Below is an archived version of the Melbourne StartupDigest Events List – a weekly curated listing of the best tech startup events in Melbourne.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

Melbourne Night Owls (Free – Please RSVP)
When: Monday 31 Oct 11 at 9:00:00 PM
Where: Inspire9, 1/41 Stewart Street, Richmond

In the dead of the night, the city skyline is punctuated with lit windows. We like to think they’re
people sitting in their apartments working on their side project or big idea. When everyone you know is in bed, you’re hunched over your laptop. There are too few hours in the day and too many things you want to do. Sound like you? Join us!

These smaller, shorter sessions are intended to provide continuity between the larger monthly weekend meetings. These sessions are typically held in Camberwell, but may occur at other member’s residences (often when they are hosting a session in a particular area of expertise). If you wish to know the meeting location, please contact member andyg (geekscape) or Twitter direct message @geekscape.

Silicon Beach is an informal group for anyone interested in entrepreneurship, the interwebs or
technology. The active mailinglist is here.

Social Media Melbourne or #socialmelb is a weekly social gathering of passionate and inspirational Melburnians who have one thing in common: social media. On Fridays at 8am, we collaborate and share ideas, stories and views on a variety of topics from start-ups to business strategy, the latest news and social change to the latest joints worth a visit around Melbourne. Everyone and anyone is welcome to join us, as long as you come with an open mind.

Melbourne Jelly is a fortnightly co-working event where folks from all disciplines get together at a
pre-determined location and share a working environment.

Startup Weekend is a non-profit, community-building event that brings together entrepreneurs of all backgrounds including software developers, marketers, designers, and other enthusiasts to start companies in just 54 hours. The participants that attend have 60 seconds to make a pitch (optional), the pitches are whittled down to the top ideas, and then teams form around the ideas to come out with several developed companies or projects. Finally, the weekend culminates with demonstrations in front of an audience of judges and potential investors.

 
Top Upcoming Melbourne Startup Events

November 9 - EdXN Branch Forum: Strategic Knowledge (Free for Members,$20 Non-Members)
November 10 - The Churchill Club ($33 Members, $55 Non-Member)
November 17 - Advance Innovation Workshop – Morning Session (Free)
November 17 - Advance Innovation Workshop – Afternoon Session (Free)
December 1 - YOW! Developer Conference 2011(2 Day) ($795-$995)

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

PMI ($0 Members, $35 Non-Member)
When: Tuesday 27 Sep 11 at 5:30:00 PM
Where: Telstra Conference Theatrette, Level 1, 242 Exhibition St, Melbourne

The Melbourne Chapter of the Project Management Institute (PMI) is part of an international
not-for-profit professional organisation dedicated to the advancement of project management
excellence through professionalism. Speaker: Ann Turudic.

These smaller, shorter sessions are intended to provide continuity between the larger monthly
weekend meetings. These sessions are typically held in Camberwell, but may occur at other
member’s residences (often when they are hosting a session in a particular area of expertise).

TiE Melbourne is a non-profit, community based organization run by individuals in their own time,
share the vision for Australian entrepreneurship. Speakers: Peter James (Managing Director, Nine Fold) and Jay Mclean (Business Coach and Mentor).

Android Australia User Group is a community devoted to promoting local Android developers in Australia. Its aim is to help bridge the information gap between Australia and other technology hubs such as the United States. Android is an accessible, open source operating system which is now a serious contender in the mobile landscape. Help us push Android forward by getting involved in our regular meetups, hack nights and experience sharing sessions.

Is a group of Linux enthusiasts in Melbourne whose members range from Linux coders and System administraters, to ordinary end users who just use the Linux GUI for their desktop. Although if you are not a Linux user yet, but you are interested in learning. Then you are most welcome to join. Topic: Building systems with chef-solo, Virtualisation with LXC.

