💡 Overview

This three-part professional learning series builds knowledge, confidence, and practical skills to integrate Artificial Intelligence (AI) within career development practice. Each one-hour session explores real-world applications, focusing on accessibility, ethics, and inclusion.

The series will be delivered live on Zoom as an interactive workshop, not a webinar.

Participants are required to have their cameras on during the sessions to enhance engagement and collaboration.

Please note that sessions will NOT BE recorded to protect participant privacy and ensure a safe learning environment.

Sessions cannot be purchased individually, and no refunds will be issued for missed sessions.

🧠 Session 1 – AI Foundations for Careers Practice

Tuesday 3 March 2026

6.00pm - 7.00pm AEDT

Safety, Ethics, Accessibility & Assistive Technology (AT)

Purpose: Build shared understanding and safe, ethical foundations for AI use in career development, with accessibility and AT as the starting point.

Learning Outcomes:
Participants will:
• Understand what AI and GenAI are and where they influence career development.
• Recognise risks, ethical considerations, privacy/IP and safeguarding implications.
• Experience key accessibility tools including text-to-speech (TTS), speech-to-text (STT) and inclusive communication tools.
• Begin forming safe-use expectations for AI in professional practice.

Key takeaway: Establish safe-use expectations for AI in professional practice.

⚙️ Session 2 – Practical AI
Tuesday 10 March 2026

6.00pm - 7.00pm AEDT

Prompting, Tools & Career-Focused Use Cases

Purpose: Build confidence using AI through structured prompting and tool comparison, with hands-on practice.

Learning Outcomes:
Participants will:
• Use structured prompt techniques to improve AI outputs for career guidance.
• Know when to use different models/tools for specific tasks.
• Create a ready-to-use resource to support clients or partnership delivery.

Key takeaway: Create a ready-to-use AI resource to support clients or partnerships.

🚀 Session 3 – AI in Action

Tuesday 17 March 2026

6.00pm - 7.00pm AEDT

Student-Facing Resources & Future-Ready Practice

Purpose: Empower Careers Practitioners to apply AI confidently with students/clients and embed AI into ongoing practice.

Learning Outcomes:
Participants will:
• Create student-ready resources using AI, with accessibility considerations.
• Explore ways AI supports interviews, career planning and labour market understanding.
• Leave with ideas aligned to CDI/CICA professional practice.

Key takeaway: Develop future-ready, ethical practice aligned to CICA Professional Standards.

Presenter - David Curran

With 20+ years in education, David specialises in making AI and assistive technology accessible within careers education and SEND settings. As Head of Careers and Assistive Technology Lead at a specialist school for dyslexia, I lead the inclusive digital strategy, utilising AI to support neurodivergent learners and enhance how students access careers education, information, and advice (CEIA). From building student-facing chatbots to designing CPD on ethical and safe AI use, he translates innovation into practical tools that connect, engage and support.

David delivers national and international training on assistive tech and AI in education and CEIA, working with schools, parents/carers, and professionals. I’m also an independent Careers Advisor, CiCi CareersBot Ambassador, and an active contributor to a thriving online community that supports careers education for Years 9–11.

Collaborations include: BATA’s Teachers for AT, the AI in Education SEND Panel (Bourne Education Trust), STEM Learning’s AI Focus Group, and AIEOU (University of Oxford).

Tuesdays – 3, 10 & 17 March 2026
🕕 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm AEDT

State/Territory	Local Time
NSW / VIC / TAS / ACT	6:00 pm – 7:00 pm AEDT
QLD	5:00 pm – 6:00 pm AEST
SA	5:30 pm – 6:30 pm ACDT
NT	4:30 pm – 5:30 pm ACST
WA	3:00 pm – 4:00 pm AWST