Consulting Groups Sydney

Scale enterprise AI confidently and responsibly

How scale AI with transparency, accountability, governance, and compliance Join us to explore a best-practice model for **adopting and scaling real-time enterprise AI with confidence and control**. We will examine how agentic orchestration can coordinate AI, workflows, data, and applications across diverse enterprise systems while embedding the transparency, accountability, governance, and compliance needed for responsible adoption. This session is designed for leaders looking to move beyond isolated AI experiments and build a scalable operating model that accelerates business outcomes without compromising trust, risk management, or regulatory confidence. ***Note:*** *attendees must bring their own devices to participate in labs!* Please register for this free session through the landing page at: [https://www.ibm.com/events/reg/flow/ibm/6BNP85MB/landing/page/landing](https://www.ibm.com/events/reg/flow/ibm/6BNP85MB/landing/page/landing "https://www.ibm.com/events/reg/flow/ibm/6BNP85MB/landing/page/landing")

BizApps Connect Aug 2026 Meetup

Join us for another #BizAppsConnect Sydney meetup as we explore the latest innovations in AI and Power Platform development with two speakers on Power Automate and Power Apps. **Using an MCP for AI Agents to Create Power Automate Flows** **John Liu (ex-MVP #FlowNinja, Consultant at Rapid Circle)** AI agents are rapidly becoming a new way to build software, but they need a secure and reliable way to interact with enterprise systems. Model Context Protocol (MCP) provides a standard interface that enables agents such as ChatGPT, Claude, and GitHub Copilot to discover, create, and manage Power Automate flows. In this session, you'll learn how to use an MCP from an AI agent and the core patterns for building your own. We'll also cover tool design decisions and improvements that make the experience seamless. **Power Apps Reimagined with Code Apps** **Zeeshan Saeed \(Microsoft MVP\, BizApps \| Architect at XSLOGIC\)** Discover how Code Apps are reshaping the way we think about Power Apps development. Zeeshan will explore this emerging approach, share practical insights, and discuss how developers and makers can take advantage of new capabilities to build modern business applications more effectively.

Sydney Singles Relational Lab — Facilitated Connection Experience

# Tired of dating apps culture and surface-level? This is different. And people often leave surprised by how quickly strangers can feel human, warm, honest, and real again. Free to RSVP, 👉 $59 to confirm your spot [https://consciousconnectionsclub.com/stayconnected](https://consciousconnectionsclub.com/join) Relational Labs is a guided connection experience for singles who want more honest, playful, emotionally intelligent interaction — without performance, pressure, or endless small talk. This is not speed dating. Not networking. Not “pitch yourself to strangers.” It’s a facilitated relational container rooted in psychology, emotional intelligence, attachment work, social dynamics, nervous system awareness, and real-world human connection — made practical enough that you can actually live it instead of reading another 50 books about it. ## What happens • A 2-hour guided online relational experience • Real-time connection exercises designed to create authentic interaction • A format that adapts in real time to whoever is present • Optional participant-led in-person continuation afterward • WhatsApp connection thread after the session ## This may be for you if: • You’re tired of shallow or repetitive social spaces • You want deeper connection without forced intimacy • You enjoy personal growth, psychology, communication, or relational work • You’re open to meeting people in a more intentional way ## Important This experience runs with whoever is present and takes its own shape each time. Sometimes expansive. Sometimes intimate. Both are the real thing.

