A wide-ranging panel bringing together academic, government, industry, and First Nations perspectives on AI in the NFP sector, surfacing honest tensions around ethics, funding gaps, data sovereignty, and the difficulty of scaling from pilot to practice. It closes with a practical message that resource-poor organisations should lean on peer networks and shared solutions rather than trying to build alone.

Panel:

• David Crosbie, CEO, Community Council for Australia (host)
  
• Lee Hickin, Executive Director, Australian National AI Centre
  
• Dr Kyle Turner, Senior Research Fellow, Victoria University
  
• Professor Jo Barraket AM, Director, Melbourne Social Equity Institute, University of Melbourne
  
• Anita Sood, Microsoft Elevate Asia Commercial Operating Unit Lead, Microsoft