Bendigo AI Thinkspace
Event description
Bendigo AI Thinkspace – Launch Event
📅 Thursday 18 September 2025
🕓 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
📍 Emporium Creative Hub, Bendigo
💡 Free monthly meet-up – Third Thursday of every month
The Bendigo AI Thinkspace is your new monthly gathering for curious minds, innovators, and makers who want to explore how artificial intelligence can shape our work, communities, and creative futures. Come for fresh ideas, practical inspiration, and real connections.
About the Event
Join us for the launch of the Bendigo AI Thinkspace – a place where big-picture thinking meets hands-on experimentation.
Co-hosted by Monash University, La Trobe Rural Health School, Bendigo Tech School and Ligantic, this first event will kick off a regular third-Thursday meet-up designed to connect people from all industries and backgrounds around AI opportunities and challenges.
What to Expect at the Launch:
Free drinks & networking – connect with others who are curious about AI.
Lightning Talks – short, sharp presentations from local and national thinkers and doers:
Interactive Provocation – Brad Hodge will lead a thought-starter session on real-world challenges and how AI might help solve them.
Peer-to-Peer Exchange – informal sharing of what you’re experimenting with and where you want to take it.
Why Attend?
Whether you’re a developer, health professional, creative, entrepreneur, or just AI-curious, this is your place to:
Swap ideas and inspiration
See what others are building and thinking about
Find collaborators for projects
Get hands-on and learn in a supportive, cross-disciplinary space
Cost: Free – just bring your curiosity (and your laptop if you want to demo or test ideas).
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