Build Club Perth - August Recap
August 2025 โข Bloom Crawley

A vibrant gathering at Bloom Crawley - a wonderful space purpose-built for innovation!
๐ Venue Spotlight: Bloom Crawley
August Build Club Perth was hosted at Bloom Crawley - a fantastic venue purpose-built for innovation!
We had a very vibrant group of students, innovation specialists, and industry folks attend. The discussions were so engaging that people were still chatting for several hours!
So good to be in a room where everyone has such a huge love for tech and innovation โค๏ธ๐ป
๐ค Featured Speaker: Jeroen van Dalen
The legend himself - Jeroen van Dalen presented compelling data on the unbelievable scale and pace of capex infrastructure spending that AI is driving!
Key Insights:
- AI infrastructure investment happening at unprecedented scale
- Current spending still not enough to keep up with demand
- Vision for a total shift in how Accelerator programs are designed
- Bloom LaunchLAB AI approach: building more mature MVPs faster and pivoting more often
Jeroen was so inspiring in his passion for supporting innovators in AI!
๐ Special Guest: Mark McDonald
We were hugely grateful to have another legend - Mark McDonald - fresh off the back of Google I/O India ๐ฎ๐ณ!
Mark shared hot takes on the latest Google AI Studio functionality targeted to the dev community.
Live Demos Included:
- Multimodal generation - text, image, audio, and video capabilities
- Imagen 4 - high-quality image creation
- Gemini image editing - interactive voice and text image manipulation
- Veo 3 - advanced video generation with audio and improved physics
- Lyria music generation - game soundtracks and more ๐ต
- Gemini for app generation - developer tools
Super impressive and largely free! ๐
๐ Community Updates
๐ Bird Drone at Zurich DeepTech Accelerator
Congrats to Harry Walters and Milan going to the DeepTech Accelerator with their 'Bird Drone' innovation in September!
๐ Matilda WAIOTY Awards Finalist
Congratulations to Matilda Digital Endometriosis Care for being a Finalist in the WAIOTY awards!
๐ป WeMoney Hackathon & New Office
WeMoney shared awesome updates for their Hackathon and announced an exciting new office opening!
Plus much more! Big things to come from this groupโฆwatch this space.
๐ Thank You!
Massive thanks to Jeroen van Dalen and Mark McDonald for spending so much time with our community. The value you add is gold ๐ช and we are so grateful to you.
Supporting Organizations:
- Bloom - for the fantastic venue at Bloom Crawley
- WA Data Science Innovation Hub (WADSIH) - for pizzas
- Matilda Digital Endometriosis Care - Sapphire Carter brought supersized donuts!
- WeMoney - for the team showing support time and again!
So grateful to everyone who attended and contributed to such an engaging and inspiring evening!
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