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Re:Gen AI

An evening of AI talks for young people and anyone curious, at the University of Waikato. Over 100 registered and 86 came.

Date
31 July 2026
Place
University of Waikato, Hamilton
Role
Organised
With
The AI Collective, Singularity AI Club, Enlighten Designs, University of Waikato
Benny at the microphone at the front of the room at the University of Waikato, seen from the back over rows of seated guests

We organised Re:Gen AI with The AI Collective and the Singularity AI Club, at the University of Waikato. It ran under the InspiraEd name. Benny hosted the night and sat on the panel.

Four talks: Kang Zhou on turning AI images into ones you can edit, Tony Xia and Rachel Martin of Enlighten Designs building a web page live from the audience's choices, Luca Fossen on comprehension debt and how to trust AI agents, and Andeed Ma on AI for humanity. A panel and dinner followed.

Enlighten Designs was the founding headline sponsor.

Five panellists on stools in front of a black curtain, Benny second from left, with audience heads in the foreground
Three guests talking among the chairs at the University of Waikato after the Re:Gen AI talks
A speaker in a white shirt points at a line drawing on the TV while the audience watches

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