AIO-007: Context Maxxing

Description

This month, we're exploring the art of making AI understand what the hell you actually want it to do - feeding it the right information, instructions, memory, tools and context before it confidently wanders off into the wilderness. We've got two short talks covering RAG, real-world context engineering, voice, agents and intent, with practical examples from designers and engineers using this stuff in production today. No AI 101. No 45-minute AI SaaS demo hostage situations. No thought leadership. Just people doing the actual work. Agenda 5:30pm - 6:00pm: Optional early doors to our AI-pilled space at the BuildPass offices. Come straight from work for some food, drinks and a chat, or arrive at 6:00pm for the official start. (Nothing important will happen before then). 6:00pm - 6:30pm: Meet and chat with fellow AI optimists (designers, developers, product people, marketers, founders, etc) over food and drinks while listening to golden era '90s hip-hop. 6:30pm - 6:45pm: Talk #1 from Kate Xue (Senior Frontend Software Engineer at JigSpace) on what finally made RAG click for her, and why giving AI more information isn't necessarily the same thing as giving it the right context for the task. 6:45pm - 6:55pm: Q&A with Kate - ask her about RAG, context, retrieval, or why your agent just read 400 pages of documentation and somehow became less useful. 6:55pm - 7:10pm: Short break for grabbing more food, drinks, bathroom trips. 7:10pm - 7:25pm: Talk #2 from Matthew Thomas (Senior Product Designer at Pay.com.au) on using voice to interact with AI agents, and what a future with less interface and more direct expression of intent might look like. 7:25pm - 7:35pm: Q&A with Matt - interrogate him about voice, agents, interfaces and whether we're all going to end up yelling instructions at our computers. 7:35pm - 8:00pm: More time for food, drinks and chatting about the talks, then you can go home to check on your agents. Sponsors The meetup is sponsored by Iterate (iterate.com.au) - a boutique recruitment partner for the Technology, Product and Design industry. Check them out if you're looking for a new role, looking to hire, or have suddenly discovered that your current employer's "AI transformation strategy" is giving everyone Microsoft Copilot and hoping for the best. The meetup is also sponsored by Hypermatic (hypermatic.com) - check them out if you want to save 15+ hours per week with their Premium Figma Plugins. And a huge thanks to BuildPass (buildpass.ai) for letting us back into their offices again despite having witnessed one of these events before. FAQ What are we going to do at the meetup? You SHOULD apply if: DO NOT apply if: Wednesday, 2 September 2026Optional doors from 5:30pmOfficial start: 6:00pmFinish: 8:00pmBuildPass, Melbourne Free to attend. Capacity is limited, because Melbourne contains far more AI maniacs than we originally thought.