Collective Campus

AI design sprints in AdelaideA decision, not a slide.

An AI design sprint for Adelaide teams who need one problem tested before a board or steering date.

  • Adelaide, in person or hybrid

Adelaide

Adelaide teams who owe proceed, change or stop

An Adelaide innovation team gets asked to show AI progress. What the meeting can use is a decision: proceed, change or stop, on one problem, with something thin enough for someone outside the room to react to.

The core team meets in Adelaide. A sponsor elsewhere can join hybrid. The tools are the ones you are allowed to use. Tell us the date.

  • For Adelaide product and innovation teams who owe a decision.
  • Three to five days, or shorter when the date will not move.
  • In person in Adelaide, or hybrid for a sponsor elsewhere.
  • Rules for clinical, student or programme data while you move.

◆ WE'VE RUN FOR TEAMS ◆

The problem

AI is everywhere. Results aren't.

All talk

Endless AI hype and workshops, but nothing your teams actually built or shipped.

No idea where to start

Teams know AI matters but can't see where it fits their real work.

Death by pilot

Committees, roadmaps and pilots that stall before they deliver value.

Ideas stuck inside

The best problems, and solutions, are trapped in the day-to-day.

What it is

A sprint, not a seminar

Cross-functional teams, one room, one or two days. We combine design thinking, lean startup and hands-on AI to take a real problem from messy to prototyped, and pitched, before anyone goes home. No death by slides. Just building.

Scales from a single team to a whole-of-company conference of 100+.

Two tracks

Point the sprint at what matters most

Redesign internal processes with AI

Find the workflows quietly eating your team's time, and rebuild them with AI, cutting the busywork and automating the grind.

Build new customer-facing products

Spin up AI-powered product and service ideas fast, prototyped and pressure-tested in the room, ready to take forward.

How the sprint runs

From blank page to pitched prototype

One day = an intensive proof of concept. Two days = deeper build and customer validation.

  1. 01

    Frame

    Scene-set on AI and efficiency with real case studies, so everyone starts on the same page. · Morning

  2. 02

    Discover the problem

    Teams map workflow pain points and pinpoint where AI can actually intervene. · Morning

  3. 03

    Design the solution

    Reframe the problem, then design an AI-assisted solution to the biggest one. · Midday

  4. 04

    Prototype with AI

    Teams build a working lo-fi prototype using AI tools like Copilot, ChatGPT and agents, with facilitators coaching across the room. · Afternoon

  5. 05

    Shark Tank pitch

    Each team pitches to a judging panel (problem, solution, time or cost saved, live demo), then prizes and recognition. · Late afternoon

What you walk away with

By the end of the sprint

  • Workflow pain-point maps, by team
  • Sharper, reframed problem statements worth solving
  • Working lo-fi AI prototypes, one per team, built and demoed
  • A prioritised list of AI opportunities for leadership
  • Teams who now know how to use AI to solve problems themselves

Why it works

Why this beats another AI course

Build, don't talk

Real prototypes, built in the room.

Real tools

Copilot, ChatGPT and agents, on your stack.

Real problems

Your challenges, not case studies.

Shark Tank energy

Competition drives momentum and buy-in.

Capability stays

Teams keep the method long after the sprint.

Proof

Sprints that scale to the whole company

Featured: whole-of-company AI sprint

A 120-person property firm ran an AI sprint across every department at its annual conference. Teams prototyped AI solutions to their own workflow bottlenecks and pitched them live.

Who it's for

Built for teams ready to move on AI

Leaders driving AI adoption

Execs who need AI to move from talk to real, adopted solutions.

Staff conferences & offsites

A high-energy centrepiece that scales to the whole company.

Innovation & transformation teams

Teams who need to show built outcomes, not more strategy.

Steve Glaveski

Facilitator

Steve Glaveski

Founder of Collective Campus, 2× Wiley author and HBR contributor. Steve has incubated 100+ startups and shaped the innovation strategies of 100+ global corporations, and he runs these sprints himself.

Adelaide

Questions about running this in Adelaide

Can the sprint finish before an Adelaide board date?

Tell us the date. We will say whether you need three to five days or a shorter format.

Who needs to attend?

The team who will make the thing, and the sponsor who funds or stops the next step.

How do we book an AI design sprint in Adelaide?

Use the contact form. Name the decision, who can attend and any data that must not go into a tool.

How is this different from AI training?

Training builds skill for ordinary work. This sprint spends it on one problem and ends with proceed, change or stop.

Ready to build something real?

Tell us your team, your timing and the problem you want to crack, we'll shape the sprint.