Drones Melbourne

Let's build: A.I/ML/Robots using Google Colab and Aiko Services

**Aim:** Create A.I / Machine Learning projects ... optionally with Robots **Web-site: [https://ai-ml-robots.github.io](https://ai-ml-robots.github.io)** **Discussions: [https://tinyurl.com/ai-ml-robots-discussions](https://tinyurl.com/ai-ml-robots-discussions)** **Pre-meeting catch-up:** 6:00 pm at **[Grill'd Burgers, 127-133 Swan St, Richmond](https://maps.app.goo.gl/N6QBydEVo1JW6ctn9)** ... great opportunity for casual discussion and especially for newcomers to get acquainted with the group ***(our table will have orange traffic cones)*** **Activity:** Using [Google Colab](https://colab.google) and [Aiko Services](https://github.com/geekscape/aiko_services), we will build a project utilizing A.I/ML and simple, low-cost robots. **Agenda:** **7:00 pm sharp at 415 Church Street, Richmond** \- 7:00 pm ML software "guided" build session using Google Colab \- 9:30 pm Projects show and tell: ad\-hoc for anyone to contribute \- 9:45 pm Tidy up room \- 10:00 pm Hard stop \! **Please bring a laptop, as these are hands-on build sessions.** Just think of a laptop as a robot without wheels or legs ! If you are a newcomer to Machine Learning or robotics, you are still very welcome. If you do have a robot, please bring it along !

Welcome to the next 2026 AWS Melbourne Well-Architected User Group Meetup!

Hi Architects, Welcome to our next AWS Melbourne Well-Architected User Group Meetup for 2026, including more exceptional speakers and topics! :-D At each meetup we covered off various pillars in detail, best-practices and insights from industry leaders that specialise in the Well-Architected Framework. And giving away drones, of course. 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: * **Michael Taylor, Lakebase Specialist, Databricks** **How Lakebase provides a well-architected platform for next generation application and AI development.** Come and hear how Databricks experts show how customers run applications and agents on Lakebase; serverless Postgres governed by Unity Catalog. See instant branching, scale-to-zero, point-in-time recovery and synced tables in action. The Databricks team will also give a first look at LTAP; one open, governed copy of data for transactions and analytics, with no ETL in between. * **Mystery Speaker** **The AWS AI Competency - can automation support?** Achieving the AWS AI Competency can unlock many benefits for AI customers. In this talk, we explore if achievement of a competency can be automated. This month's menu will include: * Pizzas * Beer * Wine: Big and red 🤤 NB: Please check in up the stairs from the ground floor to the Mezzanine Level. 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) in

1. Weaponizing Starlark: Non-executable Malware and Scriptable C2 Agents

*Talk Submissions*: [ruxmon@proton.me](http://ruxmon@proton.me%2A%2A/) **1\. Weaponizing Starlark: Non\-executable Malware and Scriptable C2 Agents** Starlark is a Python dialect mainly used as a configuration language. The interoperability with Go makes it a perfect choice for Go-based C2 agents. This talk explains the concepts of the Starlark module system in emp3r0r C2; demonstrates detection evasion compared to traditional BOF modules; and how scripting agent on the fly becomes possible. Jimmy Mi is a malware researcher and Linux user, specialising in OS internals and offensive security research. **Location** Room 080.02.002 at RMIT (Building 80) - 445 Swanston St, Melbourne **Discord** [Discord Invite](https://discord.gg/2qcaxce8Mw)

Tuesday Breakfast Business Networking – Essendon (Moonee Valley)

Weekly business networking in Moonee Valley with BNI Unite. Networking from 6:50am, structured meeting 7:00–8:30am, then more networking. Free for visitors. IMPORTANT: Please register with Wade before you come. RSVP here and answer the questions (your business and mobile), and Wade will confirm your spot. Guests who haven't registered can't be seated. What to expect: a friendly, structured meeting, a 30-second chance to introduce your business, and real referrals passed in the room. Bring business cards. Street parking on Rose St and a car park directly opposite; coffee available at the venue. Chapter page: https://bnimn.com.au/vic---melbourne-north-bni-unite/en-AU/index

