Recap: GenAI Builders Meetup Melbourne with Prime Value Asset Management

This week, GenAI Fund officially brought GenAI Builders Meetup to Australia for the first time.

Together with Prime Value Asset Management, we hosted our very first GenAI Builders Meetup Melbourne, bringing together AI founders, engineers, researchers, enterprise leaders, investors, students, and ecosystem builders who are already actively building with AI.

What made the session special was not just the turnout. It was the room. People shared openly about what they are building, what problems they care about, and where they believe AI is heading next.

A first step into Australia’s AI ecosystem

Melbourne was an important first stop for GenAI Fund in Australia. The meetup brought together a strong mix of technical talent, startup founders, enterprise leaders, researchers, and students — all with different perspectives on how AI is being built and adopted.

One of the biggest themes from the room was the growing opportunity for collaboration between the Southeast Asia and Australian AI ecosystems. Southeast Asia is moving quickly with AI products, builder communities, and market-driven use cases. Australia brings strong research depth, enterprise demand, technical talent, and founders thinking globally. Bringing these two ecosystems closer together can create more room for shared pilots, talent exchange, venture collaboration, and cross-border market access.

Featuring the next generation of AI builders

We were also excited to feature some of the top finalists from the AI Youth Challenge, an initiative launched together with Edcellent to help empower the next generation of AI builders in Australia.

The finalists brought fresh energy into the room and reminded everyone why early exposure matters. AI is moving quickly, and the next generation of builders will not just use these tools. They will help define what gets built with them.

A big thank you to Carlyn K. and the Edcellent team, together with the support from Prime Value, for helping make this possible.

Connecting Melbourne to Agentic AI Build Week

The Melbourne meetup was also a bridge into Agentic AI Build Week this July in Vietnam, where 2,000+ AI builders, enterprises, and innovators across the region will come together to co-build the future of agentic AI.

We would love to bring more of the Australian AI ecosystem into that conversation — from founders and researchers to investors, enterprise leaders, students, and community builders. If Melbourne showed us anything, it is that the energy is already here.

Spotted builders in the trenches — GBM Melbourne:

🔹Ryan Djurovich, Nadrama

🔹Jonathan Krywicki, Aix lab

🔹Daniel Tran, Visual Obscurity

🔹Tracy Bongiorno, GAICD, Mentorloop

🔹David Yip, GAICD, Alumable

🔹Tony Stewart, Hybrid Software Pty Ltd

🔹Marcel Lammerse GAICD, Cyber Sense

🔹Tarekegn Chimdi, EHCC

🔹Karl, Falcon Ai

🔹Martin K., Akagi

🔹Lachlan Loveberry, Loveberry

🔹Anthony Mach, Strike Advisory

🔹Leon Hudson, Streem

🔹Sandeep Hans, Aiimakan

🔹Quang Nguyen, The University of Melbourne

🔹Jun Kai Chang – Luc, Elmalabs

🔹Charles Rickey, Argiro Credit Platform Pty Ltd

🔹Jason Liu, Cyberoo Pty Ltd

🔹Thomas Tjahjadi, Dino Elements

🔹Dan X., Cyberoo Pty Ltd

🔹Anna Osherov, Flintt

🔹Talent Lim, AI-levate

🔹Ricky Tjoe, AILevate

🔹Welly S., PlayHQ Sports

🔹Pugalenthi Magendran, Gatecrown

🔹Muhammad Ali, ClickHouse

🔹Saad Kamal, MonstarX

🔹Sze Lok Chan, Penra

🔹King Arthur, AIBUYER Pty Ltd

🔹Linh N.

Huge thank you again to Prime Value Asset Management for hosting our first Melbourne meetup together with us, and thank you to everyone who joined and helped make it such a strong start.

We will be back for sure.

Let’s keep building!