Events and speaking
Forums, hands-on workshops and closed roundtables around the country. No vendor keynotes, no product pitches from the stage, and cohort sizes small enough that people actually speak.
Roundtables run under Chatham House rule. What is said in the room stays in the room, which is the only reason anyone describes what actually went wrong.
Upcoming
Members are notified before general registration opens, and capped sessions usually fill from the member list alone.
15 October 2026
The Centre’s flagship gathering. A day of practitioner sessions on operating models, measurement and governance, with no vendor keynotes and no product pitches from the stage.
Members register first for AI in Marketing Forum: Sydney. Join the Centre.5 November 2026
Bring your brand guidelines and leave with a written voice specification, a review gate that works under deadline, and a tested set of examples your team can hold generated work against.
Members register first for Brand Voice at Scale: Hands-on Workshop. Join the Centre.19 November 2026
A closed session for senior marketers writing their first AI policy. Chatham House rule, twelve seats, and a shared draft policy that every participant takes back to their organisation.
Members register first for CMO Roundtable: Governance Without Gridlock. Join the Centre.3 December 2026
Bring a live measurement problem. We work through modelled attribution, incrementality testing and how to present uncertainty to a board without losing the room.
Members register first for Measurement Clinic: Defending Your Numbers. Join the Centre.18 February 2027
Built for small teams outside the eastern capitals, where one person often owns the whole funnel. Practical systems, realistic budgets, and no assumption of a dedicated data function.
Members register first for Regional Marketers Intensive. Join the Centre.25 March 2027
Marketers, policy people and researchers in one room, working through disclosure, consent, synthetic likeness and the standards our industry should hold itself to before someone sets them for us.
Members register first for Responsible AI in Marketing Summit. Join the Centre.13 May 2027
For agency principals rebuilding pricing, scoping and quality control when production time collapses. Honest conversation about margin, retainers and what clients are actually buying now.
Members register first for Agency Leaders Lab. Join the Centre.2 June 2027 to 7 July 2027
Six consecutive Wednesday evenings covering the Centre’s full foundations curriculum in shorter sittings, for practitioners who cannot take days away from the desk.
Members register first for Summer Teaching Series: Six Evenings. Join the Centre.Reserved places are held at no cost in every paid session for not-for-profit marketers and practitioners between roles. Ask for one through the form below and you will not be asked to justify the request.
Speaker highlights
The Centre speaks at conferences, team offsites and board sessions. Each talk is adapted to the room rather than delivered from a fixed deck, and none of them end with a product recommendation.
A grounded picture of what shifts in the work itself: which tasks compress, which get harder, and which judgement calls stay firmly with people. Written for a mixed-seniority room.
How to write a short AI policy that survives contact with a deadline: disclosure, sign-off, data boundaries and escalation, sized for the organisation rather than copied from a global template.
Modelled attribution, incrementality and the honest communication of uncertainty. Built for teams being asked to prove contribution with fewer signals than they had three years ago.
A practical framework for separating demonstrated capability from a good demo, including the questions to ask vendors and the exit terms worth arguing for before you sign.
Why volume is the easy part and distinctiveness is the hard part, and how to codify voice specifically enough that a review gate can be applied consistently.
What to teach a five-person marketing team next, in what order, and how to build evaluation skill when there is no dedicated data function to lean on.
Speaking request
Tell us about the room and what you want people to leave with. We review requests weekly and come back with availability, a suggested format and an honest view on whether we are the right fit.