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Spark Festival Event by Founder Institute: Navigate the Advisory Minefield

Thu, Sep 24, 8:00 AM

From Sydney Startup Founder 101

4.5

Graduate of Founder Institute Sydney - Jakomi founder of Goto.health - moderates this panel on choosing and working with advisors, board members and investors: who actually helps, what good governance looks like early, and how to tell the difference before you hand over equity. **❯ Guest Speakers include:** * Benjamin Chong (Partner, Right Click Capital) * Jakomi Mathews (CEO, goto.health) **Please RSVP here: [https://luma.com/ymq28qb5](https://luma.com/ymq28qb5)** * Jakomi Mathews (Moderator), * Benjamin Chong (Founder Institute and Right Click Capital), * Josh Ayscough (Utiliti Ventures), * Brinley Meagher (HWLE) * Trinity Woolnough (Hall Chadwick) **❯ Who Should Attend:** * Prospective Founder Institute applicants * Founders navigating the advisory minefield now * People who want to hear the downsides * Anyone curious what the Founder Institute startup portfolio looks like. . **❯❯ Please RSVP here: [https://luma.com/ymq28qb5](https://luma.com/ymq28qb5)**

3 attendees

AI Tech & Startup Night — Sydney

Tue, Sep 22, 2:00 PM

From NOMAD — FOUNDERS & INVESTORS ASIA PACIFIC

**Nomad Global Hub** brings together builders, founders, and tech professionals for a night of curated networking and high-impact startup pitches. **Community Pass spots are limited — reserve yours before they're gone.** **RSVP: [Reserve your spot](https://luma.com/pntbm9fi)** With a track record of **235+ events** across **23 global cities** worldwide, we have welcomed over **5,000 attendees** and featured **1,200+ startup pitches** on our stages. We intentionally keep our meetups intimate because the best partnerships happen in focused, high-quality conversations, not in loud, overcrowded halls. **What to Expect** * **Live Tech Startup Pitches**: Watch selected early-stage founders present AI & Tech projects followed by sharp audience Q&A. * **High-Quality Networking:** Connect with a hand-picked audience of founders, investors, engineers, and tech leaders who value substance over small talk. * **Global Exposure:** Join a community that bridges **23 tech hubs worldwide**, providing you with a network that extends far beyond a single city. **Who Should Join** * Founders & Co-Founders looking for peers, feedback, investors and collaborators. * Tech Professionals & Builders seeking a high-quality community. * Ambitious Individuals ready to dive into the AI & Startup ecosystem. **For Investors** Active investors and VC partners are welcome to join the event and scout for early-stage talent, meet other investors, and see what teams are building. To access the startup database, please fill out the **[Investor Application Form](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScUkSdbmDb_tchKrZNf2A4c6HjrPLd87Ub3W-5WPfOgsszI9Q/viewform)** and ensure you have purchased a ticket. **For Pitching Startups** Selected startups gain live stage time and visibility within our global network among our database of investors. Purchase a Speaker Ticket to pitch, submit your **[Pitch Deck](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScZ1fGVQ-br2hQQnSsq7zz5XCAEvN5FfaYfJ7VSppMkujV8YQ/viewform)** and ensure it is accessible for viewers. **Nomad Global Hub \| 235\+ Events \| 23 Cities** *Note: To support our venue partner, we kindly encourage every guest to purchase at least one drink at the bar during the event.*

39 attendees

[Partner Event] Founder Institute presents: Navigating the Advisory Minefield

Thu, Sep 24, 7:45 AM

From Product Hunt Sydney

4.7

Please RSVP at [https://luma.com/ymq28qb5](https://luma.com/ymq28qb5) # Navigating the Advisory Minefield The free tickets require approval for venue check-in. Please arrive no earlier than 5:45pm for a 6pm start. Spark Festival event: Choosing the wrong advisers, board members, or investors can derail your company before it even takes off. Join us for an honest panel discussion on how to spot true partners, establish good early-stage governance, and protect your equity. Jakomi Mathews (Moderator) – [Goto.health](https://goto.health/?utm_source=luma) & Founder Institute portfolio startup Benjamin Chong – Founder Institute (**[fi.co](https://fi.co/?utm_source=luma)**) & Right Click Capital Josh Ayscough – Utiliti Ventures Brinley Meagher – HWL Ebsworth Lawyers (HWLE) Trinity Woolnough – Hall Chadwick

