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150 events from 110+ Sydney organisers

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Peter Farrell Cup Info & Networking Session

Meet your co-founder over pizza, perfect if you've got an idea but need a team for the competition.

Wed 29 Apr · 10am · Free · Networking · UNSW Founders

Sunrise Australia 2026

Blackbird's annual gathering where founders, creatives and operators come together to stretch ideas and imagine what Australian tech could become.

Thu 30 Apr · 8am · Free · Conference · Blackbird

Founders Unfiltered: In conversation with TradeLedger

Hear the real story behind building TradeLedger and selling to United Fintech, the pressure calls and bets that shaped the outcome.

Thu 30 Apr · 12:30pm · Free · Fireside · Stone & Chalk

Citizen developers in the enterprise: What platform teams should know

Learn how platform teams at companies like SIXT are setting up guardrails so business analysts can build AI apps without creating security chaos.

3am · Free · Talk · Online

Mastering AI Evals

Hands-on workshop teaching you how to test AI outputs properly so your models actually work reliably in production, not just in demos.

10am · RSVP · Workshop · Tech Central

OpenAI x January Capital x Lyra x Relevance AI Hackathon

Three days to ship a real AI product with OpenAI's latest models, judged by their team and top local founders who know what works.

10am · RSVP · Hackathon · Lyra

Vercel x OpenAI Builder Day

Hands-on afternoon with Vercel and OpenAI patterns, you'll leave with practical foundations to build and ship AI products faster.

2pm · RSVP · Workshop · Vercel Community APAC

Cicada Innovations x Techvisa: Scaling Deep Tech Teams - Best Practices for Navigating the Talent Landscape

Practical strategies for hiring and keeping deep tech talent, from visa navigation to upskilling, with folks who help Australia's hardest startups build teams.

5pm · Free · Talk · Cicada Innovations

Live Podcast: Fintech & Agentic AI

Live podcast recording with a Stripe leader and founder unpacking how AI is reshaping payments and fraud detection, practical examples you can apply.

5:30pm · Free · Talk · Emerging Tech Unpacked

Real World Performance Testing for Event-Driven Architectures & 2nd Talk TBC

Panel of experts breaking down how to actually test performance in event-driven systems, plus you'll meet Sydney's testing community.

5:30pm · Free · Talk · Sydney Testers

Blackbird x Founders Edge: AI Pitch Night

Five AI startups pitch live to Blackbird judges, plus a panel cutting through the hype to what's actually getting funded right now.

5:30pm · Check event page · Pitch Night · Founders Edge

Hacking Productivity w/ Notion

Audit your current setup and learn practical Notion systems like content calendars and knowledge hubs from people actually using them daily.

5:30pm · RSVP · Workshop · Ambassadors: Notion Sydney

After Dark: Sunrise Edn.

Late night session where founders building in controversial industries share the messy reality behind their work, zero corporate filter.

6pm · Free · Talk · GROUP GROUP

Australia’s Largest Robotics Party

Meet the founders and engineers building Australia's robotics future, see live demos from three companies, and swap war stories over Mexican food.

6pm · RSVP · Social · Australia’s Largest Robotics Party

AI Skills Night @ Binance Uncb

Learn how Binance actually uses AI for trading decisions through a hands-on workshop, then test your new skills in a challenge with prizes.

6:30pm · Free · Workshop · UNCB UNSW

Community Capital Exchange

Curated networking for migrant founders and their allies, structured to help you leave with actual collaborators instead of business cards.

6:30pm · $20 · Networking · Migrant Wealth Builders

How to build a Successful E-commerce Brand

Two founders walk you through the growth tactics and AI tools they actually used to scale their e-commerce brands from zero.

6:30pm · Free · Workshop · UTS Digital Marketing Society

Coffee, Coworking and OpenAI Codex

Late-night session to ship something with Codex alongside developers who already build, plus API credits and a month of ChatGPT Pro.

7pm · RSVP · Meetup · Build Club

AI Memory That Actually Works

Phil from Alt.Net shows you the memory patterns that let his AI coding sessions run for days without losing context, live demos included.

7pm · Free · Meetup · Online

OpenAI Codex Hackathon - Sydney

Build production-grade tools with 99 other developers who actually ship AI code, UTS Startups brings the venue and focus.

