Last updated 01 September 2026.
We love being part of the tech community and keeping our fingers on the pulse. As well as sponsoring many industry events, our team is always on the move, diving into developer conferences and meetups because they’re our scene and, let’s face it, that’s where the magic happens. ✨
While we usually talk about upcoming tech meetups in our monthly newsletters, we thought it might be handy to keep track of regular and one-off events in one spot.
We’ve compiled a list of awesome tech events and meetups in Australia, as well as a few big ones overseas if you fancy getting on the plane.
While you’re at it, read our tech meetups beginner’s guide, learn how to support your favourite meetups and if you’d like to become a speaker (here are the benefits), our own Debbie shared her first-timer tips here.
These things come and go but we’ll try to update the list as best as we can. If you’re planning a tech event or meetup in Australia (or overseas), let us know.
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Tech Events In Australia
Hack for Humanity
5-6 September, 2026, Sydney
A no-code hackathon where student teams from multiple unis partner with real non-profits to solve genuine challenges, with ongoing support and a $2,000 prize pool for winning projects.
Cicada x Tech23 2026
9 September, 2026, Sydney
Australia’s biggest deep tech festival showcasing 23 promising startups across AI, quantum, biotech, sustainability and advanced manufacturing, with 400+ investors and industry leaders.
NSW AI Bonanza 2026
23-25 September, 2026, Sydney
A multi-day festival celebrating technical and creative AI innovation, featuring the NSW AI Awards, with events at iconic venues including Bondi Icebergs.
AWS Community Day Australia
16 October, 2026, Brisbane
A community-run, one-day AWS conference with technical sessions, workshops and networking for the Australian cloud community.
AI Engineer Sydney 2026
7-8 December, 2026, Sydney
The Sydney edition of the world’s leading AI Engineer conference—two days focused on what actually matters: building production LLM systems, tooling that works, evaluation frameworks, safety considerations, and shipping AI-native products.
Tech meetups in Sydney
Sydney Python
“SydPy,” is your go-to meetup for all things Python in Sydney — a friendly and welcoming community for anyone who loves coding in Python or wants to learn more. The group meets on the last Thursday of each month, and you can find more details at Luma.
SydPHP & Sydney Laravel (combined)
Sydney PHP Group is a welcoming community for PHP developers of all levels across Sydney. The group hosts meetups every few months, offering a great space to share ideas, learn new skills, and connect with fellow PHP enthusiasts.
Elixir Sydney
Elixir Sydney is currently meeting up as Elixir Australia, your one-stop meetup for all things concerning the Elixir programming language in the land down under! Meeting on the 3rd Wednesday of the month, every month except January.
ROROSyd - Ruby on Rails Oceania Sydney
Ruby on Rails developers are passionate about developing some of the best, industry-leading web applications out there. We are also passionate about our community and welcoming new members into our fun-expanding group. We hold monthly meetups in Sydney, where we give talks and discuss topics about Ruby on Rails, software development and just a friendly chat. We usually have a packed house and welcome anyone along.
SydJS: Classic
In Sydney and into JavaScript? You need to join SydJS! Every 4th Wednesday of the month you’ll find us talking about what we’re doing and what’s happening around us in the world of JavaScript.
Sydney Data Engineering Meetup
Anyone interested in the movement of data and getting data from one place to another. We talk about cloud-based and open-sourced solutions - sharing our knowledge on how we’ve managed to achieve real-time streaming and the challenges we’ve faced along the way. We have our a slack group and website which you can find out more details about here.
Data & Analytics Wednesday
On the second Wednesday of the month, the digital analytics community gets together for one or two short talks in an informal setting. Open to anyone interested in digital analytics, we have people ranging from beginners to analytics gurus and from marketing through to technical spaces, and everything in between. There’s lots of time for open-ended discussion and to socialise. Plus there are free drinks!
Sydney AI/ML/Data Developers Group
Join us to learn and practice AI, Machine learning, Deep learning and Data Science technology together with like-minded developers.