2 attendees

Lara Meacock/Edgar Anzaldua

Tue, Sep 22, 8:00 AM

From Sydney Creative Customer Experience (CCX)

4.7

Our CCX Sydney September event features two awesome designers and speakers: Lara Meacock from CBA on a AI themed Systems designing back and Edgar Anzaldua Moreno from Compare Club on the complimentary talk You loved your Craft, Now you prompt. Will be applying a $10.00 cover charge to cover Food and drinks and on this occasion will be kindly hosted again by our new friends at Lorikeet. Details below on the venue location (Surry Hills) **IMPORTANT NOTE FOR THIS SESSION!** **An Important detail is that due to gaining entry to Lorikeet we will need any CCX Member planning to attend this session to supply us with their First and Last name in advance of attending.** On this occasion we will not be able to accept Members who do not supply these details. Many thanks CCX Sydney. **About Lara's talk** **Systems designing back - when systems start thinking with us.** AI is rapidly changing how digital products are designed and built - but the most interesting shift isn’t simply that we can work faster. It’s what happens when the systems, rules and decisions designers create can increasingly be interpreted and executed by AI. In this talk, Lara explores the evolving relationship between design systems, AI and the role of the designer. Drawing on real-world experiments in AI-enabled design and delivery, she’ll look at what happens when design systems become more than libraries of components and start acting as the infrastructure AI uses to create. As execution becomes increasingly automated, the designer’s role begins to shift too - away from being the person producing every outcome, and towards defining the systems, constraints, judgement and quality standards that shape what gets produced. **About Lara** Lara Meacock is a Principal Product Designer at Commonwealth Bank, working across product design, systems and emerging AI-enabled ways of working. Across her career, she has worked at the intersection of product, design and technology, helping teams turn complex problems into digital experiences that are useful, intuitive and built to scale. Her practice combines a strong product lens with systems thinking, exploring how the decisions, patterns and foundations behind an experience can enable better outcomes for both customers and the teams building them. More recently, Lara has been exploring what generative AI means for the future of product design: how we design with it, how it changes the way products are created, and how the role of the designer evolves as the systems around us become increasingly capable. **About Edgar's talk** **You Loved Your Craft. Now You Prompt.** You picked design because you loved designing. Now you prompt. More comes back, faster, and it looks fine, so you ship it. Something about that mechanism feels off, and you can't name it. So you sit with that feeling. It isn't nostalgia. Let's talk about what it is. The uncomfortable part is that the better the output gets, the less often you scrutinise it. And something gets lost. Designers weren't the first ones to experience that loss, and we can learn from others. This talk is about how you keep using AI without losing what makes you good at design. It's about getting your mojo back. Ending with something you have that the machine doesn't, besides a heart. **About Edgar** Edgar Anzaldúa-Moreno is a design leader, researcher, and engineer with more than two decades of experience working across technology, product design, strategy, and organisational change. His career has spanned startups, consultancies, and large organisations, including leadership roles at KPMG, Canon, CarsGuide, Compare Club and Sweat. He describes his practice as that of a designgineer — combining research, strategy, design, and engineering to solve complex product and organisational problems. His work includes published research, a US patent, award-winning digital products, and the development of research-led design teams and practices. Edgar is currently exploring how artificial intelligence is changing the nature of design work and leadership. He is writing Leading Design after AI: From Operator to Orchestrator, a book about what happens when AI makes production increasingly cheap, while judgment, critical thinking, and the ability to frame the right problems become more valuable. Therefore don't miss out on this awesome pairing of two creativity and AI themed talks that will certainly asks as many questions of our audience as well as our presenters!