9am · RSVP · Hackathon · UTS Startups

Build Fest

Women and non-binary builders spend a morning learning from Canva's AI team, then split into small groups to actually build something together.

9am · RSVP · Workshop · Blackbird

January Capital x Accel x OpenAI x Airwallex | Pitch Day

Watch early-stage AI founders pitch to judges from Accel, OpenAI and January Capital, solid calibre room if you're building or investing in the space.

9:30am · RSVP · Pitch Night · January Capital

Demystifying Failure and the Art Pivoting

Relaxed picnic where founders share real stories about setbacks and pivots, the kind of honest chat that helps you feel less alone.

10am · Free · Social · Founders Edge

Investors & Founders Coffee Chat

Morning coffee with founders and investors from three solid communities, good for making relaxed connections before your day starts.

10am · RSVP · Networking · Trampoline

Mighty x AusGTM x Tidal Ventures: Designing a GTM strategy that supports your next round (not just this one)

Small group session where an investor and GTM operators show you what makes a go-to-market strategy fundable, not just functional.

12:30pm · RSVP · Talk · Mighty Partners

Going Global: AI Founders Lunch with OpenAI (feat. Crane and Liminal)

Small group lunch with OpenAI, global VCs Crane and Liminal, and other AI founders actually expanding overseas, focused on the real decisions you're facing.

1pm · RSVP · Networking · Sydney Startups

Altea Sydney: Sunrise Week Investor Meetup

Afternoon drinks with alternative asset investors in town for Sunrise, plus a Blackbird founder or two sharing what they're building.

3pm · RSVP · Meetup · Altea

Birchal x Fks: Sydney Afternoon Drinks

Curated gathering of community builders and founders on a rooftop, good conversations with people who actually get what you're working on.

4:30pm · Free · Networking · The Community Collective

Growth across the Pacific: the AU-US playbook for 2026

Two AI founders share the tactical reality of expanding to the US, plus a chance to workshop your own scaling challenges in the room.

5pm · RSVP · Fireside · Sydney Startups

Google Build with AI - Sydney

Hands-on workshop where you'll build a currency conversion agent using Google's latest AI tools, walking out with deployed code and clarity on MCP, ADK and A2A.

5pm · Free · Workshop · Sydney AI

Postgres Sydney April 2026 Meetup

Technical deep dives into pgvector and PostgreSQL 18 performance from practitioners at Fujitsu and Oracle, plus time to swap notes with Sydney's Postgres crowd.

5pm · Free · Meetup · Sydney PostgreSQL User Group

AIcamp: Build with AI

Guided workshop where you'll build a working currency agent using Google's latest AI tools, demystifying MCP, ADK and A2A acronyms through actual deployment.

5pm · Free · Workshop · GDG Sydney

Aus DeFi Association (Sydney)

Monthly gathering where blockchain and AI builders share what they're working on, solid room to meet the local DeFi community.

5:30pm · RSVP · Meetup · Aus DeFi Association

Airtree Engineering Community Meet Up

Invite-only evening with Vercel engineers sharing what's actually working in AI agents, then peer discussion with technical founders actively building.

5:30pm · RSVP · Meetup · Airtree

Sunset Mixer by TEN13, OIF, Archangel, Folklore, Gandel Invest, Vanta, Stripe & Blackbird

Eight major VCs and Stripe hosting 500 founders and investors at The Winery, serious networking density if you're raising or connecting dots.

6pm · RSVP · Networking · TEN13

Scaling Unlocked - Hosted by Luna

Small group discussion with founders who've scaled through Series A and beyond, honest talk about what actually changes as you grow.

6pm · RSVP · Talk · LUNA

Gradient Gatherings - Trust, AI Agents, and Us

Three speakers tackle how to trust AI agents from science, possibility, and governance angles, then the room opens up for proper conversation.

6pm · RSVP · Talk · Gradient Gatherings

Saari Founder Showdown Trivia & Curry Night, powered by Blackbird

Startup trivia night where you'll guess at questionable business ideas, eat curry, and meet South Asian founders in a room that's more fun than networking.

6:30pm · $15 · Social · SAARI Collective

Till Sunrise - A Blackbird Sunrise Side Quest

Pre-dawn rooftop gathering where Blackbird and visiting VCs will intro you to founders and operators you should already know.

