Architecture Groups Sydney

Under the Hood of AI on AWS: Rethinking Data & Application Health

Hello Amazonians, AWS User Group Sydney and TiDB are teaming up for an evening on the gap between a working AI demo and a system you can run in production. Two speakers will share what they have learned running AI workloads on AWS. **🎤 Hear from:** * **Shahed Kazi, Global Lead, Cloud Architecture & Strategy @ Everlight Radiology** Application Health at Scale with Agentic AI: Extending AWS DevOps Agent with AI Agents and Skills * **Predee Kajonpai, Sr Solution Architect @ TiDB** *One data layer instead of four: simplifying your AI stack on AWS* Stay after the talks to meet fellow builders over drinks and nibbles! 🍕🍻 **Agenda:** 17:30 \| Arrival\, registration and refreshments 18:00 \| Introductions **18:05 \| Talk 1: Application Health at Scale with Agentic AI** Shahed Kazi, Global Lead, Cloud Architecture & Strategy at Everlight Radiology **18:35 \| Talk 2: One data layer instead of four: simplifying your AI stack on AWS** Predee Kajonpai, Sr Solution Architect at TiDB 19:05 \| Networking\, food\, and drinks\! 🍻🍕 **Event details:** 📅 Date: Wednesday, 4 November 2026 ⏰ Time: 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM (doors open 5:30 PM) 📍 Location: Level 8/2 Market St, Sydney NSW 2000 (Please enter via Kent St to access the building). RSVP now to save your spot! See you there, **The PolarSeven and TiDB Team** *Would you like to present? Complete [this form](https://forms.gle/GAqrJggTjme6Uzsu6) and we'll be in touch soon.*

Agentic AI Night: AI Infrastructure

Join us for an evening of insightful talks, valuable connections, and great company. This one is a collaboration: CNCF Sydney x AAIF are bringing the cloud native and agentic AI communities into the same room. Everyone is shipping agents. Far fewer people are talking about what it takes to actually run them. As agentic AI moves from prototypes to production, the infrastructure underneath matters as much as the models and the agents themselves. **Speaker 1:** Hrittik Roy, Founding Platform Advocate at vCluster and CNCF Ambassador **Talk 1:** From Local Inference to Kubernetes: What Changes When Your LLM Gets Busy? **Details:** Running an LLM locally is a great starting point. But what happens when one user becomes hundreds, requests compete for GPU memory, and response times start climbing? This talk follows an inference request from prompt to generated tokens, explaining prefill, decode and the KV cache. We’ll explore how batching, model caching and GPU scheduling affect latency and throughput, then introduce disaggregated inference: running prefill and decode on separate workers, including when the added complexity actually makes sense. Using vLLM and NVIDIA Dynamo as examples, we’ll connect these concepts to serving models on Kubernetes and measuring what matters: time to first token, token generation speed, and GPU utilisation. You’ll leave understanding what happens inside an LLM inference request, where the bottlenecks appear as you move beyond local serving, when disaggregated inference is worth considering, and the Kubernetes building blocks for GPU workloads. **Speaker 2:** Olga Mirensky, Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer at Ping Identity **Talk 2:** Platform Engineering for AI Agents **Details:** Managed agent platforms give you runtimes, sandboxes and enforcement points, but not an internal platform. Drawing on enterprise delivery in financial services and tech, this talk walks through a multi-agent architecture on a cloud managed platform, and the layer you still build yourself: policies derived from your own architecture, reusable blueprints, and telemetry across a fleet of agents. Platforms make agents fast to build. Deciding what’s worth building is still the hard part. On the night: Free entry · Food & drinks · Networking · Live Q&A Thanks to Google for hosting us, and to the AAIF team for partnering on this one. Seats are limited - RSVP to save your spot. See you there! 👋

Networking Drinks #33

Christmas is just around the corner! Come join us once again at **The Art Syndicate**, a unique wine bar and gallery nestled in Surry Hills for a relaxed evening blending local drinks and meaningful conversations. **Event info:** ✅ Discover amazing NSW wine, beer and spirits. ✅ Expand your network of designers & make connections that last. ✅ No formal talks or speeches *Check out my reviews on this page to see what others are saying!* **Venue information:**
 You'll find us at this art gallery & wine bar in Surry Hills. They exclusively offer a curated selection of NSW-based wine, beer and spirits! There is even art for sale! **Check them out on socials:** https://www.instagram.com/theartsyndicate.com.au/ **How to find us:**
 We are on Bourke Street, a short walk from Oxford Street or Central Station. **Join our What'sApp group:**
 You'll find this link in the "Event Chat" section of this page :D Cheers, Josh

