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In this episode I speak with. Chris McKay is an AI adoption strategist + CEO at Maginative. With his team for the last decade, he has helped businesses leverage data intelligence and digital strategies for growth.

He’s passionate about AI literacy and serves as editor-in-chief of Maginative.com, an online platform that provides curated and accessible content on AI trends, applications, and best practices.

We leverage Chris’s passion for AI literacy in this chat and go back to basics on some of the ways individuals and companies can leverage Generative AI = and also chat about some of the risks that we need to be aware of like data protection and hallucinations.

In this episode, I speak with Tim O'Neill and Jason Ross from Time Under Tension. They are an AI consultancy helping forward-thinking agencies and brands embrace and accelerate the power of generative AI.

Tim’s been working in digital for close to 25 years, growing the very successful Reactive for over 17 of those before it was acquired by Accenture. He’s also a mentor to several other agencies and he was out in front of the possibilities of Generative AI early.

Jason Ross was also part of that Accenture and Reactive journey and more recently was a VP at the prestigious design studio, Frog.

We talk specifically about the potential of Gen AI in marketing - now and in the very near future - which is a sweet spot for the Time Under Tension team.

Links:
https://www.soulmachines.com/
Tim on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/timoneill
Jason on LinkedIn -https://www.linkedin.com/in/jsnrss/

On this episode, I speak with Devansh from Artificial Intelligence Made Simple - a weekly newsletter breaking down important AI topics + trends including the validity of prompt engineering, ethics and bias in AI and whats involved in training some the larger foundation models.

In this episode, we chat about why prompt engineering may be overhyped but also where you should pay attention and what is worth learning about here. He also gives us a great example of why we need more people to understand how to use Large language models to migiate some of their inherent bias.

We hope you enjoy.

Dr. Stephanie Chaousis is currently the Chief Customer Officer at clinical data technology company, Datarwe. In this role, she uses her passion for creating real-world impact through research translation and commercialisation to support the translation of data-driven innovation into Australian healthcare. She also heads up not-for-profit intelliHQ which delivers Australia's first national AI in Healthcare training program.

Having spent seven years as a researcher in molecular sciences and tech transfer, she understands the complexity of research translation and commercialisation. She uses this experience when mentoring health tech startups in the Gold Coast's LuminaX health tech accelerator. She is also passionate about addressing the diversity gap in AI by encouraging and supporting women to pursue careers in the field.

We had fun in this conversation - as you will see Steph is super smart and is no newbie when it comes to talking about AI capabilities - specifically how important the quality of data is for training and how this is done.

In our latest ‘How They Did It’ podcast episode we speak with the Senior Manager of Innovation at Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre (MCEC), Katie Tinetti. Taking a huge hit to the events industry during the Covid Pandemic, MCEC were forced to develop creative solutions to presenting events. In a new era of innovation and collaboration in the events industry, we discuss MCEC’s recent innovation journey and Katie’s personal experience with Design Thinking, including:

• Rethinking how to do business in a hybrid environment and using this as an opportunity to adopt Agile working
• How MCEC are overcoming resource shortages, staff fluctuations and competing priorities in a post-covid world
• Working collaboratively with internal and external partners and the importance of building strong relationships with stakeholders
• The future of innovation at MCEC and how they’re building an innovative, future-focused centre in Geelong
• How Katie’s out of the box thinking landed her current role, and her
advice for people starting their own innovation journey

Katie is an experienced events specialist who has worked in the industry for over a decade. Currently the Senior Manager of Innovation at MCEC, she has also recently been appointed as Senior Manager (Commercial Lead) of the new Geelong Convention and Exhibition Centre. Focused on creativity and collaboration, Katie is passionate about business transformation and creating an impactful customer experience.

Follow Katie on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katie-tinetti-74b2131b/
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In our latest ‘How They Did It’ episode we speak with Maryborough District Health Service (MDHS)’s CEO, Nickola Allan, and Director of Infrastructure, Technology & Experience and Deputy CEO, David Edwards. An exciting new era for healthcare in the Maryborough community, Nickola and David have recently led MDHS through a period of significant organisational change, while overseeing a $100 million redevelopment project, due for completion in 2025.

We discuss:
• The approach the MDHS team took to understand patient and carer’s experiences, and the simple fixes that are making a big difference to ‘change the healthcare story’ at Maryborough Hospital and in the community
• Using the mantra of “appropriate care, appropriate place” to innovate new solutions for primary care patients
• The importance of customer service in the health industry and consistency in providing care and kindness to community members
• The strategic steps David & Nickola took to enhance staff experience and wellbeing in the wake of Covid-19
• Advice for leaders tackling organisational change, and the necessity of investing in your people and taking risks in innovation

As CEO of MDHS, Nickola Allan is excited to be playing a leading role in changing the healthcare story for communities in regional Victoria. With more than 20 years’ experience in public health in both metropolitan and rural health services, she has developed expertise in patient safety, risk management and improving outcomes and systems to keep abreast of changing demographics, environments, and technology.

A strategic leader in regional health, David Edwards is committed to finding new and innovative ways to use patient, client, and staff experience stories to drive change in clinical and non-clinical systems. His current role provides him with the opportunity to deliver large scale transformation through consumer and employee collaboration, using experience-driven systems, co-design, and data to provide unique insights and drive improvement in health services and infrastructure.

Follow Nickola: linkedin.com/in/nickola-allan-3001aaa5
Follow David: linkedin.com/in/david-edwards-72bb50110

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