Category: Sydney Mobile Apps Meetup

 

May 4, 2023, Contextual is proud to present in partnership with Fishburners Tech Talk #5: GPT Tech & Ethics – Opportunities and Risks. 

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Tech Talk#5 will be moderated by Fishburners’ resident product growth experts David Jones Founder and CEO Contextual.

ChatGPT and GPT4 are moving so fast, how can tech companies (startups, scale-ups, etc.) leverage their own product’s unique features and data to accelerate customer value? We will cover:

• How has GPT changed since we posted this meetup? ????

• Define ChatGPT, GPT and Generative-AI in terms of Apps

• What are some Product and Tech strategies to assess GPT in your product suite?

  • What will GPT commoditize?

  • How can my Product get a unique advantage?

  • Are the technical attacks known? (poisoning of training)

• Marketing your Product

  • Is SEO dead? 

  • Beyond writing blogs and emails

  • What is the “new, new” marketing thing?

• Ethics:

  • How might your product overstep?

  • You can 100x content, fake news, deepfakes and spam – is that ever good?

  • Re-invent, re-deploy or Re-trench staff?

  • What new careers emerge from GPT?

When: 4th May, 2023, 12pm-1pm.
Where: Fishburners, L3/11 York Street Sydney NSW 2000

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Meet our expert panel

Luke Metcalfe

Luke has been a data entrepeneur since 2002 and coder since the age of 5. He’s had two exits and consulted in data science to boards and founders, all the while remaining on the tools. His current project, Microburbs, is the largest and most diverse geo database in Australia, AI platform and useful suburb selection reference for property buyers. He has been aggressively integrating generative models and GPT into his startup since 2020.

David McKeague

David  is Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer at Curious Thing AI, an Australian artificial intelligence scaleup that provides conversational voice AI services for the enterprise. Mr McKeague is a serial tech entrepreneur with more than 30 years’ experience and for the last 10 years, he has founded AI first startups.

Claire Campbell 

Claire is the Ventures Lead at Terem Joint Ventures, focused on building tech spin-outs in partnership with market leading businesses. Claire is currently building a venture on OpenAI. Claire’s background is in strategy and product with some of Australia’s largest ASX-listed businesses. She’s also a fellow and mentor of the Startmate network.

Moderator
David Jones (Founder/CEO Contextual) is a product-obsessed founder whose last company, ThreatMetrix, exited in March 2018 for over $1B. His previous company exited to Surfcontrol (now Forepoint). David is also Board member @ Fishburners, was a Founding Mentor/Investor at Startmate and co-convenor for the Sydney Mobile Apps and Android Australia User Group.

About Fishburners Tech Talks

As the Australian startup ecosystem evolves, a vital part of our mission at Fishburners is to give access to a broad range of resources and insights that support entrepreneurs in building commercially viable ventures. 

TechTalks aim to provide thoughtful, interactive panels and workshops delivered by industry experts, focused on filling capability and knowledge gaps to supercharge the founders and operators in our community. 

From demystifying tech, to capital raising, to team building, we’ve listened to founders share their biggest challenges and have sought out the best and brightest to share their insights.

Tech Talk #5: GPT Tech & Ethics – Opportunities and Risks is both an in person event and will also be live streamed.  Register here

 

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April 6, 2023, Contextual is proud to present in partnership with Fishburners Tech Talk #3! Hosted by one of Fishburners’ resident product growth experts David Jones Founder and CEO Contextual.

 

Hear from Two of Australia’s tech unicorns Deputy and Canva in a fireside format where David will dig into the Product, Engineering an Marketing aspects of growth when a startup has blistering commercial success like Deputy and Canva have demonstrated.

 

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About Fishburners Tech Talks

As the Australian startup ecosystem evolves, a vital part of our mission at Fishburners is to give access to a broad range of resources and insights that support entrepreneurs in building commercially viable ventures.

 

TechTalks aim to provide thoughtful, interactive panels and workshops delivered by industry experts, focused on filling capability and knowledge gaps to supercharge the founders and operators in our community.

 

From demystifying tech, to capital raising, to team building, we’ve listened to founders share their biggest challenges and have sought out the best and brightest to share their insights.

 

Panel Speakers

 

Raminder Singh

Raminder is a seasoned Senior Mobile Engineer, who is a member of the Mobile Growth Team at Deputy. With a natural product mindset, he has contributed to numerous growth initiatives. Recently, he has been focused on enhancing the user experience of the mobile onboarding process and conducting growth experiments for the team. He has nearly a decade of experience in the mobile space including being a founder of startup Sandora Inc in the Bay Area aimed at creating a hassle-free rental platform for both landlords and tenants. His passion for growth goes beyond work and he often spends his free time learning about self-improvement, the human mind, and of course getting lost in a good game on PlayStation*.

 

Francois Bondiguel

Head of Growth Marketing B2B at Canva is a proven Marketing and Growth leader with over a decade of experience in customer acquisition, funnel optimisation and product-led growth for leading ecommerce businesses and global SaaS companies. Prior to Canva Francois was instrumental in the growth success of several other Unicorns and Centaurs including Vend, Xero and Deputy increasing their revenues from single digit millions to tens and hundreds of millions. Francois gained his growth skills early in his career Francois founding his own SaaS startup and successfully exiting after growing the user community to over 50,000.

 

Moderator

 

David Jones

David Jones is Founder/CEO of Contextual and serves on the board at Fishburners. David is also a product-obsessed founder whose last company, ThreatMetrix, exited in March 2018 for over $1B. His previous company exited to Surfcontrol (now Forepoint) and his current company is Contextual. Contextual delivers a codeless SaaS Onboarding solution for Mobile and Web applications – the team can often be found around Fishburners. David is also a Founding Mentor at Startmate.

