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A vibrant gathering at Bloom Crawley - a wonderful space purpose-built for innovation!

📍 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 ❤️💻

🎤 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!

🌟 Special Guest: Mark McDonald

We were hugely grateful to have another legend - Mark McDonald - fresh off the back of Google I/O India 🇮🇳!

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 🎵
Gemini for app generation - developer tools

Super impressive and largely free! 🙌

🎉 Community Updates

🚀 Bird Drone at Zurich DeepTech Accelerator

Congrats to Harry Walters and Milan going to the DeepTech Accelerator with their 'Bird Drone' innovation in September!

🏆 Matilda WAIOTY Awards Finalist

Congratulations to Matilda Digital Endometriosis Care for being a Finalist in the WAIOTY awards!

💻 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 group…watch this space.

🙏 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 🪙 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!