Melbourne Data Eng meetup, November Edition

Tuesday 10 November at AustralianSuper. Doors open at 5:30, and we finish at 7:30. Two talks, then time for networking.

AustralianSuper has the room and the catering.

🏠 Location: AustralianSuper

Level 35, 130 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne

🗺️ How to find us

Level 35 is a secure floor. Security will let you in and out. The room fits about 50.

🍕 Catering: AustralianSuper 😊

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Schedule:

5.30pm: Doors Open

5.45pm: Announcements and Welcome

5.53pm: Tim Gerber, with Megha Dharni and Swetha Solipuram — Beyond AI Data Agents: Building an AI Native Data Engineering capability

6.23pm: Victor Wang — Unifying Real-time Analytics and Search in the AI Era

6.53pm: Announcements

6.58pm: Networking

7.30pm: Doors Close

Speakers:

🎤 Tim Gerber, Principal, Data Engineering, AustralianSuper

Talk Title: Beyond AI Data Agents: Building an AI Native Data Engineering capability

Talk Summary: Not a chatbot parked next to the warehouse. Tim, with Megha Dharni and Swetha Solipuram, on putting AI in the work the team already ships. They'll show the AustralianSuper practice live.

Speaker Bio: Tim's Principal, Data Engineering at AustralianSuper. Megha Dharni is data product manager on Data Services Platforms. Swetha Solipuram is a senior engineer on the same platform.

🎤 Victor Wang, Solutions Architect, VeloDB

Talk Title: Unifying Real-time Analytics and Search in the AI Era

Talk Summary: Search and real-time analytics used to be two systems. Victor's talk is what you do when an agent has to use both.

Speaker Bio: Victor Wang (Jiannan Wang) is a solutions architect at VeloDB. He's worked in cloud, fintech, and e-commerce, and he helps teams in APAC and Europe put an analytics platform together.

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See you there.