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Get ready for our November Monthly Meetup!

This event is hosted at the Mantel Group Office, with the recording of the talks to be shared afterwards on YouTube if you can't make it.

There will be food, networking and some surprise swag!

Agenda:

6:20 - Intro

6:30 - Talks

8:00 till late - networking & chat (& drinks optional)

Talks and Speakers:

1 Cameron Pavey
(Senior Platform Engineer, Rex Software)

Building Reliable AI Features

This talk explores how to build reliable, production-grade AI features in an environment where outputs are probabilistic and models can change without notice. It covers practical strategies for observability, eval testing, and model version control to detect drift, measure performance, and maintain user trust as AI systems evolve.

2 Gaurav Kumar Karki
(Software Engineer, Outback Yak)

From PDFs to Answers: Building a Practical RAG System

A quick look at how I built a practical RAG system that turned complex NDIS PDFs into clear, chat-based answers. I’ll walk through the pipeline, share the key challenges and lessons learned, and highlight the practical benefits of using RAG to deliver reliable information efficiently.

3 UV (Yuba Raj) Panta
(DevOps/SRE Engineer)

Agents on the Run: Rapid Deployment with ADK & Cloud Run

In this talk, we will explore the Agent Development Kit (ADK) essentials and demonstrate how to containerise and ship your AI Agents to Google Cloud Run in minutes. Discover how to eliminate infrastructure overhead and concentrate solely on developing intelligent behaviour.

How to find us:

Doors open at 5:45 PM at our host the Mantel Group, Level 2/452 Flinders St Melbourne. Message via Meetup or Slack if you are arriving after 6:00 as the lifts won't let you up. 

This is an in-person only event. If you have any accessibility requirements please reach out via the Meetup or Slack to the organiser group to discuss and we will do our best to help you out.