Claude Certified Consultants: Coffee Catch Up

Thursdays hit different with coffee and good company. Whether you're Claude Certified or still working towards it, pull up a chair, bring your questions or your latest build, and let's talk shop over a brew. You can learn more about us by visiting [https://code.sydney/](https://code.sydney/) and [https://vibecamp.au/](https://vibecamp.au/)

IN PERSON | FMI Australia Chapter Modellers' Winter Meetup

Raise Your Rate as a Coach: How to Mediate Your Premium Fee with Yourself

🔥Your Coaching Rate Isn’t Just a Number. It’s a Position You May Have Never Renegotiated. What if the biggest pricing negotiation isn’t with your client—but with yourself? 💡YRaise Your Rate as a Coach explores one of the most uncomfortable conflicts many coaches face: helping people deeply while confidently charging for the value they create. Your price is a position—and positions can get stuck, just like conflicts do. In this practical session, Executive Transition Coach and Certified Conflict Coach and Mediator Philipp A. Effenberger turns his mediation toolkit toward coaching businesses and the internal tension around premium pricing. Discover how to separate your worth from old pricing assumptions, recognize pricing tension before it hardens, and reframe “too expensive” around value and shared interest. Through a real case, a practical reframing tool, and language you can use in your next pricing conversation, you’ll explore how to charge for transformation, not hours—and price like the expert you already are. 🗓️Join us on **Sunday, August 2, 2026**, for “**Raise Your Rate as a Coach: Break It to Create It — How to Mediate Your Premium Fee with Yourself,**” featuring **Philipp A. Effenberger**, Executive Transition Coach, NLP Master Trainer, Certified Conflict Coach, and Mediator. 🎯 **Key Points / Takeaways for the Audience** ✅ **Treat your price like a stuck position.** Identify the assumptions and internal conflicts keeping your rate frozen at an outdated level. ✅ **Charge for transformation, not hours.** Shift the conversation from the time you spend to the meaningful results and value you help create. 🎯 **Additional Key Points / Benefits** Participants will discover how to: ✔ Let your toolkit prove your worth. Recognize how your experience, methodology, and ability to create meaningful change support your business case and pricing. ✔ Attract clients who value expertise. Position your coaching around outcomes and value rather than competing primarily on price. ✔ Build a signature method that stands out. Turn your unique combination of skills, experience, and approach into a stronger coaching proposition. ✔ Move beyond hourly-rate or package thinking. Explore pricing through the value and transformation you help create rather than simply the amount of time you spend. ✔ Stop justifying your fee every single time. Develop clearer language for pricing conversations so you can communicate your value with greater confidence. ✔ Stop blending in as “just another coach.” Understand what differentiates your work and learn to make that distinction visible to prospective clients. ✔ Reframe “too expensive.” Learn how mediation principles can shift a pricing conversation away from opposing positions and toward interests, outcomes, and value. ✔ Navigate the helping-versus-charging dilemma. Explore how being committed to helping people and running a sustainable, profitable coaching business do not have to be opposing goals. 🎤 **ABOUT THE SPEAKER** Philipp A. Effenberger is an Executive Transition Coach, NLP Master Trainer, Certified Conflict Coach and Mediator who helps international executives navigate high-stakes transitions and thrive in demanding leadership environments. His approach combines military discipline, IT logic, translation training, and experience as a COO and CTO with 16 years as a trainer and 10 years as a coach. Culture-aware, systemic, NLP-based, and mediation-informed, his coaching is designed to turn complexity into practical action and measurable results. He works in German, English, and Polish. **CONTACT DETAILS** 👉**Email**: pe@leadforward.io 👉**WhatsApp:** 00436705050120 👉 **LinkedIn:** www.linkedin.com/in/philipp-effenberger-chief-coaching-officer/ 👉**Website:** German: pe-training.at and leadforward.io, let’s go English in LinkedIn ⏰**August 02, 𝟮𝟬𝟮6** (𝗦𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘆), 𝟭.𝟱 𝗛𝗼𝘂𝗿 5:00 PM GMT+8 China 7:00 PM GMT+10 Australia 5:00 AM GMT-4 New York 11:00 AM GMT+2 Barcelona 📌For first-time attendees please scan the QR code on the flyer or click the following link to register and become part of our enriching live discussion, all at no cost: https://adriancahill.agilecrm.com/forms/6002900926529536 📌Zoom Link: https://zoom.us/j/86301571361 Log-in: 86301571361 Password: #motivate Don’t miss it. Register now!