Sydney Technology Leaders
This is a professional group is focused on Technology Leadership. A place for CTOs, Dev Managers, Directors and Team Leads (and those aspiring to those positions!) to go and share ideas, discuss problems, network, and provide/receive mentoring. Join our Slack channel.
SyDjango ReConnect
SyDjango is Sydney’s Django meetup, reconnecting the community with regular talks and networking events for anyone building with Django.
Claude for Developers Meetup
10 September, 2026, Sydney
Hosted by the Claude Code Community Australia, this meetup features lightning talks, pizza, drinks and a chance to mix and mingle with your local community.
Founders Unfiltered: In conversation with Francois Henrion
17 September, 2026, Sydney
Stone & Chalk’s fireside chat series with Francois Henrion, co-founder of Paytron (a fintech that raised $4.35M to help SMBs manage their finances), sharing unfiltered growth stories and lessons learned.
MongoDB User Group Sydney
24 September, 2026, Sydney
A developer meetup featuring talks on MongoDB Atlas Search internals and cost-efficient LLM applications with MongoDB, plus networking and pizza.
Tech meetups in Melbourne
Melbourne Python
The Melbourne Python User Group meets monthly to chat all things Python and open source. It’s a friendly space to learn, share ideas, and connect with fellow Python enthusiasts.
Ruby Melbourne Meetup
Ruby on Rails developers are passionate about developing some of the best, industry-leading web applications out there. We are also passionate about our community and welcoming new members into our fun-expanding group. We hold monthly meetups in Melbourne, where we give talks and discuss topics about Ruby on Rails, software development and just a friendly chat with mates.
Elixir Melbourne
For anyone using or interested in Elixir (with a healthy side dose of Erlang). Welcome to Elixir coders of all levels: newbies; dabblers; everyday users; pros. For meeting admin, check out Elixir Melbourne on github.
Golang Melbourne
Calling all Melbourne Gophers. Any skill level, even those that have just heard about go and are interested
React Melbourne
React JS Meetup Group - A group for those interested in React, Flux, React Router, Webpack, Javascript and other related web (and now App Native) development.
Platform Engineers Melbourne
Technology platforms let us solve cool and wicked problems while standing on the shoulders of others. This meetup is for those Platform Engineers who love to design, discuss, probe and evangelise the platform technologies and scaled approaches that have helped them make a difference. This meetup covers a huge breadth of technology, by doers and for doers, so that we may all learn from each other.
Tech meetups in Brisbane
Brisbane Python (from Feb 2026)
Brisbane Python is a monthly meetup for anyone passionate about Python. The group’s looking for speakers and new faces to help reboot the community in 2026!
Brisbane Full Stack Group Angular + React + .Net
Meeting on the 1st Tuesday of the month. We discuss .NET including (.NET Core), Angular, React, Azure, and whatever else interests the group. We also discuss the latest trends and news from the Dev World.
BrisbaneJS Group
The Brisbane JavaScript group - BrisJS for short. We do talks every first working Monday of the month, and periodic social meetups between. Our mission is to provide a community and a voice for Brisbane’s JavaScript technology community. We aim to further everyone’s knowledge and explore all aspects of technology for all skill and interest levels. BrisJS is open to ALL people in tech and always encourages having new speakers.
ProductTank Brisbane
A supportive community and inspiring content through free, sponsor-funded events for product professionals, featuring diverse formats like talks and panels across different times of the day.
Tech meetups in Perth
Python WA
Let’s get together to discuss Python in Perth! Or else join the online community on Slack! Our topics cover everything from the latest developments in web technologies to using Python for hardware hacking. All skill levels are welcome and there’s always time for catching up and networking before and after the talks.
Perth Data Engineering Meetup
The Perth Data Engineering Meetup is the bringing together of folks who are interested in the movement of data and everything that it entails to make it reliable, trustworthy and performant. The world of data is extremely broad so we focus specifically on engineering and not other disciplines such as Data Science, Machine Learning, AI, Analytics and others because we feel that there is already so much to talk and share about in Data Engineering.
