KSUG.AI Australia #69 - Melbourne Meetup @AWS - 7 Oct 2026

Important RSVP Instruction: Register at AICamp event website OR at LUMA is required for admission. Description: Welcome to the AI meetup in Melbourne, in collaboration with AI Innovation Centre. Join us for deep dive tech talks on AI, GenAI, LLMs and Agentic AI, hands-on experiences with code labs and workshops, and networking with speakers and fellow AI developers, builders, startup founders. Agenda: 5:30pm\~6:00pm: Checkin and networking 6:00pm\~7:30pm: Tech talks and Q&A 7:30pm: Open discussion & Mixer Tech Talk: Building a Self-Governing Finance Data Platform Speaker: Saurabh Kumar (Senior Manager, AI & Data, Accenture) Abstract: In regulated finance, the checks that catch drift depend on someone remembering to run them. Between reviews, data quality slips, access widens and credit spend climbs, all of it quietly. This session builds the governance into the platform instead: a finance analytics platform on Snowflake CoCo run by specialist AI agents that profile transaction data, review the dbt project, audit access and track credit spend, then route what they find to GitHub, Jira and Slack. Each piece is built on screen, with the real code, then the swarm runs live to show the tickets the agents file on their own. Topics/Speakers: If you have a keen interest in speaking to our community, we invite you to submit topics for consideration: Submit Topics Sponsors: We are actively seeking sponsors to support our community. Whether it is by offering venue spaces, providing food/drink, or cash sponsorship. Sponsors will not only speak at the meetups, receive prominent recognition, and but also exposure to our extensive membership base of 5,000+ AI developers in Melbourne and 500K+ worldwide.

AI is everywhere in the headlines. This session is about what's actually working on the ground in healthcare. MLAI kicks off a new series exploring what AI genuinely makes possible, one industry at a time. First up: healthcare. A panel of practitioners and technologists will unpack real deployments (clinical workflows, admin automation, patient-facing tools) and separate what's delivering value from what's still hype. Whether you work in healthcare, build for it, or just want to see AI applied outside the usual tech-demo context, this session is for you. Expect a moderated panel, live Q&A, and a chance to tell us what use case you'd want AI to solve in your world. Format: 90-minute panel discussion + Q&A + networking

Live half-day workshop for AU C-Suite leaders. Walk away knowing exactly how AI can solve your most expensive business problems.

AT CAPACITY! Use this link to pre-register for our next AI Engineer night in October: https://luma.com/event/manage/evt-DbGmdJ0lCBaZbQH AI Engineer Night Melbourne #1 is kicking off Road To AI Engineer Sydney with an evening of sharp talks, fresh ideas, and a good excuse to get out and mingle over food and drinks. We’re bringing together speakers from past and upcoming AI Engineer conferences for a night that digs into the real-world challenges shaping AI systems right now. Expect: Chris Lienert on taking chaos engineering from theory to practice to create self-healing code Zubin Pratap on Where Every AI Voice Agent Breaks (And Why) Nadia Makarevich with the provocation that Skills are wishful thinking Plus a few more speakers still to be announced Come ready for practical insights, honest war stories, and a relaxed night with a bite to eat and a drink or two. *By registering for this event, you agree to MLAI's and the venue's codes of conduct and this event's terms and conditions, and agree for your registration details to be shared with Web Directions for the purposes of event delivery and the AI Engineer Sydney campaign.

Our next LTUX Melbourne meetup of the year is here! 🎉 Australia’s healthcare landscape is evolving fast, and while an ageing population and public health demands bring real challenges, they also open up incredible room for smarter, human-centred design. Tackling these big shifts takes a genuine team effort, pairing innovation in health tech and academic rigour with government policy to rethink how care gets delivered. Join us on Thursday, 17 September for an evening with women shaping the future of Australian healthcare design. Expect insightful lightning talks, an interactive Q&A and an opportunity to connect with others in Melbourne’s design community over some pizza. 🎤 Speakers ⚡️ Maryke Laubscher, Doctoral Researcher & Teaching Fellow at Monash University Design Health Collab Maryke is a design researcher, educator and doctoral candidate at Monash University’s Design Health Collab, whose practice sits at the intersection of design, healthcare and emerging technology. Her interdisciplinary research brings together design, clinical, and technical expertise, in partnership with industry and government, to support the development of emerging healthcare technologies, with a focus on medical imaging for deployable and resource-constrained environments. ⚡️ Jessica Rudolph, Design and Research Lead at Healthdirect Australia Jessica is a service design and experience leader with over a decade working across healthcare, government and complex service environments. As a Design Lead at Healthdirect Australia, she focuses on embedding consumer and clinical workforce voices into service design and improvement, working across digital, clinical and operational teams to create more accessible and connected healthcare experiences. ⚡️ Claire Hines, Honorary Clinician at Royal Melbourne Hospital and PhD Candidate in Digital Health at RMIT University Claire Hines is an Intensive Care Physiotherapist, Lecturer and PhD Candidate and inaugural Bupa Scholarship holder at RMIT Univer

Scaling, Unplugged - A Conversation with Dawid Naude Some of the best conversations you've had about building a company happened with a drink in your hand. So that's the format. Thirty founders who are already running something, a bar, and Dawid Naude in the middle of it, talking about how he took Pathfindr from nothing to a $15 million acquisition in two years, and what AI is actually doing inside companies that have teams and revenue. The room is founders with people on the payroll, or $1m plus raised. Every registration is reviewed. Dawid started Pathfindr in early 2024, teaching organisations how to actually use AI. Inside two years he had the Victorian Government and Honey Insurance as clients, an AFR BOSS Most Innovative Companies listing in his founding year, and an offer from Affinda Group. He rolled 100% of his equity into the buyer, still runs Pathfindr, and is now Chief AI Officer across the group. He's also Saxton's preferred AI keynote speaker, which usually means a conference ticket and a room of four hundred. Here you can interrupt him. Half the night on the growth story. Half on AI. All of it with a drink and the person next to you. Key event details Date: Thursday 17th September Time: 5:30pm - 8:30pm Location: Melbourne CBD, shared on approval Drinks and food provided Capped at 30 founders Who's in the room Founders with people on the payroll, or $1m plus raised. Thirty people means you get to ask the thing you actually came to ask, and everyone in the room has already been through the hard parts. We review every registration and hold the mix. Our guest Dawid Naude, Pathfindr. Founded Pathfindr in 2023 and sold it to Affinda Group in 2025 in a deal valued at $15 million, rolling all of his equity into the buyer rather than taking cash. Before that he led Accenture's AI Technology practice in Australia, and went through an acquisition from the inside at Cloud Sherpas. He now sits across hundreds of companies trying to work out what AI is worth to the