An executive roundtable with AWS, OpenAI and Everest Engineering, bringing together senior leaders from Victorian universities to explore how AI is reshaping education, assessment and workforce readiness.
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Limited places · Networking lunch included
Executive Roundtable
Tuesday, 6 October 2026
9:15 am – 1:45 pm
Everest Engineering Boardroom
Level 1, 39 Little Collins Street, Melbourne
Networking Lunch
George on Collins — The Rumpus Room
Three shifts happening at once
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Skills are changing faster than degrees Universities need to adapt to a workforce evolving in real time.
02
Graduate expectations have changed AI literacy is rapidly becoming a baseline expectation across almost every profession.
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AI has changed assessment When AI can write essays, generate code and solve problems, how do we assess genuine capability?
Discussion Themes
The questions worth having in the room.
Five questions we'll put to the table, chosen because none of them have a settled answer yet.
01
What does a university need to be good at in ten years?
Operating model
02
If the three-year degree stops being the unit of learning, what replaces it?
Lifelong learning & curriculum
03
Students arrive AI-fluent. What are we adding that they can't get elsewhere?
Student expectations & workforce readiness
04
When AI can write the essay, what are we actually measuring?
Assessment
04
Where does AI earn its keep once the pilot ends?
Teaching, research & student services
Agenda
Time
9:15–9:30
9:30–9:55
9:55–10:20
10:20–11:10
11:10–11:20
11:20–12:20
12:20–12:45
12:45 onwards
Session
Welcome & Framing
Keynote:
What Has AI Done for Us Lately?
How We Need to Change — The Way We Think, and the Way We Operate
Executive Roundtable Discussion — What does this mean for the people who lead universities?
Morning Break
Interactive Workshop — What can (and should) we do with these new insights?
Synthesis, Reflections & Close
Networking Lunch
Presenter
Everest Engineering
Prof. Margaret Bearman — Deakin University
Kevin Park — OpenAI
Facilitated by Everest Engineering
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AWS
Everest Engineering
George on Collins (Rumpus Room)
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A focused morning with leaders across higher education, AWS, OpenAI and Everest Engineering. Places are intentionally limited to keep the discussion useful.
Closed-door format — a private room of Victorian university leaders, not a public webinar.
Half-day, one venue — Melbourne CBD, 9:15am–1:45pm, lunch included.
No sales agenda — co-hosted with AWS and OpenAI, led by peer discussion.
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