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Graham McCorkill shared thisAI WEEK STARTS TONIGHT IN MELBOURNE We're kicking off AI Week Melbourne in style with snacks, drinks and seriously interesting conversations... Come and join us... AI Week is for everyone who lives and breathes AI — engineers training models, developers shipping products, researchers pushing limits, designers rethinking experiences and product leaders driving it all forward... And for everyone else using AI to create an advantage. For 7 days across Melbourne, you'll connect with your peers, dig into what's actually working (and what isn't) and get a clear-eyed view of where this technology is genuinely heading. The headline is AI Engineer — the world-leading conference — in Australia for the very first time this week. Plus a week long lineup of meetups, workshops and hackathons hosted by the Australian AI community many hosted here at Stone & Chalk with MLAI, event partners. If AI is central to your future, this week is for you... Plus tonight, visit the 'Shape of Thoughts' Exhibition and even stay for the 'Robotics & AI for Everyone' event at Stone & Chalk starting at 6:30pm (paid ticket required for the robotics event). Here's a list of all the events: https://aiweek.com.au/ 🔥 Hope to meet you here! Dr Sam Donegan John Allsopp Megan Luttrell Imtiaz Aziz Caitlin Shepherd Dane McFarlane Olivia Grandjean-Thomsen Liz van Zyl Desmond John Dickie Currer-Ganguli Sonia Kaurah Andrew Rowse Tom McKenzie Ethan Lee Sara Singh Tak⚡️ Callum Holt
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Graham McCorkill shared thisGame Changer... It's so good when a wider community comes together, gets involved and provides a plethora of amazing in-person events over one jam-packed week to share the latest... Which events are you attending?Graham McCorkill shared thisNot all AI events are built the same. Some are about theory. Some are about hype. But AI Week Melbourne is much more focused on the people actually experimenting, building and figuring this technology out in real time. For one week, Melbourne will become the epicentre of AI as we host everything from interactive exhibitions and robotics meetups through to hands-on workshops and an AI energy hackathon where participants manage both smart homes and an entire city grid. There are events for engineers and technical builders as well as for curious people who just want to better understand where AI is heading and to meet others exploring the space. We're excited to be teaming up with Web Directions and MLAI to bring you a packed week designed to bring AI enthusiasts together to share ideas, test things, and build really interesting projects together. Check out what’s happening throughout the week 👉 https://aiweek.com.au/ Graham McCorkill + John Allsopp + Imtiaz Aziz + Caitlin Shepherd.
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Graham McCorkill shared thisSomething big is coming to Melbourne next week! AI Week Melbourne is the event for everyone who lives and breathes AI — engineers training models, developers shipping products, researchers pushing limits, designers rethinking experiences and product leaders driving it all forward... And for everyone else using AI to create an advantage. For 7 days across Melbourne, you'll connect with your peers, dig into what's actually working (and what isn't) and get a clear-eyed view of where this technology is genuinely heading. The headline? AI Engineer — the world-leading conference — is coming to Australia for the very first time. Built in partnership with Swyx (the person who coined the term "AI engineer") and the team behind AI Engineer Summit and World's Fair. If you want the state of the art in AI engineering, it's all here, in one place. Alongside it: ai × design, a one-day conference exploring how AI, LLMs, and machine learning are transforming design practice — from ideation and prototyping through to design systems and UX. Plus a week long lineup of meetups, workshops and hackathons hosted by the Australian AI community many hosted by Stone & Chalk and MLAI, event partners. If AI is central to your future, next week in Melbourne is where you need to be. Go here for a list of events: https://aiweek.com.au/ Imtiaz Aziz Caitlin Shepherd Dr Sam Donegan John Allsopp Tom Sheldon Sara Singh Tak⚡️ Dane McFarlane Olivia Grandjean-Thomsen Ben Colley Stela SOLAR Megan Luttrell 🤝 Desmond John Dickie Currer-Ganguli Scotty Allen 🚌 Sonia Kaurah Shan Yang Callum Holt
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Graham McCorkill shared thisWow... This is fascinating and quite unexpected!Graham McCorkill shared thisA biochemist at the University of Minnesota did something fascinating: she collected two types of tears from the same people - tears from chopping onions versus tears from genuine emotional pain. When she analyzed them in the lab, the results completely changed how we understand crying. The onion tears were 98% water, basically just salt water. But the emotional tears? They contained stress hormones, pain-killing endorphins, and toxic compounds that the body was literally expelling. This proves that crying isn't weakness, manipulation, or losing control. It's your body's built-in detoxification system. When you cry from emotional pain, you're not just releasing feelings - you're physically removing stress hormones and toxins from your bloodstream through your tear ducts. Your body has evolved this mechanism specifically to help you process and release biochemical stress. So when someone tells you to stop crying or that it's pointless, remember this study. Every emotional tear contains actual stress hormones that your body is getting rid of. When you suppress crying, you're literally keeping those toxic compounds inside your system. The science is clear: crying is not a character flaw, it's a biological necessity. Your tears are doing real biochemical work to help your body recover from emotional stress. https://lnkd.in/d_iX7GC2
