Architecture Groups Melbourne

Welcome to the next 2026 AWS Melbourne Well-Architected User Group Meetup!

Hi Architects, Welcome to our next AWS Melbourne Well-Architected User Group Meetup for 2026, including more exceptional speakers and topics! :-D At each meetup we covered off various pillars in detail, best-practices and insights from industry leaders that specialise in the Well-Architected Framework. And giving away drones, of course. Lots of drones. **Please also note that AWS Security now requests a company name and company email where it is available. If you are a student, please list your institution and your student email address at that institution 👍** We'll be announcing more speakers on [https://well-architected.me](https://well-architected.me/) and previewing presentations during the coming weeks - our speakers and details this month include: * **Michael Taylor, Lakebase Specialist, Databricks** **How Lakebase provides a well-architected platform for next generation application and AI development.** Come and hear how Databricks experts show how customers run applications and agents on Lakebase; serverless Postgres governed by Unity Catalog. See instant branching, scale-to-zero, point-in-time recovery and synced tables in action. The Databricks team will also give a first look at LTAP; one open, governed copy of data for transactions and analytics, with no ETL in between. * **Mystery Speaker** **The AWS AI Competency - can automation support?** Achieving the AWS AI Competency can unlock many benefits for AI customers. In this talk, we explore if achievement of a competency can be automated. This month's menu will include: * Pizzas * Beer * Wine: Big and red 🤤 NB: Please check in up the stairs from the ground floor to the Mezzanine Level. So come join us at 5:30 for a 6pm start, followed by beer, wine, pizza and friendly networking after our talks :-) Tired of Linkedin’s "thought leadership”, spam and advertising? Join https://well-architected.me/ , the AWS community built for architects, developers and cloud professionals. * Connect with experienced AWS practitioners * Preview upcoming AWS Meetups and relive past content * Create and review beautiful AWS case studies in minutes * Prepare for AWS certifications with curated quizzes * Show your manager and reports you’re well-architected (Please note that by registering to attend you agree to your details being shared as and where required with Amazon Web Services and AWS Well-Architected User Group partners) in

Becoming Zen with CSS

From tables, to floats, to flex, to grid, from Bootstrap to Tailwind to CSS modules and more, CSS has evolved and changed a lot over the years. Whether creating a design system or just trying to center a button, CSS is a powerful and often misunderstood part of software development. In this session we will go back to basics, learning the fundamentals of CSS and applying them in your very own CSS Zen Garden project. CSS Zen Garden was introduced in 2013, all designs start with the same HTML file and rely on just the power of CSS to make unique and eye catching designs. No experience with CSS or HTML or code is required. Participation requires minimal set up as it has been designed to empower everyone to create an entry by the end of the session that is unique to them. **Agenda:** 5:30 - 6:00 Networking 6:00 - 7:00 Workshop 7:00 - 7:30 Networking **Sponsors:** This event is sponsored by Stile Education. Thanks for empowering women and allies to excel in their technology careers 💙

