John Allsopp @johnfallsopp.com · 28/08/2026Run a meetup or a community for people building with AI? December 6–13 is the best week you'll ever have to run it — NeurIPS is in Sydney, AI Engineer Sydney is on. We'll list it, promote it, send people your way. Costs nothing, stays yours. aiweek.com.au/host 010
John Allsopp @johnfallsopp.com · 26/08/2026AI Week Melbourne had two hackathons, one from Google DeepMind. Vercel brought their Sydney AI Meetup down with Maincode. Microsoft, Atlassian and Zendesk all hosted events. Sydney is Dec 6–13, with NeurIPS in town. Want your company in it? Now's the time to talk. aiweek.com.au/partners 010
John Allsopp @johnfallsopp.com · 24/08/2026Most of AI Week Sydney hasn't been announced yet. The conference and the Hack Day are locked in. The meetups, workshops and evening events land between now and December. Sign up and we'll email you as each is confirmed: aiweek.com.au 000
John Allsopp @johnfallsopp.com · 20/08/2026AI Week Melbourne brought two dozen AI events to the city in a week. So we're bringing it to Sydney: December 6–13. Conferences, hack days, meetups, workshops — from AI Engineer, our partners, and maybe even you. NeurIPS is in town the same week. aiweek.com.au 020
John Allsopp @johnfallsopp.com · 18/08/2026Run a meetup or a community for people building with AI? December 6–13 is the best week you'll ever have to run it — NeurIPS is in Sydney, AI Engineer Sydney is on. We'll list it, promote it, send people your way. Costs nothing, stays yours. aiweek.com.au/host 010
John Allsopp @johnfallsopp.com · 14/08/2026AI Week Melbourne had two hackathons, one from Google DeepMind. Vercel brought their Sydney AI Meetup down with Maincode. Microsoft, Atlassian and Zendesk all hosted events. Sydney is Dec 6–13, with NeurIPS in town. Want your company in it? Now's the time to talk. aiweek.com.au/partners 010
John Allsopp @johnfallsopp.com · 12/08/2026Most of AI Week Sydney hasn't been announced yet. The conference and the Hack Day are locked in. The meetups, workshops and evening events land between now and December. Sign up and we'll email you as each is confirmed: aiweek.com.au 000
John Allsopp @johnfallsopp.com · 10/08/2026AI Week Melbourne brought two dozen AI events to the city in a week. So we're bringing it to Sydney: December 6–13. Conferences, hack days, meetups, workshops — from AI Engineer, our partners, and maybe even you. NeurIPS is in town the same week. aiweek.com.au 000
John Allsopp @johnfallsopp.com · 06/08/2026Most of AI Week Sydney hasn't been announced yet. The conference and the Hack Day are locked in. The meetups, workshops and evening events land between now and December. Sign up and we'll email you as each is confirmed: aiweek.com.au 000
John Allsopp @johnfallsopp.com · 28/07/2026"It's 10 out of 10 for AI Engineer, it's 10 out of 10 for Web Directions and John Allsopp." — Ron Au, Canva, at AI Engineer Melbourne. AI Engineer Sydney: Dec 7–8. Tickets + CFP open now. webdirections.org/ai-engineer 000
John Allsopp @johnfallsopp.com · 28/04/2026Thiago Shimada Ramos: What does it look like to build AI agents that never touch the internet? AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4 aiengineer.webdirections.org 000
John Allsopp @johnfallsopp.com · 28/04/2026Dave Hall: I got frustrated. AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4 aiengineer.webdirections.org 010
John Allsopp @johnfallsopp.com · 28/04/2026Stephen Sennett: Most developers pick their AI model the same way: use the biggest, smartest one available for everything. AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4 aiengineer.webdirections.org 000
John Allsopp @johnfallsopp.com · 27/04/2026Andy Kelk: When you roll out AI coding tools, you expect pushback about job security and workflow disruption. AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4 aiengineer.webdirections.org 010
John Allsopp @johnfallsopp.com · 27/04/2026Jason Cornwall: Most “AI gives you 10x productivity” stories assume coding is the bottleneck. AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4 aiengineer.webdirections.org 000
John Allsopp @johnfallsopp.com · 27/04/2026Agent memory degrades over hundreds of sessions. Benchmarks miss this completely. Ananya Roy on memory as the real production failure mode. AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4 aiengineer.webdirections.org 120
John Allsopp @johnfallsopp.com · 24/04/2026Rob Manson: What's the role of the web in our modern AI future... AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4 aiengineer.webdirections.org 000
John Allsopp @johnfallsopp.com · 24/04/2026Charli Posner: Can you faithfully edit hand-drawn illustrations using an image model you haven’t fine-tuned? AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4 aiengineer.webdirections.org 000
John Allsopp @johnfallsopp.com · 24/04/2026Small language model beat Avni Bhatt's LLM for structured extraction. Lower latency, cut costs, better reliability. Hybrid patterns. AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4 aiengineer.webdirections.org 000
John Allsopp @johnfallsopp.com · 23/04/2026Nick Beaugeard: AI demos are easy. AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4 aiengineer.webdirections.org 010
John Allsopp @johnfallsopp.com · 23/04/2026Aubrey Blanche: Responsible AI isn't culturally neutral. Australian "fair go" principles reshape governance frameworks away from Silicon Valley assumptions. AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4 aiengineer.webdirections.org 000
John Allsopp @johnfallsopp.com · 23/04/2026Prem Pillai: Every engineering team trying to automate developer workflows with AI agents hits the same wall: the iteration tax. AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4 aiengineer.webdirections.org 000
John Allsopp @johnfallsopp.com · 22/04/2026Justin Barias: When I joined my current team, it was a familiar pattern: 6-8 experiments over a year, each taking 10-12 weeks, 60-70% of the time burned on infrastructure, one thing in production held together with duct tape, an... AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4 aiengineer.webdirections.org 000