Testing Gen AI with Paul Maxwell-Walters & Influence in Testing by Rashik Prasad

A bumper double-header of talks for our July Event with Rashik Prasad and Sydney Testers' own Paul Maxwell-Walters (and graciously hosted by Talenza), with the keynote covering how testers can achieve influence in decision making by Rashik Prasad and the next talk about testing Gen AI system. **Talk 1: How Your Teams can Test And Evaluate Gen AI and the Software that Uses It - Paul Maxwell-Walters** There has been much talk in QA about using Gen AI tools in our work to generate test cases and automation – however until recently very little on how testers can test the non-deterministic outputs of AI and evaluate their quality. Typically, direct testing of Gen AI is ignored and left for AI engineers and data scientists. This is a grave mistake. As products using Gen AI like ChatGPT become mainstream and used by all, testers need to learn how to write and automate testing of them – and fast. My talk is on techniques, tools and workflows used to validate the outputs of AI models and agents – including correct prompting, semantic and sentiment analysis, standard outputs, evals and LLM-as-Judge. I will call on my experience as QA lead at a Gen AI tech-ed startup , along with other approaches and use cases, to give info, tips and one or more demos to help you and your teams meet the challenge of testing Gen AI-powered applications. **Talk 2 (Keynote): Technical Excellent Alone Never Guarantees Success, Rashik Prasad** Technical excellence is the foundation of every successful testing career. \*It's what we're taught to develop. * It's what we spend years refining. \*And it's what our profession rightly values. But after leading testing across some of Australia's largest enterprise transformation and regulatory programmes, I've come to realise something that fundamentally changed the way I think about testing. Technical excellence alone never guarantees success. * Why do technically exceptional testing professionals sometimes struggle to influence important decisions? \*Why can the same testing evidence lead different stakeholders to completely different conclusions? * And why do some testing professionals consistently help programmes move forward, even when the testing itself hasn't changed? In this thought-provoking keynote, Rashik challenges one of the profession's most deeply held assumptions and explores what he believes is the missing half of testing. Drawing on real enterprise experiences, you'll discover why the role of testing doesn't end when the evidence is produced, and why the most effective testing professionals understand how testing helps organisations make better decisions. This isn't a session about becoming less technical. It's about understanding how technical excellence achieves the influence it deserves. Whether you're a Test Analyst, Test Lead, Test Manager or senior quality leader, you'll recognise many of the situations discussed throughout the session because you've probably experienced them yourself. You may not leave agreeing with every idea. But I suspect you'll never look at testing in quite the same way again. \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\- There will be the usual opposrtunities for networking and fun and some prizes to give away! Not to be missed!

Lean Beer F2F IRL

Join us for an **in-person Lean Beer Sydney** session — great conversations, great people, and a relaxed pub atmosphere. We use the **Lean Coffee** format: * No fixed agenda * Everyone suggests topics they care about * We vote on what matters most * Then we dive into short, focused discussions **What to expect:** * A friendly, informal setting at a local pub * Conversations about agile, product development, leadership, and more * A chance to learn, share, and connect with like-minded people **What to bring:** * Your curiosity and a few topics you’d love to discuss * No slides, no presentations — just ideas and conversation **Why join?** * Meet new people in the Sydney agile community * Share your experiences and learn from others * Enjoy a drink while having meaningful discussions Grab your favorite beverage, bring your ideas, and let’s make this an engaging Lean Beer Sydney session!