The YOW! Developer Conferences are a unique opportunity for you to listen to and talk with international software experts in a relaxed setting. Speakers: Transitioning to the Cloud at MYOB (Mahesh Krishnan – Principal Consultant, Readify), Teaching Machines to See in the Cloud (Philip Haynes – CTO and Co-Founder of Mercurien Limited), Think? Compute! See!! – End User Programming for Thinkers (Dave Thomas – Chairman Bedarra Research Labs).

This is a great meeting of Ruby developers where you will hear a lighting talk or two with free beer and pizza normally on hand. Make sure you don’t miss it.

Social Media Melbourne or #socialmelb is a weekly social gathering of passionate and inspirational Melburnians who have one thing in common: social media. On Fridays at 8am, we collaborate and share ideas, stories and views on a variety of topics from startups to business strategy, the latest news and social change to the latest joints worth a visit around Melbourne. Everyone and anyone is welcome to join us, as long as you come with an open mind.

Top Upcoming Melbourne Startup Events

October 7 - TEDxMelbourne ($94)
October 21 - Sir Richard Branson and Tim Ferriss Summit ($197 for 2 People Special)
November 4 - Startup Weekend Melbourne($99/$69 [Students] – Weekend Event)

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
Geoff Burns – Designing software products and solutions for 15 years

What’s Going on in the Melbourne Startup Community

ACS Business Intelligence SIG (Free)
When: Monday 29 Aug 11 at 5:30:00 PM
Where: ACS Pearcey Room Level 2, 120 Clarendon Street, Southbank

In their January report on Business Intelligence (BI), Gartner have outlined what they see as a growing shift in the BI market into two distinct segments: traditional report-centric BI and a self-service data discovery segment focussed squarely on the business user. This talk will look at why this split into these two distinct segments is happening, and how the differentiation will affect the market and the consumers of BI.

Connect Community Hacker Space (Free)
When: Tuesday 30 Aug 11 at 6:00:00 PM
Where: Camberwell, Vic (Please contact andyg(geekscape) or DM @geekscape)

Getting a head-start on the Arduino, before the next big weekend session. These smaller, shorter sessions are intended to provide continuity between the larger monthly weekend meetings.

Scrum & Lean Leadership SIG (Free – RSVP)
When: Wednesday 31 Aug 11 at 5:45:00 PM
Where: TBA

The Requirements Communication Game: People often underestimate how rich and powerful face to face communication is compared to written documentation. This exercise is a fun way of bringing this point home.

Android Australia User Group (Free – RSVP Mandatory)
When: Wednesday 31 Aug 11 at 6:00:00 PM
Where: OpenHub, 243 Collins Street (Manchester Lane Entrance),Melbourne

There is no main topic this month – the aim is to take an Ignite style approach, which is “Enlighten us – but make it quick!”

The Churchill Club ($33 Members, $55 Non-Member)
When: Thursday 01 Sep 11 at 5:30:00 PM
Where: Upstairs @ The Leveson Hotel, 46 Leveson St, North Melbourne

Churchill Club runs panel based events around practical entreprenurship, innovation thinking and emerging technology opportuntiies. Our topic tonight: Building Global Sales Channels.

Melbourne Silicon Beach Drinks (Free – RSVP)
When: Thursday 01 Sep 11 at 6:00:00 PM
Where: The Deck at The Waterside Hotel Rooftop, Corner of Flinders and King Street (entry via Mercantile Place), Melbourne

Silicon Beach is an informal group for anyone interested in entrepreneurship, the interwebs or technology. The active mailinglist is here.

Melbourne Lean Startup ($10 – RSVP)
When: Thursday 01 Sep 11 at 7:00:00 PM
Where: The Leveson , 46 Leveson St, Melbourne

Come meet other Entrepreneurs, Boostrappers, Business Owners, Marketers, Startup Junkies, Investors and Lean thinkers at the second Lean Startup Melbourne event. Andrew Birt & Adrian Stone – How they started AngelCube, Melbourne’s newest incubator and startup fund.

