Festival of NewMR 2026
10 key steps to get started with AI for research and insight professionals
A practical, free Training Day designed to help you move from occasional AI experiments to useful, repeatable ways of working.
Date
Tuesday 17 November 2026
Sessions
Two time-zone options
Duration
60 minutes
Format and price
Live online and free
Training Day
Turn AI into a practical part of your research workflow
AI can do far more than answer occasional questions. Used well, it can help researchers work more effectively, connect different tasks and create repeatable workflows.
Ray Poynter and Sue York will guide you through 10 practical steps for getting started with AI in research and insights. The focus will be on actions you can take now, using widely available AI tools.
The same content at two times
Choose the session that works best for you. Both broadcasts cover the same material and attendance is free.
What we will cover
Practical steps you can use straight away
The session will connect individual AI techniques into more useful and repeatable ways of working.
Better prompting
Scheduling tasks and recurring activities
Connecting your AI to other tools
Creating and using agents
Moving from occasional experiments to useful workflows
Identifying the next steps for developing your AI capabilities
Choose your session
Two live broadcasts for our global community
Both sessions take place on Tuesday 17 November 2026 and run for 60 minutes.
APAC session
10:00 am Sydney
Tuesday 17 November
Atlantic session
10:00 am London
Tuesday 17 November
Presenters
Learn with Ray Poynter and Sue York
Ray Poynter
Founder, NewMR
Ray is also a joint founder of ResearchWiseAI, a Fellow of the MRS, and an author, trainer and conference speaker with more than 45 years of experience at the intersection of research, technology and methodology.
Sue York
Co-Founder, NewMR
Sue is a Fellow of The Research Society in Australia and focuses on developing researcher capabilities, particularly in the application of new technologies and innovative approaches.
Live online and free
Choose your Training Day session
Register for the time that suits you and join a practical introduction to making AI more useful in your research and insights work.
Training Day is part of the Festival of NewMR 2026, five days of ideas, learning and conversations about the future of insights and research.
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