HERiZON Christchurch: Prompting the Potential

HERiZON Christchurch

Prompting the Potential:

AI, business and navigating what's next With Base44 & Spark Business Hubs Auckland

AI is changing the way we work, lead, create and run businesses.

Some of us useit every day. Some of us have opened it once, closed it, and quietly decided everyone else must understand it better. Most of us are somewhere in between, with a business to run and no time to work out which bit actually matters.

So how do we navigate it without being overwhelmed by it? And how do we use it to unlock our own potential?

HERiZON: Prompting the Potential is a half-day morning for women in business and leadership who want to get honest about AI. Not another technical AI event. A real conversation about the fear, the confidence gap and what AI means for our work, our leadership and our businesses. Then a hands-on session where you stop reading about it and start using it.

What if AI wasn't something to fear, but your next superpower?

The Flow of the Morning

1. Welcome to HERiZON

   Mel and Karin set the scene: what is actually changing, why so many women feel behind, and why that has almost nothing to do with capability.

2. Opening Perspective

   Dr Alia Bojilova opens on the human side of AI: fear, imposter syndrome, old conditioning, and permission to get it wrong on the way to getting it right.

3. Panel Conversation

   Four women who are using AI in their businesses and their work, facilitated by Karin, with plenty of room for your questions. The shift, the fear, the opportunity, and the human bit: what we should never hand over.

4. Morning Tea and Connection

   Coffee, a proper conversation

5. The Workshop: Build Your Second Brain, with Base44

   Every woman in the room builds her own personal AI agent, one that knows her business, her priorities and her week. You leave with it working, a month of free access to keep building, and the HERiZON workbook to take it further.

What You'll Walk Away With

• Your own personal AI agent, built by you, running before you leave

• One month of free Base44 access to keep building

• The printed HERiZON workbook: the prompts, the steps and your next actions

• A clear picture of where AI gives you back time, and where it shouldn't

• A room full of women working it out too

• Partner gifts, offers and giveaways

Featuring

• Jennifer Michtavy: Head of AI and Innovation, The Optimisers

• Vanessa O'Brien: CEO and Co-Founder, OrbViz

• Isabella Garland: Co-Founder and CMO, Sister Health

Base44 is with us in the room for Prompting the Potential. Their platform is what you'll build on, no code and no jargon, and their team will be alongside Mel and Karin while you do it.

Event Details

• Date: Tuesday 3rd November 2026

• Doors Open: 8:30am

• Event Time: 9:00am to 12:45pm

• Location: Wigram Hotel

• Parking: Free

Bring: a laptop (not a tablet), your charger, and one real problem you'd like AI to help with.

Tickets include: morning tea, the printed HERiZON workbook, your Base44 month, and a curated gift bag.

You don't need to know anything about AI to come. Whether you're running a business, leading a team, building something on the side, or just tired of nodding along when people talk about it, this room is for you.