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Startup Advisors 101: How to Find Advisors and Maximize their Impact

Tue, Jun 9, 12:30 AM

From Sydney Startup Founder 101

4.5

***🔔 Update: This event has been postponed to June 9, at the same time.*** *If you had March 24 blocked in your calendar, we’ve got something for you in the meantime 😊 Take a look at this webinar instead: How Aspiring Founders Can Use AI to Test Ideas & Move Faster: [https://fi.co/startupwebinar/24246](https://fi.co/startupwebinar/24246)* \-\-\- Below are the original event details, now rescheduled for June 8 ***Startup Advisors 101: How to Find Advisors and Maximize Their Impact:*** Great startup advisors can be a huge benefit for early-stage founders - helping them access networks, avoid mistakes, supplement missing skills, and even provide emotional support. But finding great advisors can be challenging, and their benefits are typically tied to how well you can leverage their limited time. On this interactive online event, we'll break down a practical, founder-friendly process for finding, vetting, and activating great startup advisors from our experience facilitating tens of thousands of advisor relationships since 2009. **❯❯ RSVP now at 👉 [https://fi.co/startupwebinar/23124](https://fi.co/startupwebinar/23124) to get your link and join us live!** **❯ What You'll Learn:** * How to identify the right advisors. * The chemistry + contribution test: how to evaluate fit before making anything official. * How to structure advisor interactions so they produce outputs. * When and how to use the [FAST Agreement](http://fi.co/fast) to standardize responsibilities + equity and avoid drawn-out negotiations. * Common failure modes (advisor vanity, “free consulting,” misaligned incentives) and how to prevent them. **❯ Featured Speaker:** * **[Jonathan Greechan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathangreechan/) -** **Co-Founder & CEO of the [Founder Institute](http://fi.co/) -** Jonathan Greechan is the Co-Founder & CEO of the Founder Institute, the world's largest pre-seed startup accelerator. Since 2009, he has grown and scaled the organization to chapters in over 200 cities and over 100 countries, producing over 8100 portfolio companies with nearly $2B in venture funding. In his long career in tech and marketing, Jonathan has advised thousands of startups on marketing, growth, and product strategy and has spoken at startup conferences on four continents. **❯ Who Should Attend?** * Founders at the idea, pre-seed, or early traction stage who want help but don’t want drama. * First-time founders building their first advisory board. * Operators and technical founders who need domain, distribution, or fundraising support. * Mentors/advisors who want a clearer framework for being helpful (and getting properly compensated). **❯ The FAST Agreement (Founder-Advisor Standard Template)** The FAST Agreement is used by tens of thousands of entrepreneurs and advisors per year to establish productive working relationships, trading advice and support for a standardized amount of equity. See the free agreement at [FI.co/FAST](http://fi.co/FAST). **❯❯ Don’t miss this live, interactive online event packed with valuable insights! RSVP now at 👉 [https://fi.co/startupwebinar/23124](https://fi.co/startupwebinar/23124) to get your link and join us live!**

12 attendees

LTP 2026 Conversation Continued with Taufiq Khan

Thu, Jun 11, 7:30 AM

From LTP Events Sydney

4.6

**LTP 2026 Conversation Continued with Taufiq Khan** After one of the most talked-about sessions at Leading the Product 2026, [Taufiq Khan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/taufiqkhan/) is back for an intimate fireside chat to continue the conversation. Hosted by LTP Events and [The Onset](https://theonset.com.au/), this special evening will go deeper into the ideas, provocations, and practical insights from TK’s standout presentation at LTP 2026 — exploring why continuous synthesis is becoming one of the most important skills in modern product leadership, and how AI can help teams turn chaos into clarity. In a world overloaded with information, shifting priorities, and constant noise, how do product teams focus on what actually matters? Drawing on his experience across industries, TK will unpack how teams can better manage information, improve decision-making, move faster with confidence, and build what he calls a “context machine” — a smarter way to simplify inputs and create clearer outcomes. If you attended LTP 2026, this is your chance for an awesome double-dose of TK and an opportunity to go even deeper into the conversation. And if you missed the conference, you’ll discover why Taufiq as a fresh view on product and AI in general. Following the fireside chat, we’ll open things up for audience Q&A and networking — giving you the chance to connect with fellow product leaders navigating the same opportunities and challenge. **Evening timeline:** 5.30 – 6.15pm: Arrive, grab a drink, and connect 6.15 – 7.00pm: Fireside chat with Taufiq Khan and Q&A 7.00 – 8.00pm: Networking, conversation, and connection We’ll have light food and drinks covered — all we ask is that you bring your curiosity and your questions. [The Onset](https://www.theonset.com.au/?utm_source=chatgpt.com "https://www.theonset.com.au?utm_source=chatgpt.com") is one of Australia’s leading Digital, Product, Technology, Data, and Design recruitment and executive search firms, partnering with some of the country’s most recognised consumer, SaaS, retail, fintech, and technology businesses. They specialise in building high-performing Product and Digital teams across both contingent and executive search, supporting everything from critical leadership hires and CPO successions through to large-scale transformation and growth initiatives across the Australian market. **Reserve your spot today. RSVPs are limited and will close soon.**

