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The Founding Brunch Vol. 01

The Founding Brunch Vol. 01

Sun, Jun 7, 12:30 AM
From Muse & Myrrar Sydney — Fashion, Beauty & Lifestyle Founders

**Sydney's first table for fashion, beauty & lifestyle founders, and the creators they love.** One long brunch & the start of something special. Muse & Myrrar Sydney is the in-person home for the people quietly building the next wave of Australian brands and this is where it begins. **Who this is for** \- 👗💄👑 Founders building fashion\, beauty\, lifestyle\, wellness or DTC brands \(early\-stage to scaling\) \- 📱🎬 Emerging creators & influencers in fashion/beauty/lifestyle who want to build real relationships with the brands they admire\. \- 🛍️😍 Trendsetters and beauty lovers keen to discover the hottest new brands before they blow up\. **What to expect** ☕ A relaxed 3-hour brunch at a beautiful cafe in Potts Point where you can network with other founders & discuss both brand-to-brand collab opportunities as well as potential partnerships with the creators. \- 🥐 Order off the menu — pay your own bill \(expect $20–45 for food \+ coffee\) \- 🌸 A small welcome moment\, one shared prompt to break the ice\, then organic conversation **The fine print** \- 🌿 15 seats only\. We curate lightly to keep the room intentional\. \- 📍 Venue is in Potts Point\. 6 min walking distance from Kings Cross Train Station\. \- 🗓 Sunday morning\, 10:30am–1:30pm on the 7th of June\. \- 💸 No ticket fee — just pay for your own brunch on the day\. Cancel by Friday if your plans change so we can offer your seat to the waitlist\. See you at the table. ❤️‍🔥 Stay connected by joining Muse Circle — our online community where the founders you meet here keep finding each other: collab opportunities, trusted freelancers & suppliers, fortnightly founder podcast spotlights, and the real conversations between events. 👉[ Join the community → circle.musefunnel.com](https://circle.musefunnel.com/) **Powered by Muse Circle & Myrrar with love.**

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

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!**

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BLACK CIRCLE: How Business Owners Scale Without Becoming the Bottleneck

BLACK CIRCLE: How Business Owners Scale Without Becoming the Bottleneck

Tue, Jun 2, 8:30 AM
From Business Owners Sydney
4.4

**[BLACK CIRCLE: PRIVATE OPERATORS. REAL GROWTH](https://events.humanitix.com/black-circle-private-operators-real-growth)** **Date:** June 02, 2026 **Time:** 6:30 PM (90 Minutes) **Location:** TBD – Burwood, Sydney **Black Circle** is a private, curated business networking event for ambitious founders, entrepreneurs, business owners, and operators who want to scale their business without becoming the operational bottleneck. This is not traditional networking. No surface-level conversations. No forced referrals. No awkward elevator pitches. **Instead, Black Circle is designed for serious business owners focused on:** * business growth * operational efficiency * delegation * leadership * execution * accountability * systems and automation * operational leverage * AI for business * scaling sustainably without burnout Each session is intentionally kept small to create deeper discussion, higher-quality connections, stronger accountability, and practical implementation. **Session Theme:** ***“What’s Quietly Slowing Your Growth?”*** This founder-focused discussion will explore: * hidden operational bottlenecks * overwhelm and time fragmentation * follow-up and consistency problems * why founders become bottlenecks * delegation mistakes that slow growth * operational leverage and productivity systems * AI, automation, and business support structures * how high-performing operators increase output without burning out The goal is not just insight. The goal is implementation. **Attendees will leave with:** * practical business growth ideas * operational clarity * stronger leadership awareness * accountability and implementation actions * new connections with growth-minded founders and operators * potential access to future curated mastermind-style sessions **This event is ideal for:** * founders * entrepreneurs * agency owners * operators * consultants * growth-focused business leaders * professionals looking to improve systems, delegation, and execution **Small room. Serious people. Real conversations.0630**

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

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.

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Manly Entrepreneurs - monthly Meetup

Manly Entrepreneurs - monthly Meetup

Wed, Jun 3, 8:00 AM
From Manly Entrepreneurs
4.7

Schedule --- • 19:00 - 19:30 General networking starts. Setup space, open the first. Brief Introduction Round (Who are you? What do you do?). FREE drinks • 19:30 - 20:00 What bugs you (i.e. Lean Mastermind)? • 20:00 - 21:00 Topic of the day (see speaker details below). Q & A • 21:00 - 21:15 Last drinks. Closing down. Carry on partying elsewhere. **Details** --- General get together. Share the latest news in the entrepreneurs community. Have a drink with like minded people Exchange stories from the trenches and tips on how to run a better business. **Lean Mastermind Session** --- Share a Challenge or an idea you have for your start up / business How can we help you resolve your problem or help you improve on your idea? ## **Topic of the Day: TBA** A critical guide through the Hype Wonderland ## **Speaker of the Day: TBA** Wait and see ## **Audience** Suitable for those with a growing business looking to share solutions and experience to accelerate growth and value. Bring a friend/aspiring entrepreneur. **Format** --- Casual get together/Mastermind **Sponsors** --- Thanks for [WOTSO](https://wotso.com/locations/manly) for hosting the event and Michael from https://www.magaconsult.com/about for nourishment (i.e. free drinks and nibbles). Thanks to Amazon Web Services for their ongoing support: [https://aws.amazon.com/getting-started](https://aws.amazon.com/getting-started)

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LTP 2026 Conversation Continued with Taufiq Khan

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.**

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You can easily find founder groups in Sydney by searching Meetup with relevant keywords. This allows you to discover local communities and events tailored to entrepreneurial interests.

Joining a founder group offers networking opportunities, shared learning, and crucial support from fellow entrepreneurs. These groups are pivotal for collaboration and inspiration.

Yes, you can meet tech founders in Sydney through Meetup groups. Many groups focus on technology startups, where you can connect with like-minded professionals.

Meetup hosts events specifically for Sydney startups, ranging from networking sessions to workshops. Attending these gatherings can boost your business insights and connections.

Absolutely! You can create your own Sydney founder group on Meetup to build a community with specific entrepreneurial interests or goals.

Joining groups on Meetup is generally free, though some events may have participation fees to cover costs. Always check the event details for specific financial requirements.

Sydney founder meetups often host networking opportunities, panels, and workshops. These events are designed for idea exchange, collaboration, and learning from industry experts.

No, you don't need to attend every Meetup event. RSVP only for events that fit your interests and schedule, allowing flexibility in your engagements.

Yes, you can join multiple founder groups to diversify your interactions and benefit from a range of perspectives and opportunities in the entrepreneurial space.

While Meetup is vast, not every niche might be represented in Sydney. You can always start a new group if you don't find one that fits your needs.

No, events can be both in-person and online, depending on the group hosts' preference. Always check the specifics of the event listing on Meetup.

While Meetup creates opportunities for networking, successful connections depend largely on your active participation and engagement with other members.

The frequency of events varies by group in Sydney. Some have weekly meetups, while others might gather monthly or by project needs.

Most events are well-organized, but quality can vary. Checking a group's reviews or past event feedback can help gauge the expected organization level.