Microburbs Hackathon

# Join the Microburbs Hackathon New: one day and more than 200 kinds of property and urban data, from live listings to the 2026 Census, free. Build anything you like with property and urban data: an app, a map or a video. The key covers the City of Sydney council area. **Free to enter, in Sydney or online from anywhere in Australia.** Founders, agents, investors, designers, marketers, analysts and coders are all welcome. **Open for a limited time only.** Places are limited, so apply. We choose who takes part against our selection criteria. Applying does not guarantee a place. **Bring your laptop.** Power and lunch are provided. Use any AI you like, and have your subscriptions ready. Teams are three to six people. ## What is the Microburbs Hackathon? A one-day build on Saturday 7 November 2026 where Microburbs hands you the property data we normally sell, for the whole City of Sydney council area, and you make something with it. Free to enter. Come in person at UTS Business School, Level 4, near Sydney CBD, or enter remotely from anywhere in Australia. Run with Dr Eugene Dubossarsky and Data Science Sydney, the Sydney AI + Data meetup. It is a community day as much as a contest: you meet the people who build with this kind of data in Sydney, and you leave with something to show. We are grateful to our hosts and sponsors, the UTS Centre for Business Intelligence and Data Analytics for making this hackathon possible. Please register through this link : https://www.microburbs.com.au/hackathon

SSP FRIDAY - SUB BASE PLATYPUS & JACARANDAS IN BLOOM

Today we go to Sub Base Platypus then to see the jacarandas in bloom at Milson Park and McDougall Street in Kirribilli. We leave Chambers at 1030 to get the ferry across to Sub Base Platypus at Kirribilli. Lunch will be upstairs at the Kirribilli Hotel, booked for 1pm. 35-37 Broughton Street, opposite Milsons Point train station.

Welcome to the next 2026 AWS Sydney Well-Architected Meetup!

Hi Architects, Welcome to the next 2026 AWS Sydney Well-Architected User Group Meetup! Each month we cover off AWS best-practices across all pillars and give away drones - 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: * **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 🤤 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)