81 attendees

SydDT #127: The Human Loop – Keeping the Customer at the Core of AI

Thu, Jun 11, 8:00 AM

From Sydney Design Thinking

4.7

As AI rapidly accelerates product delivery, it’s easier than ever to ship features that look impressive but fail to solve real customer problems. For SydDT’s 11th birthday celebration, we’re collaborating with our friends from GenAI Lab to bring together a panel of design and product leaders to discuss how to balance the sheer speed of AI with genuine, human-centered design. We’re lucky to have Tarra van Amerongen, Alex Zinoviev, Riley Coleman, and Kristin de la Fuente sharing their observations and insights. They’ll cut through the hype to explore how user research needs to adapt for generative AI models, how to design for trust and transparency, and how the designer’s role is shifting from pixel-pusher to system orchestrator. Come join us for some fun conversations with interesting people in and around the design thinking community. New members are welcome! **SPEAKERS** **[Tarra van Amerongen](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tarravanamerongen/)** **VP of Product & Design \| Asia\-Pacific\, Thoughtworks** Tarra is an award-winning user experience and digital transformation leader, guiding creative, technical and business teams towards experiences that change the game. She's worked as a practitioner, lecturer, consultant and leader with in-house teams, consultancies and agencies for the past 15 year after pivoting into design from software development. Tarra is focused on taking a human-first approach to the application of AI, and challenges us to provide an informed view of what should remain human-first, what work means in this new paradigm, and how we stretch our craft as good design matters more than ever. **[Alex Zinoviev](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexzinoviev/)** **Head of Product, Neo Intelligence & Founder, GenAI Lab** Alex Zinoviev has spent 15+ years in product, most recently as Head of Product at Neo, an operations management platform for construction. He founded GenAI Lab, a 1,400-member community of product and design practitioners across Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane, because he kept seeing the same gap: teams excited about AI but unsure how to adopt it without losing sight of the humans they're building for. GenAI Lab runs workshops grounded in first-hand experimentation. **[Riley Coleman](https://www.linkedin.com/in/riley-coleman-a185754/) (they/them)** **Founder, AI Flywheel** Riley started their career as service designer creating behaviour change programs for marginalised communities in the not-for-profit sector. Before studying a masters in human-centred multimedia and transitioning to user experience design. Riley has spent the last 12 years working in design leadership roles in Australia, Germany, Netherlands and Sweden. Now, as founder of AI Flywheel, Riley teaches human-centric AI training programs to designers and leaders. Drawing from their extensive experience in behaviour change, human-centred design and technology transformation, they’re building a community of practice around effective Human+AI products, services and operations that people can trust. **[Kristin de la Fuente](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristindelafuente/)** **Design Lead – AI Products, SEEK & GenAI Lab Design Partner, GenAI Lab** At SEEK Kristin is pioneering trust architecture for automation and agentic experiences by recognising that trust failures are often psychological failures, not necessarily technical ones. She's designed practical mechanisms that keep customers centred and in control of agentic workflows. Working with teams to integrate Responsible AI principles and Strategic AI plays, Kristin leverages these frameworks to translate principles into concrete design decisions, ensuring they show up meaningfully in user experience. She moves beyond shipping impressive features to ask harder questions: where should AI actually be used? How do we maintain human agency at scale? Her work makes the invisible visible turning complex AI capability into systems people can understand, trust, and actually control. **EVENT SPONSORS** This event is brought to you by [Thoughtworks](https://www.thoughtworks.com) and [Dynamic4](https://dynamic4.com/). We take photos and record our events for documentation and promo purposes. Just let us know if you prefer not to be featured.

