AI Exchange

Exploring AI. Sharing experience. Building capability.

Hosted by Dianne Jacobs

Melbourne Forum is launching a new member forum, the AI Exchange. It's a member-led initiative designed to assist us understand how AI is not only reshaping organisations, industries and professions, but also transforming how we look at opportunity, governance and risk.

The AI Exchange will create a trusted peer network and community of practice within Melbourne Forum where members can exchange ideas, successes and challenges, while exploring what AI means for the way we work, lead and live.

Help shape the 2027 series

We are inviting members who are already using AI – our early adopters and informed practitioners – to join an initial online session to design the future programme.

This first meeting will focus on:

• Identifying the most compelling and relevant themes for members;
• Identifying members who can lead conversations, share experiences or chair sessions;
• Considering the mix of formats that will be most valuable; and
• Setting a 2027 calendar that is practical, provocative and intellectually engaging.

What might the AI Exchange include?

The AI Exchange has the potential to bring together a diverse range of experiences and formats, including member case studies, peer learning, experimentation, masterclasses, expert conversations, site visits and informal chat group.

We will draw on the expertise within the Forum to lead discussions. External experts will be invited where deeper specialist perspectives would add value.

Themes to explore in 2027

The initial meeting will test and prioritise a range of possible themes, including:

• Innovative AI: what is genuinely new, and where is the real value?
• Who Builds and Who Benefits: the economics and power of AI
• Sustainability & Infrastructure: impacts on capital projects and the environment 
• AI & the ASX: investment, productivity and disruption
• Risk, Cost & Opportunity: making better decisions about AI
• Architecture: will AI create a different architecture?
• Arts: focus on artists and the creative sector
• Healthcare & Medicine: developments in treatments and longevity
• Employment: jobs, skills, career transitions, shadow AI and the future of work
• Governance & Ethics: checks and balances, transparency, information security, off-track agents, human responsibility
• FinTech, Financial Services & Money: financial technology across the economy
• Education & Training: the future of learning
• Law & Legal Institutions: what the justice system will look like in the future
• Society & Civic Life: living in this brave new world 
• Anthropomorphism & Persona: why we relate to AI as if it were human.

These are starting points rather than a fixed agenda. The purpose of the first meeting is to determine what matters most to Melbourne Forum members.

Join the conversation

If you are interested in helping shape the Melbourne Forum AI Exchange for 2027, we invite you to register for this initial online session.

If you would like to express interest in future activities, lead a conversation, source introductions, share articles of interest on the MF App chat group, have questions or ideas about the initiative, please reach out to Dianne Jacobs.

Join us online, share what you are seeing and doing, and be part of this member-led AI Exchange for Melbourne Forum.

(Disclosure: ChatGPT assisted designing the graphic.)