Blogging Groups Sydney

October syd<video> - #80th episode

Join us for Season 11, Episode 5 as we celebrate 80 meetups of community, code, and video tech this October with another great night of video tech talks returning to the slick **Canva** office for an evening of deep-dives, good friends networking, food and drinks. Tonights speakers will be **[David Rodd (US) - Software Engineering Manager Paramount+](https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-lightning-rodd/)** KITT: Could AI Have Saved Our Event Platform? How solving lost jobs evolved into building distributed state **[Janaka Beragama Kuruppuge - Director Cloud and AI Engineering @ Oracle](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jdishantha/)** **[Jeremy Brown - Video and Ads @ Kick](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremybrownau/)** How much can change in a year at Kick the worlds fourth largest live streaming platform **Sponsors** Our thanks to **Canva** for hosting and sponsoring pizza + drinks at the venue. Sydney Video Technology is a volunteer group, as part of many groups independently run around the world. Tonight’s hosts will be: Jeremy Brown, Adrian Britton, Grégoire Duché and Amy Prosser

Prima

Marrickville Library Cafe lawn, second week of Spring. Get to know each other, talk about what you're currently working on, and bring a draft if you have one.

Online Photography - The letter C

Remove Meditation Blockages

Join Us in Burwood (Sydney) and learn SOS meditation. What would happen if more people used gratitude and meditation to find joy, gain perspective, and reduce worry and fear? Our minds often have negative thought patterns which create stress and anxiety, affect our level of peace, and make it difficult for us to focus in our meditations. Developing a sense of gratitude can not only improve our physical and mental health, but also allow us to sit for our meditations with more peace and serenity. Attend this session to explore how our minds and lives are positively impacted by gratitude, how such a positive attitude can improve our meditations, and why making meditation a priority in our lives will result in even greater success in our meditation practice. All are Welcome. There is no charge for this event. This community session is free of charge and will include: • SOS Meditation Technique • Light Refreshments will be served to enjoy a friendly chat over tea and snacks. **Venue:** Comfort Inn & Suites Level 2 117 Liverpool Rd., Burwood NSW **Time:** 10:30 to 11:30 am **Date:** October 18 🌐[www.sos.org/australia](http://www.sos.org/australia) ✆ 0422 952 065 ✉️[infoaustralia@sos.org](mailto:infoaustralia@sos.org) No charge

Unhurried Conversations - Saturday

Bring yourself along, we explain how it works.

Blood on the Clocktower

A Deamon is loose in the small village of Raven’s Bluff and you must find it before the entire population falls victim… Join us for a touch of class: a night of wine & cheese, where you will take on the role of either Townsfolk, Deamon or one of it’s Minions. Work with your team in the popular social deduction thriller for the victory! If you are a regular attendee of Friday Night Games, you will receive a $10 discount to your entry! We run every month and play at least 3 games each night. Come for 1, stay and slay for 2 or more!

Machine Learning to mRNA: How I Built a Personalised Cancer Vaccine for My Dog

**Speaker bio:** * Paul Conyngham is the founder of Gamgee, a Y Combinator company developing personalised mRNA cancer vaccines for dogs. After 17 years in machine learning, Paul taught himself genomics and used AI to design a personalised vaccine for his dog Rosie, whose responsive tumours shrank by 50–75%. **Presentation outline:** \- Rosie’s cancer and why existing treatments were not enough \- Using AI to cross from machine learning into genomics \- The journey from tumour sequencing to an administered mRNA vaccine \- What worked\, what failed and what one patient can teach us \- Turning a year\-long manual process into repeatable software \- Why Gamgee is starting with dogs and where the technology goes next * Join our community on Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/groups/14297125/ to stay up-to-date on all our upcoming events We are grateful to our new hosts and sponsors the Centre for Business Intelligence and Data Analytics (BIDA) at the Business School, University of Technology, Sydney

SSP ..FRI.. .. SCULPTURES BY THE SEA..OpenDay

Lets see the Sculptures on opening day after a coffee on the beach.

Inner West Writers Group - Write Club

Saturday 17 October is an in-person event at Marrickville Library. RSVP to secure a place! This group started in January 2020 in a beautiful private room granted by Marrickville Library. We have continued to meet in person fortnightly at the Library, with alternate weeks via Zoom. To keep up to date - sign up and receive our notifications. The group is flourishing! You will need to RSVP each week for the following Saturday so we can organise the right number of Zoom rooms and Library space to ensure good quality feedback. RSVP's will receive the link. The intention is to give a supportive environment to get traction on your writing project, gain useful feedback, and exchange writing and publishing information with each other. Please note that if you are attending for the first time - you are welcome to observe and listen to how we work. Your turn to read and be critiqued will be invited in the second session. So come along, bring up to 1500 words of your latest writing - fiction writers of all types, memoirists, biographers, graphic novelists, bloggists, poets - all writers welcome. You will have up to eight minutes to read out your work, an equal time of constructive critique and feedback from the rest of the group. If you want a tribe of fellow writers to be with you as you finish your writing project, build your author profile, want to get inspired by other writers, or want to just listen and give constructive feedback (we all need beta readers), you are very welcome. This is a free event, but membership is essential to attend. Many thanks to Marrickville Library! For more information, contact Maria, mariaissaris@icloud.com, or Jamie Ramjan (jamie.ramjan@gmail.com) or Sunnie Mosphilis via DM.

M is for Middle East

SSP.TUE...OPERA HOUSE TO BOTANICAL GARDENS

Lets get some culture and nature Challenge:People acting up

October Meetup for the Sydney Nature Journal Club

Come along to our **October meetup for the Sydney Nature Journal Club**. This is a chance to connect, spend some time in nature and journal together. I will offer some guidance to start. After we can share journal pages and ideas. **What to bring:** Bring along sketchbooks/paper and your favourite drawing materials (pens, pencils, watercolour, acrylic, anything you have). I will have extra materials on the day if you want to explore other mediums. \*\*Where:\*\* TBC **Cost:** Suggested donation is $10 annual fee, $5 casual fee. (This helps cover Meetup fees). DISCLAIMER.
Please note that Katy as volunteer organiser of activities for Sydney Nature Journal Club is NOT responsible for the health or safety of members (or their guests) and therefore will not accept any liability for accidents or injuries or losses that may occur during Meetup events at any location. By attending a Sydney Nature Journal Club event members acknowledge that you accept ALL of the above. I look forward to seeing you there.