A hands-on build night. Bring something you're actually working on, sit with experienced builders, spend three hours getting it moving.
Not a meetup. Not a class. No talks, no slides, no name tags. Just the seat at the right table, an expert on call, and your gap filled by the builder next to you.
The best work rarely happens alone at a desk. It also doesn't happen in a room full of people watching a slide. It happens when doers sit next to other doers, work gets interrupted by a useful question, and help turns up before you go looking for it.
Most places make you pick one. Coworking gives you a desk and silence. Meetups give you a room and small talk. Hackathons give you a deadline and a stranger's idea. None of them are built around your project. 629 matches you with people who can actually move it forward.
629 runs on one idea: showing unfinished work out loud, to people who can help, is the quickest way to get unstuck. Nobody here is watching. Everybody here is building. Helping out isn't a favour you owe back, it's just how the room works.
You're not renting a desk for three hours. The room runs on a few simple rituals so help finds you before you have to ask twice.
Stuck at any point, put your hand up and a lead comes to you. No booking, no waiting your turn.
Want quick feedback from five or more people? Call it anytime. Half-finished work is welcome, that's the whole idea.
Five experienced builders move around the room all night, checking in and pointing people at each other.
Get up and wander for 15. Find someone whose screen looks interesting and ask what they're building. Nothing there, move on.
Five experienced builders lead every night, moving between tables and jumping in where they're useful. The line-up for Session 01 is being locked in now.
Builds with LLMs day to day. Will help you wire up models, prompts and agents.
Turns rough ideas into something people actually want to use.
APIs, databases and deploys. The plumbing that holds up when it counts.
Getting the thing you built in front of real users.
Sharper positioning, naming and the story around what you're building — the angle and the why, not the code.
More leads announced soon.
We don't sort by level or job title. Everyone here shares one thing: real work in motion, and a wall they can't clear alone.
The developer who ships fast but wants sharper product sense. The founder with users but no one to build beside. The corporate builder whose best project only gets Sunday nights. The maker with a working product but no brand or first users.
The mix is the point. Your gap is someone else's strong suit, one table over. The only rule: bring something already underway.
We don't do food. There's water. Bring your own, grab something on the way, or order in on the night, up to you. The $22 is for the session, not dinner.
Built one of Australia's longest-running creative tech festivals.
An AI agency grounded in real-world experience. Former Global CIO of Woods Bagot.
Spaces are limited and every registration is personally reviewed. George or Tom will review yours and email you a secure payment link to confirm your seat. Keep an eye on your inbox (and your spam folder).