🎃 Bachata ConeXion Saturdays: BAILANDO CON FANTASMAS 👻

BACHATEROS OF MELBOURNE, GET READY… 🎃✨ 👻 **BAILANDO CON FANTASMAS** 👻 *A Halloween Bachata Pre-Party! (dressing up is optional)* Get ready for a night of pure bachata energy, music, and Halloween vibes as **Bachata ConeXion** brings you **Bailando con Fantasmas**! Whether you come dressed up or simply come to dance, this is your chance to enjoy another unforgettable ConeXion night with our amazing Melbourne Bachata community. 🎟️ **BOOKING LINK TO SAVE:** 👉 [https://www.trybooking.com/DQCKS](https://www.trybooking.com/DQCKS) 📅 **DATE:** Saturday, 24th October 2026 ⏰ **SCHEDULE:** * **8:00 PM:** Bachata Open Level Workshop with Adam & Winnie * **9:00 PM – 12:30 AM:** Social Dancing 📍 **LOCATION:** Sokol Melbourne Inc 497 Queensberry Street, North Melbourne 🎶 **MUSIC:** 70% Bachata • 30% Salsa • Touch of Kizomba & Zouk 🎧 **DJs:** DJ Hong Starr • DJ Pombo • DJ Ads 🧡🖤 **DRESS CODE:** Something Orange and/or Black! 🎁 **HALLOWEEN DRAW:** Or you dare come dressed in some Halloween gear, you’ll go into a special draw to win a **1/2 Card** or **Insane Card**! 🎃🃏 🎟️ **ONLINE PRICES (SAVE $4!):** * **8:00 PM – Bachata Workshop + Social:** $18 💵 **WALK-IN / DOOR PRICES:** * **8:00 PM – Bachata Workshop + Social:** $22 * **9:00 PM – Social Dancing:** $18 * **After 11:30 PM:** $13 Bring your smile, wear your orange and black (or full costume!), and let's light up the floor together! 💃🕺🎃

It’s that time again ! 60c Chicken Wings

Ride with GPS training - Route Construction

Open to financial MBTC members and anyone that intends to join our club before the night. The library closes at 6pm so we will have someone at the door between 6:45pm and 7pm to let you in. The workshop will start at 7pm. One of the many benefits of being a financial MBTC member is access to our Ride with GPS Club subscription. This gives us extra route planning options, visual or audible turn by turn navigation, but most importantly is gives us our routes and maps when we are offline and in the middle of nowhere. If you are not currently connected to the Ride with GPS club account, just post a message and I will talk you through it prior to the night. On the night we will get our hands dirty. Here are some of the things that we will do in the club account: * Using the club account * How to create and save a route * Using various map formats * Adding POI's * Adding/removing/changing route tags in the route library * Editing a route and the use of control points * Lock and unlock a route * How to copy and edit a locked route * To download or not to download the route & map for offline navigation? * Locating and downloading the route in the phone app * construct a route using a ride we have already recorded The training and learning space has a desktop for each participant. Here are some of the advantages of using the RWGPS Club account with offline maps & navigation: * We've paid for it as part of our membership so lets use it! * The club route library is at your fingertips * Download offline maps on home wifi to save using mobile data when navigating in mobile reception areas * We'll always know where we are on the ride as the map & route won't mysteriously vanish when we're out of mobile reception * Look at the elevation of the terrain ahead * Be able to check the remaining distance, and point to point distances * If anyone decides to bail out part way into the ride we can be sure of getting back to the car or station * If the ride leader is unwell or injured and has to abandon the ride then the ride can continue with another leader * No more excuses for splitting the group when riders pass the ride leader and take wrong turns * More members will be inclined to lead rides in the country with confidence * Stop thinking and just enjoy the ride!