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Graham McCorkill shared thisGreat perspectiveGraham McCorkill shared thisJensen Huang just told you how to make money out of AI. And essentially, you're doing it all backwards. Check out his (excellent) comments: ___ "If an AI scientist warns people that AI is going to permeate across radiology and radiologists are going to get wiped out, it might seem helpful but it's hurtful. If we convince everybody not to be radiologists and we now need radiologists, that actually is hurtful to society. It is hurtful to convince all the young college graduates not to study software engineering because we are going to need more software engineers than ever. That's hurtful. Scaring people with nonsensical things, which are not going to happen, that this is an existential threat, there's a 20% chance that is is existential, that's ridiculous. That it's going to wipe out 50% of college level jobs. That is it going to completely destroy democracy. These kinds of comments are not helpful. They are made by...CEOS. And you become a CEO, maybe you adopt a God complex and somehow you know everything." ___ The moral of the story is this: Instead of looking for productive stuff you can do with the technology, you should be looking for damage the technology is causing that you can fix. The opportunities in the latter category dwarf the former 10 to 1. If you really want to understand the phenomenon strategically, the best way to think of it is as some kind of natural disaster, that sweeps through a city leaving havoc in its wake. The havoc of course is not really an opportunity - responding to the havoc is. Being the guy with the bulldozer. The shelter. The medical supplies. As things stand, and perhaps for the foreseeable future, AI will do “more harm than good”. - bad advice will be given - Businesses will panic - Skills shortages will be experienced - Unemployment will increase - Prices will be squeezed - People will spend more time online - Etc …and all of this will need some sort of remedy. YOU can be that remedy- and you can “thank” AI for throwing a rock into the pond, and creating some ripples you can respond to. --- for more strategic insight on this age we're living it, subscribe here: https://lnkd.in/e-N6DZDk
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Graham McCorkill shared thisAI-native isn't a feature. It's an organisational architecture decision. One of the privileges I have at Stone & Chalk is sitting in on the many programs and events that happen here in the Melbourne Hub. Tonight, the Blackbird Giants Program kicked off their Victorian cohort 10 with a brilliant evening, starting with a fireside style chat with Didier Elzinga, founder of Culture Amp. Among the super relevant info Didier shared was one element that really resonated... AI-native isn't a feature. It's an organisational architecture decision. We know that most companies are trying to add AI to existing workflows. But, that's not the same thing, and the gap is going to widen faster than most people expect. Didier put it cleanly: it is nearly impossible for an incumbent to become AI-native. They can't bear the pain of systems that break and learn and fail in front of customers. Young startups can! Right now, while a startup is small, that tolerance for imperfection is their structural advantage. However, it's important to understand that being AI-native isn't just using Claude or GPT on your laptop. The key distinction Didier made is this... AI-NATIVE SYSTEMS LEARN! They bootstrap themselves. Every interaction improves the next one. If your AI workflow produces the same quality output on day 300 as it did on day 1, you've built an AI-assisted workflow, not an AI-native company. This is what really challenged my thinking... The architecture Didier's experimenting with looks like this: An orchestrator agent ("Auto") that routes tasks to domain-specific "minds" (product, design, marketing etc.)... A librarian agent that continuously improves the agents themselves, and a shared multiplayer layer so the whole team sees every interaction — not just the code commits. Every time the system does something, it writes a learning. Every time he corrects it, it updates. The system accretes context over time in a way no human team can match at scale. The real gold here is that in 12 months, the models (and your product/business) will be dramatically better and more competitive. I'm still trying to process it all! Huge congrats to Josephine Tay for her leadership of the Giants Program and the elegant moderation during this awesome fireside chat with Didier. Great to catch up with Max Meyer, Alex Shiell, Grant Gwynne and Shan Yang... Thanks Nicholas Jerrat for the introduction!
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Graham McCorkill shared thisDon't miss this one... TiE Women are opening applications for their TiE Women Program for women founders... It's huge!Graham McCorkill shared thisIt's your last chance to register for Stone & Chalk’s Ecosystem Mixer: Global Expansion in partnership with TiE Melbourne 🚀 Happening tomorrow evening in Melbourne, join founders, operators, and investors for an evening of high-value networking, global scaling insights, and the official launch of TiE Women in our ecosystem. Event details: 📅 Wednesday 6 May, 5:30pm 📍 Stone & Chalk Melbourne, 121 King Street 🎟️ https://lnkd.in/gDFnXjWT Secure your spot now!
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Graham McCorkill shared thisMAY THE 4TH BE WITH YOU... Today, Caitlin Shepherd, Imtiaz Aziz and I thought we'd celebrate May 4th around the corner at Southern Cross Station. You need to be a Star Wars fan to become part of the team here at Stone & Chalk!
