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The Shape of Thoughts Exhibition Free
An interactive free exhibition exploring what we carry inside — thoughts, emotions and experiences we rarely share. Blending art, psychology and data visualisation, with installations you contribute to as part of a live visual environment. Designed and directed by Jess Leondiou.
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AI Week: Opening Night and Welcome Kickoff Free
Come and celebrate AI Week's official opening at Stone & Chalk. We're kicking off AI Week Melbourne in style with snacks, drinks and seriously interesting conversations — come and join us! Plus, visit the Shape of Thoughts exhibition downstairs and even stay for Robotics & AI for Everyone at Stone & Chalk starting at 6:30pm (separate ticket required).
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Robotics & AI For Everyone $
A relaxed evening of AI, robotics, hardware, demos and short talks from people actually building things in the real world. Beginner-friendly — no robotics background required. With Dr Sam Donegan.
The week
Seven days, multiple events across Melbourne — the headline conferences plus a growing lineup of meetups, workshops and hackathons hosted by the Australian AI community.
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The Shape of Thoughts Exhibition Free
Interactive free exhibition blending art, psychology and data visualisation. Continues from yesterday.
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AI by Design Evenings Free
AI by Design Evenings return for 2026 with the series theme "Rewiring Product & Design: How Enterprise Teams Are Evolving with AI". A curated forum bringing together Product, Design, Marketing, and Customer Experience leaders to share how teams are moving from AI experimentation to transformed delivery — reshaping roles, operating models, and the underlying AI tooling. Registration required (and subject to approval).
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MelbCSS — June meetup Free
Melbourne's CSS community meetup. Talks include Ron Au on "What if… vanilla CSS was a 3D engine?" and asbedb on "wait… CSS did what?" — plus the latest MelbCSS updates. Lightning talks welcome.
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AI Meet Up Melbourne Free
Vercel brings their Sydney AI Meet Up to Melbourne for AI Engineer Melbourne week. A curated room for people building with AI — whether you're shipping AI features in production, experimenting with AI SDK, or figuring out how AI fits into your stack. For AI engineers, frontend/backend devs, founders, CTOs, and anyone curious about modern AI tooling. Speakers will be announced in the lead-up. Request your spot via Luma.
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The Shape of Thoughts Exhibition Free
Interactive free exhibition blending art, psychology and data visualisation. Continues all week.
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AI Engineer Melbourne Day 1 $$$
The world-leading AI engineering conference, in Australia for the very first time.
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ai × design $$$
A one-day conference exploring how AI, LLMs and ML are transforming design practice.
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Build & Sip: Vibe Coding for Female & Non-Binary Founders + Operators $
Bring an idea. Build for three hours. Stay for the wine. Real builders in the room — turn your rough idea into something that actually works by the end. For women and non-binary folks who've been meaning to get hands-on with AI but haven't had the entry point, the time, or frankly, the wine. No tech background needed — just bring a laptop, a rough idea, and a willingness to build before you feel ready.
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Builder's AMA: Building & Shipping AI Products with Notion & Vercel Approval required Free
For CTOs, technical founders, builders, and engineers (or those aiming to become one) thinking about what it takes to build and ship AI products. Ask Notion AI Engineering Lead Sarah Sachs your burning questions about working at an applied AI company, then hear from Vercel for a live look at how startups are building and deploying today. Registration is by approval — not all registrants will be admitted.
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The Shape of Thoughts Exhibition Free
Interactive free exhibition blending art, psychology and data visualisation. Continues all week.
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AI Engineer Melbourne Day 2 $$$
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Melbourne AI Enthusiasts × AI Engineer Melbourne Free
"The Second Architecture: What Happens After the Demo Works." Talks, panel and Q&A on moving AI projects from POC to production. Hosted by Jeremiah Mannings.
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The Shape of Thoughts Exhibition Free
Interactive free exhibition blending art, psychology and data visualisation. Continues all week.
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Building with AI: Notion × Vercel Approval required Free
A morning for senior tech leaders with Notion and Vercel. See how Notion's Developer Platform enables teams to build and orchestrate agent workflows, plus hear from leaders at Notion, Vercel and Versent on how workflows are changing in the AI era. Registration is by approval — not all registrants will be admitted.
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Watt The Hack — Energy & AI Hackathon $
A live AI and energy hackathon from MLAI, running Friday night through Saturday. Two connected tracks — Smart Home Sprint and Grid Guardian — exploring how household energy decisions ripple through the wider grid.
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The Shape of Thoughts Exhibition Free
Interactive free exhibition blending art, psychology and data visualisation. Continues all week.
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Watt The Hack — Energy & AI Hackathon Final day $
MLAI's energy & AI hackathon wraps up. Teams finish building and present across the two tracks — Smart Home Sprint and Grid Guardian — exploring how household energy decisions ripple through the wider grid.
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Google DeepMind: AI Sprint Hackathon Hackathon Application required Free
A high-velocity, single-day hackathon — go from blank IDE to working prototype before the buzzer. Teams of up to four build with Google's AI stack alongside Google DeepMind mentors, then pitch live to judges. Up to $4,500 USD in Google Cloud credits across five winning teams, plus Google swag. Application required via Google Form; space is limited and approved participants only.
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AI Builder Co-working Day × StartSpace Free
A day of building, demos and co-working with Melbourne's AI community. Bring what you're working on, meet other builders, show off a demo, or just knuckle down and get some work done.
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Curious Kitchen — Build an AI-Powered Recipe App $
A hands-on workshop with Joshua Crowley: build a working AI-powered app from scratch using Cursor and the Gemini SDK. No prior coding experience required.
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Agent Interoperability Workshop $
A hands-on workshop for AI engineers on agent-to-agent interoperability. Work through a practical lab using a P3394-related prototype CLI — discover and authenticate agents, exchange structured messages, and pair with other participants to complete a signed agent-to-agent round trip. Python and terminal fluency required.
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The Shape of Thoughts Exhibition — final day Free
Last chance to visit the exhibition — interactive free experience blending art, psychology and data visualisation.
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Build Your First Robot — Hands-On Robotics Workshop $
In one hands-on session, build a working WiFi-controlled rover from scratch — kit, chassis and wiring guide provided. ESP32-based. No prior hardware or coding experience required. Take your robot home. With Dr Sam Donegan.
More events to be announced. Hosting something during AI Week? Tell us about it and we'll add it.
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June 3rd & 4th 2026 • Federation Square
The cornerstone of ai week is AI Engineer Melbourne, bringing the world-leading conference to Australia for the very first time. Think "early NeurIPS for Engineers", "StrangeLoop + LLMs", or "TED AI but everyone codes". It's the state-of-the-art in AI engineering all in one place in.
We'll gather AI engineers, Software Engineers, CTOs, and VPs of AI to connect, learn, and engineer the future of AI. Every edition to date has sold out, and tickets will go fast, so don't miss out.
June 3rd 2026 • Federation Square
UX Australia and Web Directions collaborate to bring you ai × design, exploring how AI, large language models, and machine learning are transforming design practice—from ideation and prototyping to design systems and user experience. Whether you're designing with AI or designing for AI, this is where design meets intelligence.
Join product designers, UX/UI designers, design systems experts, and design leaders to explore how AI is reshaping design practice.
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Web Directions has for 2 decades years brought together leading developers, engineers, visual, IxD, UX and product designers, Art and Creative Directors, product managers indeed everyone involved in producing web and digital products to learn from one another, and the World's leading experts across this vast field.
We promise attending one of our events will leave you significantly better versed in the challenges you face day to day, and in solutions for addressing them.
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