Finance Groups Sydney

115th Superinvestors Gathering

**New Venue:** We've settled on a new venue for our meetup - **The Sporting Globe x 4 Pines at Barangaroo**. Please head towards the back of the bar where we have the area booked exclusively for our group! \*\*\* ✅Are you an advanced investor interested in listed equities? ✅Do you prefer fundamental driven approaches to throwing darts on a wall? ✅Do you want to be intellectually challenged and share your stock pitches with like-minded investors? Then this is the group for you. Welcome all equity investors to join our group of regulars for a chat, debate, or deep dive into specific stocks or themes of interest. Our group has been around for \~10 years and we have gone through the journey of becoming better investors together. Members regularly publish their own stock pitches, challenge each other's thinking, and share unique insights - all the while making lifelong friendships and having a laugh along the way. If this is something you'd like to be part of please come along! Unfortunately if you fall into any of the below categories this group may not be for you! ❌Crypto HODLer ❌Property Investor ❌Chart Technician ❌Macro Tea-leaf Reader ❌Sperm Traders ❌Biotech Pump-and-Dump'ster Appreciate those who have an agenda to promote or sell something refrain from joining. \*\*\* Reading list - [http://bit.ly/2wODel2](http://bit.ly/2wODel2) \*\*\* **Contacts** Subodh - (zero)481-767-756 Jackson - (zero)424-005-069 Sayeed - (zero)469-618-186 Chris - (zero)432-602-534

Beyond Numbers: Business Referral Network for Accountants, Bookkeepers, Planners

**Beyond Numbers Business Referral Network** for Accountants, Bookkeepers, Planners and Brokers is designed for business owners in the Accounting, Bookkeeping and Financial Services Industry to connect with likeminded finance professionals, build meaningful and authentic relationships in a positive and supportive environment. Business owners in accounting and financial services often struggle to find networking opportunities tailored to their industry. **Beyond Numbers Networking Events** are dedicated to bring together accounting and finance professionals who truly understand their unique challenges and provide a platform for them to build connections, and trusting relationships and explore potential strategic referral partners. At Beyond Numbers Business Referral Network, our primary goal is to foster authentic connections among business owners in the accounting and financial services industry. Our event aims to facilitate the formation of strong relationships based on shared values, interests, and experiences. #### **Who is it for:** * Accountants in practice * Bookkeepers * BAS agents * Tax agents and advisors * Commercial Lawyers * Financial planners and advisors * Mortgage brokers operate over 2 years * Insurance brokers #### **What to expect:** 6:00 pm - Doors open and welcome in to network 6:30 pm - Event start, intro and topic discussion 7:45 pm - Continue networking 8:30 pm - Event closes (Drinks and finger food will be provided) Please be on time, as there is no late entrance after 6:30pm. #### **Why Join Us?** Being part of an accounting and financial services community means you’re not alone on your journey. You’ll meet potential strategic referral partners who not only understand the unique challenges in the finance industry but also share your drive to grow and succeed. Together, you can exchange valuable insights, build trusted relationships, and uncover new opportunities to expand your client base. This community is designed to foster collaboration, offering peer support and expert connections to thrive in a competitive market. Join us to create meaningful connections, explore collaboration opportunities and secure lasting success for your business and beyond. PS: Participation certification can be issued for you to claim 1.5CPD hours with your industry body, if applicable. ##### **Event Photography Disclaimer** ##### ##### **By attending this event, you acknowledge and consent to being photographed and/or filmed. These images and videos may be used for promotional purposes, including but not limited to social media posts, website content, marketing materials, and future event promotion.** ##### ##### **If you prefer not to be photographed, please inform event organisers upon arrival and we will make every effort to accommodate your request.** ##### ##### **For questions about photo usage or to request removal of your image, please contact the event organisers.**

Is This Share Any Good? — A Live Valuation Workshop

**Is This Company Any Good? — A Live Valuation Workshop** Think of a company you’d like to understand better. Once you RSVP, please nominate one company in the comments. I’ll choose one from the nominations before the event and walk through how I would analyse it step by step. In beginner-friendly language, we’ll look at the business model, financial statements, profitability, cash flow, debt, valuation and key risks, with the aim of learning how to think clearly about whether a business is high quality or not. This is an educational workshop only. It is not personal financial advice. The goal is to learn the process of business analysis so you can think more clearly about businesses and investing. All levels of experience are welcome. Don't be put off if you know nothing about money, we keep things very beginner friendly! After the company analysis, we’ll stick around for drinks and a relaxed discussion about what we're investing in, personal finance books we're reading, and share tips on getting ahead financially. Bring whatever questions or topics are on your mind, including how to start investing, the big tax changes, property versus shares, ETFs, super, budgeting, risk, or anything else finance-related. The aim is to create a friendly group of like-minded people who want to learn, share ideas and make better long-term decisions with money. **Cost:** $10 cash or PayID on the day.

