connell and Cobden streets
**IMPORTANT: Be on time, as doors close when the show starts**
“Proudly Australian" – Free-flowing teamwork, sharing the stage and greater good focus
Multicultural Hub, 506 Elizabeth St (Opposite Queen Vic Market)
Level 1, Orange room
More to come...
LTP Events: AI, Product & What Actually Matters with Dr. Marily Nika
**AI, Product & What Actually Matters with Dr. Marily Nika**
LTP Events is coming to Melbourne — and this one is something special.
For one night only, we’re bringing one of the world’s most influential AI Product Leaders to our community. Based in Silicon Valley, Dr. Marily Nika is an award-winning GenAI Product Leader, bestselling author, Harvard Fellow, TED AI / TEDx speaker, and the creator of Maven’s first and top-rated AI PM Certification.
With 12+ years building at Google and Meta, a PhD in Machine Learning, and more than 20,000 students taught globally, Marily sits at the intersection of cutting-edge AI and real-world product leadership. She’s been featured in Fortune and TechCrunch, recognised as Amplitude’s Most Influential Product Leader, Fortune 40 Under 40, and named among the Top 100 Women in Tech.
This is rare access to someone operating at the very highest levels of AI and product — and she’s joining us for an intimate, candid conversation with Brainmates CCO Kathryn Shepherd-King.
Together, they’ll explore what it really means to build AI-powered products today:
* Where the hype ends and hard decisions begin
* How GenAI is reshaping the role of product leaders
* What separates AI experiments from real impact
* And how to think clearly when the technology is moving faster than your roadmap
Expect thoughtful discussion, practical insights, and honest reflections from someone shaping the global AI product conversation in real time.
Surrounding the conversation is what LTP does best: a relaxed, no-pressure space to connect with fellow product leaders, builders, and thinkers navigating the same questions. Just smart people, meaningful dialogue, and conversations that continue long after the chat ends.
**Evening timeline**
5.30 – 6.00pm: Arrive, grab a drink, and connect
6.00 – 6.40pm: Fireside chat with Dr. Marily Nika plus Q&A
6.40 – 7.30pm: Networking, conversation, and connection
Hosted at the great Easygo space, we’ll have light food and drinks covered — all we ask is that you bring your curiosity and good energy.
Plus! Everyone who attends goes into the draw to win 2 free tickets to LTP 2026. Simply show up, connect, and you could be heading to Australia’s best product conference in May!
This is a rare opportunity to hear directly from one of the most respected voices in AI product — without flying to Silicon Valley.
Please RSVP if you are keen to attend and they will be capped but don’t stress, late cancellations are okay.
We can’t wait to host you for this one.
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From Idea to Working App in Minutes: The Agentic Development with Amazon Kiro
Discover Kiro, AWS’s innovative development environment that adapts to your workflow. Whether you prefer specification-driven development or a more intuitive, vibe-based approach, Kiro empowers you to build applications your way.
In this session, speakers will explore Kiro’s core functionality and its evolution through re:Invent 2025, along with demonstrations of prompts used to create APIs, hooks, and steering documents.
In the latter part of the session, watch as we build a complete example from scratch, showcasing Kiro’s agentic AI workflow in action for spec-driven development and vibe coding.
What You'll Learn - Core Kiro concepts and development philosophy
Feature evolution: pre and post re:Invent 2025
Practical examples: API creation, hooks, and steering docs
Live coding demonstration with real-time problem solving
Who Should Attend - Developers, solutions architects, and technical leaders interested in modern AWS development tools and AI-assisted coding workflows.
**Speakers Bio:**
Matthew Jorat: Matthew Jorat is a Customer Solutions Manager at AWS with nearly three decades of expertise in AI, cloud transformation, migration, modernization, IT, technology, and business. His career spans infrastructure engineer, solutions architect, security auditor, customer success director, support and services director, and operations officer. He was an early adopter of AWS services as a customer, and his current role at AWS uniquely blends his technical and business skills as he partners with executive teams to translate strategic priorities into measurable business outcomes through cloud adoption, AI implementation, and operational excellence. Matt leads end-to-end AI initiatives for enterprise customers, identifying high-impact use cases and maintaining relentless focus on measurable ROI. He holds eight AWS certifications and serves as Adjunct Professor at Franklin University teaching cloud computing and AWS architecture. His expertise encompasses GenAI, agentic AI systems, migration, modernization, and optimization strategies that drive transformation at scale.
