Community Groups

A11y Allies

An accessibility community running practical roundtables about inclusive digital products, standards, and testing.

Melbourne

Next: A11y Allies Roundtable: Accessibility Horror Stories

ACES MelbourneRecommended

The Melbourne community of the Australian Creative Electronics Society, connecting people who build hardware and electronics.

Melbourne

ADAConf

A community conference for software analysis, design, architecture, socio-technical systems, modelling, and collaboration.

Australia

Next: ADAConf 2026

Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) MelbourneRecommended

A Melbourne community building agentic AI in the open and advancing the practice through shared standards.

Melbourne

Next: Agentic AI Melbourne - October 2026

AI EngibeersRecommended

A casual Melbourne meetup for people interested in AI engineering and conversation over drinks.

Melbourne

AI Ops MelbourneRecommended

A Melbourne community exploring practical AI tools and automation.

Melbourne

AI/ML/RobotsRecommended

A hands-on community building and learning through AI, machine learning, and robotics projects.

Melbourne

AICamp Melbourne

Practical AI developer meetups featuring deep-dive talks, code labs, workshops, and networking.

Melbourne

apidays

An international conference community covering API design, security, management, platforms, AI, and digital engineering.

International

Next: apidays Australia 2026

AppSec Australia

An Australian application-security community running practitioner-led events and knowledge sharing.

Australia

Australi.ai Victorian ChapterRecommended

A vendor-neutral practitioner network exploring sovereign, secure, and responsible AI in Victoria.

Melbourne

Australian Information Security AssociationRecommended

A not-for-profit association and organiser of CyberCon for cyber security professionals.

Australia

Next: CyberCon Melbourne | Australian Cyber Conference

AWS User Group Melbourne

Australia's oldest AWS user group, meeting monthly to share cloud knowledge and practical experience.

Melbourne

Next: Melbourne AWS User Group #163 - September 2026

BeerOps

An inclusive Australian technology-networking community connecting practitioners from engineers to technology leaders.

Australia

Cerebras

A global developer community running hands-on meetups about fast AI inference and building with open models.

Global

Next: Cafe Compute Meetup: Melbourne

CHICCRecommended

A community supporting Victorian digital and connected-health innovators.

Melbourne

Next: 14 Oct | CHICC Expert Workshop: Non-Dilutive Funding – Extending your R&D Runway

Claude Community Melbourne

Local Claude builders sharing talks, demos, discussions, and projects through the global Claude Community program.

Melbourne

ClickHouse

The open-source database community behind ClickHouse meetups and user conferences.

International

Next: Build Better LLM Apps

Cloud Native AI SummitRecommended

An independent, vendor-neutral conference covering cloud native, platform engineering, AI infrastructure, and developer experience.

International

Next: Cloud Native AI Summit 2026

Cursor MelbourneRecommended

The Melbourne community for developers and builders using Cursor.

Melbourne

Data Engineering Melbourne

A community for data engineers sharing practical experience with data platforms, pipelines, and streaming systems.

Melbourne

Data Science Melbourne

A community for data science practitioners discussing analytics, machine learning, and AI.

Melbourne

Next: Healthcare: UK Biobank & Missed Opportunities

DataEngBytesRecommended

An independent, vendor-neutral community conference for data engineering, machine learning, and AI.

Australia

DDD MelbourneRecommended

An inclusive, non-profit conference for Melbourne’s software community.

Melbourne

Next: DDD Melbourne 2027

DDD Melbourne By NightRecommended

Evening software development lightning talks for Melbourne’s development community.

Melbourne

Next: DDD by Night October - Hybrid event

Elixir MelbourneRecommended

A Melbourne community for Elixir and Erlang ecosystem developers and learners.

Melbourne

Flutter MelbourneRecommended

A community for Flutter and Dart developers featuring talks, coding nights, and project collaboration.

Melbourne

FP MelbourneRecommended

A functional programming community sharing techniques, languages, and practical experience.

Melbourne

GDG Melbourne

Melbourne’s Google Developer Group for local software developers.

Melbourne

Next: GDG Melbourne September'26 Meetup!

Gen AI Enthusiasts

An online-only community exploring generative AI.

Online

Next: Hermes (AI Agent) Desktop App - monthly discussion/demo#69

Golang MelbourneRecommended

A Melbourne community for people who use and learn Go.

Melbourne

Next: Golang October @ Atlassian

Hck4GRecommended

An Australian not-for-profit cybersecurity community focused on education, victim support, and ethical technology pathways.

Australia

InfracodersRecommended

A Melbourne meetup for infrastructure and operations practitioners.

Melbourne

Institute of Instrumentation, Control and AutomationRecommended

A not-for-profit professional community for instrumentation, process control, automation, and robotics.

Australia

ISACA Melbourne ChapterRecommended

A local digital-trust professional community offering development, training, resource sharing, and networking.

