Christchurch Artificial Intelligence

5:30–6:00 pm — Drinks & Networking
6:00–6:45 pm — AI Is Not Neutral: Designing Healthcare AI for Real Work, Real Risk — Rowena Woolgar
6:45–7:30 pm — AI in Agri-Food: Real Opportunities and Smarter Growth — Dr Harold Mayaba
7:30–8:00 pm — Drinks & Open Q&A

This month's Meetup dives into two industry verticals where AI is already changing how decisions get made: healthcare and agri-food.

AI Is Not Neutral: Designing Healthcare AI for Real Work, Real Risk — Rowena Woolgar
AI in healthcare is never just a technical decision. It reshapes judgement, accountability, and trust. This session explores how AI must be designed and implemented differently across healthcare roles, from administrators and clinicians through to multidisciplinary teams, service delivery, and national system integration.

Drawing on real-world healthcare experience across local, national, and international services, Rowena traces how AI can safely support administrative flow, augment clinical reasoning, and scale insight across services without eroding safety or equity. The discussion extends to managerial and system-level considerations, including national datasets, governance, and service commissioning.

In this session, you will learn:

• How AI must be designed differently across healthcare roles and contexts
• Where AI can safely support administrative, clinical, and system-level work
• What national datasets, governance, and commissioning require from AI
• Why transparency, ethics, and human-centred design are non-negotiable
• What responsible AI delivery actually looks like in practice

AI in Agri-Food: Real Opportunities and Smarter Growth — Dr Harold Mayaba
Agri-food is one of New Zealand's most strategically important industries, and one where AI adoption is still uneven. Dr Harold Mayaba is an Agri-Food and Market Consultant, motivational speaker, and coach with a PhD in Applied Economics from Lincoln University. He works at the intersection of AI, market intelligence, consumer behaviour, business growth, and human resilience.

Harold has been building practical AI systems for the agri-food sector that help producers, exporters, and organisations focus on real opportunities, sharpen market positioning, and improve decision-making. In this session, he will show how AI can move beyond hype to become a working tool inside agri-food and adjacent industries — solving real problems, surfacing real opportunities, and supporting smarter strategic growth.

You will learn:

• How AI is being applied inside agri-food and market intelligence
• Where AI sharpens decisions in producer, exporter, and consumer-facing work
• How market signals and consumer behaviour data become AI-driven advantage
• How non-technical professionals in primary industries can start using AI
• Examples from working AI systems already in use across the sector

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When: Monday, 13 July, 5:30–8:00 pm
Where: EPIC Innovation, Christchurch
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Sponsored by the AI Coaching Academy. Come have some 🍻 beer and wine🍷 and raise a glass with your local AI Community!
https://ai-coaching.academy/

Explore how AI is transforming Marketing & Comms in August's Second Monday Meetup. Simon Rush and Nic Hendrie from Trimble will be sharing how enterprise marketing teams are accelerating campaign strategy with AI, while Caelan Huntress will be showing how to build a Brand Voice Kit that teaches AI to write in your unique voice. Drinks, demos, and practical takeaways included.

Meet up with your local AI community on the Second Monday of April at EPIC Innovation:

5:30–6:00 pm — Drinks & Networking
6:00–6:45 pm — Simon Rush & Nic Hendrie — Accelerating Marketing Strategy with AI
6:45–7:30 pm — Caelan Huntress — Build an AI Brand Voice Kit: Clone Your Voice with AI
7:30–8:00 pm — Drinks & Open Q&A

Accelerating Marketing Strategy with AI — Simon Rush & Nic Hendrie
This presentation will help you rethink your approach to marketing campaigns. Simon Rush and Nic Hendrie from Trimble will share a case study of how Trimble builds and executes always-on promotional campaigns through a Vertex-AI connected workflow.

This method can translate your campaign briefs into market research, strategy, tactical plans, and other deliverables in minutes, not months. They will also share why Trimble connected this workflow, how it supports non-prompters, and how built-in strategy critique can improve campaign quality without requiring every user to become a prompt engineer.

Key Points:
• How Trimble uses Vertex AI to accelerate marketing strategy
• Turning campaign briefs into research, strategy, and tactical plans
• Designing AI workflows for users without prompt engineering experience
• Adding automated critique, QA, review, and approval into campaign workflows

Who This Is For:

• AI-developers and AI-engineers considering Google AntiGravity, UX for non-prompters
• Marketing and business leaders who want to transform their buying process
• People considering the QA, review and approval process in vibe-coding workflows
• Anyone curious about real-world AI case studies

Build an AI Brand Voice Kit: Clone Your Voice with AI — Caelan Huntress
AI can write quickly. The harder question is whether it can write like you.
In this practical session, Caelan Huntress will show you how to build a Brand Voice Kit: a reusable set of examples, rules, tone markers, vocabulary patterns, and writing preferences that helps AI produce content in your unique voice.
You’ll learn how to capture the way you sound, train AI on your style, and use that system across emails, newsletters, social posts, articles, proposals, and internal communications.
Key Points:
• What a Brand Voice Kit is, and why it matters for marketing and communications
• How to capture tone, rhythm, vocabulary, structure, and personality
• How to train AI to write in a consistent brand voice
• How to use voice cloning prompts across different marketing channels
• How to invoke different voices through skills, CustomGPTs, and subagents
Who This Is For:
Marketers, communications professionals, founders, consultants, creators, business owners, and anyone who wants AI-generated content to sound less generic and more unmistakably human.

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When: Monday, 10 August, 5:30–8:00 pm
Where: EPIC Innovation, Christchurch
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Sponsored by the AI Coaching Academy. Come have some 🍻 beer and wine🍷 and raise a glass with your local AI Community!
https://ai-coaching.academy/