[Special Edition] AI memory and data management building from zero to scale with TiDB | Sydney July 8th - 02Ship

​The hardest part of building right now isn't the tools. It's finding the people who get it.

​The ones shipping side projects before lunch. Rewriting how their team works with Claude Code. Quietly building the future and wondering if anyone else is too.

​This meetup is that room. One night in Sydney.

​This special edition goes deep on the part nobody puts in the demo: memory and data. Getting a prototype working on your laptop is the easy bit — making it remember, retrieve, and stay fast once real users show up is where most builds hit the wall. We'll get into how AI apps handle memory and data from zero to scale, with the team behind TiDB.

​If you're doing the work, you belong here.

​What to Expect

​6:00 PM — Doors Open

​Settle in, and say hello to fellow builders.

​6:30 - 6:35 PM — Opening by Mike Taylor

​6:35 - 7:35 PM — Talks

​Talk 1 : Is your data infra ready, if your AI product goes viral by Tony Huang, Ph.D

​In this talk, Tony will introduce Manus, an AI agent company that went viral, and is in a proposed 2 billion acquisition by Meta. He will also explain how TiDB, a built-for-agents database supports Manus’ business.

​Talk 2 : No API? No Problem by Kelly Gold

​AI agents are only as capable as the tools we give them — but most software has no API, no MCP server, and no intention of letting a bot in. So how do you let an agent act inside an app built only for humans? This talk walks up the "escalation ladder" of techniques — from finding the hidden JSON API nearly every web app is secretly using, to driving a real browser, to handing an AI agent the keys to operate the UI itself. To keep it honest and legal, I built a stand-in for the kind of archaic enterprise software every team has begged for an API — and we take its defenses apart live: hidden endpoints, server-side rendering, login walls and session tokens, each turned into a clean tool an agent can call. We finish in genuinely unsettled territory: when an agent can log in as you and click the buttons you could click, where exactly is the line?

​7:30 - 8:30 PM — Community Engagement & Networking

​The best part of any meetup — real conversations. Meet collaborators, swap ideas, and find your next project partner.

​Want to Share Your Story?

​We're looking for speakers and sponsors! Whether it's a 5-minute demo of something you've built, a lesson learned from shipping AI in production, or a wild experiment worth sharing — we want to hear from you.

​Apply here: https://forms.gle/CuhvaFTHKip9R1At9

​Spots are limited — RSVP to save yours. See you there!

​Sponsor

​This event is sponsored by TiDB which is powered by PingCAP, is an open-source, distributed SQL database for modern apps. Its cloud-native architecture (TiDB X) provides limitless scaling and high availability without sharding. TiDB unifies OLTP and OLAP, featuring built-in vector search to power scalable RAG and AI agents. Visit tidb.io to learn more.

​Venue Sponsor

​Haymarket HQ is a go-to-market accelerator that helps founders to access revenue and capital in new growth markets. We’ve supported 1000+ companies into new markets in Australia, across Southeast Asia and beyond.