Brisbane
AI Intensive
Save hours a week, not minutes. A laptops-open day for accountants and advisors: learn about building your own AI accounting team
Tuesday, December 1, 2026, 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM AEST
Venue: Cliftons Brisbane
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What is the
Brisbane AI Intensive?
The Brisbane AI Intensive is a full-day event designed for professionals, teams, and business owners ready to smooth their AI foundations and start putting AI into their workflow. This is not a theoretical seminar.
This is a hands-on day, led by Inbal Rodnay. We’ll look at how AI is progressing towards AI team members and what you can do today: where to add automations, where to give AI more autonomy and tools, and how to get it running in the background.
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How it Works
Inbal shares what she's seeing on the ground: real use cases from real firms, and the tools to implement them. Then the whole room experiments together. Some of the best discoveries come from the person sitting next to you. It's insight, practice, and shared discovery.
“After the last Auckland session we did a group catch up, every person in the room had amazing stories to tell about a process they totally reshaped now with AI. The time savings are consistently hours a week. We are not shaving minutes here and there. AI delivers at a different scale.”
Who Should Attend
Professionals who use AI but suspect they're only scratching the surface
Sole operators who want to save hours and lift quality
Advisors ready to move beyond prompting and start delegating chunks of work to AI
Teams who need a shared language (and a shared toolbox) before rolling delegated AI workflows out company-wide
Anyone who learns best when they can ask questions, try things and swap discoveries with others
What you will learn
This AI Intensive is structured around…
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1. Your Level on the AI Map
A quick, honest check of where you sit on the current six levels of AI (Set up, Ask, Work, Reuse, Delegate, Build), the gaps holding you back, and exactly what to do about them.
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2. Focus for 2027
In 2027, we’ll be handing AI whole chunks of work, not just one task at a time. Most firms are at Reuse today, and Delegate is next. You’ll learn the three things to have in place to get there: Skills (your playbooks), connectors (links to your systems) and Cowork (where AI gets the work done).
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3. How to build your AI accounting team
Think of AI team members as assistants who take on whole jobs alongside you. You could build an inbox assistant, a file clerk, a morning briefer, a BAS prep assistant, a reporting analyst, or a reviewer that checks your work before it goes to the partner, plus dozens more use cases built by accountants to try on the day or take home.
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4. Moving fast, staying safe
As one of the accountants I worked with put it: “These AI team members do the work we’re not paid to do (and do anyway).” We’ll start with the playbooks your AI team members follow, then hand them whole jobs, and keep them safe along the way: they read before they write, they draft, and a human sends.
This is about moving from sporadic to workflow. It is not designed to wow you into overwhelm. On the contrary. It is designed to make things clear, working, and... fun.
How the day runs?
Session 1: Find your level and set up your toolkit: where you sit on the six levels (Set up, Ask, Work, Reuse, Delegate, Build), what to pay for, what to use free and what not to use at all. Then switch on the connectors so your AI can see your email, files and calendar.
Session 2: One task, every level: we’ll take a real task and run it at each level, from chat, to inside Excel and Word, to a saved skill or agent. You’ll turn a prompt you keep retyping into a skill and share it with your team. We’ll work in Copilot, with Claude shown alongside.
Session 3: Delegate: build your AI team member. Hand AI a whole job using Cowork.
Session 4: Your 2027 action plan: map the exact steps from your level to Delegate, including what to ask your firm for if Cowork or connectors aren’t switched on yet. We’ll finish with a Q&A.
Why now? Why this bootcamp?
Real use cases from real firms, right now, across professional services
Business-safe tools what's actually ready to deploy, without the risk
Hands-on time learning locked in by doing, not just watching
Community brainpower a room full of people sharing what works multiplies the magic
Immediate ROI leave with workflows you can run the very next morning
Choose your seat
Attend solo or bring your team for greater impact.
Meet your host
Inbal Rodnay
Inbal Rodnay has gone from Head of Technology and Innovation at BlueRock, a 350-person accounting firm, to international keynote speaker on AI and automation and founder of the AI for Accountants Club, a community of more than 180 accountants from more than 100 firms and counting.
Her sessions are practical, no jargon and easy to follow. Her goal is for every accountant to leave feeling they’re not behind, and knowing exactly what to do next in their firm. She brings clear direction on how to use AI’s latest capabilities, and removes the scepticism and fear around using it safely.
In 2026 she was named one of Ignition’s Top 50 Women in Accounting and won two Gold Stevies at the International Business Awards. She’s lead author of the CA ANZ Certificate in AI Fluency and author of AI Magic: 6 Steps to AI Mastery in Your Firm, a number one Amazon bestseller.
What people are saying…
Jason Staats
LinkedIn’s #1 Voice For Accounting Firm Owners
Aaran Stone
Chartered Accountants Australia New Zealand
Joyce Ong
Founder, Tax Nuggets Academy
Aaron Thompson
Lower North Island Regional Manager at Chartered Accountants Australia New Zealand
What Others Say
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"Very practical and helpful to understand the possibilities and the practicalities of bringing the whole team along for the AI journey"
Amanda Kenafake, CEO, Power Tynan
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“Inbal never fails to add assurance, confidence and care to any conversation. Her insights go beyond the questions asked, and allow me to advance my skills as a manager implementing new systems.”
Anna Fitzgibbon, Partner, The Breakthrough Office
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"An eye opener on what's possible with AI. We need to be ready for these changes and alerted to their impacts within a relatively short period of time."
CPA Congress
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"Very engaging and entertaining. Great to see so many new options for accountants in the AI space."
CPA Congress
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“I loved Inbal's suggestions for our team and her knowledge of AI and how it can work for us. We will put some new processes and AI apps into place.”
Jane Bedggood, Business Manager, Sue Anderson
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"Love your practical advice Inbal Rodnay. Keep it coming! you are certainly helping me explore new ways to leverage AI regularly!"
Tammy Freadman, nbn® Australia
FAQs
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No. This day is designed for everyday professionals. If you can write an email and use Word or Google Docs, you'll be able to follow everything with ease.
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Yes, absolutely. Let us know that you are a bit unsure and we will make sure to give you special attention so that you are not left behind. There will be extra support staff in the room, so you are never alone.
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Send your cat over. And no, this is a no coding, no developers, no jargon day. Just practical, business-ready AI that normal humans can implement themselves.
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Absolutely. Look for the Team of Three option at registration. For larger groups, email us.
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The day is designed for accountants and advisors, so the examples and discussions focus on their world. Lawyers, auditors, financial planners and others in professional services are very welcome too.
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Bring a laptop with the AI you use at work, and make sure you can log in. Demos will be mostly in Microsoft Copilot, with Claude shown alongside, and the principles apply to ChatGPT, Gemini and others too. If you’re on Copilot, check with your IT team that Cowork and connectors are switched on. Cowork costs extra, so many firms have it turned off.
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No. This is a live, in-person experience designed for active participation. There will be some snippets of the event recorded for marketing purposes, but not for replay or distribution. If you want the full experience, you need to be in the room.
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Yes. Morning tea, lunch, and light refreshments are all included. We want you (and the planet!) to feel great. So we source our food from sustainable sources.
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Yes. This is a laptops-open day, and you’ll be building as we go.
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We’ll send you directions and parking details for Cliftons Brisbane before the day.
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Tickets are not refundable, but they are transferable. Can't make it? Give it to a friend.
Ready to create your AI accounting team?
This is a live, interactive day and the room has limited capacity. I can’t wait to see you there!
Tuesday, December 1, 2026, 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM AEST
I’m so excited to bring some AI magic into the room with you, take it back to your firm and spread it across your team.