70 attendees

🔥Asian Background Social: Lounge Asia Sydney (Easy English) 6pm

Sat, Jun 13, 8:00 AM

From Asian Background Social: Lounge Asia Meetup (Easy English)

4.7

**⚠️ IMPORTANT: TONIGHT’S RULES ⚠️** **🎟️ NO TICKET = NO ENTRY** **(If you are on the WAITLIST, you cannot enter tonight.)** **🪑 SIT IF EMPTY** **Please take a seat if you see one to help create more space.** **📧 SHOW SCREEN AT DOOR** **Have your confirmation email/screen ready for Chris & Kev.** **NO WALK-INS. THANK YOU!** **“The perfect Saturday night to meet new friends in a warm, relaxed atmosphere”** **✨ 5,000+ Members have joined across Australia** **✨ Early RSVP FREE / Last-Minute Ticket $5** **✨ Relaxed & Friendly (Not a loud party, perfect for conversation)** **Why Join Us?** **First-timers welcome: About 70% of people are new every time!** **Easy to join alone: Most people arrive by themselves and leave with new friends.** **Language friendly: Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Taiwanese & English OK 🧋** **📍 WHEN & WHERE** **🗓 Every 2 weeks on Saturday** **🕕 6:00pm – 10:00pm** **📍 Harts Pub (The Rocks) Located in the heart of historic Sydney!** **🚶‍♂️ Super Easy Access:** **• 5 min walk from Circular Quay Station** **• 8 min walk from Wynyard Station** **Easy to drop by after exploring The Rocks!** **💰 Cost:** **Early RSVP FREE** **Last-Minute Ticket: $5** **⚠️ Limited spots available — we highly recommend reserving early.** **👉 HOW TO JOIN** **Please click “Join” on Meetup.** **Follow & DM us on Instagram: @_lounge_asia** **⚠️ HOUSE RULES & SAFETY POLICY** **To ensure a safe and comfortable environment for everyone, Lounge Asia has a ZERO TOLERANCE policy for the following behaviors:** **🚫 No Solicitation:** **Any form of business recruitment, MLM, religious proselytizing, or poaching is STRICTLY PROHIBITED.** **🚫 No Harassment:** **Unwanted pick-up activities, persistent pestering, or making others feel uncomfortable will not be tolerated.** **Action:** **Any attendee reported for misconduct will be removed immediately and banned from future events without warning.** **⚠️ IMPORTANT** **Photo ID Required:** **Passport or Driver’s License only (Student IDs NOT accepted).** **18+ only:** **The venue is a licensed bar, and ID checks are required under NSW law.** **🎁 BECOME A FOUNDING MEMBER (VIP)** **We are building an official app to connect our community safely!** **Join the VIP list for early access and priority invites to special parties.** **👉 [Join the VIP List here]** **https://forms.gle/T2KukvgEiGWEz3VR9** **━━━━━━━━━━━━━━** **初参加・一人参加も大歓迎です！** **혼자 오셔도 편하게 즐길 수 있어요!** **欢迎大家轻松交朋友！** **歡迎輕鬆認識新朋友！** **มาคนเดียวก็สนุกได้ครับ/ค่ะ** **Mọi người đều được chào đón!** **Welcome ang lahat!** **Semua dialu-alukan!** **Semua orang diterima dengan hangat!** **👥 Your Host:** **🎤 Chris – Your friendly Sydney host, ready to welcome you**