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Graham McCorkill shared thisJoin us to celebrate the official launch of TiE Women in our ecosystem. For this special edition of Stone & Chalk Melbourne's Ecosystem event, we've partnered with TiE Melbourne for an evening dedicated to Global Expansion. TiE Women is a powerhouse initiative designed to embrace, engage and empower women entrepreneurs on the world stage... Be here as we open applications for the TiE Women Program... A massive opportunity for women founders to gain global visibility, mentorship and access to a massive network of investors. You'll hear from three incredible women founders shaking things up in here and internationally including: 🔥 Sangeeta Mulchandani — Founder of Jumpstart Studio, Award-Winning Author and TiE Women Melbourne Chapter Lead 🔥 Renata Sguario — Founder & CEO of Maxme and TiE Women Melbourne Chapter Winner 2023 🔥 Sheela Edwards — Founder & CEO of of Aurora Early Education and TiE Melbourne Council of Trustees Member It's going to be a brilliant night for founders, investors, mentors and innovators to connect over drinks, swap bold ideas and discover new friends in the Victorian startup community. And, I've had a couple of guys ask me if this event is only open to women... NO - Everyone is welcome! 🔹 WEDNESDAY THIS WEEK - May 6th | 5pm – 7:30pm 🔹 Stone & Chalk Melbourne | 121 King Street 🔹 Drinks, bites, and big ideas included. 🎟️ Find out more & RSVP: https://lnkd.in/gK3xazhi Expect insights and conversations that change what’s possible. Hope to see you there! 💥 Caitlin Shepherd Liz van Zyl Paz Pisarski 🏵 Leila Oliveira Olivia Grandjean-Thomsen Dane McFarlane Desmond John Deepak Singh Imtiaz Aziz Ben Colley Megan Luttrell 🤝 Scotty Allen 🚌 Robert Gallup Sally Calder Shey Newitt, Phd. Elisabeth Rotnicki Tracie Thompson
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This partnership has brought so much value to our hub here in Melbourne and an amazing resource for our resident members. It's exciting to see the innovation and impact coming from this collaborative approach.
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You are a force of nature Sara Singh Tak⚡️... It's so awesome having you at Stone & Chalk. I love the way you take advantage of every opportunity and just get it done... Humans of Australia is taking on the world!
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Graham McCorkill reacted on thisGraham McCorkill reacted on thisWe’re proud to announce our new partnership with MLAI, bringing together Australia’s largest innovation community and one of the country’s most engaged grassroots AI and machine learning networks. This collaboration is built on a shared belief: Australia’s AI future will be shaped by practical implementation, technical capability and community-led innovation. By combining MLAI’s deep technical expertise and hands-on AI community with our founder ecosystem, commercialisation support and national innovation network, we’re creating more opportunities for: ✅ AI founders and startups ✅ Engineers, researchers and roboticists ✅ Students and emerging builders ✅ SMEs and corporate innovation teams We're kicking things off by supporting AI Week Melbourne (1–7 June) – featuring conferences, workshops, hackathons, robotics events, community meetups and hands-on experiences designed to make AI more accessible, practical and collaborative. And this is just the beginning. MLAI will also establish a permanent presence within our Melbourne hub, creating an ongoing home for Australia’s AI community to connect, learn and build together. The future of Australian AI will be built by people who experiment, collaborate and create. We’re excited to help bring this community together. Read more: https://lnkd.in/eFZDnn4v Stone & Chalk MLAI Dr Sam D.
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Graham McCorkill liked thisGraham McCorkill liked thisMost founders know VCs look at traction. However, not everyone knows the actual questions being asked behind the scenes. From market size to team capability, there are several key things VCs consider when assessing a startup. We’ve pulled together some of the top things investors evaluate to help you start your capital raising journey. If you’re preparing for a raise, our free capital raising guide breaks down the different funding options available (and which may be right for you), what investors look for, what founders often miss, and how to approach raising more effectively. Download the free capital raising guide here 👉 https://lnkd.in/gRU5-Die
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Graham McCorkill liked thisGraham McCorkill liked this$12 million in investment conversation for 11 start-ups through Start-up Tank... You could be the next one to get an investment meeting with Airtree, Folklore Ventures, Black Nova Venture Capital, Antler, and Wollemi Capital Group in just one night, 23rd of June. Application close in 2 days (30th May), apply here: https://luma.com/702uzoo2
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Graham McCorkill reacted on thisGraham McCorkill reacted on thisLast year, I was in the audience and thought to myself, how does someone get to the other side and yesterday, I was on the other side, in just a year… Before going on the stage, the nerves and anxiety was kicking in but the minute I stepped on stage, it felt like the right place to be. Thank you Sherin Breuer and StartSpace for organising this and having me pitch. And if it wasn’t for Flip The Pitch 2025, I would have not been a part of the amazing Stone & Chalk community and would have never spoken to Graham McCorkill. So highly recommend coming to events like these, it changed my trajectory of work and growth. If you are founder, I just want to say, your day will come if you keep showing up and sharing what you are doing and most importantly do not shy away from asking people what you want. Let’s go Humans of Australia 🔥
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