Ryde Voice ❤️ Awesome Networking Meetup @ West Ryde Hotel

Ryde Voice ❤️ is our legendary Neighborhood & Business Community. We aim to bring local residents, businesses and lovers of Ryde together to make new connections, new friends and build a strong supportive network. **[To learn more, join our Facebook Group here!](https://www.facebook.com/groups/rydevoice)** #MacquriePark #Eastwood #WestRyde #Denistone #Meadowbank #Ryde Our Networking Meetups are fun, social, and casual. A great opportunity to meet and catch up for lunch and more with great locals. This is FREE from us, and please make sure to purchase food and drinks to support our hosts at West Ryde Hotel Your guests are most welcome too! The more the merrier. This event is hosted by Lassie & Edward Zia. **[Learn more about their events + support their work here! ❤️🤛](https://linktr.ee/edwardzia)**

Testing Talks Conference 2026 Sydney

Posted on behalf of our friends at Testing Talks Conference. A fun event for all; to share, learn and reconnect in-person. We are committed to making Testing Talks Conference 2026 in Sydney the most amazing day for our community. Our Commitment: 1.) Incredible speakers and sponsors. 2.) Practical takeaways for our attendees. 3.) Delicious and bountiful catering. 4.) Lots of activities, games, swag and prizes. 5.) Drinks and Nibbles to wrap up the day. Note: This is a ticketed event. Please go to [https://www.testingtalks.com.au/](https://www.testingtalks.com.au/) to learn more and purchase a ticket.

TechWalking - Sydney - Networking Event for Tech Professionals

**TechWalking is here to stay in Sydney!** 🌊🚶‍♂️A huge thank you to our co-hosts — Nitta, Malathy, Cara, Vishal, and Akhil — for making it happen! Are you a tech professional looking to network beyond the screen? Join us for a refreshing **#TechWalking** event along the stunning Royal Botanic Garden! It’s the perfect chance to connect with industry peers while getting in some steps! Whether you're in software development, cybersecurity, data science, or any tech-related field, this is the perfect opportunity to expand your network in a relaxed setting. 🌅 **Meeting Point:** Archibald Memorial Fountain, Hyde Park 🏖 **Route:** 4 km walk through the Botanical Garden to the Sydney Opera House 🕙 **Start Time:** 10 AM sharp—don’t be late, or you might have to sprint to catch up! Check out the photos from the last event in Sydney: https://www.meetup.com/it-career-in-australia/photos/35710580/ And video: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/H6_-ZET00I8 **Please note:** unfortunately, dogs aren’t allowed in the Botanical Gardens. A bit sad, we know 🐶💔 Looking forward to meeting you all in real life! **TechWalking Community page: [https://tech-walking.yanamartens.com/](https://tech-walking.yanamartens.com/)** *** Join the TechWalking group on LinkedIn! [https://www.linkedin.com/groups/14477058/](https://www.linkedin.com/groups/14477058/) Just moved to Australia? Grab your FREE guide to landing your tech job! [https://yanamartens.com/first-tech-job-in-australia/](https://yanamartens.com/first-tech-job-in-australia/) Follow me on LinkedIn for more information: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yana-martens/ Subscribe to YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@ITCareerinAustralia

PHP/Laravel - 2026 August

Join us at the Cover Genius HQ in Sydney, we have some fantastic talks prepared! Please try and arrive from 5:30pm for pizza & drinks, and a 6pm start, otherwise we'll have to let you up as the elevator will be locked. In this case, please SMS Max on 0466029946 (do not call). *** **Glue Work in the AI Age** \- Jade Edward Agents and an AI augmented SDLC are shining a light on how thinking, talking about, and managing glue work is more important than ever, no matter who needs it or does the work. **Calendars, Dates and Time** \- Nigel James Date Time programming and how to hate it less. *** You can live-stream the meetup here: [https://meet.google.com/vua-tnhc-zxz](https://meet.google.com/vua-tnhc-zxz) Join the PHP Australia Slack: [https://join.slack.com/t/phpaustralia/shared_invite/zt-8t0xmjpz-MVdkkbgtIkek31IzcVVCgA](https://join.slack.com/t/phpaustralia/shared_invite/zt-8t0xmjpz-MVdkkbgtIkek31IzcVVCgA) Join the Australia JS Discord: [https://ausjs.au](https://ausjs.au) We are also always looking for more sponsors, so please reach out if you're interested.August