AI Engineer Night Sydney — Road to AI Engineer
RSVP via Web Directions to secure your spot: webdirections.org/ai-engineer/road-to-sydney/night-syd-oct21
AND make sure to register for the next Unconference happening this Sat, also free: https://luma.com/mlai-7u5i
Places are limited. Registration for this event is handled by Web Directions, so please RSVP at the link above and they'll send you final details and updates.
See how engineers are putting AI into production through short talks, live demos and candid conversation. Leave with practical ideas, new connections and a clearer sense of what to try next. Dinner and drinks are on us.
Speakers
Fiona Chan, Partner & Technical Recruiter at Lookahead
The AI year: how we work, hire and grow now
This was the year AI stopped being an experiment and became part of the job. Drawing on Lookahead's 2026 research across the Australian tech community and interviews with 20+ tech leaders, Fiona shares what's really changing: how the work feels, which skills are rising and fading, how roles are blending across engineering, product and design, and what it all means for hiring and careers.
Hugo O'Connor, R&D Engineer at Anuna Research
How to Count to One Hundred
Put a few AI agents in a chat room and they talk past each other. Hugo shares a field report on giving humans and agents a shared language they can extend and check, with a live demo of cbcl-bus: a free software message bus where humans and agents share rooms, with signed messages and end-to-end encryption for private rooms.
What to expect
Practical talks and demos from working AI engineers
Useful conversations with people facing the same production challenges
Dinner, drinks and time to meet the local community
Good to know
Free to attend, fully catered
Come on your own or bring colleagues, conversation is a big part of the night
You don't need an AI Engineer conference ticket to join
Part of the Road to AI Engineer Sydney series, leading up to AI Engineer Sydney on 7–8 December 2026.
RSVP via Web Directions to secure your spot: webdirections.org/ai-engineer/road-to-sydney/night-syd-oct21