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AI is reshaping work. The big questions are ethics and safety.
Join Hilary Cinis (AI Strategy Director, Ethics, Risk & Data Quality, Salesforce ANZ) and Joël Kalmanowicz (Director, Trust & Safety Product, Operations & Policy, Canva) for short talks and a grounded conversation on keeping AI safe, responsible, and human with a good balance of leadership and implementation planning..
After the conversation, stay for an applied lab led by Matt Kendall and Elliot Costello.
In this hands-on workshop, we'll collectively try to make sense of the AI phase-shift we're hurtling into.
Discover where you and others stand on the AI spectrum, and explore generative near-future scenarios through mixed perspectives. Drawing on social media’s cautionary tale, we'll explore how we can help ensure human intelligence and judgment remain irreplaceable in shaping AI’s impact.
Facilitated by Elliot Costello and Matt Kendall of AWARE Ai.
Limited seats. Real conversation plus hands-on work. No hype.
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Joël's passion is making the world a better place with trust & safety in technology. He leads this effort at Canva, working to achieve impact safely with a platform approach. Previously he led Cloud Developer Platform at Atlassian, Product & Privacy at Sonder.io, and multiple products at Google over six years across consumer, enterprise, social, hardware, AI/ML, voice, geo/maps, hardware, and mobile.
Joël also co-founded a social impact startup, mentored dozens of startups and nonprofits, and volunteered to help government groups innovate across education, safety, and security. He enjoys more hobbies than you'd expect, though now spends most of his time as a dedicated dad.
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Hilary Cinis is a human-centred digital transformation consultant with Salesforce ANZ where she works with enterprise business leaders to identify and move forward on AI opportunities. Hilary’s strengths are in design thinking and systems thinking and co-design to deliver easily understood strategies for AI and the data stewardship that underpins it. She is passionate about establishing holistic data cultures, social good and ethical and responsible AI. She is a member of the Salesforce Trusted AI Services Program, was a working member of the National AI Centre Think Tank and a member of the AICD.
As ygap's founding CEO, he backed 550 ventures improving 1.1 million lives and raised $20M AUD. Now building Phantm, an AI platform tackling complex plastics with regenerative, climate-justice solutions, and now cofounder of AWARE Ai.
A strategist and communicator focused on systems change who has been working with AI since 2022.
With brand leadership across startups, government, and global organisations, he bridges science, storytelling, and strategy to elevate humans in the loop and scale regenerative solutions, such as AWARE Ai.
With 20+ years in innovation, leadership, and community-building, I create ecosystems where ideas spark action. I’ve worked across startups, universities, and government, leading high-impact programs and events. Now, as founder of THE REMIX :: BYRON, I’m building a hub where innovation meets community, and bold thinking leads to real change.
SAE Creative Media Institute is Australia’s leading educator in creative media, with campuses across the country and a proud global network. SAE offers industry-recognised degrees, diplomas, and certificates in audio, film, animation, design, and emerging technologies.
Rooted in a philosophy of hands-on learning and real-world application, SAE empowers the next generation of storytellers, technologists, and change-makers to shape the future of creative industries.
