AI Engineer Meetup: From Prompt to Product (Canva Event Space)
🔹 Event Overview
From clever prompts to production-ready products — how do top teams turn ideas into intelligent systems?
Join us at Canva’s HQ Event Space in Sydney for a hands-on evening with AI engineers, builders, and product innovators who are shaping the next wave of AI products.
At this meetup, you’ll learn how real-world teams move from experimentation to production, deal with hallucinations, build agent workflows, and ship AI features with confidence.
🎯 Who Should Attend
AI engineers & machine learning developers
Product managers & tech founders building with AI
Researchers exploring prompt engineering or multi-agent systems
Anyone curious about how AI gets from lab → launch
📅 Event Schedule
6:30 PM – 7:00 PM | Arrival & Networking
Enjoy drinks, light snacks, and conversation in Canva’s beautiful event space. Meet fellow builders and AI enthusiasts.
7:00 PM – 8:15 PM | Lightning Talks by Guest Speakers
🎙 Featured Talks
1. How We Build Effective AI Agents
Speaker: Lightman Wang
Discover how to design autonomous AI agents that utilize memory, tools, and planning to complete real-world tasks — and the challenges when they go rogue.
2. Building with Multi-Agent Systems
Speaker: Ryan Hay
How to coordinate multiple agents that talk, assign roles, plan tasks, and complete goals — and where the limits still are in 2025.
3. AI Adaptive Delivery
Speaker: Jonathan Tan
Learn how AI can adapt delivery models to optimize efficiency and performance across various industries and use cases.
4. AI is About the Customer
Speaker: Charles Weiser
Explore the step-by-step process from playground experiments to scalable cloud deployment, including architecture, testing, and failure recovery.
5. RAG in Production: What Actually Works
Speaker: Michelle GE
Discover how Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is being used to power chatbots, support tools, and document intelligence — with the lessons no one tells you.
8:15 PM – 8:45 PM | Panel Discussion + Q&A
A candid, unscripted discussion with all four speakers:
Lessons learned building with LLMs
Open-source vs proprietary tools
Future of AI engineering and ethical deployment
Your questions, answered
8:45 PM – 9:30 PM | Drinks, Demos & Networking
Show what you’ve built, meet collaborators, and continue the conversation.
🎙️ Featured Speakers
President @ AI Future Australia Association (AFAA) | Founder @ JR Academy | Co-founder @ Jobpin AI
Lightman is an innovative leader dedicated to fostering AI ecosystems and innovation. He founded JR Academy to empower aspiring tech professionals through practical skills and community mentorship. At AFAA, he actively drives initiatives promoting ethical and impactful adoption of AI and blockchain technologies.
🔹 Ryan Hay
AI Engineer @ Relevance AI
Ryan, an AI Engineer at Relevance AI, a Series B startup at the forefront of the AI agent revolution. I'm driven by a mission to find new value in the rapid innovations of the "AI era", and he plays a key role in developing systems that empower non-technical experts to build their own AI agents. his recent work has been focused on our 'Invent' feature, developing the systems that allow for agent creation from natural language prompts.
CXO | Digital @ Optus
Board Director & Digital+AI Transformation Leader @ Optus
Charles is a forward-thinking leader at the intersection of AI and customer experience. With a proven track record in leveraging artificial intelligence to unlock new value, he helps organisations transform how they engage, serve, and delight their customers. His work bridges strategy, technology, and execution—shaping AI-powered solutions that are human-centric, scalable, and impactful. Passionate about innovation, Charles is a strong advocate for responsible AI and the future of intelligent customer experience.
🔹 Jonathan Tan
Delivery Lead | Group IT @ Optus
Jonathan experiences Singtel Group. And his intro “Jon is a season digital leaders with a deep passion for AI and its transformative power across industries. With extensive experience in driving AI innovation, Jon helps organizations unlock smarter, faster and more human-centric solution. He brings a sharp strategic lens to AI deployment - bridging technology with real-world impact and guiding team to embed intelligence at the heart of customer experience and business performance
🔹 Michelle GE
Associate Director @ Optus
Michelle GE is an experienced Program Manager and Associate Director at Optus, with over 8 years of cross-industry experience driving digital transformation, business innovation, and stakeholder value. Her expertise spans project and change management, process improvement, and strategic delivery across enterprise infrastructure, governance, and operational systems.
🔹 Jizhizi Li
AI Research Scientist @ Leonardo.AI (Canva)
Dr. Jizhizi Li is an AI Research Scientist at Leonardo.AI (Canva), with a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Sydney. Her work spans a wide spectrum of advanced AI domains, including Generative AI, Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision, and Full-Stack Development. Passionate about cross-modal learning and lifelong innovation, Dr. Li bridges cutting-edge research with real-world applications, from LLMs to iOS/Android development.
✅ RSVP Required
This is a free event but registration is essential.
Limited to 100 attendees (Sold Out). Drinks & light food provided.
🤝 Hosted by
AI Future Australia Association
Advancing responsible, inclusive, and impactful AI across industry, academia, and government.