🚀 AI Engineer Workshop: Build an AI Agent from Scratch

**51% OFF** exclusively for KSUG.AI community friends! **Register [HERE](https://ksug.ai/ai-25oct26) =>** [https://ksug.ai/ai-25oct26](https://ksug.ai/ai-25oct26) **<=** ​ Spend a day building an AI agent from scratch — and learn what it takes to run agents reliably in real-world business environments. * ​💻 Hands-on AI engineering * 🎓 Anthropic certification preparation * 💼 AI Engineer interview guidance * 🏢 Real enterprise case studies ​Building an AI agent is becoming easier. With today’s models and developer tools, you can quickly create an agent that answers questions, calls tools, and delivers an impressive demo. ​**But getting an agent to work reliably in production is a very different challenge.** ​How should you design the system architecture? How do you troubleshoot failed tool calls? How do you evaluate whether an agent actually completed its task successfully? And once it’s running, how do you monitor its behaviour, performance, and permissions? ​**Production-ready AI agents require more than prompts — they require solid engineering.** ​Join **Roy** for a hands-on **AI Engineer Workshop** combining practical exercises with real enterprise experience. You’ll build and test an AI agent while learning how system design, tool integration, evaluations, observability, and governance come together in production environments. ## **​🛠️ What You’ll Learn** ​🧠 AI System Design ​Understand how models, tools, workflows, and agent components fit together. Learn how business requirements influence architecture and technology decisions. ​🔌 MCP & Tool Integration ​Explore the role of **Model Context Protocol (MCP)** in agent development and learn how agents connect with external tools and capabilities to turn model outputs into real actions. ​📊 Evaluations: Agent Quality & Performance ​Learn how to evaluate whether an agent completed its task successfully and whether its output meets your requirements. Use testing and evaluations to identify problems and guide improvements. ​🔍 AI Observability & Governance ​Learn how to trace agent execution, investigate failures, define permissions, and establish behavioural boundaries so your agents are easier to monitor, manage, and maintain. ​Throughout the workshop, you’ll work through practical tasks, **build and test your own agent**, and refine your approach based on the results. ​Roy will also share real enterprise examples showing how these challenges appear — and how they are addressed — in production environments. ## **​🎯 What You’ll Gain** ​🛠️ Hands-on Agent Building Experience ​Build an AI agent from scratch and learn practical approaches for production environments. Understand how architecture, tools, evaluations, observability, and governance work together. ​🎓 Anthropic Certification Walkthrough ​Explore **Anthropic certification pathways**, key topics, and preparation priorities — and connect what you learn during the workshop with your next certification steps. ​💼 AI Engineer Interview Guide ​Understand common **AI Engineer interview structures and preparation priorities**. Learn how to communicate your project experience, technical thinking, architecture choices, and engineering decisions more effectively. ​You’ll leave with practical AI engineering experience and a much clearer roadmap for **building projects, preparing for certification, and developing your AI engineering career**. ## **​👥 Who Should Join?** ​This workshop is ideal for: * ​Developers already experimenting with AI agents who want to move beyond demos and prototypes * ​Software engineers interested in AI system design and agent development * ​AI learners looking for hands-on experience with MCP, tool integration, evaluations, and observability * ​Professionals exploring agentic AI for enterprise workflows * ​Anyone preparing for **Anthropic certifications** * ​Anyone preparing for **AI Engineer roles and interviews** ​**Some development experience is recommended. Bring your laptop — this is a hands-on workshop. 💻** ## **​👨‍💻 Meet Your Instructor: Roy** ​**AI Engineer @ V2.ai** ​Roy has worked on agentic AI and software development projects at companies including **Deloitte**, bringing practical experience in designing and applying AI to real-world business problems. ​His experience includes **global supply chain risk management, invoice processing automation, and software development productivity**, with a focus on using AI to solve complex business challenges and improve team efficiency. ​Roy holds three Claude certifications: * ​**Claude Certified Architect – Professional** * ​**Claude Certified Architect – Foundations** * ​**Claude Certified Developer – Foundations** ## **​📅 Event Details** ​**Date:** Sunday, 25 October 2026 **Time:** 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM (AEDT) **Location:** Melbourne City **Format:** In-person, hands-on workshop **Price:** **$189** (after **51%** OFF, **LAST 2 DAYS**!) The price will be back to **$289** from **23rd Oct**. As a member of the **[KSUG.AI](https://ksug.ai/?utm_source=luma)** community, you can use 🏷️ Discount Code: **KSAI1** to save **$200** to attend the full day workshop! 🎉 RSVP on Meetup does not secure your seat. Please register at: [Luma](https://luma.com/7oighwsr?coupon=ksai). ## **​🚀 Ready to Build?** ​**Don't just learn how AI agents work — build one yourself.** ​Spend the day gaining practical experience across the key areas of AI engineering, from architecture and MCP integration to evaluations, observability, and governance. ​Build your agent. Test it. Break it. Improve it. ​And leave with a clearer understanding of what it takes to move from **AI prototype → production-ready AI system**.

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Infracoders Melbourne November Meetup

Hi Infracoders! Atlassian are excited to host the Infracoders meetup in November, at their nearly 1-year-old Melbourne office! We usually have 2 technical talks per meetup. Commencing at 6pm, we will be finished by 8pm. There will be a delegation afterwards to a licensed venue for an informal Post Meetup Review with your hosts & fellow attendees. **Presentation 1**. **Jeffrey Aven** (StackQL Studios) // Stateless IaC for Agents: stackql-deploy stackql-deploy is an open-source, SQL-native IaC tool backed by the stackql engine. It has no state file: it queries the live cloud control plane with SQL and runs idempotent existence checks, state checks and create or update operations against the provider directly. With your cloud APIs exposed as a self-discoverable data layer, agents can query before they mutate, work inside policy gates, and use one interface for both provisioning and SRE tasks such as cost analysis, posture checks and incident triage. Patterns for safe agent access to the control and data planes are covered, followed by a live demo. **Presentation 2**. **It could be you!** // Pitch us a talk on the Infracoders Slack What problem did you face and how did you solve it? Slack: https://join.slack.com/t/infracoders/shared_invite/zt-4cu09vkgi-CNkBMQKS0hHRklSn5az8Rg -- As always, please update your RSVP as your availability changes. All venues have space considerations for safety and comfort of Infracoders. See you there, Matt (@geekle), David (@David Lutz), Phil (@Phil J), Peter H (@Peter)

