Women in Cloud - Christmas Edition

📍 Please note: This event will be hosted at the REA office in Richmond.

We're wrapping up the year with an evening of learning, networking, festive fun and, of course, prizes to be won! Expect great conversations, a fantastic speaker, and a game to get everyone into the Christmas spirit. 🎁

For our final event of the year, we're diving into a topic that's becoming increasingly relevant in the age of AI: what really happens when your application moves from your local machine to the cloud.

Join us as we explore the realities of cloud deployments, uncover hidden failure modes, and learn what it takes to build applications that don't just work, but survive in the real world.

Speaker:
Michelle "MishManners" Duke is a Senior Developer Evangelist at Twilio and a familiar face in Melbourne's tech, gaming and startup communities.
With over a decade in tech, Mish is a powerhouse in developer advocacy, community building and content creation. She's delivered 400+ talks, including more than 10 keynotes, written over 1,700 articles, and produced more than 200 technical videos.
She's also a seasoned hackathon champion, having won, organised and mentored at 200+ hackathons!
Beyond her work in developer advocacy, Mish is a Microsoft MVP, Xbox Community Champion and Google Women Techmakers ambassador. She's also been recognised with numerous awards for her contributions to women in tech, entrepreneurship, advocacy and community building.

Topic: Surviving Cloud Deployments in the Age of AI
Building an applications on your local machine is easier than ever: stitch together a couple of APIs, connect a webhook, and watch the magic happen. But taking that architecture to the cloud reveals a brutal truth: building it is only 20% of the journey; deploying, scaling, and operating it is the rest.

In this talk, Mish will break down the application she built: a messaging experience that sends you anime pictures based on a photo you message through, and show how things change when we deploy to the Azure cloud.

We’ll examine some of hidden failure modes that appear the moment you deploy. Drawing from hard-won lessons in production, you’ll leave with and understanding of how to ensure your cloud app doesn't just run, but survives.

Get ready for an engaging session packed with practical insights, real-world lessons and a little bit of anime magic!

Agenda:
5:30pm – Food, drinks and networking
6:00pm – Presentation: Surviving Cloud Deployments in the Age of AI
6:45pm – Q&A and discussion
7:15pm – Christmas game and prizes 🎁
7:20pm – Networking and festive celebrations

We are incredibly grateful to our sponsors Twillio and REA Group for supporting our community and making this event possible.

Whether you're a cloud engineer, developer, DevOps professional, platform engineer or simply curious about what's happening in the world of AI and cloud, we'd love to see you there!

Come for the tech, stay for the Christmas fun. We can't wait to celebrate with you! 🎄