Perth Mobile App Developers
A group for Perth devs to talk about all things mobile and mobile app-related. We’re interested in native, cross-platform, and web/hybrid technologies. All are welcome to participate.
Perth Microsoft Data, Analytics, AI and Power Platform
Welcome to the official Microsoft Data, Analytics, AI, and Power Platform User Group in Perth! Our group is dedicated to fostering connections among enthusiasts who share a passion for data, artificial intelligence, and the power platform. Join us as we explore and exchange knowledge on Microsoft Fabric, Azure Databricks, Azure Synapse, Azure Data Factory, Azure OpenAI, Azure ML, SQL, Big Data, Data Engineering, AI, Data Science, and the Microsoft Power Platform suite (Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Pages, and Power Virtual Agents).
More Australian cities
Adelaide Python
Python Adelaide is a welcoming meetup for anyone interested in Python and based in or around Adelaide. Expect talks from local community members, plenty of learning, and a great chance to meet new friends — all skill levels welcome!
Canberra Python Meetup Group
The Canberra Python User Group brings together Python enthusiasts of all kinds — developers, students, educators, scientists, and more. The group often collaborates with the PyLadies community and welcomes anyone keen to learn, share, and connect!
Adelaide .NET User Group
A monthly meeting of professional and enthusiast software developers, discussing all things .NET (Microsoft and open source), as well as languages, web frameworks, IoT, cloud, back end, testing, mobile and other related topics. Find out more at https://www.adnug.net
Canberra .NET User Group
Every month, SSW hosts the Canberra .NET User Group where developers meet to exchange ideas and listen to presentations by local and international industry experts. Topics focus on .NET development, SharePoint and general ALM strategies. We also love discussing the latest industry news and exciting new trends.
International tech conferences & events
AWS Re:Invent: AWS’s flagship cloud and AI conference, held annually in Las Vegas, with newsworthy keynotes, career-changing sessions and connections.
Rails Camp West: A gathering for the software community to meet and learn from each other while getting out of the city to unplug around a campfire.
Github Universe: An annual conference hosted by GitHub, showcasing the latest in software development, DevOps, and open source. It features keynote speeches, technical sessions, workshops, and networking opportunities for developers and industry professionals. The event is known for highlighting new GitHub features, industry trends, and fostering a community among GitHub users and enthusiasts.
Web Summit: Taking place in Lisbon, Web Summit is one of the largest and most important tech conferences worldwide. It covers a wide range of topics, including internet technology, emerging tech, and venture capitalism.
Mobile World Congress (MWC): This event, primarily held in Barcelona, focuses on advancements in mobile technology. It’s known for major announcements from top smartphone manufacturers and insights into the future of mobile networks, like 5G and beyond.
SXSW (South by Southwest): Hosted in Austin, Texas, SXSW is a unique blend of tech, music, and film festivals. It’s notable for its focus on creative and digital industries, startup culture, and interactive media.
IFA (Internationale Funkausstellung): Based in Berlin, IFA is one of the oldest industrial exhibitions in Germany and a significant event for consumer electronics and home appliances.
TechCrunch Disrupt: Known for its startup competition, TechCrunch Disrupt is held in various locations, including San Francisco. It’s a hub for startup launches and discussions on emerging technology trends.
Google I/O: This is Google’s annual developer conference, where the company announces new software, updates to existing products, and occasionally hardware.
Apple WWDC (Worldwide Developers Conference): Apple’s annual event is primarily for software developers but has gained widespread attention for major product announcements.
Microsoft Build: Similar to Google I/O and Apple WWDC, this is Microsoft’s annual conference for developers, focusing on new technologies and products from Microsoft.
GITEX Technology Week: Held in Dubai, GITEX is a significant event in the Middle East for showcasing global technology and innovations.
ProductCon: World’s largest product conference, held multiple times a year across cities including London, New York and San Francisco.
ElixirConfEU: Every year, hundreds of developers with a passion for Elixir come together to learn about, share and inspire the progression of the Elixir ecosystem.
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