29 attendees

SYDNEY 👠 BOSS LADIES Business Networking Lunch @ Novotel Syd on Darling Harbour

Fri, Jun 5, 1:30 AM

From Lassie & Edward Zia's Business Networking Community ❤️

4.8

**👠 Lassie Zia's International BOSS Ladies is hosting the Sydney BOSS Ladies Lunch @ Novotel Sydney on Darling Harbour!🔥** Join Women in Business for a fun and relaxing Networking lunch that you won't want to miss! Our Business Community includes a diverse range of friendly and supportive Professionals, Entrepreneurs, Business Owners, CEOs, Managing Directors, Boss Ladies, Thought Leaders and Influencers, open and ready to meet like-minded individuals, to connect and grow their Networks! Our events are about creating a platform for fostering and empowering meaningful connections, getting everyone out of their homes and offices to build a stronger Network within our Communities. **The Event:** Our gatherings are free to you and pretty casual, with minimum structure to allow natural flow of conversations. Please make a donation, we really appreciate your support. Come along, grab a cold beverage on arrival, introduce yourselves, make new friends, take photos for social media and connect with each other on your phones via Linkedin. Our leaders will give a brief introduction while we purchase our own lunch. Feel free to move around and speak to everyone, and enjoy a coffee afterwards too. **Before the event** Make sure that you have registered and updated your professional profile and install Linkedin on your phone, our preferred social media platform for high quality professionals and Business Partners. **After the event:** Feel free to stay back for more Networking fun in the afternoon. Touch base with those you have met and connect with any you may have missed via the event posts on Linkedin created by Lassie on the day. Schedule a coffee meet and or come along to our next event to re-connect with others. **Parking:** Wilson Parking available underneath the hotel. If you book a day prior, you can get all day parking for $16. Which means you can stay for our main Business Networking Event after as well! **First time with Us?** You're in good hands! We've been running networking events in since 2015 and beyond. **About Us** Our Meetup Business Community has over 16k members and has become one of Australia's largest Business Networking Meetup groups. We host regular Networking events in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Canberra and zooms throughout the year, supporting a network of ever growing businesses. With over 16,000 members in our Business Community, you have the best chance of meeting like-minded people to grow and scale your Network faster. **View all upcoming events [here](https://linktr.ee/LassieZia)** Your donation is important in helping us continue to run these awesome community events. ### Frequently Asked Questions **What is the dress code?** Smart Business casual and be photo ready. **Do many people attend by themselves?** Many of our attendees come by themselves and friends, colleagues and first timers are always welcomed. **How can I make contact with any questions?** Simply direct message [Lassie Zia](https://www.linkedin.com/in/lassie/) with any further questions. Your host, Lassie Zia is a Linkedin Influencer passionate about guiding and supporting your journey to become Recognised Authorities in your field. ❤ Supercharge your Online Presence and help you Build a Strong Personal and Business Brand. We have designed and crafted a High Quality Linkedin Workshop, Online Conference, as well as our signature In-Person Business Networking Events held monthly, at 5 star Locations around Australian Captial Cities. We aim to create High Value and the best Business Networking Events available out there! **Meet - Like - Know - Trust** **Your Network is your Networth!** 🌏🌏🌏💙💙💙🔥🔥🔥 If you love our High Quality Business Networking Events, please Sign up to become a Member of the **[Awesome Influencer Vault](https://edwardzia.teachable.com/p/theawesomemarketingvault)** and help us keep them Running! We really appreciate your ongoing support!

16 attendees

Social Table Tennis Night

Thu, Jun 11, 9:30 AM

From Eastwood Community Social Table Tennis

4.8

## **KEEP THE BALL ROLLING!** 🏓✨ The energy from our first week back was incredible, and we’re just getting started! Whether you missed the first session or you’re already craving more, it’s time to step back up to the table. Let’s make Week 2 even bigger than the first! **The Details:** * **Where:** Eastwood Community Social Table Tennis * **Who:** Open to all—beginners, pros, and everyone in between! We are especially excited to see our women’s sports community continue to grow—bring a friend and double the fun! From high-speed rallies to friendly chats on the sidelines, there’s no better place to spend your Thursday night. We have spare bats, don't worry about not having one. See you at the table!

