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Events and speaking

Rooms where practitioners tell each other the truth

Forums, hands-on workshops and closed roundtables around the country. No vendor keynotes, no product pitches from the stage, and cohort sizes small enough that people actually speak.

Roundtables run under Chatham House rule. What is said in the room stays in the room, which is the only reason anyone describes what actually went wrong.

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Members are notified before general registration opens, and capped sessions usually fill from the member list alone.

Agency Leaders Lab

13 May 2027

Half-day labPerth, WA40 places

For agency principals rebuilding pricing, scoping and quality control when production time collapses. Honest conversation about margin, retainers and what clients are actually buying now.

Members register first for Agency Leaders Lab. Join the Centre.

Reserved places are held at no cost in every paid session for not-for-profit marketers and practitioners between roles. Ask for one through the form below and you will not be asked to justify the request.

Speaker highlights

What we bring to a stage

The Centre speaks at conferences, team offsites and board sessions. Each talk is adapted to the room rather than delivered from a fixed deck, and none of them end with a product recommendation.

What actually changes when marketing adopts AI

A grounded picture of what shifts in the work itself: which tasks compress, which get harder, and which judgement calls stay firmly with people. Written for a mixed-seniority room.

Audience
Conference plenary, all-staff sessions
Length
30 to 45 minutes

Governance a marketing team will actually follow

How to write a short AI policy that survives contact with a deadline: disclosure, sign-off, data boundaries and escalation, sized for the organisation rather than copied from a global template.

Audience
Leadership teams, boards, risk committees
Length
45 minutes with discussion

Measurement you can defend

Modelled attribution, incrementality and the honest communication of uncertainty. Built for teams being asked to prove contribution with fewer signals than they had three years ago.

Audience
Marketing and analytics teams, CFO briefings
Length
45 to 60 minutes

Buying without buying the story

A practical framework for separating demonstrated capability from a good demo, including the questions to ask vendors and the exit terms worth arguing for before you sign.

Audience
Procurement, marketing operations, agency leads
Length
30 minutes

Keeping a brand voice that still sounds like someone

Why volume is the easy part and distinctiveness is the hard part, and how to codify voice specifically enough that a review gate can be applied consistently.

Audience
Creative teams, content and brand functions
Length
45 minutes, workshop option

The capability question for small Australian teams

What to teach a five-person marketing team next, in what order, and how to build evaluation skill when there is no dedicated data function to lean on.

Audience
Industry associations, regional chapters, universities
Length
30 to 45 minutes

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  • Board and executive sessions
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