Dave's Events

12 Mar 2026 · UPCOMING
Handmade values in an automated world — Byron Tech Meetup · Lord Byron Distillery, Byron Bay

A 3-person panel feature Dave Berner, Parachute and Chris Jewell (Zepto). This promises to be a relaxed, thoughtful conversation about the tension between handmade values and automated tools - where AI genuinely supports good work, where speed starts to undermine it, and how people draw personal lines around what they’re willing (or not willing) to automate.

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24 Feb 2026 · UPCOMING
Beats n business — Bay FM 99.9 · Lord Byron Distillery, Byron Bay

Interview on Bay FM covering the wide variety of dynamic, innovative and diverse range of business people in the Byron Shire and beyond

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6 Nov 2025
Bringing human into AI — The Signal Summit · Byron Bay

Speaking at The Signal Summit, a gathering of builders, researchers, founders, designers, and policy leaders in AI and emerging tech.

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12 Sept 2025
Co-pilot, not auto-pilot — Web Directions - Engineering AI · Sydney

From engineering to marketing to product, I'll walk through where AI has genuinely helped us build faster, make better decisions and where we've deliberately chosen not to use it.

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4 Sept 2025
Vibe to viable — Byron Tech Meetup · Mullumbimby

Tips and tricks to get further with vibe coding

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1 Aug 2025
Scaling SaaS calmly — Startup Daily

Founder lessons from Kinde.

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8 June 2023
Don't believe the hype! — Web Directions Code · Melbourne

We've all been guilty of it, a new technology comes along and you're desperate to try it out. Before you know it, you've installed a bunch of dependencies, completed a brilliant 'refactor' and shipped to prod. What you didn't realise through all the high-fives and back-slapping with your team, is you've inadvertently shipped an extra 10mb of JS to the end user!

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2 Dec 2022
Frontend security 101 — Web Directions Summit · Sydney

Websites are hacked daily at a frighteningly increasing rate. In the wake of big brands like Optus and Medibank being breached, people are starting to take security more seriously. It's easy to assume that security is a backend concern but the truth is it's something we all need to be thinking about with every line of code we write and all the PRs we review.

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30 Aug 2022
Building engineering teams that scale — Engineering Sydney · Sydney

A deep dive into the strategies and practices for building engineering teams that can scale effectively with your business growth.