An invite-only Fordcastle series
AI is too important to be left to Silicon Valley.
A new series at Sanders Place bringing AI practitioners and impact experts into the same room. The eight topics below have come out of initial conversations. We're now looking to validate interest, add what's missing, and hear your suggestions for speakers.
01
For everyone
The state
Where AI is and isn't in the impact sector, and what we are missing in Australia.
02
For operators
The second brain
Capturing what your organisation actually knows, so AI can read across it.
03
For investors
The capital
How impact investors and foundations are using AI in deal flow and due diligence.
04
For boards
The hardware
Hosting models locally on your own kit. Sovereignty for the data you cannot send to the cloud.
05
For regional
The divide
AI access beyond the metro postcodes. What the digital divide means for rural and remote Australia.
06
For funders
The measurement
AI's wedge into outcomes data, and the argument between delivery orgs and funders.
07
For builders
The collaborator
Claude Code and AI agents as daily working partners for product, ops, and writing.
08
For you
Your topic
What do YOU want to discuss? Drop your idea in the comments or in the form.
What you get
Practical skills and tools you can use Monday. Every session is itself an AI use case, recorded and turned into an interactive digital twin you can search and re-use. The corpus, and the network it builds.
Three questions for you
01
Which of these topics interest you?
02
What's missing? What should be in the series?
03
Who would you want to see speak?
Fordcastle · fordcastle.com/impact-vibes
Melbourne · 2026