AI Discovery Lab · Maroochydore
I'm opening the AI Discovery Lab at Altitude Nine on 30 September.
Sunshine Coast Council's Innovation @ Altitude series, five expert-led streams on how to actually use AI in your business.
Wednesday 30 September 2026. 7:45am to 11:00am. Altitude Nine, Maroochydore. Breakfast included.
Register on the Innovation @ Altitude siteWhat is Innovation @ Altitude
Innovation @ Altitude is Sunshine Coast Council's flagship 2026 event series, run in partnership with SCTechIA, Sunshine Coast Manufacturing Hub, and the Sunshine Coast Regional Jobs Committee. Each event is a curated morning of expert sessions designed to help local businesses build capability in a specific area.
The 30 September event, the AI Discovery Lab, is the AI edition.
Learn more about the series on the Sunshine Coast Council site and about the venue at Altitude Nine.
The five discovery streams
An interactive morning. Five 20-minute stream sessions from Sunshine Coast experts on the five foundations of using AI well in a small or mid-sized business. You walk away with takeaway sheets from every stream: a marketing starter sheet, cybersecurity prompts, a one-page 12-month roadmap, and more.
- 1
Train AI to Run Your Marketing Like a Pro
Nina Huchthausen, Set to Growth (opens the morning)
- 2
AI-Powered Cyber Defence for Small Business
Dr Dennis Desmond, Ravinn
- 3
AI Safety, Privacy and Governance
Kathryn Giudes, ORCA Opti
- 4
Your 12-Month AI-First Roadmap
Bart Puszko, Blue Seas AI
- 5
Neuroscience, AI & Leadership
Darren Ramia-Topp, The Industry Factory
I'm super excited, and honestly it feels really special to be sharing a stage with Dennis, Catherine, Bart and Darren. Every one of them has built serious AI capability on the coast this year, and I've learned from watching each of them. If you can only make one AI event before the year is out, this is the one.
About my stream: Train AI to Run Your Marketing Like a Pro
Marketing is the first thing that slips when the week gets busy. And the cost of that slip is not just the missed post. It is the drift. Fewer conversations. Fewer leads. A brand that goes quiet.
In my 20 minutes I'll show you:
- The difference between chatting with AI and actually training it (most owners never cross this line, and it's the entire game)
- The system behind a marketing assistant that plans your month, drafts your posts, and sounds like you
- A real Sunshine Coast business story, start to finish, of an owner who built this and got their evenings back
- The single thing to prioritise if you only have one hour to start
You walk out with a marketing starter sheet you can use the same afternoon.
Who this morning is for
Sunshine Coast owners and leaders who feel like AI is either everywhere or nowhere in their business, and want a clear, safe, practical way to actually put it to work. Whether you're solo or leading a team, whether you've never opened Claude or you've been playing around for months, this is a morning that meets you where you are.
About Nina
Nina Huchthausen is a process engineer by trade. For 16 years she's helped businesses streamline their processes and systems, and now she also hands the simply repetitive tasks over to AI. The result her clients feel: the manual, draining work lifts off the team's plate, and they get either the room to actually grow and scale, or the same revenue made in a 7-hour work day instead of 12.
Over the last 90 days alone, Nina has trained over 150 business owners on the coast to build their own AI marketing assistant Flo.
Frequently asked questions
Want to build a marketing assistant with me?
The 30 September morning is 20 minutes of framework and story. If you want the hands-on version, I'm running a 90-minute build session at The Exchange on Wednesday 21 October, 5:30 to 7:00pm.
You walk in playing with a blank page, frozen, not knowing what to write. You walk out with your month planned, your posts drafted, and all you do is tweak and post.
$29. Limited to 10 seats.