 

This is an in-person and virtual event. Register details here.

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March 16, 2023 Contextual is set to host a special in-person (and virtual) event Sydney Mobile Apps Meetup: The War on Bugs: Automating QA for scaling Mobile and Web Apps in partnership with Deputy @ Deputy head offices on level 13, 580 George Street Sydney.

 

About the event

The most successful apps don’t just have to be really great, they have to be really great in a countless number of different scenarios and perform optimally under sometimes extremely challenging conditions. This is where QA the unsung heroes of a product’s success play their most crucial role.

 

This panel session will feature several speakers who are industry experts in quality assurance testing for mobile and web apps at scale. Hosted by David Jones CEO Contextual, board member @ Fishburners and co-convenor for the Sydney Mobile Apps and Android Australia user Group – Meetup panel members will be invited to share their experiences, successes and learnings.

 

Featured Speakers

 

James Morrissey

James Morrissey is a Senior Android Engineer on the Mobile Platform Team @ Deputy. He is across all aspects of the mobile platform, CI, and digs into backend as needed to solve performance bottlenecks. In the last year he has worked closely with QA Engineering to integrate various testing frameworks into our tech stack for evaluation. He worked at Westfield & GoCatch and currently at Deputy for over 3 years where he has brought technical excellence and passion for the craft. When he’s not brewing craft beer at home, he’s developing his own reddit client for Android called Mellow.

 

Sooyeon (Sue) Park

Sooyeon (Sue) Park. QA Automation Lead @ Contextual Sooyeon is an experienced QA engineer with over four years of expertise in specialized testing areas, including test automation and performance testing. Sue is a solution-oriented team player who prioritizes collaboration between product and engineering teams to effectively implement features that benefit end-users. Prior to transitioning into a career in software engineering, Sooyeon was a classical musician with a keen ear for sound quality.

 

Since joining the Contextual team after completing her Master’s degree in Software Engineering, Sooyeon has been instrumental in improving the team’s quality engineering practices and fostering a harmonious work environment. 

 

James and Sue will share their experiences and perspectives in running a highly scalable QA operations in a “fireside chat” format hosted by David Jones followed by an AMA session. David Jones is Founder/CEO of Contextual . David Jones is also a product-obsessed founder whose last company, ThreatMetrix, exited in March 2018 for over $1B. His previous company exited to Surfcontrol (now Forepoint) and his current company is Contextual. Contextual delivers a codeless SaaS Onboarding solution for Mobile and Web applications – the team can often be found around Fishburners. David is also a Founding Mentor at Startmate.

 

Other Panel speakers to be announced

 

If you are a QA expert and/or app developer and would like to be part of this or future panel discussions please contact charles@contextu.al.

 

In person places will be limited for this special event. So register now and secure your spot.

 

You can also join us online. Zoom details will be sent to you once you RSVP.

Sydney Mobile Apps Meetup is very proud to be a Community Partner for DeveloperWeek 2023

DeveloperWeek 2023 (Feb 15-17, Oakland CA | Feb 21-23, Virtual) is The world’s largest developer conference & expo where 8,000+ developer, engineering & technical leaders converge to discover the latest developer & engineering innovations. Learn from leaders at Google, Slack, Microsoft, AWS, J.P. Morgan, Waze, Cisco, Twitch, Akamai, Oracle, Vonage, Indeed, and dozens more!

The DeveloperWeek team has offered Sydney Mobile Apps members 25 free OPEN Passes and discounted PRO Passes, so our members can attend for free.

First 25 members to register must Register here

You must register at the link above (and not just indicate that you are attending here on Meetup).

Register now to get your (one of 25) free OPEN Pass or to SAVE $100 on your PRO Pass.

December 14, 2022 Contextual is set to host a special in-person (and virtual) Sydney Mobile Apps Meetup “Secrets of Success for Indie App Developers ” in partnership with Fishburners on level 3, 11 York Street at the Sydney Start-up Hub.

This in-person Meetup hosted by Contextual CEO David Jones will feature a panel of  two independent mobile software developer veterans who will share their “Secrets of Success for Indie App Developers”

Graham Dawson

Graham has created, developed and sold apps since the inception of the App Store.

Graham’s successes include iOS apps “Oz Weather” (ranked number 3 in weather and once top paid app in Australia) and “Sun Seeker” (# 6 in Navigation and consistently top ranked worldwide in Navigation category).

Graham is the founder and director of Ajnaware Pty Ltd. Anjaware creates and sells apps under the business name ozPDA.

Peter Delahunty.

 

Peter describes himself as an old skool indie hacker (25 year+), He has used more programming languages / frameworks than he can remember and is perpetually in the pursuit of Startup success.

Peter’s tech life highlights include YCombinator Alumni, building 1 of the 5 flagship products for SiteMinder (IPO exit last year) and he could probably write a book on what not to do in a startup. Peter is now CTO in Climate Tech Startup.

Peter’s independant app is “Pistuu – Plant Based Recipes” a highly popular vegan recipe and meal planning app.

Graham and Peter will share their experiences and perspectives in building highly successful mobile apps in a “fireside chat” format hosted by David Jones followed by an AMA session. David Jones is Founder/CEO of Contextual . David is a product-obsessed founder whose last company, ThreatMetrix, exited in March 19 for over $1B.

If you are an app developer and would like to be part of our future panel discussions please contact charles@contextu.al.

Be part of creating our community. We will also hold an AMA session and seek your feedback on the format and content for future events.

This is an in-person and virtual event. Register Here