The team at MacTalk, one of Australia’s largest online communities for Apple users (they have over 20,000 registered members), have announced the first of many conferences in Melbourne’s CBD.

The first event will be held on March 5th at Innovation@257, Level 1, 257 Collins Street, Melbourne and will be starting at 6:30pm.

UPDATE: PLEASE NOTE THE DATE CHANGE TO MARCH 5TH

Attendees will hear from speakers including MacTalk co-founder Anthony Agius, who will demonstrate the workflow of MacTalk’s popular weekly podcast. Guest speaker Peter Wells will give an introductory lesson in Final Cut, Apple’s video editing suite, and Robert Amos will show webmasters how to make their websites iPhone compatible.

MacTalk co-founder Anthony Agius said he wants to provide Melbourne with a platform for community engagement with Apple products.

It will be completely free to attend and I encourage all Apple users who want to learn more about their Mac to come and do so.

The MacTalk Tech Talks are expected to run for approximately 2 hours, including question time, followed by networking afterwards.

“The presentations will be available for video download shortly after the event via podcast, but we’re hoping people don’t use that as an excuse not to attend.”

While there’s an ever increasing place for online communities it’s great to see more and more offline activities popping up for Aussie fans, of all kinds of tech, to meet in person.