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Brendan Marsh: Operationalising Strategy with Bets & Flight Levels
Thu, Oct 1, 7:30 AMIn October, the Melboure Business Agility Meetup welcomes Brendan Marsh to discuss how you can **Operationalising Strategy with Bets & Flight Levels (feat ABC & Spotify)** *Why this is important:* Big bloated 'Agile' frameworks are out, but the challenge remains - how do we coordinate 10s or 100s of teams towards a central portfolio level product strategy? Using experience as a coach at Spotify and the ABC as a recent consulting case study, Brendan will demonstrate a simple model for aligning teams to strategy without the need of big frameworks like SAFE *About Brendan:* Brendan Marsh is a Product & Org Advisor and Director at Organa, where he helps organisations improve product strategy, org design and execution at scale. He previously served as Chief Product Officer of a mental health non-profit and spent five years at Spotify during its hyper-growth phase, first as an Agile Coach supporting innovation and product discovery teams and later as a Product Manager responsible for the Mac and Windows clients (40M+ MAU). Thanks to TeamForm, our event sponsor for providing a great place to meet and refreshments. Look at [teamform](https://teamform.co/) for operating product organisations with 10s, 100s, and 1000s of teams. From alignment to strategy, desigining and operating the workforce behind them, and clearly understanding which teams and supporting AI agents are responsible for what parts of your ecosystem. [https://teamform.co/](https://teamform.co/)

Engineering Machine Consciousness Monthly Meetup
Thu, Sep 24, 8:30 AMThe discussion topic for this meetup will be identity and whether or not history is a necessary condition for consciousness as Dretske proposed. James

Put AI to Work: Build Your AI Competitive Advantage
Thu, Oct 1, 7:00 AMCo-hosted by JR Academy, ANZ and Bupa. This event focuses on AI-native businesses, organisational practices and workflow design. It is designed for professionals and small and medium-sized business owners who want to explore the journey from personal productivity to enterprise AI work systems. 📅 **Thursday, 1 October 2026** 🕔 **5:00 PM–8:30 PM Melbourne local time** 📍 **Venue: To be announced** ## 🌏 MELBOURNE · AI & BUSINESS ### You Have an AI Assistant. The Next Step Is to Have an AI Work System. You may already be using AI to write emails, summarise information and generate content. However, customer follow-ups, task progress and delivery checks may still require you to monitor everything yourself. With more and more tools available, your work may still not be truly connected. This event starts with a more practical question: **How can AI take on specific responsibilities and turn professional expertise and business processes into a continuously operating work system?** 🍕 Pizza will be provided, with time for Q&A and networking. ## 🎤 LIGHTMAN · FEATURED PRESENTATION ### ⚙️ How to Build an Efficient AI Operating System **Speaker: Lightman · Founder of JR Academy** From one person to a team and then to an entire company, how can AI evolve from a collection of separate tools into a work system that actively participates in the business? Lightman will explain how management and coordination functions can be integrated into a system, and how customer enquiries, sales follow-ups and operational tasks can be connected into executable workflows. * **Redesigning management functions:** Delegate task assignment, information summarisation and progress tracking to the system. * **Building business workflows:** Connect business knowledge, AI and tools to create practical workflows. * **Defining the division of responsibilities between people and AI:** Determine which steps can be automated and which must be confirmed by people. ## 01 / 🏢 What Will a Business Look Like When AI Joins the Workforce? A task often involves assigning work, passing on information, tracking progress and preparing reports before it is completed. If AI can take on these coordination functions, how many layers of management will a business still need? How can leaders gain direct visibility into business progress? How much delivery capacity can a small team achieve? JR Academy is exploring how AI work systems can restructure these management functions and reduce reliance on middle management. ## 02 / 🔧 Give an Entire Business Process to AI for Collaborative Execution After a customer sends an enquiry, can AI organise the requirements, draft a response, update business records and create the next follow-up task? ### How an AI Workflow Operates **Request received → Understand and break down → Execute through tools → Human review → Update the system → Follow-up result** We will explain: * What business knowledge AI needs * How AI connects with business tools * Which actions must be approved by people * How to handle errors and exceptions ## 03 / 🚀 How Can AI Amplify Your Professional Expertise? For professionals, the focus is on turning experience into reusable processes, improving service quality and increasing delivery efficiency. For business owners, the focus is on reducing dependence on personal time for customer follow-ups, operational tasks and team collaboration. You are welcome to bring your real questions: * Which task repeatedly takes up your time? * Where does your team often get stuck? * What responsibility would you like AI to take on first? ### 👥 Featured Speakers **Lightman** Sharing JR Academy’s current practices in AI work systems and organisational design. **Guest speaker from ANZ** Name, role and presentation topic to be announced. **Former Deloitte professional** Name, current role and presentation topic to be announced. **Guest speaker from Bupa** Name, role and presentation topic to be announced. ## 💼 Who Is This Event Suitable For? * **Experienced professionals:** People who want to combine their expertise with AI and reduce repetitive administrative work. * **Small and medium-sized business owners:** People who want to improve sales follow-ups, operations and team collaboration. * **Entrepreneurs and team leaders:** People who are designing business processes and defining the responsibilities of people and AI. No programming background is required. The focus is on business scenarios, workflows and organisational design. ## 🧠 What Can You Start With After the Event? * Identify one task that should be prioritised for AI. * Define its input, execution, review and outcome. * Determine which responsibilities can be delegated to AI and which must remain with people. * Evaluate your first workflow based on time, quality and maintenance costs. 🍕 Pizza will be provided, with plenty of time to connect with speakers, professionals and business owners. ## 📸 Previous Events From presentations on stage to conversations after the event, experience the atmosphere of our previous events. The photos are from previous events. The food, gifts and recruitment information shown in the photos do not represent the arrangements for this event. Pizza will be provided at this event. ## ⚠️ Entry Registration Requirements The Bupa venue requires advance registration. All participants must complete both event registration and venue entry registration before attending. * **Date:** Thursday, 1 October 2026 * **Time:** 5:00 PM–8:30 PM Melbourne local time * **Venue:** Bupa Melbourne venue * **Food:** Pizza will be provided The exact address, entry instructions, ticket information, registration deadline and Bupa registration process will be announced later. 🎟️ **Free event · Limited to 100 attendees**

