AI Events in Sydney, NSW
Every upcoming AI meetup, workshop, hackathon, and conference in Sydney. Updated daily.
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Getting Found in the Age of AI
SSW Sydneyby SSW
An in-person Sydney .NET User Group evening on how AI-powered search is changing business discoverability. Jack Bear of Norg AI discusses the shift from conventional SEO to the answer economy, following pizza and networking.
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM AEST
Has AI and Big Tech Opted Out of Human Rights?
Art Gallery of New South Walesby Australian Human Rights Institute
The Australian Human Rights Institute at UNSW hosts its annual Provocation Series debate on whether AI developers and large technology firms have stepped outside human rights obligations, with Toby Walsh and the ACMA Chief AI Officer on the panel.
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17
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8:10 AM – 8:40 AM AEST
Sydney Claude Community: From Beginners to Builders
Hilton Sydneyby Code.Sydney
An early start that fits before work: 08:10 to 08:40 at the Hilton Sydney on George Street, thirty minutes of coffee and open AI conversation with the Code.Sydney community. Streams cover newcomers, professionals automating their work, and builders studying architecture. Free and in person.
9:00 AM – 12:00 PM AEST
Women Leading AI: Connecting, Scaling and Growing in Western Sydney
KPMG Parramattaby Western Sydney Women
A morning of keynotes and expert panels on how Western Sydney businesses are putting AI to work in practice, aimed at women founders, entrepreneurs, industry leaders and students. Attendees leave with an AI toolkit they can apply to their own organisation.
5:30 PM – 7:30 PM AEST
Sydney AI Safety and Governance Monthly Meetup
The Chippo Hotelby Gigascale Laboratories
A relaxed monthly Sydney gathering for people working on AI safety and governance. It is a chance to meet peers, compare approaches to oversight and risk, and welcome newcomers to the local community.
5:30 PM – 9:30 PM AEST
TechHaus Sydney: September 2026
AWS Sydneyby LiveHaus
The September edition of the recurring TechHaus Sydney series, with two panels on testing and trusting shipped AI systems and on staying valuable as AI takes on more thinking work, followed by structured networking, food, drinks and music until 21:30.
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22
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9:00 AM – 12:00 PM AEST
Sydney Claude Code Business Writing Workshop
by Claude Community Events Sydney
A hands-on Sydney workshop for people interested in using Claude Code for long-form business writing. The community event is hosted with the Actuaries Institute Australia and registration is currently on a waitlist.
1:30 PM – 3:30 PM AEST
AI & Human Behaviour: Safe and Effective Adoption
by PeerWize
An in-person Sydney session on how organisations can move AI adoption beyond low-risk pilots while managing shadow AI, privacy concerns and over-reliance on automated outputs. Behavioural Insights Team APAC managing director Dr Alex Gyani leads the discussion.
5:30 PM – 8:05 PM AEST
Sydney Claude Community Meetup
Stone & Chalk Tech Centralby Claude Community Events Sydney
An evening Claude Code community meetup in Haymarket for local builders, including talks, pizza, networking and Q&A. A product designer will share how they used Claude Code to ship an app without a traditional coding background.
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM AEST
Lara Meacock and Edgar Anzaldúa: AI, Design Systems and Prompting
Lorikeet Officeby Sydney Creative Customer Experience (CCX)
A Sydney CCX event with two talks on AI's impact on product design. Lara Meacock examines AI-enabled design systems, while Edgar Anzaldúa-Moreno considers how designers can use prompting without losing critical judgment and craft.
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24
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8:10 AM – 8:40 AM AEST
Sydney Claude Community: From Beginners to Builders
Hilton Sydneyby Code.Sydney
A small in person group rather than a lecture hall. The Code.Sydney Claude community gathers for thirty minutes at the Hilton Sydney on George Street, 08:10 to 08:40, with streams for AI newcomers, professionals automating processes, and builders studying architecture. Coffee, open discussion, no cost.
10:30 AM – 4:00 PM AEST
NSW AI Bonanza 2026: Thursday
Bondi Icebergsby NSW AI Bonanza
Day two of the three-day NSW AI Bonanza, a multi-venue Sydney AI festival running 23 to 25 September. The Thursday daytime programme combines technology demos, panel discussions with industry experts and networking, oriented to AI trends and applied use.
5:00 PM – 8:00 PM AEST
AI in Health with Professor Joseph Powell and Prashanth Rajan
The Pillarsby Barker Street Ventures
An investor-focused Sydney discussion on AI in healthcare, from biological data and precision medicine to translating research into diagnostics, therapies and companies. Professor Joseph Powell and investor Prashanth Rajan lead the conversation.
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2-Day AI Workshop Sydney
by AI Edge Bootcamp
A two-day, in-person workshop for Sydney professionals and teams who want to make AI a repeatable part of their work. The programme combines AI operating skills, workflow practice and agent-oriented building with Claude Code, and includes lunch and breaks.
5:30 PM – 7:30 PM AEST
AAIF Agentic AI Night: Agents in Production
Vivanti Consultingby AAIF Community Sydney
A Sydney evening for engineers, researchers and builders working on agentic AI. The launch event examines what changes when agents move from demos into production, including technical trade-offs, failures, demos and peer discussion.
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8:10 AM – 8:40 AM AEST
Sydney Claude Community: From Beginners to Builders
Hilton Sydneyby Code.Sydney
Coffee on George Street with the Sydney Claude community. Code.Sydney hosts thirty minutes at the Hilton Sydney, 08:10 to 08:40, with relaxed open discussion across three streams: newcomers, professionals applying AI at work, and builders studying architecture. Free and in person.
9:00 AM – 1:00 PM AEST
AI for Business Leaders Workshop
SSW Sydneyby SSW
A half-day workshop from Sydney consultancy SSW aimed at managers and executives deciding where AI fits in their organisation, covering practical adoption rather than model internals. Runs from the SSW office in Neutral Bay.
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8:10 AM – 8:40 AM AEDT
Sydney Claude Community: From Beginners to Builders
Hilton Sydneyby Code.Sydney
Three streams under one roof: AI Explorers for newcomers, Professionals for productivity and process automation, and Builders for architecture and Anthropic certification. They meet weekly at the Hilton Sydney on George Street, 08:10 to 08:40, for thirty minutes of coffee and open conversation. Free.
9:00 AM – 4:30 PM AEDT
6D.AI Sydney 2026
Hyatt Regency Sydneyby 6 Degrees Media
A one-day executive conference on enterprise AI, expecting more than 350 C-level attendees from banking, insurance, government, healthcare, manufacturing, mining, retail and utilities. Sessions run from 09:00 to 16:30 and close with networking over canapes.
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19
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7:00 AM – 11:30 PM AEDT
RIMPA Global Hackathon 2026
Royal Randwick Racecourseby RIMPA Global
A three-day hackathon on how AI-generated content accelerates bias, misinformation and disinformation at scale, and what information and records management practice can do in response. Free to enter, judged by an independent industry panel, sponsored by the National Archives of Australia, with a A$10,000 grand prize.
12:00 PM – 6:00 PM AEDT
CLI 2026 APAC Summit: The Future of Law, Built Now
Hilton Sydneyby Centre for Legal Innovation
A two-part legal transformation summit with legal technology and AI as a named focus. A pre-summit workshop on Monday covers how to make AI stick, and a full-day summit on Tuesday spans governance, education gaps, shifts in the legal value chain and human capability. Most useful to people driving AI adoption in legal services.
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