AI in Healthcare &
Agri-Food Industries
Generic AI advice only takes you so far. The real adoption work happens inside specific industries, where the stakes, the data, the regulations, and the people are unlike any other vertical. This month, Christchurch AI goes deep into two of them: healthcare and agri-food.
The Talks
AI Is Not Neutral: Designing Healthcare AI for Real Work, Real Risk
Rowena Woolgar — Healthcare AI Delivery
AI in healthcare is never just a technical decision. It reshapes judgement, accountability, and trust. Rowena explores how AI must be designed and implemented differently across healthcare roles, from administrators and clinicians through to multidisciplinary teams, service delivery, and national systems.
Expect a grounded look at where AI can safely support administrative flow, augment clinical reasoning, scale insight across services, and meet the governance and commissioning realities of healthcare delivery.
AI in Agri-Food: Real Opportunities and Smarter Growth
Dr Harold Mayaba — Agri-Food & Market Intelligence
Agri-food is one of New Zealand's most strategically important industries, and one where AI adoption is still uneven. Harold will show how practical AI systems can help producers, exporters, and organisations identify real opportunities, sharpen market positioning, and improve decisions.
The session connects AI, market intelligence, consumer behaviour, and business growth, with examples from working systems already in use across the sector.
Who Should Come
- Healthcare leaders and professionals thinking about safe AI adoption
- People in agri-food, market intelligence, and producer-exporter ecosystems
- Business leaders who want industry-specific AI examples instead of generic advice
- Anyone curious about how AI lands differently across real-world sectors
Format
Drinks and networking from 5:30 PM. Talks run from 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM, followed by open Q&A and more conversation until 8:00 PM. Sponsored by AI Coaching Academy.