5 attendees

Meet up with your analytics peers and chat

Wed, Jun 10, 8:00 AM

From Data & Analytics Wednesday Sydney

4.6

[RSVP via EventBrite](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/data-analytics-wednesday-jun-2026-tickets-1989904058606?aff=oddtdtcreator) **A playbook for operationalising LLM as a judge** *[Angelica Chowdhury](https://www.linkedin.com/in/angelicachowdhury/), Data Scientist and AI Safety Researcher* Shipping LLMs into production means you need to evaluate them at scale. But human review doesn't scale, and trusting a single LLM judge introduces its own failures: position bias, fluency over substance, unfaithful reasoning, and no fallback when the judge is wrong. Most teams reach for a quick LLM eval and call it done, without realising they've traded one black box for another. To address this gap, this talk will cover strategies for building evaluation pipelines with actionable implementation steps, when to escalate cases for human review, and how to know your judge is working. **When the Numbers Break: An Analytics Leader’s Incident Playbook** *[Andrew Pearce](https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewwilliampearce/), Business Data and Insights Manager, Metcash* What happens when the numbers suddenly stop making sense? Data quality incidents are inevitable in complex organisations. A missing data feed, duplicated transactions, or broken pipeline can quickly undermine confidence in analytics and stall decision making across the business. This talk explores how analytics leaders can respond when the numbers break. Drawing on real-world experiences from enterprise retail environments, Andrew will share a practical playbook for managing data incidents: containing impact, communicating uncertainty, restoring trust, and turning incidents into stronger systems. Rather than focusing on technical fixes, the session focuses on leadership: how to maintain stakeholder confidence, keep decisions moving, and strengthen organisational trust in data. Attendees will leave with a simple framework they can apply the next time their data pipeline fails and the business asks the inevitable question: “Can we trust the numbers?” **What's this all about?** On the second Wednesday of every month the digital analytics community gets together for one or two short talks in an informal setting. There's lots of time for open ended discussion and to socialise. Plus there's free drinks! Open to anyone interested in digital analytics, we have people ranging from beginners through to analytics gurus and from marketing through to technical spaces, and everything in between.

2 attendees

GDG Sydney Meetup June 2026

Wed, Jun 10, 7:30 AM

From GDG Sydney

4.6

GDG Cloud Sydney is back for a meetup this June!  Join us for an evening of exciting technical talks, community connections, and knowledge sharing. Come Hire! The meetup allocates 10 minutes to people seeking technical jobs or with open roles at their company. If you’re hiring or job hunting, this is your chance to connect with the community. 👉 This meetup is in-person only. There are no plans to stream the event. Partners This meetup is organised in partnership with Mantel Group. They harness technologies that transform business operations in the real world. With capabilities spanning Cloud, Data, Digital and Security, they merge emerging technologies with innovative design and industry expertise to enhance your business. With deep technical specialisation and as a leading Amazon, Google and Microsoft cloud partner, the depth and breadth their solutions offer is unparalleled. Mantel Group is your partner for end-to-end digital transformation. Ranked in Australia's top 10 Best Workplaces by Great Place To Work Australia for four years in a row, Mantel Group is people-focused and upholds strong values. Their culture champions trust, empowerment, and diversity with a lean structure emphasizing collaboration, direct communication, and equity. Dented Code teaches coding skills that you need to become a full-stack developer and help you advance your career, pursue your dream job, or enjoy the freedom of life as a freelancer. – Learn more on their website. We will also give out two 1-year subscriptions from JetBrains to any of JetBrains' IDEs in a raffle. Winners can choose from tools like IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate, PyCharm, WebStorm, Rider, and more. Talks The Self-Curation Engine - Anupam Phoghat Data arrives from disparate sources with inconsistent schemas to our warehouse. To solve this, we present a serverless Cloud Run agent that uses the Gemini API to automate schema mapping. Triggered by new data, the agent compares raw schemas to a BigQuery target and dynamically generates the required SQL or Dataform transformations. This talk highlights how AI automates the most manual parts of data engineering: schema maintenance and logic generation. About the Speaker - Anupam Phoghat Anupam Phoghat is a Google Developer Expert, Google Ambassador for AI/ML, and Founding Director of Core-X Consulting — a Google Cloud Partner in Australia. With deep expertise in GCP, platform engineering, and AI-driven transformation, he's also an international speaker, author, and course creator known for simplifying complex ideas through storytelling and delivering real-world impact. An Introduction to Android XR - Gabriel Bernardo Pereira About the Speaker - Gabriel Bernardo Pereira Gabriel Bernardo Pereira is a Lead Software Engineer and AI Engineer with 20+ years of experience in Android and mobile technologies, having worked with companies like Optus and Medibank. As the founder of Mob Studio and current engineer at Dronnr App, he brings real-world expertise building AI-powered mobile solutions - and a genuine passion for sharing knowledge with the developer community. Event Schedule 5:30pm - Event doors open 5:45pm - Introduction and hiring connect (5 mins for each group, every participant gets up to 1 min) 6:00pm - Talk 1: The Self-Curation Enginer — Anupam Phoghat 6:45pm - Talk 2: An Introduction to Android XR — Gabriel Bernardo Pereira 7:15pm - Raffle for 2 JetBrains IDE licenses and 2 programmable tickets 7:45pm - Event end Agenda --- Speakers Gabriel Bernardo Pereira Anupam Phoghat - Core-X (Founder) I am a seasoned IT professional with years of experience in the field. I have extensive experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and currently hold many professional level Google Cloud and other industry certifications. I am also certified in Kubernetes, and have a deep understanding of the core concepts of Kubernetes. I am passionate about sharing my knowledge with others by activel… Hosts Kunal Ostwal - GDG Sydney (Organiser) Gary Lou - GDSC USYD (AI/ML Technical Lead) Bachelor of Science (Data Science) and Bachelor of Laws at The University of Sydney. Complete your event RSVP here: https://gdg.community.dev/events/details/google-gdg-sydney-presents-gdg-sydney-meetup-june-2026/.

