Architecture Groups Melbourne

Networking Drinks + Panel Discussion - WIA - Melbourne

**FromHereOn** is proud to sponsor this special EOY event with **Women in Architecture Australia (WIA)** in Melbourne **Panel Guests & Networking Event** Join us for our annual end-of-year event, an evening of honest conversation, shared experiences and community connection as we explore: #### Architecture Under Pressure: People, Priorities and AI This event is open to everyone—women, men, and supporters of diversity. Connect with like-minded professionals, build meaningful relationships, and unlock new opportunities. Please make sure to **register on Humanitix** (RSVP on Meetup won’t secure your spot): [https://events.humanitix.com/eoy-networking-event-in-melbourne](https://events.humanitix.com/eoy-networking-event-in-melbourne) Enjoy food and drinks while connecting with peers and gaining insights from our panelists. This is a fantastic opportunity to engage in meaningful discussions, expand your network, and be part of the conversation shaping the future of Women in Architecture. **Find out more details here: [https://events.humanitix.com/eoy-networking-event-in-melbourne](https://events.humanitix.com/eoy-networking-event-in-melbourne)**

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

Hi Architects **(NB; this month's Meetup is on a Tuesday)**, 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: * **Nitin Yadav, Principal AWS Architect, Nuvrix** **Ensuring Business Value through Well-Architected AI Projects** Nitin has been unpicking the importance of business value, financial metric tracking and ROI etc associated with AI projects and the importance thereof. * **Mystery Speaker** **AWS Well-Architected Agent Review** AWS has recently released the AWS Well-Architected Agent and will soon be releasing additional agentic tools to programmatically establish alignment with best-practices - we dive deep and break it down but with more and more programs leveraging Well-Architected, it will be interesting... 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

Neural Processing from the Ground Up, & Phoenix Architecture

The MLAI Meetup is a community for AI researchers and professionals which hosts monthly talks on exciting research. Our format is: * 6:00 - 6:20: Socializing * 6:20 - 6:40: Announcements and AI news * 6:40 - 7:40: Talk(s) and Q&A * 7:40 - 8:00 Networking * 8:00: Head to the nearest pub for dinner **Tristan Penman: "Neural Processing from the Ground Up"** **Talk description:** Have you ever wondered how an NPU or TPU works under the hood? A lot is written and said about how these purpose-built chips can accelerate neural networks, but not so much about how they actually work. In this talk we'll see how, starting from basic operations like dot products and matrix multiplications, we can implement non-trivial model architectures such as CNNs and Transformers. From there, we'll see how those same techniques are applied in real embedded NPUs and data-centre scale TPUs. Some concepts we’ll touch upon include systolic arrays, tiling, and the impact of memory hierarchies. Code examples will be shared where possible, along with diagrams to help build intuition. **Speaker bio:** Tristan is a Principal Engineer at a Melbourne-based EdTech startup. His recent work centres around bringing AI to the classroom, in ways that improve learning outcomes, increase student engagement, and minimise strain on teachers. In his spare time, Tristan dabbles in reverse engineering, hardware hacking and FPGA design. **Raúl V: "Phoenix Architecture"** **Abstract:** Drop the code, (re)generate specs that are well defined for (multi) agents to replicate every single time. Machine code is no longer scarce and increasingly disposable. The limiting factor is no longer writing software, but understanding, evaluating, and governing it. **Speaker Bio:** Raúl is the solopreneur founder of Quantaliz, a private AI software development. He is a neerk (nerd + geek) systems engineer, always looking to learn, explore, exploit the most out of the computers.

End of year drinks in Melbourne

Melbourne people, please join us for an in-person get-together to celebrate another year of working in content strategy and design. We have space reserved at Mr Wilkinson, a friendly, relaxed and accessible bar in Brunswick East. Pizza and snacks are available. For those outside Melbourne, sorry you'll miss out this time (unless you book a flight). We'll see you for more great online events from February 2027.

Botanical Gardens in Mono and Christmas lunch

Walk from Sandringham Rotunda to Middle Brighton Baths and back

Does anyone want to take a walk from the rotunda in Sandringham along the Bay Trail up to Middle Brighton Baths then back again? Could stop for refreshing drinks/lunch... Weather dependent of course. Walk takes roughly an hour each way.

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.

