House of Kube @ PlatformCon Sydney (Yacht Edition)

IMPORTANT - we start at 6:30PM tonight, not 6PM. A relaxed weekly pickleball session for Sydney tech workers to connect, play and sweat a little. We are on courts 5 and 6 and you'll rotate courts and partners. A healthy way to wind up your Tuesday! Many people are beginners and don't know each other yet, so don't worry about that. If you have any questions, just message the WhatsApp group. Logistics Get your tickets via Luma. You can buy for yourself and your friends too. All paddles and balls are provided. There are showers available at ICC, in the carpark level. Cancellations You can cancel within 24 hours of the event - you'll get a credit to attend a future session. Send a WhatsApp message to Tim to cancel. If it's very wet, we'll cancel it and you'll get a credit for a future session - we'll notify this through Luma via email and also our WhatsApp group. We'll make this call on the morning. Pickleball Basic Rules & Scoring Before your first time playing, please check out this 5-min video which covers the basic rules and scoring: https://youtu.be/pDDwZgepQeE We'll use traditional scoring rules with games up to 11 (you need to win by 2 points). Beginner Tips Don't worry about looking silly - everyone does at the beginning. Before you serve, make sure you say the score, otherwise you will quickly lose track of it. Try to notice your most common mistake to improve that. Try to get to the kitchen line quickly - don't hang back at the base line like tennis. The serve has to be under arm 'in an upward arc' - so no downward slicing, tennis style serve or side arms. The rule everyone forgets is that the ball has to land once on each side (two-bounce rule) before you can start volleying - so remember 'Serve and Stay' and 'Return and Run'. General Etiquette It's just a social game for a bit of fun, so let's keep it friendly. After each game ends, change it up - e.g. swap your partner, swap courts etc. If anyone is waiting to play, they get priority to play the next game.

Join us for an evening of insightful talks, valuable connections, and great company. One evening on what it actually takes to secure a software supply chain, from hardened container images through to what this looks like inside a regulated environment. Talk 1 - Engineering for a World Where Exploits Arrive Before the Advisory Speaker: Cameron Martin (Chainguard) Most teams meet their supply chain problem downstream, as a scanner report full of criticals and a patching queue that never empties. This talk looks at the other end of the pipeline: what changes when images are built minimal and rebuilt continuously, so vulnerabilities are removed at the source rather than triaged after they land in production. We'll cover the practical patterns teams are using for container hardening, how this plays with SBOMs, signing and provenance, and where it fits alongside your existing scanning and admission controls. Plus a forward look at the Chainguard roadmap and what's coming next. Talk 2 - Supply Chain Security in a Regulated Environment Speaker: Brad McCoy (Cuscal) The theory is one thing, running it inside an Australian financial services business is another. Brad shares what this looks like in practice at Cuscal: the platform decisions, the trade offs, and how container security and compliance requirements actually get met day to day without grinding delivery to a halt. An honest look at what worked, what didn't, and what he'd do differently. This is a relaxed, highly interactive evening built for platform engineers, security engineers, DevSecOps leaders and architects who are actively working through supply chain risk, container hardening and compliance. On the night: Free entry · Food & drinks · Networking · Live Q&A Seats are limited - RSVP to save your spot. See you there! 👋

The approx. schedule is: 6:00pm: Doors open / socialising / food 6:30pm: Event kickoff / introductions \~8:30pm: Finish We've moved to a different floor in the same building. Wait in the lobby near the lifts and someone will let you up. There will be a number to call in case no one is downstairs. If you can't make it in person, we'll be live streaming on YouTube (technology permitting!) A massive thank you to our sponsors Bilue (https://bilue.com.au/) and Procreate (https://procreate.com) for their support – it makes Sydney CocoaHeads possible. Procreate are hiring - with roles in Sydney - so keep that in mind if you're looking for work. More details on their careers page: https://procreate.com/careers. \-\-\- We are always looking for speakers for the upcoming months, so if you are keen to give a talk, let us know, we would love to hear it 🙂 If there is anything we can do to help you present your topic, just ask us when filling out the submit a talk ( https://www.sydneycocoaheads.com/submit-a-talk/ ) form - alternatively, contact Zach or Christian directly. The event will be broadcast on YouTube Live. Please remember Sydney CocoaHeads' values being a safe meeting place for all developers. Attendees are expected to be familiar with our (and your) values and code of conduct: https://www.sydneycocoaheads.com/policies/.

Important Note: Registration on the AICamp event website s required for admission. Join Neo4j and AWS experts for a hands-on lab designed for data scientists and engineers who want to build production-ready generative AI applications grounded in connected enterprise data. In this half-day, in-person workshop, you’ll learn how to combine knowledge graphs with Amazon Bedrock foundation models to build explainable, context-aware AI applications using GraphRAG and agentic AI patterns. What You Will Learn: ✅ Deploy and explore Neo4j on AWS using best practices ✅ Use Amazon Bedrock foundation models to build graph-grounded GenAI workflows ✅ Implement GraphRAG patterns that combine vector search with connected knowledge graphs ✅ Build and invoke AI agents that reason over structured and unstructured data ✅ Integrate Neo4j vector search and embeddings for semantic and hybrid retrieval ✅ Build and invoke AI agents that reason over structured and unstructured data Who should attend: Developers, Builders, Data engineers, Data scientists, and Tech leaders. Featured Speakers: Darren Wood, Neo4j Arth Purohit, AWS