Naarm Solarpunk Meetup - Local Server Install

[Merri-bek Tech](https://www.merri-bek.tech/), a group in the inner northern suburbs of Naarm (Melbourne), invites everyone involved interested in tinkering with grass-roots technologies in support of a **Sustainable**, **Resilient** and **Just** future to join us for the **Naarm Solarpunk Meetup**. This month, we're visiting the Maker Community maker-space, in Brunswick. We'll do a quick tour for those who haven't been before. After that, rather than a group discussion we're going to gather round a screen and doing a LoRes (local resilience) web server install on a Raspberry Pi, from scratch. If you're interested in command-line Linux, web servers, mesh networks, or local climate resilience you might find this interesting. If we're still keen for general chats after that, we can always head to the Brunswick Green pub next door. **About the Naarm Solarpunk group** Some of us are technologists, and will be showing off software or hardware projects, and others are more interested in community organizing, responding to the climate crisis, or building local resilience. Whatever your area of interest, or your level of skill, you're absolutely welcome to dive in. At the meetups we'll have a show-and-tell time for any projects that you're working on, as well as occasional short presentations. The space will be hosted by volunteers, and we'll actively work towards inclusion through applying a [code of conduct](https://www.contributor-covenant.org/version/2/1/code_of_conduct/). Merri-bek Tech has some projects that you might be interested in updates from, including our attempt to build P2P mesh network based community hosting on Raspberry Pis, and our project to run a local fediverse social network. We aspire to keep this meetup **Solarpunk** as fuck. We support the hackers, tinkerers and makers and misfits. There are plenty of other spaces for big corporate green tech, so bring your hobby project, not your day job, unless that job is firmly rooted in the solidarity economy. We are not value neutral. We'll start with Merri-bek Tech's [values](https://www.merri-bek.tech/about/values/) and [principles](https://www.merri-bek.tech/about/principles/), and build from there together. In particular, in the context of ongoing genocide, we will ask you to leave if you're associated in any way with the weapons industry. This meetup will be hosted on the stolen, unceeded lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation. **Always was, always will be, Aboriginal land.** **Accessibility** Please note that this month's venue is not accessible to everyone. The front door has a metal rail to step over. We're meeting on the mezzanine level up a single flight of fairly steep stairs. The route to the bathrooms is not wide enough for some wheelchairs. The lighting is overhead and flouro. There may be dust in the air from woodwork and other crafts. We will return to a more accessible venue next month. If you'd like to attend at the maker-space and there are some accommodations that would make it easier for you to do so, please reach out.

TechWalking - Networking Event for Tech Professionals

**"TechWalking" - Networking + Walking** Are you a tech professional looking to network beyond the screen? Look no further than my upcoming #TechWalking event! ‍ Join us for a refreshing walk around the scenic Albert Park Lake. It’s the perfect chance to connect with industry peers while getting in some steps! Check out the video from TechWalking Birthday: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bPiY9UBOtEw We'll kick things off at **10 am sharp** at the Albert Park Fitness Station. Please, don't be late! We're hitting the trail around the lake as soon as we gather. And trust me, you won't want to miss it – unless you're up for a bit of a sprint to catch up! (we're going anti-clockwise) This event is pet and kid-friendly, as long as your little ones and furry friends can manage a 5 km walk, they're more than welcome to join. Looking forward to meeting you all in real life! **TechWalking is free, and always will be.** But keeping the community going takes time, effort, and a few ongoing costs. If you enjoy TechWalking and would like to help us keep it growing, any donation is greatly appreciated: [https://tech-walking.yanamartens.com/donate](https://tech-walking.yanamartens.com/donate) Join the TechWalking group on LinkedIn! [https://www.linkedin.com/groups/14477058/](https://www.linkedin.com/groups/14477058/) **TechWalking Community page: [https://tech-walking.yanamartens.com/](https://tech-walking.yanamartens.com/)** \*\*\* Follow me on LinkedIn for more information: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/yana-martens/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/yana-martens/) Just moved to Australia? Grab your FREE guide to land your tech job! [https://yanamartens.com/first-tech-job-in-australia/](https://yanamartens.com/first-tech-job-in-australia/) Subscribe to YouTube Channel: [https://www.youtube.com/@ITCareerinAustralia](https://www.youtube.com/@ITCareerinAustralia)

FOST Conference Australia (Free Tickets)

**Important Note**: This conference is hosted by our partner, apidays. They have graciously provided 100 free tickets (value of $1,000/each) exclusively for AICamp members. Visit the [event website ](https://bit.ly/3VBnQYm)to claim your free ticket (first come, first serve) use the code: **AICAMPVIP** apidays Australia 2026 brings together 2,000+ developers, architects, AI engineers, technology leaders and executives shaping the next generation of digital infrastructure. Held October 28–29 at MCEC in Melbourne, the two-day event explores how APIs, AI agents and modern platforms are transforming both private and public-sector organizations, with a particular focus on sovereignty, governance, security, orchestration and resilient digital infrastructure. Under the theme “Sovereign Intelligence: APIs for a Human-Centric Private and Public Sector,” the event will look at what it takes to build AI-powered systems that are not only intelligent, but also secure, transparent, interoperable and trusted. Attendees can expect 100+ speakers, practical sessions and workshops, and conversations spanning APIs, agentic AI, cloud native infrastructure, embedded finance, platform engineering, governance and security. **Conference Details** Visit the [event website](https://bit.ly/3VBnQYm) for full details. claim your free ticket (first come, first serve) use the code: **AICAMPVIP**

