A hands-on workshop for the employment and community services sector is coming to Melbourne

See the tools. Ask the questions. Leave with practical next steps.

📅 Wed 11 Nov 2026, 12:00–5:00pm

📍 Community Hub, 912 Collins Street, Docklands

🎟️ Earlybird: $127 including GST

👥 Best for: team leaders, managers and practitioners evaluating AI tools for employment or community services

AI is already reshaping employment and community services – from reducing admin load to strengthening capability and improving participant outcomes. The question most organisations are asking isn't whether to engage with it, but how, and which tools actually hold up in practice.

This half-day workshop, hosted by the Institute of Employability Professionals Australia, brings together five leading AI vendors in the sector alongside independent voices on governance, ethics and data. You'll see live demonstrations, hear directly from the people building these tools, and get straight answers to the questions that matter for your organisation — trials, pilots, partnerships, and what to prioritise first.

No jargon. No sales pressure from the stage. Just a practical look at what's real, what's ready, and what's worth your team's time.

Meet the Speakers

Joanna Barrack, Senior Partnerships Lead, Beam — Joanna is leading Beam's launch in Australia, bringing its frontline employment technology to employment advisors across the country. She began her career as a frontline caseworker supporting single parents into employment and has since helped scale employment and support programs across the United Kingdom. She'll explore how practitioner-led AI can improve documentation, compliance and participant engagement without replacing professional judgement or human connection.

Basim Alansari, Executive Director, Strategy - Attuniq | Managing Director & CEO, Healthy Mend — A health and human services leader with 25 years across regulated service delivery, digital health implementation and research translation, Basim has built and launched three digital health products and led national program design for the Australian Department of Health and Aged Care's multicultural health initiative. He'll present Attuniq's governed AI platform for skills training, coaching and communication.

Rasmus Rossi, Co-Founder, ScaleApp Education — A Swedish entrepreneur and education innovator with more than 25 years' experience across employability, adult education and digital transformation, Rasmus previously led one of Sweden's largest employment-services organisations. He'll share how ScaleApp turns complex capability needs into short, adaptive learning experiences.

Aamir Qutub, Founder & CEO, Enterprise Monkey — Australian winner of the AI for Good Innovation Factory and Australia's representative at the UN AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva 2026, Aamir is also founder of Agents for Humanity, co-founder of Attuniq, and bestselling author of The CEO Who Mocked AI Until It Made Him Millions. He'll give a plain-language map of AI agents and a practical filter for deciding what to automate first — no jargon, no coding, no selling from the stage.

Balendran Thavarajah, Founder and CEO, Getmee, and Amaresh Devanesen, Executive Director, Y Careers — Together the founders of Connect Different, they'll present how their partnership brings learning, onboarding, job pathways and wellbeing support into one accessible app for trainees, jobseekers and employers.

Sarah McIntosh, Co-Founder, VINTI Tech | Cybersecurity and AI Regulation Expert — A qualified Lead Auditor across multiple international standards, Sarah joins the closing industry panel on safeguarding AI in employment services, covering privacy, consent, bias, transparency, human oversight, accessibility, cyber resilience and responsible procurement.

Peter Worthington-Eyre, Managing Director, Clearcore — Peter has spent the past 25 years working at the intersection of data, technology, policy and people, in places where getting it wrong has real consequences for communities. As South Australia's inaugural Chief Data Officer, he led whole-of-government information sharing, the state's COVID-19 contact tracing data capability, and the launch of Australia's first digital driver's licence, alongside security and emergency management roles and over a decade of experience in workers' compensation. He now sits on a number of Boards and Committees and leads ClearCore Advisory, helping organisations better use data, technology and AI.

Participating Vendors

BEAM, Attuniq, Connect Different (Getmee + Y Careers), ScaleApp, and Enterprise Monkey — covering AI-assisted case notes, reporting and CVs, governed coaching and communication platforms, adaptive workforce learning, and AI agents for frontline workflows.

Human-centred. AI-enabled.