Masterclasses: What’s coming up?
Our ImpactLab Masterclasses give purpose-led teams the chance to dive deeper into the strategy and storytelling behind impact.
These small-group sessions are designed to be practical, hands-on, and tailored to your organisation’s needs — whether you’re just starting out or levelling up. ImpactLab Masterclasses are 3 – 4 hours with capped numbers.
Stay tuned, new Masterclass dates will be announced shortly.
Scroll down to find out more and keep an eye on this page for future dates and announcements.
From purpose to proof: A hands-on guide to impact measurement
Ready to bring your organisation’s purpose to life and deliver measurable, meaningful impact?
Event details
Date: Thursday 21 May 2026
Time: 1:00pm – 5:00pm AEST
In this hands-on session, we’ll guide you through practical tools, a clear framework, and a real-world case study to help you confidently measure social impact. Whether you’re just starting out or refining your approach, you’ll leave with a strategy that’s tailored to your work and ready to implement.
What you’ll learn
- Impact measurement basics – What it is, why it matters, and how it improves outcomes.
- Theory of change – Build a simple map of your intended impact through a guided activity.
- Measurement planning – Learn how to choose the right methods for your context.
- Core principles – Engage stakeholders, embed measurement into operations, and balance rigour with practicality.
- Confidence to begin – Start small, use what you have, and embrace the learning process.
Who should attend
- Not-for-profit leaders and program managers who want to bring more structure and clarity to their impact work – and make a stronger case for ongoing funding.
- Social enterprises and BCorps, looking to align purpose with performance and communicate impact to stakeholders.
- CSR and ESG teams, wanting to embed meaningful metrics into sustainability and community initiatives.
- Philanthropic foundations and impact investors, aiming to track outcomes and ensure their investments drive real change.
- Community development practitioners, working to amplify local voices and measure what truly matters to communities.
- Government and policy advisors, focused on evidence-based decision-making and public value creation.
Ready to lead with impact? Register now and start measuring what matters.
Follow the links below for more information and to secure your spot.
Practical AI for social impact
Understand what you can do with AI today, and how it can support stronger impact over time.
Event details
Date: Thursday 28 May 2026
Time: 12:00pm – 1:00pm AEST
Many organisations working in social impact have started experimenting with AI.
People are testing prompts, exploring tools like ChatGPT, Copilot, Claude and Gemini, and asking practical questions about how AI might help them work faster or get unstuck.
What is less clear is where self‑service experimentation ends, and where more structured approaches begin.
This Social Impact Summit Quarterly is a practical, demonstration‑led session focused on how AI can be used today to support impact strategy, measurement and storytelling, without losing rigour, judgement or human insight.
We’re pleased to welcome Sam Calabrese, Director of Communications and Campaigns at Minderoo Foundation, who will share insights from recent national research into Australians’ attitudes towards AI.
Together, we’ll cover how people are feeling about AI today, what is driving trust (and distrust), and what this means for organisations working in human-centred, high-stakes environments.
We’ll explore the difference between:
- What organisations can reasonably do on their own using off‑the‑shelf AI tools, and
- Where more structured tools, systems and specialist support can dramatically accelerate progress
From there, we will walk through a small number of practical applications, showing how AI is already being used in real‑world impact work, including:
- How individuals and teams can use existing AI tools to start or strengthen impact work themselves
- Ways AI can support research, stakeholder input and early analysis, helping teams move faster without lowering quality
- What becomes possible when AI is designed into impact processes from the outset, rather than used as an add‑on tool
This Quarterly is designed as a preview of the deeper, hands‑on workshop at Social Impact Summit, where more advanced applications, tools and use cases will be explored.
If you are already experimenting with AI and want clearer direction, or if you are looking for ways to use AI to accelerate your impact journey, this session will give you grounded insights and practical next steps.
Register below to join the conversation.