Red Light, Incarceration & Jacaranda Blooms

WSTI Festi 2026: Build with AI Innovation Challenge x Google, Sat 7 Nov

**Overview** Solve a Parramatta city challenge or your own with AI. Build at Maker Space PHIVE with Google on Sat 7 Nov. Finalists pitch 20 Nov. **WSTI Festi 2026: Build with AI Innovation Challenge** Solve a real challenge with AI, set by City of Parramatta or one of your own, compete for prizes and pitch your solution on the festival stage. No coding background needed. If you can describe what you want to build, AI will help you build it. And we will help you gain the essential skills to use AI to achieve this. **How it works** The challenge launches at the WSTI Festi Opening Night on Thursday 5 November. Pick one of two tracks: * **City Challenge:** real-world challenges set by City of Parramatta and WSTI * **Open Innovation:** bring your own challenge, from your business, your industry or your community. Innovators, this is the place to build the idea you want to turn into a business Every team, in person or online, joins through the WSTI Festi hackathon portal, where the challenges are published and teams form. **One rule for both tracks: build from scratch.** Bring a problem or an idea, but not an existing project or product. Everything you submit must be built during the challenge, from 5 to 17 November. **Choose how you take part** * **Build Day, Sat 7 Nov, $15** (this page): at Maker Space PHIVE with Google. Antigravity sessions led by Brett Morgan, plus hands-on mentoring * **Build Day, Sat 14 Nov, $15** ([book here](https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/wsti-festi-2026-build-with-ai-innovation-challenge-sat-14-nov-tickets-2002985253813)): at Western Sydney Startup Hub with WSTI mentors * **Online, free** ([book here](https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/wsti-festi-2026-build-with-ai-innovation-challenge-online-tickets-2002985256822)): build from anywhere. Both Build Days give you the same two tracks and a full day to build with mentors in the room. Come to one, or book both. **Every ticket dollar goes back into the challenge:** prizes for participants, event costs and our volunteers. **From launch to the big stage** * Thu 5 Nov: the challenge launches at the WSTI Festi Opening Night * Sat 7 or Sat 14 Nov: your Learn and Build Day at Maker Space PHIVE or Western Sydney Startup Hub * Tue 17 Nov, 11:59 PM: submissions close. Submit a 90-second video pitch, a landing page and a working prototype * Thu 19 Nov, by noon: finalists announced * Fri 20 Nov: finalists pitch at the WSTI Festi Pitch Night * Sat 21 Nov: winners and finalists showcase to government, industry, business leaders, investors and local communities at the Grand Festival Day **Build Day run of the day, Sat 7 Nov** * Welcome and opening, Lailei Huang, WSTI * Google Antigravity and beginner vibe coding, Brett Morgan, Google * The two tracks: City Challenge and Open Innovation * Form or join your team on the hackathon portal * Build session 1 * Lunch break * Advanced vibe coding: creating agent skills in Antigravity, Brett Morgan, Google * Build session 2: practise and polish * Demo and feedback * What's next: submissions close Tue 17 Nov **What you get** * Hands-on time with Google Antigravity, from your first prompt to a working app * How to create agent skills, which automate the everyday tasks every business has * Mentoring from Brett Morgan and the WSTI team through both build sessions * Lunch on your Build Day (in person) * A real shot at prizes, a pitch on the festival stage and a showcase booth * Networking with Western Sydney's largest grassroots AI community, 4,000+ members strong **Who should come** You do not need a tech background. What you know about your field is the most valuable thing you can bring. * Business owners and professionals from any field, such as health, finance, education, property, trades or community services, who want the skills to create with AI * Founders and startups * University students, recent graduates and young people * Developers, designers and creatives curious about building with AI * Anyone who wants to go from "I have an idea" to "I built it" **What to bring** * A laptop (essential) * A Google account * Your own challenge for the Open Innovation track, or pick a City Challenge on the day * Joining online? A stable internet connection **With** WSTI · Investment NSW · Google · City of Parramatta · Western Sydney Startup Hub Part of WSTI Festi 2026, Western Sydney's first grassroots AI festival, 5 to 21 November in Parramatta. See more: [wsti.org.au/wsti-festi](https://wsti.org.au/wsti-festi) **Notice of Photography and Filming** By entering this event, you acknowledge that photography, audio, and video recording may occur. Your attendance constitutes your consent to be photographed, filmed, and/or recorded and to the release, publication, exhibition, or reproduction of such media for promotional purposes by Western Sydney Tech Innovators (WSTI). If you prefer not to be photographed or recorded, please inform a WSTI team member upon arrival. Thank you for your understanding and cooperation. Everyone is welcome, from in and around Parramatta and beyond. When you RSVP, we ask for the postcode where you live, work or study, only for our statistics. If you have one in the City of Parramatta, please use it.

COLLINS LANE ROSE BAY + SCULPTURES

WINDSOR GARDENS CHATSWOOD

SSP FRIDAY - Q STATION WALK

We catch the 0930 ferry to Manly and grab a coffee before taking the Q Station bus from the Manly Visitor Information Centre up to North Head departing at 1040. When we arrive at the Quarantine Station, David will lead us on a historic tour of the facility. Lunch to be decided on the day, options for the cafe at Q Station or out in the open if the weather gods are happy. Bring food if you wish. As the day will be mainly outside, breathing in the fresh coastal air, dress for the weather and bring protection from the sun and water to drink. We will take the 1430 bus back to Manly or you may wish to linger a little longer. Today's theme, make it expressive or emotional. Use the subject matter or the post processing to express the feeling

Life Drawing on Saturday MORNINGS in Marrickville with fantastic models

WELCOME IN 2026 \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\- We're back up and running our weekly Saturday life drawing sessions Join us each Saturday for Drawn Together - Sydney life drawing group for a dynamic and inspiring life drawing session in Marrickville. Whether you are a seasoned artist or a beginner, this event offers the perfect opportunity to have fun practicing figure drawing a in a supportive and creative environment. Go to our [booking page](https://www.scratchartspace.com/book/#!/Saturday-MORNING-Life-Drawing-Untutored/p/221095835) to see who we have booked to model. Immerse yourself in a morning of creativity and artistry as you sketch, draw, and bring your ideas to life. Connect with fellow art enthusiasts, exchange techniques, and explore the world of life drawing. Don't miss out on this chance to enhance your skills, unleash your creativity, and be part of a vibrant community dedicated to creating and perfecting our art. Book online [here](https://www.scratchartspace.com/book/#!/Saturday-MORNING-Life-Drawing-Untutored/p/221095835).