Ethical & Inclusive AI: A framework for use in the real world
Three cities. One shared purpose: helping organisations confidently navigate AI’s opportunities, risks and impacts on people with disability.
Event details
- Sydney: Date TBC (Week of 11 May) · Member-only event · Places strictly limited.
- Melbourne: Friday 15 May · NAB, Melbourne · 11:00am – 4:30pm (plus networking from 4:30pm) Member-only event · Places strictly limited.
- Canberra: Monday 18 May · Deloitte, Canberra · 11:00am – 4:30pm (plus networking from 4:30pm) Member-only event · Places strictly limited.
Pricing
Tickets are $395 + GST per person, plus Humanitix booking fees.
IMPACT Exchange is a paid, member‑only, in‑person event, with places capped to enable meaningful participation.
Each member organisation can purchase up to 6 tickets per city. Tickets are non‑refundable and cannot be transferred between cities, but name changes can be made at any time prior to the event.
How can organisations pay for tickets?
Tickets can be paid by credit card or invoice. If you select pay by other during registration, you’ll receive an email shortly with payment details. Invoices are issued with 7‑day payment terms and include a secure payment link if you prefer to pay by credit card.
Please note that tickets must be paid prior to the event. Unpaid tickets may be released if payment is not received close to the event date.
About IMPACT Exchange
IMPACT Exchange is AusDN’s biennial member deep dive, a purposefully designed learning experience built around practical, hands-on capability building, peer problem-solving and ideas exchange, and shaping something meaningful that lifts the whole network. Events are local, accessible, and high impact.
In 2026, IMPACT Exchange tackles one of the most urgent challenges facing workplaces today: how do we ensure AI is ethical and inclusive, and how do we build a practical framework to make that happen?
About the topic
AI is already shaping how organisations recruit, manage performance, handle workplace adjustments, and interact with customers. For people with disability, these systems can reduce barriers or create new ones, depending on how they are designed and deployed.
Many organisations tell us they are unsure how to influence internal conversations, ask the right questions, or keep people with disability front of mind as new technologies emerge. IMPACT Exchange 2026 will give you the clarity, language, and confidence to change that.
Working alongside peers, and guided by experts, you will help co-create a practical AI inclusion framework, grounded in the Pragmatic Universal Design approach: start where you are, take achievable steps, make meaningful progress. Your expertise and input will directly shape sector-wide progress.
What you’ll leave with
- A stronger understanding of ethical and inclusive AI, and why it matters now
- Practical principles you can apply immediately in your organisation
- The right questions to influence internal conversations with tech and leadership teams
- Tools for assessing and mitigating AI-related risks for people with disability
- Insight into how to engage with vendors and technology partners
- Stronger connections with peers who are navigating the same challenges
On the day
- A keynote from Dr Katherine Hunt on AI ethics, inclusive leadership, and what good looks like in practice
- A panel featuring voices from technology, inclusion, and industry
- Expert-guided workshops where you help build a real, usable AI inclusion framework
- Networking with peers who are working on the same challenges
About the speakers
Dr Katherine Hunt is one of Australia’s most compelling voices at the intersection of AI ethics, inclusive leadership and organisational change. With a background spanning financial advisory, leadership facilitation and human-centred design, Katherine brings a rare combination of commercial pragmatism and genuine values-led thinking to every room she walks into.
At IMPACT Exchange 2026, Katherine will open the afternoon with a keynote that frames both the opportunity and the urgency of ethical and inclusive AI, before guiding participants through the hands-on workshops where the real framework-building happens. Her facilitation style is practical, inclusive and grounded in real-world application, which makes her the perfect person to help us shape something functional, relevant, and valuable.
Katherine’s participation is made possible by our Keynote Partner, MTC FutureReady.
Other speakers TBC
When did your inclusion lead last sit with your tech team?
One of the most common barriers to inclusive AI is that the people who care most about it aren’t in the room when the decisions get made. Procurement happens. Tools get deployed. Algorithms get configured. And inclusion teams often find out after the fact.
IMPACT Exchange is an opportunity to change that dynamic, but only if the right people attend together. When your technology lead sits alongside your inclusion lead and they co-design a shared framework, they go back into your organisation speaking the same language, with the same reference points.
Register your places today and make sure someone from technology is on the list.
Our partners
IMPACT Exchange 2026 is brought to you by organisations that share AusDN’s belief that building ethical and inclusive workplaces takes investment, collaboration, and commitment.