52 attendees

Interactive Design: Turn Your Value Proposition into an Experience

Fri, Sep 25, 12:00 AM

From Transformational Leaders Collective

4.5

Your customers don’t truly understand your product or service because you’ve explained it well—they understand it because they’ve experienced it. 💡 In this highly interactive workshop, we’ll explore how to transform your value proposition into moments people can see, feel, test and remember. Rather than relying solely on presentations, websites or sales pitches, you’ll learn how to design interactions that naturally demonstrate why your product, service or idea matters. ✨ Working alongside other participants, you’ll prototype your experiential demonstration, explore customer touchpoints and develop engaging activities that make your offering more tangible, memorable and compelling. Whether you’re pitching to investors, onboarding customers, showcasing a product or introducing yourself at a networking event, you’ll leave with practical ways to replace explanation with experience. 🚀 No startup? No problem! The same principles can be applied to your career and personal brand, helping employers, collaborators, clients and future connections experience your strengths rather than simply hear about them. 🌟 🎟️ **Tickets:** [https://events.humanitix.com/interactive-design-turn-your-value-proposition-into-an-experience](https://events.humanitix.com/interactive-design-turn-your-value-proposition-into-an-experience) 🍕 Refreshments and pizza will follow the workshop **Hosted by** The **Western Sydney Startup Hub**, powered by Spacecubed, is a vibrant innovation and coworking space located in the heart of Parramatta. Designed to support startups, scaleups, and small businesses, the Hub offers flexible workspaces, private offices, meeting rooms, and event spaces within a collaborative, community-driven environment. Positioned near the Parramatta River and well-connected by public transport, it provides founders and teams with not only a professional workspace but access to curated programs, networking opportunities, and a supportive ecosystem that fosters growth, connection, and innovation across Western Sydney.

4 attendees

Machine Learning to mRNA: How I Built a Personalised Cancer Vaccine for My Dog

Tue, Oct 6, 6:30 AM

From Big Data Analytics

4.4

**Brief bio** * Paul Conyngham is the founder of Gamgee, a Y Combinator company developing personalised mRNA cancer vaccines for dogs. After 17 years in machine learning, Paul taught himself genomics and used AI to design a personalised vaccine for his dog Rosie, whose responsive tumours shrank by 50–75%. * **Talk outline** \- Rosie’s cancer and why existing treatments were not enough \- Using AI to cross from machine learning into genomics \- The journey from tumour sequencing to an administered mRNA vaccine \- What worked\, what failed and what one patient can teach us \- Turning a year\-long manual process into repeatable software \- Why Gamgee is starting with dogs and where the technology goes next NOTE: Register for this event here : https://www.meetup.com/data-science-sydney/events/316413053

1 attendee

WSTI 2nd Anniversary & AI Fellowship Demo Night

Thu, Sep 24, 7:30 AM

From Western Sydney Tech Innovators

4.8

**Western Sydney Tech Innovators is proud to present AI Fellowship Demo Night in collaboration with Western Sydney Startup Hub, with an evening full of founder pitches, live demonstrations and community connection.** The evening will also celebrate WSTI’s second anniversary and its contribution to the broader innovation community. The event will begin with networking, food and drinks from 5:30 pm, followed by a welcome and acknowledgement at 6:00 pm. From 6:10 pm, five founders from the AI Fellowship cohort will take the stage to pitch their ideas, demonstrate their prototypes or minimum viable products (MVPs), and answer audience questions. The founder sessions will be followed by more networking, food and drinks from 7:00 pm. RSVP or get a ticket at: [https://events.humanitix.com/ai-fellowship-demo-night-western-sydney](https://events.humanitix.com/ai-fellowship-demo-night-western-sydney) *Spacecubed's AI Fellowship is made possible by Scale Partners and WSTI. [Learn more about the program here!](https://spacecubed.com/programs/ai-fellowship)*

