here is a lot going on in Melbourne at the moment with as many as seven different completing ICT related events on some nights.A few years ago I started keeping a list of IT related events that I regularly attended on my team wiki as a way of encouraging coworkers to do more professional development.
Eventually I moved the list to my Google Calendar and this blog. People started emailing me details of events and groups, and the list rapidly expanded. You will find upcoming events and a list of user groups on the right hand side of the blog. The list of groups has become unwieldy, therefore I have sorted them into rough categories below.
- Agile Product Owners and Business Analysts (2nd Tues every Month)
- 💀Business Analysts Social Gathering
- 💀Architecture and Transformation Professionals
Amiga User Group- Apple User Group - Ausom
- internet macintosh user group
- Linux Users Group (MLUG)
- Linux Users Vic (LUV)
- Novell User Group
- 💀Open Solaris User Group
- Raspberry Jam
- XO Club
- ACS Business Intelligence SIG
- DB2 Users Group
- 💀Geographical Information Systems (Open-GIS)
- Graph Database
- 💀MongoDB
- SQL PASS
- SQL Server UG
- 💀ASP.NET Startups
- Churchill Club (once a Month)
- 💀Disruptive Startups
- HeadStart
- Lean Startup
- 💀Pitch Club
- Silicon Beach
- Startup Grind (4th Wed of every month)
- The Entrepreneur Club (once a Month)
- TiE (frequent meetings)
- Footscray Maker Lab (on Hiatus)
- Hackduino (on Hiatus)
- HackerSpace
- 💀Hack and Tell
- 💀Microcontroller Group
- NodeBots (1st Wed of every month)
- Raspberry Jam
- DevOps (on Hiatus)
- Infrastructure Administrators Group
- Infrastructure Coders (2nd Tue of every month)
- Puppet User Group (Once most Months)
- System Administrators (SAGE-AU)
- System Center, Security, and Infrastructure Group
- Professional Societies
- Australian Computer Society
- Australian Institute of Project Management
- Infrastructure Administrators Group
- IT Teachers (VITTA)
- Media and Tech (The Fed)
- PMI Melbourne
- System Administrators (SAGE-AU)
- Telecommunications Society
- Misc
- Bitcoin
- 💀Teahouse ToastMasters
- Tech Events (Australian) Calendar
- Tech Events (Australian) Twitter
- TechEvents in Australia
- Mobile Computing
- Android Australia (once a Month)
- CocoaHeads (2nd Thurs every Month)
- Melbourne Mobile (1st Wed of every month)
- 💀Mobile Application Development
- Mobile Monday
- 💀Titanium
- Social Media and Networking
- Software Design, Graphics Design and User Experience
- Computer Human Interaction (once a year in Nov / Dec)
- 💀Design Anthropology
- 💀Dribbble (Revived 2015 now back in limbo)
- 💀InDesign User Group
- Pecha Kucha Nights
- Service Design (3rd Thurs of every month)
- Software Architecture and Project Design
- (now called Tactical Coder Melbourne)
- UX Australia (once a year in August)
- UX Bookclub (irregular meetings - last 9 Feb 2017)
- UX Design Group (On Hiatus)
- 💀 uX Designer and Developer Network
- 💀Virtual Reality
- Software Development Platforms and Vendor Specific Technology
- 💀Clojure
- CocoaHeads (2nd Thurs of every month)
- DB2 Users Group
- Delphi User Group (3rd Mon each Month)
- Django (On Hiatus)
- 💀Ember JS (Revived Jan 2016 now re-dead)
- Go Programming Language - Golang (1st Tues of every month)
- Google Developer Group
- 💀Haskell
- Java and JVM User Group (On Hiatus)
- .Net and other Microsoft Technologies
- 💀Alt.Net
- Biz Talk Group
- Dot Net
- Dot Net Development SIG (Victoria.NET) (on Hiatus)
- Office 365 Meetup (on Hiatus)
- SQL PASS
- SQL Server UG
- xRm User Group
- 💀MongoDB
- NodeJS (on Hiatus)
- Perl Mongers (on Hiatus)
- Php User Group (11th Sep 2025)
- Python Users Group (on Hiatus)
- Ruby User Group ( 2nd Wed of every month)
- SAS User Group
- 💀Scala User Group
- Software Development Non-Vendor Specific
- Agile Coaching (on Hiatus)
- 💀Agile Alliance
- Agile Business Analysts (2nd Tues every Month)
- Agile Project Managers (3rd Tues every Month)
- 💀Be Responsive
- Coding Dojo
- Connected Community HackerSpace
- Cloud Computing
- Cynefin (on Hiatus / dead)
- DevOps Group (once every 2 Months)
- Developer Developer Developer! (once a year in August)
- Enterprise Application Development
- 💀Functional User Group
- 💀Hack Night
- International Game Developers' Association, Melbourne Chapter
- LAST conference (once a year )
- Lean Coffee (every Tuesday morning)
- Lean Startup
- Limited WIP Society (Kanban - Lean Software Development) (irregular meetings)
- 💀OpenTechSchool
- Open Source Developers' Club
- Patterns Group
- Scrum User Group
- 💀X User Group
- Yow! Conference (once a year )
- Software Testing
- 💀Performance User Group
- Software Testers (MAST)
- Software Testing SIG (ACS)
- 💀Computer Graphics on the Web
- 💀Ember JS (Revived Jan 2016 now re-dead)
- Open Web Application Security Project
- ReactJS (irregular meetings)
- 💀Responsive Web
- Web Accessibility Inclusive Design
- Web Analytics Wednesdays (3rd Wed of Month)
- Web Developers (renamed Tech for FinTechs)
- Web - Port80 (irregular meetings)
- Web Standards Group
- Content Management Systems
- Drupal User Group (irregular meetings)
- 💀ExpressionEngine Meetup Group
- 💀Joomla User Group (irregular meetings)
- 💀SilverStripe (irregular meetings)
- WordPress (2nd Wed of every month)
- Frameworks and Scripting Languages
- Django (3rd Thurs of every month)
- 💀ACS Women
- Females in IT and Telecommunications
- Girl Geek Coffee (Monash)
- Girl Geek Coffee Club
- Girl Geek Dinners (irregular meetings)
- Rails Girls (irregular meetings)
- Vic ICT for Women
For more information about IT and entrepreneurial events in Melbourne subscribe to the Melbourne Edition of the Startup Digest curated by yours truly.
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