Social Melbourne (Free)
When: Friday 02 Sep 11 at 8:00:00 AM
Where: 1000 Pound Bend, 361 Little Lonsdale Street, Melbourne

Social Media Melbourne or #socialmelb is a weekly social gathering of passionate and inspirational Melburnians who have one thing in common: social media. On Fridays at 8am, we collaborate and share ideas, stories and views on a variety of topics from startups to business strategy, the latest news and social change to the latest joints worth a visit around Melbourne.

Top Upcoming Melbourne Startup Events

October 21 - Sir Richard Branson and Tim Ferriss Summit($197 for 2 People Special)

Melbourne StartupDigest is curated by:
Humphrey Laubscher
Geoff Burns – Designing software products and solutions for 15 years

What’s Going on in the Melbourne Startup Community

ACS Mob SIG Event: Mobile Application Web Development: A practitioners perspective (Free)
When: Monday 23 May 11 at 5:30:00 PM
Where: Telstra Conference Centre, Conference Room 1, Level 1/242 Exhibition Street, Melbourne

In this seminar, we will investigate developing applications for mobiles devices using two different platforms, Ruby on Rails and ASP.NET MVC 3 (both using jQuery).

Connect Community Hacker Space (Free)
When: Tuesday 24 May 11 at 6:00:00 PM
Where: Camberwell, Vic (Please contact andyg (geekscape) http://bit.ly/evIkBV or DM @geekscape)

These smaller, shorter sessions are intended to provide continuity between the larger monthly weekend meetings.

TiE (Free for Members, $25 Non-Member, $10 Students)
When: Wednesday 25 May 11 at 6:00:00 PM
Where: Monash University Caulfield Campus, Building N, 27 Sir John Monash Drive, Caulfield East

As an active or aspiring entrepreneur, you would have worked up and/or seen many business plans. But have you ever wondered how startup entrepreneurs do it? Join us at our next TiE event to get inside the heads of two entrepreneurs (both of whom are members of TiE Melbourne), as they present their business objectives and plans to a panel. The panelists will provide their constructive feedback to the business plans. You will take away practical tips and techniques and of course we encourage you to provide inputs on the presentations as well.

Android Australia User Group (Free)
When: Wednesday 25 May 11 at 6:00:00 PM
Where: OpenHub Level 2, 140 Queen St, Melbourne

This month’s main topic is “Mobile User Experience.”

Ruby Group (Free)
When: Thursday 26 May 11 at 6:30:00 PM
Where: ThoughtWorks IOOF Buildilng, Level 15, 303 Collins Street

Florian Hanke and Ben Hoskings on as yet undecided topics – they’ve  both assured me it’ll be great.  If you want to speak we have two more slots available – let me know!

Lean Startup Melbourne (Free)
When: Thursday 26 May 11 at 7:30:00 PM
Where: TBA

If you’re interested in startups, come along and learn from experienced Melbourne web entrepreneurs who’ve built a lean (or often, a not so lean) startup. Our speakers chat candidly about their experiences and we encourage you to ask questions, in a relaxed open panel format.
After the talks, feel free to stick around and enjoy a drink with a range of entrepreneurs, investors, developers, thinkers and doers in Melbourne’s tech community!

Social Melbourne (Free)
When: Friday 27 May 11 at 8:00:00 AM
Where: 1000 Pound Bend, 361 Little Lonsdale Street, Melbourne

Social Media Melbourne or #socialmelb is a weekly social gathering of passionate and inspirational Melburnians who have one thing in common: social media. On Fridays at 8am, we collaborate and share ideas, stories and views on a variety of topics from startups to business strategy, the latest news and social change to the latest joints worth a visit around Melbourne. Everyone and anyone is welcome to join us, as long as you come with an open mind.

DDDMelbourne 2 ($25)
When: Saturday 28 May 11 at 9:00:00 AM
Where: Swinburne University, John Street, Hawthorn, Melbourne

DDD Melbourne is a non-profit community event run by developers for developers. Anyone can submit a session to the event which are then voted on by delegates. We are still putting the site together but if you want more information about DDD events please refer to developerdeveloperdeveloper.com. Massive Agenda: please check it out here.

