Rye Smith
City ambassador · Melbourne
Organiser of the Melbourne meetups and the first Claude Impact Lab in APAC.
The people
Claude Ambassadors in Australia.
Two kinds of champions run this community: city ambassadors who host their local scene, and vertical ambassadors who go deep on an industry. They're the reason there's a meetup near you.
City ambassadors
2 ambassadors · Melbourne and Sydney
Dominik Fretz
City ambassador · Sydney
Builds the community's own tooling with Claude Code and hosts the Sydney scene.
Across the country
1 state ambassador · 2 hosts · 2 open rolesWayne Hoggett
Queensland ambassador · Brisbane
Principal Author at Pluralsight. Runs the Brisbane Claude Code crew.
Cory Pritchard
Adelaide host
Co-hosts the Adelaide community.
Jack McNicol
Adelaide host
Co-hosts the Adelaide community.
Apply to host
Perth
Open role · Perth host
This role is open. Put your hand up to run it.
Apply to host
Canberra
Open role · Canberra host
This role is open. Put your hand up to run it.
Vertical ambassadors
Industry specialists who show what Claude Code looks like in their world, nationwide.
Vertical ambassadorSydney
Harley Barnes
Executive Manager of AI Technology at Quantium.
Vertical ambassadorSydney
Victor Bajanov
AI and data science advisory.
Vertical ambassadorAdelaide
Mining & resources
Bringing Claude to the mining and resources sector.
Open roleNationwide
Government & civic
This role is open. Put your hand up to run it.
Open roleSydney
Fintech
This role is open. Put your hand up to run it.
Open roleMelbourne
Healthcare
This role is open. Put your hand up to run it.
Champion your city or industry.
Perth and Canberra need city hosts, and vertical roles are open across government, fintech and healthcare. If that's you, we'll back you with the playbook, the network and the community.