The AI4LAM community are invited to a professional meetup (places in person and online) hosted at the National Museum of Australia in the Peninsula room. The aim is to peer network and share work developing or experimenting with AI/ML and applying that to cultural heritage or humanities and arts digital collections and data.

• Welcome and introductions (10 min) - co-convenors and/or hosts
• Francis Crimmins & Terence Ingram, NLA (15 min + 5 min Q&A)
• Kent Fitch, ADFA, UNSW (15 min + 5 min Q&A)
• TBC (15 min + 5 min Q&A)
• Break (25 min)
• Sae Ra Germaine, CAVAL (15 min + 5 min Q&A)
• Lucie Paterson & Jeff Williams, ACMI (15 min + 5 min Q&A)
• TBC, NAA (15 min + 5 min Q&A)
• TBC, NFSA (15 min + 5 min Q&A)
• Discussion with audience (30 min)

The meetup is timed to occur in the same week with two great conferences. One in Canberra, Australia, hosted by the Australasian Association of Digital Humanities (Digital Humanities Australasia) and one in London, England, hosted by the British Library (Fantastic Futures). Options to host attendees onsite and virtually is facilitated. Ticketing is in place for "In person" or online attendance.

This conference aims to mobilize knowledge, research, and professional experience around the benefits and challenges of developing and maintaining open scholarship in the current age of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and digital platforms, as well as how best to coordinate open scholarship policies in ways that connect with related activities across Canada, Australia, and global partners. It also continues our tradition of celebrating and reflecting on the important, ongoing work of the open scholarship community. Open scholarship emphasizes the social nature of knowledge, along with community-driven initiatives, outreach, and partnerships that aim to close gaps between academic theory, research, and communities beyond academic specialists. Even though many researchers now have unprecedented opportunities to share and collaborate with each other and the public, much scholarship still remains inaccessible to wider audiences. In contrast to this reality, open scholarship asserts that research publications, datasets, educational resources, and other output should be accessible to all. Rapid advancements in AI, coupled with the expansion of open access research and digital infrastructures, are transforming open social research, public discourse, and creative practice. These shifts—spanning environmental, communal, social, creative, epistemic, and economic structures—demand urgent critical inquiry into the future of knowledge itself. Along with other disciplines, creative practice—itself a form of knowledge production in the academy and the wider world—is experiencing these shifts acutely. Moreover, the ‘data deluge’ in all disciplines presents both new possibilities and pressing challenges for digital researchers and engaged publics alike. Yet, while these issues are widely acknowledged across various fields, too often discussions remain siloed.