Welcome to AI meetup in Sydney. Join us for deep dive tech talks on AI, GenAI, LLMs and Agent, hands-on experiences on code labs, workshops, and networking with speakers and fellow developers.

Agenda:
* 5:30pm~6:00pm: Checkin, food and networking
* 6:00pm~7:30pm: Tech talks and Q&A
* 7:30pm: Open discussion & Mixer

Tech Talk: TabH2O: State-of-the-Art Predictions with a Tabular Foundation Model
Speaker: Shivam Bansal (H2O.ai)
Abstract: Learn how TabH2O enables state-of-the-art predictions on tabular data without extensive model development or tuning.
Instead of spending days or weeks training and tuning models, TabH2O delivers predictions in seconds through an inference-first approach to tabular ML.
Across 300+ benchmark datasets, TabH2O outperforms tuned XGBoost, CatBoost, GLM, and KNN models without requiring hyperparameter tuning.
This session explores the technology, benchmark results, and real-world applications of tabular foundation models.

Tech Talk: Learning to Route: Reinforcement Learning, But Not As You Know It
Speaker: Ben Yi (ex-Intuit)
Abstract: A production chat agent picks between 76 skills on every query, in one shot, with no rollback — today that's an LLM router call, and it's slow, capped, and opaque. We built a small learned-routing policy offline and compared it against the LLM router across five different RL algorithms, expecting the usual RL story. We didn't get it. This talk walks through what we tried, what surprised us, and what it taught us about the data underneath the problem.

Topics/Speakers:
Stay tuned as we are updating speakers and schedules. If you have a keen interest in speaking to our community, we invite you to submit topics for consideration: Submit Topics

Venue:
IRU/Kandji, Salesforce Tower
180 George Street, Sydney, NSW 2000 Australia

Sponsors:
We are actively seeking sponsors to support our community. Whether it is by offering venue spaces, providing food/drink, or cash sponsorship. Sponsors will not only speak at the meetups, receive prominent recognition, but also gain exposure to our extensive membership base of 5,000+ AI developers in Sydney and 500K+ worldwide.

Local and Global AI Community on Discord
Join us on discord for local and global AI tech community:
- Events chat: chat and connect with speakers and global and local attendees;
- Learning AI: events, learning materials, study groups;
- Startups: innovation, projects collaborations, founders/co-founders;
- Jobs and Careers: job openings, post resumes, hiring managers;