Plenary sessions will work with the motif:

‘The gap(s) between narratives about AI and the reality of AI’

Refreshments provided at the Conference are:

Friday: Tea/Coffee & light nibbles at registration; Light Supper at 8.30pm

Saturday: Morning & afternoon tea; Light lunch

FRIDAY 28 August - Evening Sessions

5:30 PM	Registration & Welcome
6:00 PM	Welcome & Karakia — Conference Host / Local Minister
6:15 PM	PLENARY 1: Artificial Intelligence & Us? Exploring the AI landscape around us What do we mean when we talk about AI? How did we get to where we are? What might the future hold? Speaker: Stephen Garner [For a General Audience]
7:00 PM	Q&A – open floor questions Stephen Garner, Matthew Galloway and Emma Humphrey.
7:40 PM	PLENARY 2: AI & Being Human? A reflection on AI and being human, and what it might mean to live in a world with AI Speaker: Stephen Garner [For a General Audience including theological reflection]
8:30 PM	Open Discussion & Networking — light supper provided
9:00 PM	Evening session ends

SATURDAY 29 August - Full Day Programme

8:30 AM	Doors open — morning tea/coffee on arrival
9:00 AM	Welcome & Opening Reflection
9:15 AM	PLENARY 3: Tell me a story… The stories we tell about AI meets the reality of AI in the everyday world. Where are the gaps between the two and how does that shape our hope for and experience of AI? Speaker: Matthew Galloway [For a General Audience]
10:00 AM	Morning Tea - 30 minutes
10:30 AM	Workshops — Session A (Choose one, see below)
11:30 PM	WORKSHOPS — Session B (Choose one, see below)
12:30 PM	Lunch (catered)
1:30 PM	PANEL Q&A Structured panel with attendee questions collected throughout the day covering a range of topics and issues Matthew Galloway, Stephen Garner and Kathryn MacCallum + Conference host [For a General Audience including theological reflection]
2:30 PM	Afternoon Tea
3:00 PM	PLENARY 4: Drawing the AI threads together Bringing the themes from plenaries 1-3 together and offering some thoughts on going forward from here Matthew Galloway & Stephen Garner [For a General Audience including theological reflection]
3:45 PM	Closing Reflections — Conference Host Summary of key takeaways, next steps, resource list distributed
4:00 PM	Conference closes

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