Our mission is to ensure that everyone can access the conversation on how AI is being implemented in society.
We help people with the hard questions on AI, across sectors.
If you’re planning a workshop, designing policy, organizing a conference, coordinating a coalition, or just trying to figure out where to start, we’ll meet you where you are.
Fellows present how they come to be working on these hard questions in AI, and a few real dilemmas from your context. Then time to talk, in small circles, honestly. You leave knowing more, but more importantly: you’ve practiced asking better questions, together.
Recent examples: We’ve run this with AI institutes as a pre-conference workshop, with literacy advocates, newcomers’ centres, faculty, women in business, and more.
Conference Design & Strategic Support
We’ve helped plan full conferences and major convenings, including speaker selection, keynote delivery, workshops, private sessions with leadership, and detailed follow-up. We hold space before, during, and after the event, to help you to bring your whole community to the conversation.
Keynotes & Presentations
These are never off-the-shelf. We bring grounded stories and sharp questions specific to your field: labor, education, surveillance, disaster response, public service, tech policy. We connect them to power structures and show what kinds of action are possible, and by whom.
Presentation Prep , preparing for Campus Saint Jean / University of Alberta:
Keynote, Literacy Nova Scotia
Policy, Strategy & Audits
Our Fellows include professionals and academics from various fields, like managers, data scientists, lawyers, social scientists, public servants, technologists, activists, and organizers. We can support you in policy review, governance audits, tech accountability processes, and multi-stakeholder planning, all with independence and clarity.
Recently we had the honour of preparing and presenting a consultation on behalf of AI Scientists and for Inclusivity, to the United Nations Commission on the Creation of a United Nations Scientific Panel on AI.
Outreach
We offer promotion and distribution services for public service campaigns.
Custom Work
If you’ve got something strange, good. Most of the best things we’ve done didn’t have a name at the start.
Results
Triage
Help you name what you’re dealing with, and connect to others around the hard questions on AI in society and in your sector.
Awareness
Sector-specific knowledge and language, drawing on Fellows who have experience in your domain and in working across sectors.
Empowerment
Equip your people with frameworks, vocabulary, real-world examples, and practice so that they can engage in the conversation.
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Public Consultations
We help organizations identify consultation opportunities and present them. We do several per year as a Fellowship, like this one the the UN.
Delivering Meaningful Engagement
We organize field-configuring events, and co-host gatherings of people working on AI in society (Co-host and organized the 100 Women in AI Gathering, at World AI, Montreal).
Pursuing our Mission, Around the World
We attend dozens of conferences every year as presenters, guests, and strategic advisors, and we participate in science, tech, and policy. We offer services in most major cities throughout the Americas, Europe, Africa, and India.
Working with Decision Makers
Asking hard questions and helping decision makers build bridges. (With Madame Michelle Bachelet, Former President of Chile, OECD, Paris).
Collaborations across sectors
Pre-conference workshops and Coalition Work with AI Institutes and Policymakers. (With Dr. Yoshua Bengio and the Honourable Patrick Pennyinckx, MIla, Montreal).
Keynotes and Academic Convenings
Presenting research to specific audiences, for the purposes of bringing people together around hard questions in AI.
Start a Conversation
If you’re asking hard questions about AI, or helping others ask them, we’d love to talk.
We are a registered non-profit. We price on a cost-plus model:
Costs = actual project costs, including fair wages. Transparent.
Plus = funds the charitable work 100%. It’s in our charter.
We use a sliding scale, and we always make room for the people we’re here to serve.
If your organization can’t afford the full rate, you have options:
Work with us through an individual representative (always free)
Scale down the project or shift the format (e.g., hybrid instead of in-person)
Ask us what’s possible with what you have and we’ll see what we can build together
Free consultations
That’s part of our mission: ensuring everyone can access the conversation on AI.
Whether you’re planning a workshop, designing policy, organizing a conference, coordinating a coalition, or just trying to figure out where to start, we’ll meet you where you are.
(The Fellow) has this rare talent for taking complex AI concepts, things like data governance and automation, and breaking them down in a way that just clicks. No jargon, no overcomplication, just real, practical applications that make you think, “Wow, this actually makes sense.”
– Shruti Mukherjee, CISM, Director of Governance, Risk and Compliance, Global Vision
“I feel like now I know how to talk about it.” – Emmanuel Taiwo, Climate Policymaker and Researcher, Nigeria.
“This collective work is the highlight of my year” – A New Aula Fellow
“I like learning, and I like learning about how we can make a difference. People can do it. You just have to want to.” – Patricia Morisette, Community Organizer, le regroupement des familles d’acceuil de l’Estie (Foster Families Association, Québec, Canada).
