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Welcome to the next 2026 AWS Melbourne Well-Architected User Group Meetup!
Tue, Nov 24, 6:30 AMHi 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
Naarm Solarpunk Meetup + Merri-bek.Tech AGM
Wed, Nov 18, 7:00 AM[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.**
Tuesday Breakfast Business Networking – Essendon (Moonee Valley)
Mon, Nov 16, 7:50 PMWeekly business networking in Moonee Valley with BNI Unite. Networking from 6:50am, structured meeting 7:00–8:30am, then more networking. Free for visitors. IMPORTANT: Please register with Wade before you come. RSVP here and answer the questions (your business and mobile), and Wade will confirm your spot. Guests who haven't registered can't be seated. What to expect: a friendly, structured meeting, a 30-second chance to introduce your business, and real referrals passed in the room. Bring business cards. Street parking on Rose St and a car park directly opposite; coffee available at the venue. Chapter page: https://bnimn.com.au/vic---melbourne-north-bni-unite/en-AU/index
Neural Processing from the Ground Up, & Phoenix Architecture
Tue, Nov 17, 7:00 AMThe 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.
Iron Maiden & Megadeth
Fri, Nov 13, 7:29 AMLegends of Metal in Melbourne \m/
AWS Kubernetes Security Using Actionable Insights
Wed, Nov 11, 7:00 AMWhat can Kubernetes security data tell you about what’s really going on in your environment? And how can you turn that data into something useful beyond just spotting threats? In this hands-on workshop, we’ll explore how to collect and analyse Kubernetes security data, spot patterns you might otherwise miss, and uncover risks hiding in plain sight. We’ll also look at how to take that data beyond security, using it to understand risk, prioritise work, and make better business decisions. Through practical examples, we’ll bring together Kubernetes security, observability, and analytics to see what happens when you connect the dots between technical data and the bigger picture. Expect practical examples, real-world use cases, and ideas you can take back to your own Kubernetes environment. Less theory, more digging into the data! Food and drinks will be provided. **Important:** Make sure to bring your laptop, you will also need to have an AWS account you can log into.
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