45 attendees

The Inner Game of Success: Master Your Mindset, Energy and Performance

Thu, Sep 24, 7:30 AM

From Executive to Entrepreneur: Business Masterclass & Networking

4.6

**The Inner Game of Success: Master our Mindset, Energy and Performance** The biggest obstacles to success are often invisible. Self-doubt, limiting beliefs, fear of failure and emotional overwhelm can quietly undermine even the most capable people, affecting their decisions, confidence and performance. Many people focus on external strategies for success while overlooking the inner patterns that drive their results. In this highly interactive workshop, you will be guided you through practical mindset and peak-performance exercises designed to help you break through mental barriers, build confidence and create greater momentum in both business and life. Rather than simply learning concepts, you will experience proven techniques that help you access your best thinking, manage pressure more effectively and perform at a higher level. Through a combination of reflection, small-group discussion, future vision creation and guided peak-state exercises, you will learn how successful people create empowering emotional states, stay focused on what matters and take consistent action toward meaningful goals. You will also experience practical techniques that can help you generate confidence, motivation and resourcefulness on demand. **By attending this workshop, you will:** * Identify the hidden mental and emotional patterns that may be limiting your success * Learn practical techniques to create confidence, focus and motivation on demand * Develop greater resilience when facing uncertainty, pressure and setbacks * Create a compelling vision for your future that inspires action * Gain practical tools to improve performance in leadership, business and everyday life * Connect with like-minded founders, professionals, leaders and entrepreneurs Whether you're building a startup, growing a business, leading a team or simply looking to perform at your best, this workshop will provide practical tools and insights to help you unlock more of your potential and create lasting positive change. **About the Speakers** **Roy Kwan** Founder and CEO of Coach Anywhere, Business Coach and Certified NLP Trainer. Roy has over 17 years of business consulting experience and helps professionals, leaders and founders develop greater clarity, confidence and emotional resilience under pressure. **Sonya Furlong** One of a small number of certified NLP Master Trainers in Australia, Sonya is passionate about helping people understand and apply the psychology of success, equipping them with practical tools to create meaningful change and achieve extraordinary results. **About Spark Festival** Spark Festival is back for our eleventh year - and things are looking quite different this time around. We're facing into a long period of uncertainty for Australian founders and investors. Government support, certainty over our tax system, R&D tax incentive eligibility and the ongoing legality of AI development in Australia are all hanging in the balance following significant policy announcements, with minimal consideration of the impacts on our ecosystem. Spark Festival is here to make our community's voices heard, to provide a platform for those who can't pay for access, and to spark engagement across Australia's diverse startup ecosystem. \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\- By registering for this event, you grant full rights to use the images from any photography/video footage for publicity and education purposes. This may include (but is not limited to), the right to use them in their printed and online publicity, coursework presentations, social media and press releases. If you do not wish to be photographed, please inform an event organiser. The event organisers may add you to a mailing list so they can follow up, and you can receive updates about their activities: this mailing list will always have an easy-to-find unsubscribe button.

1 attendee

Quality in Small Startups by Sam Connelly & 2026 Job Market by Andrea McHutchon

Wed, Sep 30, 7:30 AM

From Sydney Testers

4.5

For our September in-person event generously hosted and supported by Salt Solutions Group, there are two great speakers offering diverse and prescient topics that people have asked us to cover for a while. Sam Connelly, the popular tester and public speaker and former chair of Sydney Testers, will be reprising her talk at Equal Experts: "Small Team, Big Stack", to talk about how she brought in quality practice into a small fintech startup. Andrea McHutchon (Regional Director at Salt) will be giving us the facts and intelligence on the current 2026 tech job market including salary trends and in-demand skills! **Sam Connelly: Small Team, Big Stack: A Quality Toolkit Built from the Ground Up** Most talks about quality assume you've got a QA team, a test framework someone already built, and headcount to spare. This one's for when you don't. **Sam Connelly a.k.a. BugHunterSam**, Principal Quality Consultant within the Equal Experts network in Australia, walks through how a small startup team builds and maintains confidence in what they ship — for a predominantly JavaScript web app — without any of that safety net. **What we'll cover:** * **Unit testing** — what we actually test (and, just as importantly, what we don't) * **BDD, pragmatically** — the test framework we built, and how we've kept it extensible as our underlying model evolves * **Debugging from the outside in** — using analytics frameworks to reconstruct what a user did right before something broke * **Where we're headed** — early experiments including a self-healing UI E2E agent, and using Claude Code as an exploratory testing partner rather than just a coding tool **Andrea McHutchon: An Update on the Sydney Tech Hiring Market and In-Demand Skills in 2026** As part of the event, we will provide an overview of the **current technology talent and hiring market,** sharing - * Real-time insights into candidate availability * Salary trends * In-demand skills * What we are seeing from businesses hiring across the sector. We will also be giving out prizes along with our usual chances for networking and socialisation! Not to be missed

21 attendees

Women in Architecture (WIA) Australia - Sydney Coffee Catch-up

Wed, Sep 23, 10:00 PM

From Architecting for Innovation

4.5

Sydney community ☕️ Let’s take a break from the meetings, roadmaps, and architecture reviews and catch up over coffee. Join us for a casual **[Women in Architecture (WIA) Australia](https://www.linkedin.com/company/women-in-architecture-wia-australia/)** catch-up to connect with fellow enterprise, business, and solution architects, share ideas, grow your network, and meet others who are passionate about architecture and diversity in tech. Whether you're a long-time member, new to the community, or simply curious about architecture as a career, we'd love to see you there. Hosted by **[Mimi Chattopadhyay](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mimichattopadhyay/)** and **[Maria B](https://www.linkedin.com/in/maria-b-286971234/)** 📅 Thursday, 24 September ⏰ 8:00 – 9:30 am 📍 Maximus Cafe, GPO Building, 1 Martin Place, Sydney