English Conversation Thursday Class
Thu, Oct 1, 8:30 AMWe invite you to come and practise your English with people from all over the world in a friendly environment. We are open to all levels from beginner to advanced. We have classes in small groups and you will be placed in one of these groups according to your level of English. Our free conversational English classes are every Thursday evening (except term breaks). If you are coming for the first time, please come on time for registration. Please note: English Corner is for non-native speakers. Our team of facilitators is really looking forward to having a wonderful time speaking English with you! **Please scan the QR code upon arrival to register your attendance.** If this is your first time, we recommend arriving a bit earlier to complete your initial registration. In case you aren't able to join us face to face we have an Online Alternate English Conversation Thursday class option too! Sign up for this on Meetup.

Products, Prototypes and Pipelines
Thu, Oct 8, 6:30 AMProducts, Prototypes and Pipelines: Adopting AI Across the Software Delivery Lifecycle Most AI conversations in the Power Platform and Dynamics community stop at chatbots and Copilot agents. This session goes further: how do you actually embed AI across the software delivery lifecycle to solve hard, real-world operational problems, not just demo-ware? Join us for a hands-on session from three practitioners who've built this across logistics, telecommunications infrastructure and robotics manufacturing before bringing it into Microsoft delivery. What you'll get: • A practical look at where AI genuinely accelerates the SDLC, and where it doesn't • Lessons from operational environments where tools have to hold up under real pressure, not just pass a demo • A T-shaped consultant-developer's view on shipping software that actually solves the business problem, not just the ticket Speakers: Jason O'Brien - Path Engineer designing and delivering Power Platform and Copilot Studio solutions for complex, real-world operations. Years inside logistics and transport before moving into technology, building with an operator's mindset. Nick Kerr-Bell - Path Engineer, consultant and developer building Power Platform and Copilot Studio solutions. Over a decade in telecommunications infrastructure and capital projects, leading design teams and embedding standards and governance. Jacob Doogue - Co-founder and CTO, leading technical solutioning and consulting and building teams of T-shaped consultant-developers. His path from field engineering to robotics manufacturing to technology strategy gives him a rare cross-functional view, with a focused belief that AI and the Microsoft stack are only as good as the process thinking behind them.

Testing Talks Conference 2026 Melbourne
Wed, Oct 7, 9:00 PMA fun event for all; to share, learn and reconnect in-person. We are committed to making Testing Talks Conference 2026 in Melbourne the most amazing day for our community. Our Commitment: Incredible speakers and sponsors. Practical takeaways for our attendees. Delicious and bountiful catering. Lots of activities, games, swag and prizes. Drinks and Nibbles to wrap up the day.
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