Perth Claude Event – Hosted by MLAI and Perth AI
June 2026 • 78 Murray St, Perth
🚀 A rainy Monday evening couldn’t stop the Perth AI community from showing up.
The Night
More than 140 people registered for the Anthropic Claude Community event, with another 100+ on the waitlist. It was a strong reminder that the appetite for AI discussions, collaboration, and learning in Perth is only growing.
Researchers, founders, developers, students, business leaders, and people brand new to AI all came together in the same room — and the event delivered for a genuinely broad audience.
A Fantastic Line-Up of Speakers
Each presentation offered something different, from practical AI development to responsible adoption and real-world implementation.
- Mo Jaimangal (JupiterAI) spoke about building AI products that solve genuine business problems using Claude to support Australian universities responding to gender-based violence.
- Mash Prime (Directive Systems) demonstrated live AI-assisted development and how quickly ideas can become working software.
- Sonia Kaurah (Tala Thrive) highlighted the importance of culturally informed AI solutions in healthcare and community services, including agents across customer service, therapist data queries, and daily cross-platform briefings.
- Jake Ginnivan (Atlassian) showed how Claude Code can simplify the deployment of web applications and make it easier to manage large software projects.
- Beth Cusack from WADSIH demonstrated how Claude Code can be used to build robotics and education tools that help students develop practical AI skills.
- Alex Jenkins from WADSIH shared how Claude can support research automation, including work on lip-reading models and reducing word error rates.
Why It Mattered
This kind of event is a great way to showcase the different difficulty tiers and the range of things possible with tools that practically everyone can use. The strongest communities aren’t built by having only experts in the room — they’re built by creating spaces where first-time AI attendees and AI power users can learn from each other.
Thank You
Special thanks to Kristina Gagalova for MC’ing the night. A big thank you to Anthropic, MLAI, WA Data Science Innovation Hub (WADSIH), and Curtin University for making the evening possible. Thank you also to Dr Sam Donegan from MLAI and all our volunteers, including Tanya Kimber, Eunbee Lee, Yoesel Dema, and Hill Le.
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