SydJS: AI — Adding Insight

What’s even better than uncovering insights into a rising technology? Getting to stand on the shoulders of giants to look ahead. What’s even better than that chance? Having the same team return to reprise what you’d learnt. What’s even better than that revision? Revising just that little bit slower and going just that little bit deeper. That’s right, Thinkmill’s Dinesh Pandiyan is back this month to guide you through how AI can be unlocked to add value to your company, your team, and your workflow. One not to miss!

Panania Social Pickleball

Hi, we have a group of people of all levels who come down every Tuesday and Thursday 10am - 12pm. Great way to meet new people and enjoy some Pickleball. Cost: $5 If need to hire equipment please msg in advance cost $5. thanks

Meet up with your analytics peers and chat

[Register via EventBrite](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/data-analytics-wednesday-july-2026-tickets-1992320517299?aff=oddtdtcreator) **Data mobile app built journey** [Si Sowaddi Aing](https://www.linkedin.com/in/si-sowaddi-a-8914548/), Digital Analyst, Qantas The social media mobile app was born out of a gap in the creator economy: influencers and content creators generate massive amounts of data across social media platforms, they lack the actionable insights needed to truly scale their brands and revenue. The idea was to democratize data, turning raw metrics into a guidance for growth. From hypothesis and built it from the ground up—moving from a conceptual framework to an interactive prototype, and ultimately into a fully functioning production app. Navigating the full product lifecycle meant managing everything from data pipeline integration to user experience design, ensuring the platform could ingest and simplify complex data sets in real time. **Turn it off: the value argument your adoption metrics can't make** [Grant Case](https://www.linkedin.com/in/aieverywhere/), Creator, AI Criticality Index Every analytics team gets the same question at budget time: what is all this worth? Most answer with adoption and usage, the numbers that prove activity, and activity gets cut. There is a second way to measure value: the subtraction test. Turn off the AI, count the days until the work stops, and read it as a single 0-to-100% score. You will leave with a question to ask of your own system, and the start of a value argument that does not rest on contested ROI attribution. One test you can run before you're asked what it's worth. **What's this all about?** On the second Wednesday of every month the digital analytics community gets together for one or two short talks in an informal setting. There's lots of time for open ended discussion and to socialise. Plus there's free drinks! Open to anyone interested in digital analytics, we have people ranging from beginners through to analytics gurus and from marketing through to technical spaces, and everything in between.

Fireside Chat with Shannon Scott and Malte Feller

We have a **HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT**! 🎉 We're excited to bring you a very special fireside chat this July with **Shannon Scott** and **Malte Feller**, exploring what it takes to build and lead product at global scale. So much is changing in the product world. AI is reshaping how products are built and how teams operate, while the bar for product leadership keeps rising. Few people have navigated this at the scale and speed of global fintech, where the stakes of getting product right are exceptionally high. **During this fireside chat,** Shannon and Malte will dig into scaling product teams across markets, building trust with customers and regulators, why owning your stack matters more than ever in an agentic AI world, and where AI is taking product leadership in finance next - with a special emphasis on what this means for companies and product people here in Australia. Bring your questions to this special event. **About Shannon** Shannon Scott is the Chief Product Officer at Airwallex, where he leads global product strategy and roadmap across the Melbourne-founded fintech now serving over 150,000 businesses worldwide. His work centres on a genuinely hard problem: building global financial infrastructure that earns customer trust across every jurisdiction it touches. He's a strong advocate for owning your stack by securing and designing products from the ground up rather than relying on third parties and for product leaders taking real ownership of bringing AI capabilities to their customers, not leaving CTOs and CFOs to figure it out themselves. Before Airwallex, Shannon spent 11 years at Palantir, where as its first employee outside the US he built the company's international operations from the ground up. **About Malte** Malte Feller has enjoyed a long and successful career in product and company leadership across global tech hubs, originally in Berlin and then Silicon Valley, before finding his home in Sydney. He has held leadership positions including Managing Director of PayPal Australia, COO of Afterpay, and CEO of Linkly. Today, as Founder and Principal of Manzanita Product Leadership, Malte coaches and advises product and company leaders at both startups and large enterprises. ✨ Huge thanks to Airwallex for hosting us at their Sydney office, Ground Level, 29 Balfour Street, Chippendale! This is a unique opportunity to hear from global product leaders like Shannon and gain unforgettable, one-of-a-kind insights.

