AIO-008: A Rogue AI Agent Walks Into an Open Bar…
Yes, Melbourne’s most optimistic --dangerously-skip-permissions AI meetup is back! In AI time, it feels like years since last month.
No presentations or demos this time. We’ve booked a private space at a great cocktail bar in the Melbourne CBD for a few dozen AI Ops members to chat. Expect an unholy mix of designers, developers, founders and marketers, all tokenmaxxing with AI agents and other tools to 100× their workflows.
(Note: We’ll share the exact venue with accepted guests in Luma).
To keep the group cracked (as they say on X dot com, the everything app), this one’s by application only, with very limited spots. If you don’t get in, don’t worry. We’ll be back with a bigger meetup next month. We meet on the first Wednesday of every month.
Food and drinks are covered, within reason, you ravenous animals, thanks to Grant and the legends the Outlook: AI Conference (please check out our sponsors below).
Agenda
5:30–6:00 pm: Doors open to our private space at a CBD cocktail bar. The exact location will be shared in Luma once you’re accepted.
6:00–8:30 pm: Food is served. Chat with a curated group of designers, developers, founders and marketers burning tokens and using AI to automate their workflows.
8:30 pm: Official finish. Go home and check on your agents, or stay and keep chatting.
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Sponsors
The meetup is sponsored by Outlook: AI (https://theoutlook.io/events/outlook-ai/) - Outlook: AI is unlike any other AI conference. It's uniquely The Outlook: a playfully-pragmatic view of the state of AI, and what’s being achieved with the most exciting technology of our lifetime - tickets are selling fast, so be sure to grab one!
The meetup is also sponsored by Hypermatic (hypermatic.com) - check them out if you want to save 15+ hours per week with their Premium Figma Plugins.
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FAQ
What are we going to do?
Feel the AGI on the first Wednesday of every month.
Sit around at a cool Melbourne venue and talk to each other about AI.
Share practical ideas and examples from our workflows.
Learn techniques you can steal and try at work the next morning.
Talk about the most interesting things happening in AI.
Speed-run our collective existential crisis.
Figure out how our roles and workflows are evolving.
You should apply if:
You’re optimistic about technology and AI, and want to explore the new frontier.
You’re actively building, creating, designing, automating or vibe-coding with AI.
You use AI coding agents like OpenAI Codex or Claude Code.
You’re experimenting with RAG, context engineering, MCPs, skills, memory, tools, sub-agents or other increasingly weird agent infrastructure.
You use AI for design, development, video, images, research, content creation or actual work.
You spend unreasonable amounts of your free time experimenting with new AI tools.
You live your life a quarter mile at a time and
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Probably don’t apply if:
You’re an AI doomer who wants to nuke the data centres from orbit.
You think “workflow optimisation” means scheduling another recurring meeting.
You mainly want to corner someone by the drinks fridge and sell them your AI SaaS.
You think AI is all hype but haven’t tried building anything with it.
Wednesday, 7 October 2026
Optional doors from 5:30 pm
Official start: 6:00 pm
Finish: 8:30 pm, though you’re welcome to stay and chat
Free to attend. Capacity is very limited, and attendance is by application through Luma.