Webinars & events
Upcoming webinars and events
Join our expert-led webinars and events to learn about community engagement best practices, AI integration, and how to maximise your stakeholder engagement outcomes.
CE Canvas Live — Session 3: Defensible "What We Heard" Reporting
CE Canvas Live is a series of live working sessions where you'll see CE Canvas and EVA — our Engagement Virtual Assistant — work through real engagement challenges in real time. It's a practical look at how governed AI supports better engagement planning, delivery, and reporting. Three sessions. Three challenges. One platform. Session 3 of 3 closes the loop: producing "what we heard" reporting that is traceable back to source, defensible under scrutiny, and far faster to assemble. You'll see how governed AI helps synthesize engagement inputs into themes and findings you can stand behind. All sessions begin at 12:00 PM ET.
CE Canvas Live — Session 3: Defensible "What We Heard" Reporting
CE Canvas Live is a series of live working sessions where you'll see CE Canvas and EVA — our Engagement Virtual Assistant — work through real engagement challenges in real time. It's a practical look at how governed AI supports better engagement planning, delivery, and reporting. Three sessions. Three challenges. One platform. Session 3 of 3 closes the loop: producing "what we heard" reporting that is traceable back to source, defensible under scrutiny, and far faster to assemble. You'll see how governed AI helps synthesize engagement inputs into themes and findings you can stand behind. All sessions begin at 12:00 PM AEST.
IAP2 North American Conference & Gala 2026
Most AI discussions in community engagement are still focused on content generation, sentiment analysis, and summarising feedback. But the bigger opportunity is governed, context-aware AI that helps practitioners make better decisions — grounded in actual project information, organisational constraints, stakeholder realities, compliance, and importantly human engagement best practice. That's the future, and it's a big part of what we're building at CE Canvas. We're excited to have our founders, Charles Connell and Colin Ellis, speaking about this important topic at this year's IAP2 North American Conference in Vancouver. 📅 IAP2 Canada 2026 — North American Conference & Gala 📍 October 1–3, Vancouver, British Columbia
Past Webinars and Events
Catch up on sessions and events we've already hosted.
CE Canvas Live — Session 2: Operationalizing Community Engagement Delivery
CE Canvas Live is a series of live working sessions where you'll see CE Canvas and EVA — our Engagement Virtual Assistant — work through real engagement challenges in real time. It's a practical look at how governed AI supports better engagement planning, delivery, and reporting. Three sessions. Three challenges. One platform. Session 2 of 3 moves from plan to delivery: coordinating activities, capturing inputs, and keeping a live record as engagement actually happens. You'll see how CE Canvas and EVA support the day-to-day operational work of delivery — without losing the thread back to your original plan. All sessions begin at 12:00 PM AEST.
CE Canvas Live — Session 2: Operationalizing Community Engagement Delivery
CE Canvas Live is a series of live working sessions where you'll see CE Canvas and EVA — our Engagement Virtual Assistant — work through real engagement challenges in real time. It's a practical look at how governed AI supports better engagement planning, delivery, and reporting. Three sessions. Three challenges. One platform. Session 2 of 3 moves from plan to delivery: coordinating activities, capturing inputs, and keeping a live record as engagement actually happens. You'll see how CE Canvas and EVA support the day-to-day operational work of delivery — without losing the thread back to your original plan. All sessions begin at 12:00 PM ET.
CE Canvas Live — Session 1: Governed AI Advisory for Engagement Planning
CE Canvas Live is a series of live working sessions where you'll see CE Canvas and EVA — our Engagement Virtual Assistant — work through real engagement challenges in real time. It's a practical look at how governed AI supports better engagement planning, delivery, and reporting. Three sessions. Three challenges. One platform. Session 1 of 3 focuses on the planning stage: how governed, context-aware AI can act as an advisory partner when you scope an engagement — clarifying objectives, mapping stakeholders, selecting methods, and pressure-testing your plan before you commit resources. You'll watch EVA reason through a real planning scenario, with the governance guardrails that keep its advice grounded and defensible. All sessions begin at 12:00 PM AEST.
CE Canvas Live — Session 1: Governed AI Advisory for Engagement Planning
CE Canvas Live is a series of live working sessions where you'll see CE Canvas and EVA — our Engagement Virtual Assistant — work through real engagement challenges in real time. It's a practical look at how governed AI supports better engagement planning, delivery, and reporting. Three sessions. Three challenges. One platform. Session 1 of 3 focuses on the planning stage: how governed, context-aware AI can act as an advisory partner when you scope an engagement — clarifying objectives, mapping stakeholders, selecting methods, and pressure-testing your plan before you commit resources. You'll watch EVA reason through a real planning scenario, with the governance guardrails that keep its advice grounded and defensible. All sessions begin at 12:00 PM ET.
IAP2 Canada Webinar: Reframing AI as a Governed Advisory System
Responsibly Supporting Professional Judgment in Community Engagement AI can effectively support community engagement — when it is used as an advisory tool to support professional judgement, with transparency, accountability, and human oversight. AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini are increasingly being used across community engagement practice—often informally and without clear governance. As explored in Artificial Intelligence: Its potential and ethics in the practice of public participation (Boyco & Robinson, Jan 9, 2025), general-purpose large language models (LLMs) can support lower-risk tasks such as drafting communications, summarizing feedback, or early-stage ideation, but introduce significant risks when applied to more complex, context-dependent engagement work. This webinar provides a technology-focused explanation of how general-purpose LLMs function, when they can responsibly support engagement practice, and where they introduce real risk. Participants will explore why AI-generated outputs can appear confident even when they lack critical context — and why improved prompting alone cannot resolve issues such as misinformation, bias amplification, privacy exposure, or lack of auditability. Participants are then introduced to Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) as a more responsible technical approach. RAG-based systems ground AI outputs in trusted sources such as IAP2 resources, governing organizational frameworks, policies, plans, as well as project-specific and historical context. Through a practical case example, the session demonstrates how engagement-aware AI advisory systems can support planning, delivery, and reporting—while preserving human oversight, professional judgement, and public trust. This webinar is intended for engagement practitioners, managers, and specialists seeking a clear, technically informed and ethically grounded perspective on AI—one that strengthens practice while upholding the values, accountability, and legitimacy at the core of public participation. Learning Outcomes Participants will: - Understand how general-purpose LLMs function and why confidence does not equal correctness - Identify where AI can responsibly support engagement—and where risks outweigh benefits - Recognize why governance, ethics, and professional accountability matter more than prompting - Understand how RAG-based, engagement-aware AI differs from generic AI tools - Apply IAP2’s Core Values and Code of Ethics as a lens for evaluating AI use in engagement
How to Correctly Use AI in Community Engagement
In this session, we'll explore practical ways to get real value from AI when planning and delivering community engagement projects. Whether you're experimenting with AI or already using it in your engagement workflow, you'll leave with practical tips to help you work smarter, not harder.