BUILDING SMARTER DATA

You are invited to join us for ***"BUILDING SMARTER DATA"*** where we will have industry leading speakers presenting on a range of dRofus topics. * *DAVID VIVIERS (HI NSW): Asset information requirements* * *DANIEL RHODES (BLP): AI agents and MCP* * *TK WANG (VBIS): Latest VBIS classification* * *CHRIS MURRAY (dRofus): Latest features and workflows* * *ADAM HETHERINGTON (BVN): Item status vs classification* This is an in person event, so please let us know in your response if you will attend in person for catering purposes. Or if you'd like to join online via Teams, please let us know and we can provide you a teams link closer to the event.

Enshittification and the Power of Platforms: Is There a Way Out?

Ever wonder why so many digital services you rely on seem to be getting simultaneously worse and more expensive? More ads. Sponsored search results. Subscription creep. Auto‑renew traps. Dubious 'surge' charges. Sneaky fees. Forced sign-ins. Cancel buttons hidden. There's a term for this phenomenon: enshittification — the gradual degradation of platforms that once seemed like technological miracles offering us convenience, connection, and democratisation. But enshittification - the Macquarie Dictionary’s Word of the Year for 2024 - is just the surface symptom of something far more corrosive. Beneath the declining user experience lies a fundamental reshaping of our economy where a handful of tech platforms have positioned themselves as inescapable gatekeepers, extracting unprecedented wealth from workers, businesses, and consumers while accumulating dangerous concentrations of power — what some are now calling technofeudalism. What happened to the internet's promise of widespread prosperity and a stronger democracy? How did we end up locked into systems that seem designed to serve everyone except us? And most importantly: what can we do about it? Come join us for a vital conversation about reclaiming our digital future and building an economy that works for everyone, not just the platform owners. **Book: *Enshittification – Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It* (2025) by Cory Doctorow** **Book (Alternative): *The Age of Extraction – How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future Prosperity* (2025) by Tim Wu** **Pdf Resource:** ***[Infographics and Summary Tables](https://1drv.ms/b/c/adb4f7488b2eef0a/IQB0CITwHhHJSaFBbJDhZmMEAcDSAace_BN1Q6aSYILezCI?e=edqfP9)*** (A prepared document of selected ideas from the two books) This month you have two options to read depending on your preference towards the level of analysis, style of writing, and your ease in accessing the book. *Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It* by Cory Doctorow is a punchy, provocative, and highly readable take on why so many digital platforms seem to decline over time. Doctorow, who coined the term ‘enshittification’, argues that platforms follow a predictable lifecycle—starting out user-focused, then shifting to business customers, and finally extracting for themselves—in each stage squeezing the group it previously courted. The book is fast-paced, example-rich, and written in an accessible, almost conversational style, making it ideal if you enjoy sharp arguments, memorable concepts, and contemporary tech critique. It’s particularly appealing for readers who like books that spark immediate reactions and connect directly to everyday experiences online. *The Age of Extraction* by Tim Wu takes a broader, more analytical approach. Wu situates the problems of digital platforms within a larger historical and economic pattern, arguing that we are living in an “age of extraction” where powerful actors systematically draw value from users, workers, and society. The tone is more measured and reflective, with a focus on big-picture thinking and long-term trends. This book will appeal to readers who enjoy connecting ideas across economics, history, and politics, and who prefer a more structured, conceptual framework over a punchy polemic. Please read one (or both), depending on your interests. *The Age of Extraction* is 226 pages (or 6 hours) and *Enshittification* is 340 pages (or 10 hours, not available on Audible but is available on other platforms). Join us for a drink (and optional meal) at 6:30pm on Monday, 6th July, on the 2nd floor of the Keg & Brew Hotel in Surrey Hills (i.e. up two flights of stairs). The venue is conveniently located near Central Station and the Light Rail. Bring along an example of an app or digital service you used to really like that has since become enshittified—something you can have a quick rant about to kick off the conversation! 😊 Hope to see you there! P.S. Please adjust your RSVP if you have indicated that you will come but are no longer able to do so. This is courteous to other people if there is a waitlist. \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\- These are just optional links to consider to supplement the reading of the books. Feel free to pass on other useful links in the discussion section. **Videos & Podcasts** * Two-for-one: Cory Doctorow and Tim Wu together! (Curiously, as kids they were classmates in the same small primary school in Toronto!): [The Ezra Klein Show – We Didn't Ask for This Internet (1.5hrs)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yepnhe1T-9U&t) [The Oxford Internet Institute - Enshittification and Extraction (1.5hrs)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkYxMQJ9c94) * Cory Doctorow Interviews: [Prospect Magazine (28mins)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9XRREj1DSo&t) [Doctorow on The Daily Show (15 mins)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2e-c9SF5nE) [The Guardian (24 mins)](https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2025/nov/24/enshittification-how-we-got-the-internet-no-one-asked-for-podcast) * Tim Wu Interviews: [The Majority Report (40 mins)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpnMk3IhV6U) [The Commonwealth Club (1 hour)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mRvMEzjTVw) * Explainer Video: [Why Every App is Getting Worse on Purpose (10 mins)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjEGRXVKQCQ) **Written** * Pdf Resource: [Infographics and Summary Tables](https://1drv.ms/b/c/adb4f7488b2eef0a/IQB0CITwHhHJSaFBbJDhZmMEAcDSAace_BN1Q6aSYILezCI?e=edqfP9) (A prepared document of selected ideas from the two books) * Enshittification Summaries and Reviews: [Wikipedia summary of Enshittification](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification) [Transcript of Doctorow Lecture on Enshittification](https://doctorow.medium.com/my-mcluhan-lecture-on-enshittification-ea343342b9bc) [CounterFire Book Review ](https://www.counterfire.org/article/enshittification-why-everything-suddenly-got-worse-and-what-to-do-about-it-book-review/) * The Age of Extraction Reviews [Prospect Book Review](https://prospect.org/2025/12/10/internets-tollbooth-operators-wu-review/) [HowAustraliaReallyWorks Book Review](https://www.howaustraliareallyworks.com/2026/02/book-summary-age-of-extraction-how-tech.html) [Washington Monthly Book Review](https://washingtonmonthly.com/2025/11/02/age-of-extraction-tim-wu/)

