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SUMMARY:🤖 Group Therapy: An Honest Session on How We Actually Feel About AI
LOCATION:Scyne
DESCRIPTION:Saved in Palaner as: saved\n\nPalaner match: 35% · why: lots of
  people going\n\nWe are finally doing it. A talk themed around AI. But we 
 know it's session nobody wants to admit they need.\n\nWe've all heard the 
 AI buzzwords - "excited\," "leaning in\," "embracing the tools"\, "It's ab
 out Taste"\n\nBut what's the version we tell our partner at 11pm? This ses
 sion is a confession booth disguised as a meetup: no corporate talking poi
 nts\, no performative optimism\, just a room full of professionals finally
  saying the quiet part out loud.\n\nWhat you'll hear:\n✨ The mood ring che
 ck-in: Has your relationship with AI actually evolved - curiosity\, to fat
 igue\, to something like grudging acceptance? Or are you stuck on repeat?\
 n\n✨ Empowered or expendable: The gap between the tools making us faster a
 nd the fear that "faster" was never really the point\n\n✨ The honesty audi
 t: Are we saying what we actually feel\, or reciting the script we think w
 e're supposed to perform?\n\n✨ Slop or stealth: Is AI-generated mediocrity
  actually improving - or has it just gotten better at hiding in plain sigh
 t?\n\n✨ The invoice after the honeymoon: Businesses got the discounted int
 ro rate. Is anyone budgeting for what this actually costs once the novelty
  pricing ends?\n\n✨ Who's actually watching the risk: How leaders are (or 
 aren't) identifying\, assessing\, and managing AI risk before it becomes a
  headline\n\n👉 The debate on the table:\n"Most people are more anxious tha
 n they admit" vs "People are largely fine and adapting"\nPick a side. Defe
 nd it. Or admit you're not sure\, which might be the most honest answer in
  the room.\n\n📌 The details:\n\nDate: Thursday 13th August\nHost: Melbourn
 e Design Thinking Meetup x Scyne Advisory\nRefreshments included: Pizza an
 d fizz!\n\nOur Speakers:\n\nLiz Collins León\nExperience Architect | Desig
 n Operations Strategist\nLiz is an Experience Architect with over 15 years
  designing systems\, campaigns\, and communication solutions across retail
 \, telecommunications\, and front-to-back office operations.\n\nWith tenur
 e at Telstra\, Google\, and more recently Genesys\, she is a design leader
  and mentor whose passion for creating inclusive experiences expands beyon
 d delivering data-driven\, digital products.\n\nWhether fostering a commun
 ity effort to found a greenbelt reserve\, designing learning spaces\, or p
 romoting psychological safety in the workplace\, she endeavors to strength
 en communities through online and offline connections.\n\nGemma Mooney\nPr
 oduct Design Lead | RACV\n\nWith over 20 years of experience spanning UX\,
  digital product design and design leadership. She specialises in helping 
 organisations understand customer needs and translate insights into improv
 ed products\, services and experiences.\n\nAt RACV\, Gemma leads strategic
  discovery\, research and experience design initiatives across a range of 
 member experiences\, including onboarding\, emergency roadside assistance\
 , payments\, chat and AI-enabled digital services. She also led the design
  of the RACV app from concept through to launch\, helping shape the vision
 \, user experience and member proposition for one of RACV's most important
  digital products. More recently\, she has been helping embed AI into the 
 design practice\, developing practical approaches for using tools such as 
 Copilot to support research\, synthesis\, journey mapping and opportunity 
 identification.\n\nPrior to RACV\, Gemma was UX Manager at Intrepid Travel
 \, where she established the company's UX practice and championed user-cen
 tred design across the organisation. She also led Intrepid's first innovat
 ion hackathon\, bringing together cross-functional teams to solve customer
  and business challenges through design-led thinking.\n\nThroughout her ca
 reer\, Gemma has been passionate about creating evidence-based\, customer-
 centred experiences and helping teams use research and emerging technologi
 es to drive better outcomes for customers and organisations alike. Her wor
 k has been recognised with Intrepid Travel's Outstanding Achievement Award
  and Travel Weekly's Women in Travel Award.\n\nDavid Cullen\nManaging Dire
 ctor\, Scyne Advisory (GAICD)\n\nDavid has spent two decades on the front 
 line of Australia's cyber resilience — the kind of career where "incident 
 response" isn't a slide in a deck\, it's a 3am phone call. As Victoria's f
 ormer Chief Information Security Officer\, he built the state's Cyber Inci
 dent Response Service from scratch and led the response to Victoria's larg
 est-ever public sector cyber-attack\, all while establishing the framework
 s that now coordinate cyber emergencies statewide.\n\nAt the national leve
 l\, David represented Victoria on the National Cyber Security Committee an
 d built the National Operations Subcommittee to get states talking to each
  other before a crisis\, not during one. He's now a Managing Director at S
 cyne Advisory\, leading national incident response capability and helping 
 organisations across the public and private sector get serious about cyber
  preparedness before they need to.\n\nDavid holds a Master of Public Polic
 y and Management\, is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Di
 rectors\, and is a recipient of the Resilient Australia Award. He brings a
  rare thing to a stage: someone who's actually been the person picking up 
 the phone when it all goes wrong — and has the scars\, systems\, and stori
 es to prove it.
URL:https://www.meetup.com/melbourne-design-thinking/events/315566942/
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