7pm · RSVP · Networking · IRL by Amber 💎💎

Startup Party by Intercom & Fishburners

Evening with Intercom and Fishburners where you'll meet founders and operators actually building things, relaxed vibe with good conversations.

7pm · RSVP · Networking · Intercom

Startup Striders - Sunrise Edition

Morning run with startup folks around the Opera House, then coffee and introductions before Southstart kicks off.

7am · Free · Social · Tech Central

Standard Ledger x Fks: Sydney Coffee Meetup

Morning coffee with community builders, founders and operators before Blackbird Sunrise, croissants included and relaxed conversations with purpose.

8am · Free · Meetup · The Community Collective

Weekly Coffee Catch Up

Weekly coffee meetup where builders and community organizers swap ideas and work on practical tools for local nonprofits and charities.

8am · Free · Meetup · Vibecamp

Omni Sydney – GenAI Film Festival

Watch AI-generated films on the big screen with UNSW's startup crowd, see where the technology actually is right now.

5pm · $15 · Conference · UNSW Founders

StartUpLink HackerHouse

Overnight sprint where you'll ship a working prototype with real customers by morning, building in teams with USYD's most execution-focused founders.

5pm · $19 · Hackathon · StartUp Link USYD

Sydney | Claude for Everyone

Meet other builders using Claude Code, hear how a non-programmer built a real-time trading guardian, and try the tool yourself with help.

5:30pm · RSVP · Meetup · Claude Community Events

The Data & AI Evolution: From Legacy Warehouses to Intelligent Lakehouses

Two talks on getting AI-ready data architecture right, from a solutions architect and engineer who've seen the migration mistakes firsthand.

5:30pm · Free · Meetup · Sydney Databricks User Group

SydPy April Meetup

Monthly Python meetup where you'll hear two talks from the community and meet other Sydney devs over pizza.

5:30pm · Free · Meetup · Surry Hills

Western Sydney AI Innovation Summit — Grand Finale: Pitch Night & Awards

Watch a dozen AI projects built over 12 weeks get pitched live, then see which Western Sydney teams take home the awards.

5:30pm · Free · Pitch Night · Western Sydney Tech Innovators

Break The System Presented by Anchor x Loveable x Genesis x Incubate

Ninety minutes to build something useful or brilliantly pointless, demo it, and meet other students who actually ship things.

5:30pm · Free · Hackathon · Aren

Startmate Demo Day - Summer'26 (at Sunrise)

Watch 19 founders pitch companies solving real problems in construction, payments, legal, and healthcare with AI backed by serious domain expertise.

7pm · $30 · Pitch Night · UTS Startups

South Asian afterparty

Continue the Sunrise energy with South Asian founders and creatives over drinks and music, the kind of relaxed night where real connections happen.

9:30pm · $20 · Social · SAARI Collective

Friday @ The Pillars | Sydney

Curated afternoon where founders and operators discuss what's actually working with AI agents, plus two matched introductions before you arrive.

2pm · $25 · Networking · Currents Community

Australia's Most Unstoppable Founder Competition Showcase

Watch female founders pitch themselves instead of their businesses, it's founder-focused storytelling you'll learn from whether you're fundraising or not.

5:30pm · $29 · Pitch Night · Events for Women in Business by One Roof

Founder Fireside #009 at Blackbird Sunrise

Curated room of ambitious young founders sharing honest lessons over dinner, the kind of conversations that shift how you think about building.

6pm · RSVP · Fireside · NextGen Ventures

Coffee and UX - IxDF Cabramatta West

First gathering of a new IxDF chapter over chai and gelato, small group format where you'll actually talk UX with other designers.

6:30pm · RSVP · Meetup · IxDF Cabramatta West

M8 Meetup - Sunrise edition

Relaxed drinks at M8's Alan Jones' place to catch up with startup friends and meet new faces in the portfolio.

6:30pm · RSVP · Social · M8 Ventures

Sydney Founder Roundtable (Online) — Real Business Case + Structured Networking

You'll work through a real founder problem live, then talk with others about your own business and commit to one thing for the next week.

9pm · Free · Meetup · Online

OpenClaw Demo Day (1st prize: Mac mini)

Watch ten builders demo their AI agents live, hear honest talks about what works and what breaks, then see who takes home the Mac mini.

2pm · $10 · Pitch Night · Agent Guild