§ NSW Small Business Month 2026

Two mornings on the part of AI that is useful if you run a business

These are official events of NSW Small Business Month 2026, a program run by the NSW Government. Free, in person, and run in Mandarin.

If you came from the NSW Government event page: this is where you register. The form is further down.

The two sessions

Thursday 8 October · 10:30am – 12:00pm

What actually changed for a small business this year, and what is noise

Most of what gets written about AI is written for people who build software. This is the other list: the few things that changed what it costs to find a customer, answer one, or get a quote out — and the much longer list of things that are demos.

Thursday 15 October · 10:30am – 12:00pm

Getting found when your customer asks an AI instead of searching

People increasingly ask an assistant for a recommendation rather than typing into a search box. We work through a real example of what a business needs to have in place before an assistant can name it — and what makes no difference at all.

What the room is like

Members show how AI is actually used in their line of work: what it saves, and what did not work. Not a product demo.
Everyone says what line of work they are in, so you can find people in your field before you leave.
Technical detail goes to Tuesday online; Thursday stays on how each industry uses AI.
The session is run in Mandarin, not English. Sydney is not short of English-language AI events; it was short of this one.

If this is your first one

Vibe Thursday is a Sydney AI meetup that runs every Thursday morning. It has run weekly since August 2026, with twenty or thirty people at each. These two October mornings are the ones listed on the NSW Small Business Month calendar: the same format as every other week, pitched deliberately at people who run a business.

No technical background needed, no laptop needed, nothing to prepare.

What will not happen

01Nothing is presented, promoted or sold — no product, no service.
02There is no paid follow-on, and no 'try it free then pay' arrangement behind it.
03Nobody leaves holding a quote.

That is what the NSW Small Business Month terms require, and it is also what we were already doing: this meetup has been free since the first session.

Register

A minute to fill in. It is the only way we know how many chairs to put out.

More, optional: email, how you heard, the member wall

How did you hear about this?

Your name, what you are working on and this week's topic go on the member wall. Email and WeChat ID are never shown, and you can take it down any time.

We take photos and short videos on the day, and may livestream. Rather stay off camera? Tell me when you arrive. Want something taken down later? Just ask.

These sessions are part of the 2026 NSW Small Business Month program, in partnership with the NSW Government.

See what a normal Thursday looks like