87 attendees

Sydney Data Eng meetup with VeloDB

Thu, Jun 11, 7:30 AM

From Sydney Data Engineering Meetup

4.7

Hey all, please join us for a special meetup with VeloDB this June. Join us for an engaging session filled with exciting discussions and networking opportunities. Don't miss out—RSVP to secure your spot. Please reach out if you'd like to host us! 🎉 🏠 Location: Stone & Chalk @ Tech Central 🍕 Catering: VeloDB 😊 💬 Join our Slack Group here: [Data Engineers Slack Channel](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd09iTwpNulQH0b1BdslM1RzgImOGlX4WgOx6_rzvmVANwGmw/viewform) **Schedule:** \- 5\.30pm: Doors Open \- 6\.00pm: Announcements and Welcome \- 6\.10pm: 1st Talk \- 6\.40pm: 2nd Talk \- 7\.10pm: Networking \- 7\.30pm: Doors Close **Speakers:** 🎤 Mingyu Chen, Apache Doris PMC Chair & VPE@VeloDB **Talk Title**: When Every Second Counts: Real-Time Analytics for AI Systems **Talk Summary**: AI applications are changing what “real-time” means. It is no longer enough to analyze data after the fact. In AI-driven products, decisions often need to happen while events are still unfolding: a user is interacting with an agent, a model is generating output, a workflow is waiting on a tool call, or an operational issue is emerging in production. This talk introduces real-time analytics and explains why it has become more important in the AI era. We will look at common AI-era use cases, including observability, user behavior analysis, operational monitoring, and agent performance tracking. Using Apache Doris as the implementation layer, we will explore how a real-time analytics system can support fast ingestion, low-latency queries, and scalable interactive analysis. I will also share a brief introduction to the Doris open source community and demonstrate a real-time observability use case for AI agents. The goal is to show how teams can turn streaming events into actionable insights quickly enough to improve user experience, reliability, and decision-making. **Speaker Bio**: Mingyu Chen is the Apache Doris PMC Chair and Vice President of Technology at VeloDB. As a seasoned big data developer and one of the founding engineers of the Apache Doris project, Rayner has been a pivotal force in driving the community's growth and technical roadmap. Throughout the project's history, he has spearheaded the technical innovations across every major version and architectural evolution, nurturing Apache Doris into the flourishing analytical database it is today. 🎤 Shilin Wu, Principal Solution Architect@VeloDB **Talk Title**: Realtime AI observability and analytics with Apache Doris - Live Demo **Talk Summary**: AI systems don’t behave like traditional software. When something goes wrong, it’s rarely obvious why. In this live session, we’ll walk through how you can start making AI systems more observable in practice. We’ll explore how to: * Understand what your AI system is actually doing under the hood * Trace how outputs are generated across different steps * Identify where things start to drift or break down * Analyze usage patterns, performance, and cost over time We’ll also show how Apache Doris can be used to store, query, and analyze AI interaction data at scale—so you can move beyond intuition and actually reason about your system. This is a live, evolving demo focused on ideas you can take back and apply immediately. **Speaker Bio**: Shilin is Principal Solution Architect at VeloDB, specializing in the design and optimization of distributed real-time analytical platforms. With an impressive career spanning industry leaders such as Google, Ant Financial, and Confluent, Shilin brings a wealth of expertise in architecting high-performance data systems at scale. He is dedicated to helping organizations successfully transition Apache Doris and VeloDB into production, ensuring their environments are robust, scalable, and highly efficient. If you'd like to **present** at future meetups, please submit your talk [here](https://dataengbytes.com/forms/meetup-talk)! Remember to bring along some great questions! See you all there...

