Making AI Work:
from Judgment to Implementation
September's Christchurch AI meetup explores how organisations can balance human judgement with practical AI implementation. Pamela Simpson will look at expertise, accountability, and trust in AI-enabled workplaces, while Caelan Huntress will show how businesses can onboard AI agents into repeatable work.
The Talks
Human Judgement in an AI World
Pamela Simpson - DBA Candidate, University of Otago
Pamela Simpson will share early insights from research with subject-matter experts across professional, corporate, and government sectors in New Zealand.
The session explores how people decide what to trust, what counts as expertise, and how organisations can preserve epistemic integrity as AI becomes part of knowledge work.
AI Implementation in Business
Caelan Huntress - AI Coaching Academy
Caelan Huntress will unpack what it means to teach AI agents how a business actually works: workflows, standards, rules, decisions, exceptions, and institutional knowledge.
The talk covers agent onboarding, workflow handoff, AI readiness, and how to assemble an internal AI working group that can test use cases and share lessons across an organisation.
Who Should Come
- Business owners, leaders, consultants, and operations teams implementing AI at work
- Professionals thinking seriously about trust, expertise, and accountability with AI
- Teams moving from isolated experiments into repeatable AI-enabled workflows
- Builders and AI practitioners interested in responsible adoption inside organisations
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.