Decidr x Innova - Where Human Judgment Matters Most in the Age of Agentic AI

Reach out to Marie Higgins directly for tickets: (This event is not hosted through meetup) Innova is hosting our first Women in Tech breakfast in partnership with Decidr. **From Operators to Orchestrators: Where Human Judgment Matters Most in the Age of Agentic AI** As AI continues to reshape how businesses operate, we will discuss where human judgment matters most in the age of agentic AI. AI can draft your documents, summarise meetings, write code, and run workflows. But it can't tell you what's worth building. It doesn't carry the context behind a decision. And it won't be accountable when something goes wrong. This panel gets into the practical reality of that shift: how to redesign teams and ways of working now that machines can handle the execution; where to focus your own time and attention; and how to develop this kind of judgment in the next generation of leaders. * Where human judgment matters most as AI handles execution * Redesigning teams and workflows for the agentic era * Developing judgment in the next generation of leaders * Navigating risk and accountability when AI acts autonomously * Live panel discussion and Q&A We have a limited number of places available for founders and executives, so please reach out to me directly on Linkedin if you would like to attend. Thanks, Marie

Agentic AI in Law (DSAI x LegalQuants)

**NOTE: This is an in-person event, at University of New South Wales.** **Wednesday 8 July 2026** *DSAi x LegalQuants x UNSW Founders presents* - **'Agentic AI in Law'** DSAi is back with another meet up partnering with **LegalQuants** and **UNSW Founders**. [LegalQuants](www.legalquants.com) is a global network of lawyers who build their own tech to practise and transform law. LegalQuants recently ran hackathons with Manus and Replit, and worked with Anthropic on the Claude legal plugin. They are represent the top 1% of AI-fluent lawyers excel in both their fields legally and technically. It is led by Raymond Sun, who is also a director of DSAi! Join our meetup for talks on: \- leveraging agentic AI in legal \(with live building demos\) \- what are legal quants doing to 10x their output compared to their peers \- skills and mindset for law students and graduates to excel now and in the future As usual with our meetups, this event will also include: * AI tech, market and regulation updates by the DSAi team * NETWORKING - network with fellow AI entrepreneurs, investors and professionals. Investors, venture capital and talent folks are also invited to this event (and scout for promising AI startups). **Doors open at 5.30PM, for a 6PM Start!** **Agenda** 5:30-6pm: Check-in and networking 6:00-6:10pm: Opening remarks 6:10-6:30pm: LegalQuants Talk 1 (speaker TBC) 6.30-6.40pm: Intermission market and tech updates by DSAi team 6.40-7:40pm: LegalQuants Talk 2 (speaker TBC) 7.40-8.00pm: Networking til close **Address:** Michael Crouch Innovation Centre, UNSW Kensington Sydney NSW 2052 (take the L3 light rail) **Getting There:** Take the L3 Light Rail to UNSW. Then find the Hilmer Building (E10) Ground Floor. Here's a link to the campus map: [https://www.making.unsw.edu.au/documents/77/UNSW_Making_MCIC_Campus_Map.pdf](https://www.making.unsw.edu.au/documents/77/UNSW_Making_MCIC_Campus_Map.pdf) **Running Late?** If you arrive after 6:00 pm, please contact us at the number below for assistance: **Event Contact:** [dsai.sydney@gmail.com](mailto:dsai.sydney@gmail.com) [r.sun@legalquants.com](r.sun@legalquants.com)

Bentley farewell 7-course dinner $240 pp