John Allsopp @johnfallsopp.com · 22/04/2026Geoff Huntley: Software development as we knew it is dead. AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4 aiengineer.webdirections.org 000
John Allsopp @johnfallsopp.com · 22/04/2026Lovee Jain: AI agents aren’t magic. AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4 aiengineer.webdirections.org 000
John Allsopp @johnfallsopp.com · 21/04/2026When do multi-agent systems add value? Anannya Roy Chowdhury shares real metrics from AWS on where the complexity payoff exists. AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4 aiengineer.webdirections.org 010
John Allsopp @johnfallsopp.com · 21/04/2026Culture first, then tech. Eric took that approach to AI adoption—and it transformed how his organization works. AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4 webdirections.org/ai-engineer 000
John Allsopp @johnfallsopp.com · 21/04/2026Yicheng Guo: We shipped one of REA Group’s first generative AI features to production: Property Highlights, which turns long real-estate listings into three skimmable takeaways. AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4 aiengineer.webdirections.org 000
John Allsopp @johnfallsopp.com · 20/04/2026Notion ships sandboxed workers in their agent platform. Adam Hudson on safely executing third-party code inside agents. AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4 aiengineer.webdirections.org 000
John Allsopp @johnfallsopp.com · 20/04/2026Ally Macdonald: What happens when you need to build hundreds of interactive science and maths games at scale? AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4 aiengineer.webdirections.org 000
John Allsopp @johnfallsopp.com · 20/04/2026Navan Tirupathi: Most AI agents are reactive chatbots—great for one-off queries, but they reset, forget, and lack initiative, failing in real-world use like personal assistants or autonomous workflows. AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4 aiengineer.webdirections.org 110
John Allsopp @johnfallsopp.com · 13/04/2026Jeremy Kelaher: Despite all the hype and promise, we are in the Timeshare Mainframe moment of AI. AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4 aiengineer.webdirections.org 000
John Allsopp @johnfallsopp.com · 10/04/2026Daniel Rodgers-Pryor: Autocomplete is *so* 2023. AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4 aiengineer.webdirections.org 100
John Allsopp @johnfallsopp.com · 10/04/2026Simon Knox: Cloud outages used to mean your site went down, maybe you couldn’t deploy. AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4 aiengineer.webdirections.org 000
John Allsopp @johnfallsopp.com · 10/04/2026Matthew Gillard: The email didnt have what I submitted... AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4 aiengineer.webdirections.org 000
John Allsopp @johnfallsopp.com · 09/04/2026Hamish Songsmith: Frameworks like NIST and the NSW AI Assessment Framework are valuable for policy, assurance, and audit—but they’re often too heavy to keep up with emergent agent use inside enterprises. AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4 aiengineer.webdirections.org 010
John Allsopp @johnfallsopp.com · 09/04/2026Mic Neale: The current AI stack has a dependency most of us don’t talk about: a handful of closed models from a handful of providers, and an API call standing between every agent and every action. AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4 aiengineer.webdirections.org 000
John Allsopp @johnfallsopp.com · 09/04/2026Yasith Fernando: AI coding tools are rewriting what it means to build software. AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4 aiengineer.webdirections.org 000
John Allsopp @johnfallsopp.com · 08/04/2026AJ Fisher: The smartest model doesn’t always win. AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4 aiengineer.webdirections.org 000
John Allsopp @johnfallsopp.com · 08/04/2026Chris Rickard: Legacy Software powers the world - from banking to utilities and government. AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4 aiengineer.webdirections.org 110
John Allsopp @johnfallsopp.com · 08/04/2026Nick Lothian: Everyone wants privacy, but the best models require you to give up control of your data. AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4 aiengineer.webdirections.org 000
John Allsopp @johnfallsopp.com · 07/04/2026Notion ships sandboxed workers in their agent platform. Adam Hudson on safely executing third-party code inside agents. AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4 aiengineer.webdirections.org 000
John Allsopp @johnfallsopp.com · 07/04/2026Annie Vella: AI assistants ship more code but erode the craft that makes engineering joyful. How do we build systems that sustain both? AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4 aiengineer.webdirections.org 010
John Allsopp @johnfallsopp.com · 07/04/2026Mic Neale: The current AI stack has a dependency most of us don’t talk about: a handful of closed models from a handful of providers, and an API call standing between every agent and every action. AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4 aiengineer.webdirections.org 000
John Allsopp @johnfallsopp.com · 06/04/2026Rob Manson: What's the role of the web in our modern AI future... AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4 aiengineer.webdirections.org 000
John Allsopp @johnfallsopp.com · 06/04/2026AI in production isn't about the model. Abdul Karim & Jack Silman on the full engineering pipeline: integration, testing, observability, everything else. AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4 webdirections.org/ai-engineer 000
John Allsopp @johnfallsopp.com · 06/04/2026Geoff Huntley: Software development as we knew it is dead. AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4 aiengineer.webdirections.org 110
John Allsopp @johnfallsopp.com · 03/04/2026Matthew Gillard: The email didnt have what I submitted... AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4 aiengineer.webdirections.org 000