Below is an archived version of the Melbourne StartupDigest Events List – a weekly curated listing of the best tech startup events in Melbourne. If you would like to get next week’s digest on Monday, sign up here.

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Melbourne StartupDigest is curated by:
Humphrey Laubscher - Co-Founder of a stealth startup focused on improving businesses through customer feedback and loyalty engagement
Geoff Burns – Designing software products and solutions for 15 years

 

 

What’s Going on in the Melbourne Startup Community

Creative Performance eXchange (Free – RSVP)
When: Tuesday 22 November 2011 at 7:30 AM
Where: Deloitte offices, Melbourne 550 Bourke St, , Melbourne

The Library: A ticking time-bomb. Information has exploded. As a result libraries globally are facing huge challenges around staffing, funding, relevance, and technology.

 

Doing Connected Government (Free – RSVP)
When: Tuesday 22 November 2011 at 9:00 AM
Where: Municipal Association of Victoria Level 11, Room 1101, 60 Collins Street, Melbourne

 

Dominic Campbell will discuss his experiences and emerging trends and practice in civic innovation

 

Web Developers (Free – RSVP)
When: Tuesday 22 November 2011 at 6:00 PM
Where: 99designs 48 Cambridge St, Collingwood

 

Aimed at talented web developers, the meeting will have 3, 10-15 minute presentations and some
general discussion over beer, wine and pizza.

 

PMI Melbourne Chapter’s 15th Anniversary (ACS/PMI members $50 – Guests: $75.00)
When: Tuesday 22 November 2011 at 6:30 PM
Where: The Spice Market – enter from Beaney Lane (off Russell Street)

 

The event will feature Bollywood-themed live entertainment brought to you by the 11-piece “Bombay Royale” band, and DJ Richi Madan with East/West fusion music and MC services
throughout the evening plus lots more entertainment.

 

Sharepoint User Group (Free – RSVP)
When: Wednesday 23 November 2011 at 5:30 PM
Where: Level 5, 4 Freshwater Pl Southbank, 3004

 

The last meetup event this year for Android Australia User Group.

Topics: Building Hybrid Cloud Solutions with Business Connectivity Services in SharePoint 2010 by Nalaka Withanange, Readify, Optimising Enterprise Search with SharePoint & Fast by Anthony Butcher & Tucker Hall, BA Insight

 

Android Australia (Free – RSVP)
When: Wednesday 23 November 2011 at 6:00 PM
Where: Shine Technologies Level 27/303 Colins Street, Melbourne

 

The last meetup event this year for Android Australia User Group.

Topics: Keynote by James Giang, Android Location Data by Marc Fasel, Luke Kellett from Ruma Studios

 

Connected: an autoblogography about love, death & technology (Free – RSVP)
When: Wednesday 23 November 2011 at 6:30 PM
Where: State Library of Victoria Village Roadshow Theatrette (Entry via Door 3) 328 Swanston St
Melbourne

 

A personal film with universal relevance, Connected explores how, after centuries of declaring our

independence, it may be time for us to declare our interdependence instead.

 

Joomla User Group (Free – RSVP)
When: Wednesday 23 November 2011 at 6:30 PM
Where: Room ATC621, 6th Floor, Swinburne University Advanced Technologies Center Burwood
Road, Hawthorn

 

Blogging with Joomla.

 

Trends in Vic Government (AIIA members / Government – $130.00 Non-members – $210.00)
When: Thursday 24 November 2011 at 12:00 PM
Where: River Rooms Crown Melbourne

 

This event will provide a unique opportunity to develop a strategic plan of engagement with key
Government leaders, hear their forward projections for the year ahead, and for those on eServices
panel hear what you need to do to drive business.

 

Software Testing SIG (Free – RSVP)
When: Thursday 24 November 2011 at 5:30PM for a 6:00PM start
Where: Telstra Conference Room, Level 1, 242 Exhibition St, Melbourne Vic

 

Agile Test Automation and the Application Lifecycle. Craig Kimball and Rob Manger from SEEK will take us through the journey they’ve been on to achieve 100 percent automation of their regression test suites using Selenium 2 and Behaviour Driven Development, including both the technical side of their approach as well as the key steps in building the business case for test automation and the key business outcomes.

 

Social Media Breakfast (Free)
When: Friday 25 November 2011 at 8:00 AM
Where: 1000 Pound Bend, 361 Little Lonsdale St Melbourne, VIC 3000
 Top Upcoming Melbourne Startup Events

Below is an archived version of the Israel StartupDigest Events List – a weekly curated listing of the best tech startup events in Israel. If you would like to get next week’s digest on Monday, sign up here.

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For newcomers: The Israel StartupDigest is a weekly events list of interest to Israeli entrepreneurs, curated by local entrepreneurs. We don’t cover every event — we handpick only the best ones. 

Are there events I missed, events I included that aren’t of interest, or upcoming events you’d like me to include? Drop me a line at yaniv@thestartupdigest.com for any feedback, questions, or ideas.

Yaniv

Israel StartupDigest is curated by:
Yaniv Feldman – Editor-in-Chief, Newsgeek Israel

 

What’s Going on in Israel’s Startup Community

VideoTLV Meetup (Presenting ArmozaFormats, AnyClip, OrcaInteractive)
When: Tuesday, July 26, 7:30pm
Where: Tel-Aviv Harbor

Content and Beyond, Sunset, Great People, and FREE Beer.

Advanced iOS Engineering Presentations & Roundtables
When: Thursday, July 28, 4:30pm
Where: The Junction, 32 Schocken Street, Tel Aviv

Continuing on our iOS 101 meetup, we will have a round table with companies that have met and overcome real-world challenges when creating their iOS apps. This session will be a series of 4, 30-minute presentations, followed by Q&A. Intended audience is iOS developers and advanced engineers considering moving to the iOS platform.

WIX case study – Scalability of 10,000,000 users
When: Thursday, July 28, 6:30pm
Where: WIX Offices on the Roof, 40 Namal Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv

Building a system that process, analyze, index, convert and archive millions of documents (1 Petabyte / year) is no easy task. This is real life story of how 5-person team with close to zero budget manage to do what 200 people and a $500M budget could not, and creating a highly scalable, highly available system by agile thinking.

 

Top Upcoming Events

July 31 - Android Developer Meetup
August 4-6 – LeanUXMachine Weekend