Creativity and Innovation Day. Online-Offline Competition
Online-Offline Competition to celebrate Creativity and Innovation Day.
In this hands-on workshop teams will randomly choose a problem to tackle, using limited time online and offline to develop ideas and a presentation. Participants will evaluate each other's work and vote to choose the winners. The purpose it to develop techniques to maximise creativity and to reduce over-dependency on AI tools.
AI & Copyright
In the spirit of the World Copyright Day, let's talk about copyright and generative artificial intelligence.
From ethical databases used to train the models, to inputs (i.e. what can you upload to an AI?), to outputs (e.g. can you hold the rights to an AI generated image?), legal frameworks variation in different parts of the world, and resources publicly available to learn more about AI and copyright.
AI Adoption in Australian Workplaces
Using your own AI at work? Learn about the risks, missed benefits, and why organisation‑approved tools like Copilot and Gemini matter.
Content: current state of AI adoption at work in Australia's workplaces, risks of bringing your own AI to work, advantages of using tools like Copilot and Gemini, regarding data protection and integrations, and best practices for encouraging technology adoption at work.
How clients find you in the age of AI
AI is used by customers to find products and services on the web. How to optimise for search and generative engines so your business can be found?
This event is a collaboration between BrandViz.AI and Skill Up and Shine.
Content: best practices to be found by customers through traditional internet search, the shifting landscape, how AI search actually works - in plain English, why some business get recommended and others don't, the visibility gap for business - shown with real data, practical things you can do to increase your chances of showing up.
Intro to Claude
Claude’s strength in crafting beautiful, structured documents feels like pure magic. Join me to explore its features and power.
If you've been curious about Claude, this hands-on session is a practical way to discover what it can do. We'll explore what makes this AI tool stand out, including how it handles long, complex conversations and produces high-quality outputs like reports and presentations.
AI at Work. Foundations
Learn the foundations for using generative AI securely, ethically and effectively in the workplace.
Content: Key foundations for working with generative AI at work, including common risks and limitations, the importance of using organisation‑approved AI tools, an introduction to different ways of working with AI (e.g. including automation, augmentation, testing), effective prompting practices, and reflection on what work can reasonably be delegated to AI.
Intro to Microsoft Copilot
Do you have Copilot at Work, but rarely use it? ... this session is for you.
Content: Microsoft Copilot Chat (access, interface, features overview), versions comparison (personal vs business), managing your chats, prompting techniques, prompt gallery, saving your prompts to the gallery, pages, agents, setting your own agent, and key considerations when using AI
AI Tools. Discover, Test & Share
Hands-on workshop to share favourite AI tools, explore new ones in teams, and build skills to navigate the fast-evolving AI landscape.
Content: Participant-led sharing of favourite AI tools, team exploration of new and emerging tools, hands-on experimentation, and collective sharing of insights and lessons learned. Tools will vary based on participant interests and discoveries.
AI Images Prompt Extravaganza
A fun, hands‑on session where we experiment with different prompting approaches for image generation using AI tools. Choose a creative project (e.g. mood chart, journaling, stories, logo), discuss tricks, tips and caveats around image sources, ethical use, and ownership of AI‑generated outputs, and learn how these tools are used in professional settings.
Intro to Claude
Claude’s strength in crafting beautiful, structured documents feels like pure magic. Join me to explore its features and power.
If you've been curious about Claude, this hands-on session is a practical way to discover what it can do. We'll explore what makes this AI tool stand out, including how it handles long, complex conversations and produces high-quality outputs like reports and presentations.
Claude - Hands-on Workshop
Claude’s strength in crafting beautiful, structured documents feels like pure magic. Join me to explore its features and power.
If you've been curious about Claude, this hands-on session is a practical way to discover what it can do. We'll explore what makes this AI tool stand out, including how it handles long, complex conversations and produces high-quality outputs like reports and presentations.
Perplexity - Hands-on Workshop
Perplexity earned its place in my heart by giving me the best answers, consistently.
If you know, you know.
If you don’t… Join me next Tuesday to explore its features and strengths.
Google Gemini Hands-on Workshop
Explore what free Gemini can do for you: faster responses, real-time web grounding, multimodality, huge context and many images.
Content: generative AI overview, Gemini (access, interface, features overview), versions comparison (personal vs business), managing your chats, program features, prompting techniques, and key considerations when using AI
Dynamic: The session alternates between brief content delivery, hands-on activities and discussion. You can choose to work with a hypothetical example or your own business idea. The focus is on building prompting skills and making the learning stick through practice.
AI for Startups: Prompting Extravaganza
Hands-on practice of AI prompting techniques for your startup, from strategy to customer acquisition.
Content: generative AI overview, free tools comparison, the business journey, prompting techniques, and key considerations when using AI
Dynamic: The session alternates between brief content delivery, hands-on activities and discussion. You can choose to work with a hypothetical example or your own business idea. The focus is on building prompting skills and making the learning stick through practice.