Oct 25 | Kismetrix Social Run/Walk + Coffee - The Tan Track Botanical Gardens

## 🌿 **Kismetrix Singles Social Run/Walk + Coffee – TAN Track** [Register Here](https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/apr-26-kismetrix-social-runwalk-coffee-the-tan-botanical-gardens-tickets-1985661113844?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl) 📅 **Date: Sunday** 25th October 🕘 **Time:** 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM (please arrive by 9:45 AM) 📍 **Meeting Point:** Royal Botanic Gardens Visitor Centre 🏃 **Route:** TAN Track loop through the Royal Botanic Gardens 📏 **Distance:** Approx. 3–4 km (relaxed social pace) Or Walk 🎽 **Dress Code:** Comfortable activewear or casual running clothes **About the Event** Looking to meet new people, get active, and enjoy great company — without the pressure of a dating event? The **Kismetrix Singles Social Run or Walk + Coffee** is a relaxed, feel-good experience for singles who enjoy movement, nature, and meaningful conversation in a warm, welcoming environment. We’ll run at an easy, conversational pace around the iconic **TAN Track**, giving you plenty of chances to chat, laugh, and connect with different people along the way. There’s no racing, no awkward icebreakers — just a friendly group of singles sharing a beautiful morning together. After the run, we’ll walk back as a group and enjoy **optional coffee and mingling at the Visitor Centre café**, where conversations can continue naturally and comfortably. Many guests tell us these events feel more like meeting new friends — with a spark of something extra. **Who it's For** ✨ Singles who want to meet people offline ✨ Adults 18+ across a wide range of ages (20s to 60s+) ✨ People who enjoy light running, jogging, or active social experiences ✨ Anyone looking for community, confidence, and connection **Singles only. Adults only. No children or dogs.** This helps keep the space relaxed, focused, and socially comfortable for everyone. **What to Bring** * Water bottle * Comfortable running or walking shoes * Sunscreen / hat * Light jacket (weather can change) * Positive energy and an open heart 💛 ## 🎟️ This is a **free community event**, with **optional donations** to support the Kismetrix community. While many of our curated singles events are ticketed, this run is part of our **open community series**, created to make connection, movement, and belonging accessible to everyone. Your support helps Kismetrix continue building safe, welcoming spaces where real human connection can grow — romantically or platonically. **Hosted by:** **Kismetrix \| True Connection** Because real love starts with real connection. ### **🔗 Stay Connected with Kismetrix \| True Connection** Love this event? We run a variety of experiences to help people meet and connect in meaningful ways. 📧 **[social@kismetrix.com.au]()** 🌐 **[www.kismetrix.com.au](http://www.kismetrix.com.au "http://www.kismetrix.com.au")** 📱 **Follow us on Instagram:** [https://www.instagram.com/kismetrix_/](https://www.instagram.com/kismetrix_/ "https://www.instagram.com/kismetrix_/") **, Facebook & Eventbrite** 🤝 **Collaborations: [collabs@kismetrix.com.au]()** ### **📄 Important Notice** By registering for this event\, you confirm that you have read and agree to Kismetrix \| True Connection’s Terms & Conditions\, Privacy Policy\, Disclaimer and Code of Conduct\. Some events may be non\-refundable as stated in their individual descriptions\.

Ai in SRE (Use Luma link to register)

​AI in SRE is taking the spotlight! Join SRECommunityAustralia on November 4th for a lively evening of lightning talks exploring how AI is being used in site reliability engineering. Expect quick ideas, practical examples, and plenty to talk about between sessions. ​The venue is still being confirmed, so keep an eye out for the location. Bring your curiosity and come ready for a fun night of talks and conversation. https://luma.com/a1994de5