The WA Data Science Innovation Hub will deliver a hands-on “research-to-reality” prototyping session that brings academic researchers and industry practitioners together to address real-world challenges. Participants will explore how AI can move beyond concept into real organisational capability, transformation, and application. Using new AI prototyping tools, teams will rapidly develop working prototypes in response to industry-framed problems and identify the gaps between an academic idea and a deployable industry solution.
Mixed teams will start from an industry-framed problem statement rather than a blank page. Using AI prototyping tools, they will rapidly build and refine a working prototype, drawing on the research knowledge of academics and the practical perspectives of industry. The session is intended to be highly energetic and hands-on, with actively developing solutions rather than discussing AI only at a conceptual level.
Objectives
- Provide hands-on experience using AI tools to rapidly translate ideas and research into working prototypes.
- Explore the challenges involved in moving AI-infused Information Systems research from concept to organisational application.
- Create opportunities for academics and industry to combine research knowledge with practical perspectives.
Outcomes
- Develop a tangible working prototype responding to an industry-framed problem.
- Gain practical experience in rapidly prototyping solutions using AI tools and collaborating in mixed academic–industry teams to address real-world challenges.
- Develop a clearer understanding of the gaps between an idea and a deployable solution.
Workshop Information
Limited to 18 academics and researchers interested in the application of AI in business.
Limited to 18 industry professionals in leadership roles navigating the use of AI in the workplace. Industry participants will be asked to submit a real challenge in advance of the workshop.
Please bring your own laptop.