Melbourne

Next: Why Should I Get AI Certified

KCD AustraliaRecommended

The Australian community behind Kubernetes Community Days conferences.

Australia

KSUG.AI Melbourne

Curated Melbourne events from the KSUG.AI Australia community.

Melbourne

Next: AI Startup Showcase & Networking — September Edition

Linux Users of VictoriaRecommended

A Victorian Linux and open-source community running talks, town halls, and practical learning events.

Victoria

Next: LAIT Night -- Linux & AI Tuesday Night meetings

Machine Learning & AI Meetup

A Melbourne group learning and discussing machine learning, AI, and applied AI agents.

Melbourne

Next: Placeholder: AI Talks

Melb.NET MeetupRecommended

A free monthly Melbourne meetup for .NET developers and the wider technology community.

Melbourne

MelbCSSRecommended

Melbourne’s community meetup for people interested in CSS.

Melbourne

Next: MelbCSS Meetup

MelbJSRecommended

Melbourne’s community meetup for JavaScript and TypeScript developers.

Melbourne

Melbourne .NET User Group

A Melbourne user group for .NET developers.

Melbourne

Next: Becoming an Agentic Scrum Master

Melbourne Bitcoin Only / Melbourne BitDevs

A technical Bitcoin community discussing software, tools, research, protocol upgrades, and mining.

Melbourne

Next: Melbourne BitDevs

Melbourne CocoaHeadsRecommended

Melbourne’s independent community for Apple platform developers.

Melbourne

Next: Melbourne Cocoaheads Social Night

Melbourne Compose

A monthly in-person meetup for typed functional programming practitioners, including Haskell and Scala.

Melbourne

Melbourne Linux User GroupRecommended

A monthly community for Linux enthusiasts to learn, share knowledge, and join open-source workshops.

Melbourne

Melbourne MLOps Community

A community sharing practices for deploying, operating, and governing machine-learning systems.

Melbourne

Next: MEL MLOps Community #19 | Advanced Evals & Deep Agent Harnesses

Melbourne SEO CollectiveRecommended

An independent, sales-pitch-free SEO community sharing search knowledge, industry changes, and practical experience.

Melbourne

Melbourne Tech GuildsRecommended

A collaborative maker community spanning robotics, electronics, mechanics, IoT, coding, and deep tech.

Melbourne

Next: Melbourne Tech Guilds

OWASP MelbourneRecommended

The Melbourne OWASP chapter community for open application-security education and practitioner discussion.

Melbourne

Platform Engineers MelbourneRecommended

A Melbourne community for platform engineering practitioners.

Melbourne

Postgres MelbourneRecommended

The Melbourne PostgreSQL community for talks, practical experience, and open discussion.

Melbourne

Product Anonymous MelbourneRecommended

A community for product practitioners sharing practical product-management, design, and research experience.

Melbourne

Next: Our teams have the best AI tools but nothing changed

Product Camp MelbourneRecommended

A volunteer-organised, participant-led unconference for people involved in making products.

Melbourne

ProgrammableRecommended

The Australian software engineering conference

Australia

Next: Programmable 2027

Python MelbourneRecommended

Melbourne’s user group for Python developers and learners.

Melbourne

Ruby MelbourneRecommended

Melbourne’s community for Ruby developers and learners.

Melbourne

Next: Ruby Melbourne Meetup

Rust MelbourneRecommended

Melbourne’s community for Rust users and learners.

Melbourne

Signal Not NoiseRecommended

A community-built conference for people shaping digital products, technology, teams, and organisations.

Australia

Next: Signal Not Noise Melbourne

SMEC AIRecommended

A practical AI adoption community and support program for Australian small and medium businesses.

Australia

Tech Leading LadiesRecommended

A community supporting women and gender-diverse technology leaders through practical talks and peer connection.

Melbourne

Tech with Purpose

A Melbourne community connecting people who use technology to create meaningful, positive real-world impact.

Melbourne

Next: Tech with Purpose

Testing Talks

An Australian conference for software testing, test automation, and quality engineering.

Australia

Next: Testing Talks Conference 2026 | Melbourne

VCMC

A micro community for active founders, developers, and operators sharing practical work built with AI tools.

Melbourne

Women CodersRecommended

An inclusive community supporting women who code through technical learning, workshops, and networking.

Melbourne

Next: How to write a winning CFP

Women in CloudRecommended

A community supporting women working with cloud technology through technical events and professional connection.

Melbourne

Women in Product MelbourneRecommended

A community supporting women in product roles through panels, practical learning, and professional connection.

Melbourne

Write the Docs Australia

An Australian community for technical writers, documentation practitioners, and people interested in better developer documentation.

Australia

Next: Write the Docs Australia 2026

YOW! Conferences

Software development conferences focused on emerging technologies and best practices without commercial hype.

Australia

Next: YOW! Melbourne 2026