64 attendees

Sarah Stokes/Karina Smith Cultivating an Adaptive mindset

Tue, Jun 16, 7:30 AM

From Sydney Creative Customer Experience (CCX)

4.7

Welcome Back CCX Sydney to our Events for 2026 from myself, Lydia, Sylvia and James and we are planning a bumper selection of speakers for the new year. Our Fourth event on June 16th will be a interactive workshop from our two speakers Sarah Stokes and Karina Smith who will speak to the proposition of cultivating an Adaptive Mindset We will be again kindly hosted by our friends at Accenture Song. More details to follow soon on the venue location (Barangaroo) **IMPORTANT NOTE FOR THIS SESSION!** **An Important detail is that due to gaining entry to Accenture we will need any CCX Member planning to attend this session to supply us with their First and Last name in advance of attending.** NOTE: On this occasion we will not be able to accept Members who do not supply these details. Many thanks CCX Sydney. About Sarah and Karina's workshop **Interactive workshop: Cultivating an adaptive mindset for yourself and your work.** Now more than ever our capacity for change must meet the challenges we face at work and in the world. We know less about what the future looks like, so we need to be ready to face unknown whilst experiencing rapid change in the face of AI and other societal issues. This interactive workshop will start by establishing an understanding of what it means to be adaptive, followed by an approach attendees can personalise to their circumstances. People in this community are often facilitators and agents for change, let's apply our design thinking methods to how we work as well as what we produce. **About Sarah Stokes** Sarah has over 25 years of experience in the world of experience design, including leading product design teams at Atlassian, Domain, and Westpac. She holds a Master's in Business Coaching and has coached design and product leaders for nearly a decade. Sarah is curious about how we harness our human skills in design. She’s spoken on a number of topics including influence, wisdom, feedback culture, cognitive bias and good listening. **About Karina Smith** Karina is an award-winning strategic and service design leader with over 30 years’ experience helping government and social enterprises navigate operational complexity. She specialises in business improvement and service design, building the integrated systems and processes required to help large-scale organisations work more effectively and deliver measurable outcomes. Prior to her current work as a solo consultant, Karina was a Principal at Meld Studios, one of Australia’s most highly regarded and awarded service design consultancies. Therefore don't miss out on a place at our first interactive workshop CCX Sydney event for 2026, as seats will be limited for this session.

64 attendees

Microsoft 365 Modern Management Meetup

Wed, Jun 10, 7:30 AM

From Microsoft 365 Modern Management Meetup

4.8

Placeholder text, meetup details to be provided in the future

8 attendees

Unhurried Conversations at the Pub

Mon, Jun 15, 8:15 AM

From Unhurried Conversations Sydney

4.7

In an unhurried conversation, there is time to think differently and connect with people in a refreshing way. Unhurried isn't always slow. It offers a pace where people find it easy to join in and not feel crowded out. And listening can be as satisfying as talking. We use a simple meeting format to make this happen. https://www.unhurried.org/ This newly created event is at a new venue, the Keg & Bew Hotel at Surry Hills. We meet on the 2nd floor around 6:15pm. Food and drinks are available, before and after, on the ground floor and roof top.