[https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattjorat/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattjorat/)
Girish Bhatia: Girish Bhatia is a seasoned technology delivery leader with deep expertise in cross-domain program management. He holds multiple AWS certifications, including AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate, AWS Certified Developer – Associate, and AWS Generative AI Practitioner, and is also an AWS Community Builder. Girish brings over two decades of experience in the information technology industry.
Throughout his career, Girish has led major technology-driven business transformation from modernizing on-premises applications to driving large-scale cloud migrations. His work includes API-based integration platforms, data-center and mainframe modernization, and enterprise cloud adoption initiatives.
Based in Columbus, Ohio, Girish works at a tech-forward fintech company. He is passionate about AWS serverless architectures, Generative AI and emerging cloud technologies. An avid learner and builder, he continues to explore and apply the latest innovations in AWS to help organizations accelerate their digital transformation.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/girishbhatia/[https://www.linkedin.com/in/girishbhatia/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/girishbhatia/)
**THANK YOU** *Franklin University* for hosting our meetup! To learn more about *Franklin University*, please visit their website: https://www.franklin.edu/
**DIRECTIONS**
Franklin University
Fisher Hall
300 E. Main St, Columbus, OH 43215
Map: https://maps.app.goo.gl/jxjBA2hUmS5qrvhq8
Parking is FREE! Please park in Lot C in front of Fisher Hall. See attached map.
NOTE: Map the address only. When mapping with Google Maps it may use the Fisher Hall at OSU, which is NOT correct.
**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
Columbus HUG March
Want to be a speaker? submit your talk to our Call for Presenters!!!
https://sessionize.com/cbus-hug-2026/
ServiceNow's Got Talent
Builders, creators, architects, admins, consultants - come one, come all. This one's for you.
We're bringing a little friendly competition to the Columbus ServiceNow community while highlighting the cool things people have built on the platform.
Five presenters will take the stage to showcase something they've built, solved, designed, or imagined on the ServiceNow platform - and a panel of judges (plus YOU, our amazing audience) will score them live.
So basically, America's Got Talent but make it ServiceNow's Got Talent.
Bring a notepad if you'd like 'cause you'll definitely be learning something new.
Each presenter gets 10 minutes max to wow the crowd with:
• A demo
• A real-world business solution
• A bold idea
• A UX transformation
• Or a creative use of the platform
Judging Criteria:
🏆 Business Value
🚀 Innovation
✨ User Experience
This event is about celebrating ideas, sharing knowledge, and showing how ServiceNow can drive both business impact and meaningful user value.
Come learn. Come support. Come get inspired.
Refreshments and bites will be provided.
And maybe next time… you’ll be on stage.
Psychic Development Series II - Pueo Group
Private Group. Closed to the Public
Knowing ourselves and understanding our abilities is the first step toward wielding our gifts with control and accuracy.
In subsequent classes we will verify and hone our talents with activities and discussion. These are hands-on workshops and participation is expected.
The goal of our series will be to develop expertise in areas of particular interest such as mediumship, channeling, divination, healing and, etc.. Our ultimate directions will be determined by class members as we evolve.
I look forward to sharing and discovering with you. - Cynthia
BeComing Circle Initiates
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Instructor - Crow, HPS
Class fee is $30 at the door or approved exchange
RSVP with Advance pay of $25 (discounted) by PayPal on the web or by contacting Enchanted Elements (614) 437-2642.
Reservations made directly to Enchanted Elements will be added to the class list manually not online.
Private Instruction ~ Closed to the Public ~ Initiated Members Only
Please come prepared for ritual.
Blessings ~ Crow
The Clawwww
OpenClaw, NemoClaw, personal assistants, 24/7 agents. What does it all mean? How does it all work and what should we know about it?
Whether you’re deep in the field or just getting curious, come connect with others building and exploring AI in Columbus.
Sponsored by [Transform Labs](https://www.transformlabs.com/services)
