✨ MelbDT End of Year Drinks + Ask Us Anything ✨

What a year. Restructures, layoffs, AI changing the job under our feet, and a market that can’t decide if it’s turned. If you’ve felt it, you’re not alone. So for our last meetup of 2026 we’re keeping it simple: no slides, no panel. Just drinks, good people and an honest chat about what’s actually happening in the industry. It’s free, and we’ve put a small bar tab on to say thanks for showing up this year. It’s first come, first served, so get in early 🍻 **What’s on:** ✨**Panel:** **Ask the hosts anything.** Hiring, the job market, design leadership, AI, career pivots, what we’re seeing across our orgs. No question too spicy. ✨ **The real state of play.** What’s going on in Melbourne design and product right now, minus the LinkedIn gloss. ✨ **You pick 2027.** We want you to shape next year’s line-up. What topics, speakers and formats would help you most? Bring your ideas (and your hot takes). ✨ **Find your people.** Whether you’re between roles, hiring, or just hanging on, come hang out with folks in the same boat. **Who it’s for:** Anyone in design, product, CX, research or service design. That includes long-timers, first-timers, the recently impacted and the survivor-guilt crew. **Your hosts:** Mickey Rummery, Brad Alphonso, Patrick Tan (Anna is away upskiling on Journey Maps and Rach is off making a bebe) **Location: TBC -** save the date whilst we lock down an awesome venue

Origami and Chocolate

Join us for a relaxing time of folding together at the Ratio chocolate factory in Brunswick! Bring a fun origami project to fold and share, all while sipping on delectable hot chocolate! Standard origami paper will be provided. We just ask for a gold coin to help with group expenses.

Naarm Solarpunk Meetup + Merri-bek.Tech AGM

[Merri-bek Tech](https://www.merri-bek.tech/), a group in the inner northern suburbs of Naarm (Melbourne), invites everyone involved interested in tinkering with grass-roots technologies in support of a **Sustainable**, **Resilient** and **Just** future to join us for the **Naarm Solarpunk Meetup**. This month we have special guest speaker, **Anastasia Beasley**, with the presentation, 'Land shapes the internet'. ***Land shapes the internet*** Margo Ngawa Neale calls songlines "corridors of knowledge", and Internet infrastructure follows those same paths through Country to transport information through cable-sized corridors. The Internet is made of Country - even the fibre optic cables in the NBN are made of Queensland sand - but its protocols are very different to those that govern knowledge sharing in Indigenous systems. I am an ally with settler heritage, and I have no authority to speak about traditional knowledge, but I'd like to share some context about the Internet's history in so-called Australia and recommend some readings by Indigenous computer scientists. *Anastasia is a research fellow at auDA, the Australian not-for-profit organisation responsible for administering the .au domain.* After the presentation, at the end of the Meetup we will be running the Merri-bek.tech Annual General Meeting (AGM), presenting the annual report and nominating and confirming the committee members for the next year. This is a great opportunity to get further involved with the organisation; to become a member, or as a member to nominate as, or vote for committee members. If you do none of these things is a a good chance to see how a grass-roots organisation can be organised and run. **About the Naarm Solarpunk group** Some of us are technologists, and will be showing off software or hardware projects, and others are more interested in community organizing, responding to the climate crisis, or building local resilience. Whatever your area of interest, or your level of skill, you're absolutely welcome to dive in. At the meetups we'll have a show-and-tell time for any projects that you're working on, as well as occasional short presentations. The space will be hosted by volunteers, and we'll actively work towards inclusion through applying a [code of conduct](https://www.contributor-covenant.org/version/2/1/code_of_conduct/). Merri-bek Tech has some projects that you might be interested in updates from, including our attempt to build P2P mesh network based community hosting on Raspberry Pis, and our project to run a local fediverse social network. We aspire to keep this meetup **Solarpunk** as fuck. We support the hackers, tinkerers and makers and misfits. There are plenty of other spaces for big corporate green tech, so bring your hobby project, not your day job, unless that job is firmly rooted in the solidarity economy. We are not value neutral. We'll start with Merri-bek Tech's [values](https://www.merri-bek.tech/about/values/) and [principles](https://www.merri-bek.tech/about/principles/), and build from there together. In particular, in the context of ongoing genocide, we will ask you to leave if you're associated in any way with the weapons industry. This meetup will be hosted on the stolen, unceeded lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation. **Always was, always will be, Aboriginal land.**

Coffee at Southbank & free exhibition (Fed Square)

HumanArt Fine-Art Nude Photography Lighting Workshop

This is not another portfolio build. The aim is to teach you actual lighting techniques to elevate your photography to award winning levels over an intense 3 hours of creative lighting techniques. • Half hour group chat about finding your own creative style. How to be an ethical photographer. Growing trust in your brand. (10am to 10.30am) • 10.30am to 1:30pm - 3 hours Fine Art Nude with Strobe Lighting setups Total mTime: 10am to 1,30pm (3.5 hours) Date: Sunday 22, November,ber 2026 Price: $245 per person ( limited spaces up to 8 attendees) Location: Studio F4.0. (Frank Sartori photo Studio) Factory 8/14 Albert St, Preston VIC 3072 Enquiries: Instagram via either @ni.ck5374 or @humanart_1 or email to [nick@ncpdesign.com.au](mailto:nick@ncpdesign.com.au) Things to bring: Your own camera capable of accepting a hotshot flash trigger, spare camera card and spare batteries. Model will be @[skye._model](https://www.instagram.com/ni.ck5374/?hl=en#) ##