Top Upcoming Melbourne Startup Events

May 31 – ACS Scrum and Lean Leadership SIG (Free)
July 5 – Agile Business Analysts Melbourne (Free)

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.

Melbourne StartupDigest is curated by:
Humphrey Laubscher
Geoff Burns – Designing software products and solutions for 15 years

What’s Going on in the Melbourne Startup Community

Melbourne Scala User Group (Free)

When: Monday 02 May 11 at 6:30:00 PM
Where: VLSCI, Ground floor, 187 Grattan St, Carlton

This is a meeting for Scala enthusiasts. Scala is a general purpose programming language designed to express common programming patterns in a concise, elegant, and type-safe way. Ben will be presenting a practical example of using Scala, for complex HTML document generation.

Australian Software Innovation Forum ($40/$70)

When: Tuesday 03 May 11 at 5:00:00 PM
Where: Karstens at CQ, 123 Queen Street, Melbourne

iOS and Android – opportunities and pain points.

The Hive (Free – RSVP melbourne@thehive.com.au)

When: Tuesday 03 May 11 at 6:00:00 PM
Where: The Order of Melbourne, 401 Swanston Street, Melbourne

Tim O’Neill is the Co-Founder and joint Managing Director of Reactive, a global digital agency that specialises in creating effective online strategy and solutions. Established in 1997 and employing over 75 staff, Reactive is solidly growing independent company.

Connect Community Hacker Space (Free)

When: Tuesday 03 May 11 at 6:00:00 PM
Where: Camberwell, Vic (Please contact andyg (geekscape) http://bit.ly/evIkBV or DM @geekscape)

These smaller, shorter sessions are intended to provide continuity between the larger monthly weekend meetings. These sessions are typically held in Camberwell, but may occur at other member’s residences (often when they are hosting a session in a particular area of expertise).

Melbourne Patterns Group (Free)

When: Wednesday 04 May 11 at 6:30:00 PM
Where: ThoughtWorks Office, Level 15, 303 Collins Street, Melbourne

The Melbourne Patterns Group had its first meeting on February 3rd 1999, and has gathered for discussion of software design patterns regularly ever since. The meeting format is two part, designed to satisfy patterns newcomers and more experienced practitioners alike.

Social Melbourne (Free)

When: Friday 06 May 11 at 8:00:00 AM
Where: 1000 Pound Bend, 361 Little Lonsdale Street, Melbourne

Social Media Melbourne or #socialmelb is a weekly social gathering of passionate and inspirational Melburnians who have one thing in common: social media. On Fridays at 8am, we collaborate and share ideas, stories and views on a variety of topics from startups to business strategy, the latest news and social change to the latest joints worth a visit around Melbourne. Everyone and anyone is welcome to join us, as long as you come with an open mind.

Melbourne Jelly Meetup (Free)

When: Friday 06 May 11 at 10:00:00 AM
Where: TBA

Melbourne Jelly is a fortnightly co-working event where folks from all disciplines get together at a pre-determined location and share a working environment.

Startup Weekend Melbourne ($99 – Weekend Event)

When: Friday 06 May 11 at 6:30:00 PM
Where: Sensis HQ, 222 Liverpool St, Melbourne

Startup Weekend is a non-profit, community-building event that brings together entrepreneurs of all backgrounds including software developers, marketers, designers, and other enthusiasts to start companies in just 54 hours. The participants that attend have 60 seconds to make a pitch (optional), the pitches are whittled down to the top ideas, and then teams form around the ideas to come out with several developed companies or projects. Finally, the weekend culminates with demonstrations in front of an audience of judges and potential investors.

Top Upcoming Melbourne Startup Events

May 13 – Growing the dream – Business plan workshop ($30 – Light refreshment included)

May 17 – UX Book Club Melbourne (Free)

May 19 – The Churchill Club ($33 Members, $55 Non-Member)