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Workshops, panels and build nights

Everything we run is beginner-friendly by default. Turn up knowing nothing and you'll still leave having built something — or at least knowing what the words mean.

Coming up

Summer Projects · 9 January – 6 March

UWA AI Club Summer Projects 2026–27: Applications Open

Summer Projects is an 8-week, hands-on program where you'll work in small teams with team leads to build real AI projects and gain practical experience through project-based learning.

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2026

Workshop · 30 September 2026, 12-2 (perth)

GDUWA x AI Club: Optimisation Algorithms: A Gentle Tour

Optimisation is a massive part of our lives, from video games and AI to the engineering of computer chips and bus routes to the very essence of life itself. This workshop will give an overview of optimisation algorithms, focusing on building the intuition for evolutionary algorithms.

Giumelli Learning Studio 4

Workshop · 17 September 2026, 4–6pm (Perth).

Build Your AI TWIN

Build a simple AI version of yourself and put it to the test. Explore how personality prompts shape an agent—and whether it really behaves like you.

Venture, UWA

Workshop · 26 August 2026, 3-5pm (Perth).

AI agents Workshop

A hands-on introduction to AI agents using Anthropic’s API, the CRAFT prompting framework, and Jupyter Notebooks.

Venture, UWA

Reading group · 20 August 2026

Paper of the Month: Attention Is All You Need

The launch of our Paper of the Month series, starting with the paper that introduced the transformer.

The Circle, Reid Library

Students running language models locally on their laptops

Workshop · 13 August 2026

AI, Unplugged: Local LLMs

A hands-on workshop on running language models locally, on your own laptop, with nothing going to an API.

Venture, UWA

Teams working across campus during The Ultimate Hackathon

Hackathon · August 2026

The Ultimate Hackathon: Vibe to Survive

100+ participants across 30 teams, three campus regions, and a post-apocalyptic brief. Run with the Data Science Club and Coders for Causes.

Sunken Garden · Reid Library · Matilda Bay

A Winter Projects session in progress, with a team presenting to the room from two screens

Program · Showcase 4 August 2026

Winter Projects 2026

Nine teams across beginner, research, industry and internal tracks, closing with a showcase at Bloom and feedback from industry judges.

Bloom, St Catherine's College, UWA

Talk · 13 May 2026

AI Safety Evening

An evening on AI safety — what it actually is, and the pathways into it — co-hosted with Effective Altruism UWA.

Hemsley Learning Suite, Reid Library

Students working an AI-assisted business case at the Visagio workshop

Workshop · 6 May 2026

AI in Consulting

A hands-on workshop with Visagio: use AI tools to solve a real business problem, then hear how consultants are actually using them.

The Circle, Reid Library

Study night · 1 April 2026

Study Night — Computer Networks

A chill co-working night at UWA Venture with a Computer Networks facilitator on hand for the hard bits.

UWA Venture

Cameron Fitzgerald in conversation with students at the Venture office

Talk · 1 April 2026

From UWA to Silicon Valley

A fireside chat with Cameron Fitzgerald — UWA Software Engineering graduate, now an engineering lead at Anthropic via Google and Stripe.

Venture Office, Guild Building

The four panellists seated in front of the audience at Ezone Social

Panel · 26 March 2026

From Uni to Industry: Tech in WA

A panel night with Venture UWA bringing together four leaders from across WA's tech industry — on what roles are actually growing here, and what employers look for past your GPA.

Ezone Social