2 attendees

Focus & Cognitive Flexibility: Staying sharp in a distracted world

Thu, Sep 24, 3:00 AM

From Transformational Leaders Collective

4.5

In this interactive workshop, neuroscientist Dr. Cam Higgins and high-performance coach Veronica Mason will explore how to stay focused and adaptable in a world where our attention is constantly being pulled in different directions. Drawing on the latest findings from their work together as Co-Founders of Onyx Neuro, Cam will unpack the neuroscience of focus and cognitive flexibility, including what happens in our brains when we’re constantly switching between tasks and demands, before Veronica makes this information applicable to everyday life through practical exercises designed to help you experience the difference that more intentional focus can make. You’ll leave with a better understanding of how your brain works, along with practical tools you can use straight away to protect your attention and perform at your best. **Presenters** **Veronica Mason** is a high-performance coach and speaker, helping business leaders harness their intuitive intelligence to make smarter decisions, increase revenue and grow sustainably - without the burnout. With a background in law at places such as Google and Baker McKenzie, the world’s largest global law firm, Veronica combines a sharp strategic lens with a holistic approach, showing leaders how to pair intuition with intellect for extraordinary results. 🎟️ To attend, register at: [https://events.humanitix.com/focus-and-cognitive-flexibility](https://events.humanitix.com/focus-and-cognitive-flexibility)

4 attendees

Sydney Claude Community: From Beginners to Builders

Wed, Sep 23, 10:10 PM

From Code.Sydney

4.7

Welcome to the Sydney Claude Community! Whether you are completely new to artificial intelligence or a seasoned developer looking to architect enterprise solutions, this meetup is your space to learn, share, and grow. AI is moving fast, and navigating it alone can be overwhelming. We’ve broadened the scope of this group to support everyone in our local community who wants to understand and leverage AI—specifically Anthropic’s Claude—no matter where you are on your journey. **What to Expect:** Grab a coffee and join us for relaxed, open discussions broken down into three main areas of focus: •⁠ ⁠The AI Explorers (Beginners): For those who don't know much about AI yet but are eager to explore, ask questions, and get hands-on experience in a welcoming environment. •⁠ ⁠The Professionals (Intermediate): For those who understand the basics of AI but want practical advice on how to implement it to help their teams, automate workflows, or support their companies. •⁠ ⁠The Builders (Advanced): For developers and consultants willing to dive deep, study AI architecture, and prepare for the official Anthropic certification exams. **Why Join Us?** As AI evolves, getting the right guidance is crucial. One of our co-organizers is an official Anthropic Partner and a newly Certified Claude Code Architect Professional. We are here to support the community, provide mentorship, share real-world use cases, and help you navigate the certification pathways. Come along to network, share your ideas, and learn how to make AI work for you! **About the Organizers & Partners** •⁠ ⁠Code Sydney (https://code.sydney/) •⁠ ⁠Community Partner: Seiment (https://seiment.com/)

4 attendees

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Founder Groups Sydney

Spark Festival Event by Founder Institute: Navigate the Advisory Minefield

AI Tech & Startup Night — Sydney

[Partner Event] Founder Institute presents: Navigating the Advisory Minefield

Lara Meacock/Edgar Anzaldua

Interactive Design: Turn Your Value Proposition into an Experience

Machine Learning to mRNA: How I Built a Personalised Cancer Vaccine for My Dog

WSTI 2nd Anniversary & AI Fellowship Demo Night

The Inner Game of Success: Master Your Mindset, Energy and Performance

Quality in Small Startups by Sam Connelly & 2026 Job Market by Andrea McHutchon

Women in Architecture (WIA) Australia - Sydney Coffee Catch-up

Focus & Cognitive Flexibility: Staying sharp in a distracted world

Sydney Claude Community: From Beginners to Builders

Spark Festival Event by Founder Institute: Navigate the Advisory Minefield

AI Tech & Startup Night — Sydney

[Partner Event] Founder Institute presents: Navigating the Advisory Minefield

Lara Meacock/Edgar Anzaldua

Interactive Design: Turn Your Value Proposition into an Experience

Machine Learning to mRNA: How I Built a Personalised Cancer Vaccine for My Dog

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