Street Photography - Entering the Frame

The theme for this street photography event in Melbourne CBD is to find one (or maybe two) locations with an interesting background and to wait for a subject to walk into the scene. **How this is going to work** We will move to 3 different spots in the city where we will allocate about 1.5 hours per spot and let you loose during that time. Find an interesting background and wait for a subject(s) to walk pass to photograph. We ask that you avoid wandering off too far as we will re-group before moving to our next location and do the same thing. I anticipate we will still run this event even if it's a bit wet - you can do photography in the rain. However if the weather is really wet - we may need to postpone. So please check this page the day before the event. **Schedule** 10.00am - Meet **undercover at the entrance of the State Library** for a welcome and briefing. 10.15am - **Location 1** \- surrounding areas near the **State Library** to find your background. 11.15am - Re-group at the front of the State Library and move to **Location 2 (Bourke Mall - in front of Myer)** 11.30am - Explore around Bourke Mall and you could include Chinatown 12.45pm - Re-group at Bourke Mall in front of Myer and head to Federation Square for lunch at **Food Court (South Bank)** 1.00pm - Lunch at **Food Court (South Bank)** 2.15pm - Location 3 - Federation Square and it's surrounding area 3.30pm - Meet at Time Out Cafe for coffee and cake (it's apparently opened now) 4.30pm - Event ends Look forward to having you join us at this event. Rowan and Tracey

Ai in SRE (Use Luma link to register)

​AI in SRE is taking the spotlight! Join SRECommunityAustralia on November 4th for a lively evening of lightning talks exploring how AI is being used in site reliability engineering. Expect quick ideas, practical examples, and plenty to talk about between sessions. ​The venue is still being confirmed, so keep an eye out for the location. Bring your curiosity and come ready for a fun night of talks and conversation. https://luma.com/a1994de5

Photographing the Male Workshop

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.

Building Construction Contracts Masterclass! (Lionel Diao - AJ & Co Lawyers)

**\*\*\*RSVP PROCESS - CRITICAL INFO\*\*\*** Please be aware, we don't use the Meetup website to take RSVPs, so you will need to register on this link to lock in your place (bookings essential) - [https://propdev.info/uMKh](https://propdev.info/uMKh) We run events most weekends around Australia so you can attend either physically in your local area, or live-stream to any event around the country. **In-Person:** 1:30pm (Melbourne time) to 'Mingle With The Expert' **Virtual:** 2pm (Melbourne time) **INTRODUCING THE INDUSTRY EXPERT:** *Building Construction Contracts Masterclass! AJ & Co Lawyers (Lionel Diao)* Your Building Contract Looks Fine. But Does it Really Protect You? You’ve found the site. The numbers stack up. You’re ready to build. Then comes the building contract. Many mum-and-dad developers assume MBA and HIA contracts are the safest way to go. But are these standard contracts actually suited to the risks and complexities of property development? ***Because building a development isn’t the same as building your own home.*** The wrong contract could leave you exposed to costly variations, disputes, delays and unexpected financial pressure that can eat into your profit. So, are you signing a contract that protects your interests? Or one that could leave you vulnerable when things don’t go to plan? And what alternatives should property developers be considering? At our next Property Developer Network Meetup, **Lionel Diao** from **AJ & Co Lawyers** will unpack why **MBA** and **HIA** building contracts may not be the best option for property developers and explore what alternatives you should consider. **You’ll gain insights into:** • Why special conditions can override standard contract terms • How variations, provisional sums and delays can blow out your budget • The critical deadlines you can’t afford to miss • A practical process to manage contract risks before construction begins Most importantly, you’ll gain a better understanding of how your building contract could affect your risk, your cash flow and your bottom line. Because a profitable development isn't just about getting the build right. It's about getting the contract right before you start. ***This is your chance to talk property with other enthusiasts!*** See you all soon!

Denim and Lingerie Workshop

Art, Aesthetics, & Appetites: A Double Treat with Mei!