Events

We regularly share our practice and insights to the communities and sectors and we work in. Watch videos of our past events, or join us at our next one. We'd love to meet you!

Past events

In conversation with Liya Safina

17 October 2025

Designing with children: How young minds shape great design

13 August 2025

Defining Design – Building a Stronger Voice for Emerging Occupations

03 June 2025

Co-design to coexist: in-person event

27 March 2025

Capitalism, Culture and Responsibility: What’s Next for Australian Business?

27 March 2025

Let's Chat: Customising GenAI

24 October 2024

Redesigning care services with relationship-centred practice

19 September 2024

Scaling Impact: How to be a Change Maker

20 August 2024

Creating the Conditions for Co-Design: Signals of Change and Hope

24 July 2024

Visib-ill-ity: Progress and hope for women living with chronic illness

07 March 2024

Neighbourhood Drinks: Innovation Evening

22 November 2023

Innovate to Navigate

15 November 2023

Zero Emissions Day: Business Meets Sustainability

20 September 2023

Portable Training: Ethical Human Centred Design Foundations

24 July 2023

Accessing Justice with AI: Advancements, Opportunities, and Challenges

23 May 2023

AI in Technology: First it stole my code, now it wants my job!?

19 April 2023

Crafting Type: Introductions to type design around the world

23 March 2023

Designing with ChatGPT: Harnessing AI for Human-Centred Design

22 March 2023

Design Community Evening: Putting People at the Centre of Service Design

29 November 2022

Neighbourhood Drinks: Collaborating in Collingwood

01 September 2022

Neighbourhood Drinks: Celebrating our new Sydney offices

03 August 2022

Neurodiversity in projects and at Portable

28 July 2022

Ethical Machines with Reid Blackman

07 July 2022

Portable Business Design presents: The Humans at the Centre of Data Design

27 May 2022

Portable Talks: Stopping Wage Theft

10 May 2022

Artificial Unintelligence with Meredith Broussard

24 February 2022

Exploring the Mental Health Royal Commission with Mary O'Hagan

04 November 2021

Big tech and the erosion of access to justice on a platform near you

21 October 2021

How to land your first tech job

14 October 2021

How to make transport safer by closing the gender data gap, with She's A Crowd

15 July 2021

Business, Power and Social Impact

07 July 2021

Design smarter, not harder: digital product design without starting from scratch

24 June 2021

Death Experience Design in 2020

26 November 2020

Portable presents Data Feminism with Catherine D’Ignazio

11 November 2020

Digital Transformation

15 October 2020

Federal Budget Technology and Design Review

08 October 2020

Moving major cultural institutions online

13 August 2020

Building a business for better

30 July 2020

A digital solution for separating couples

17 July 2020

The Psychology of Work Post COVID-19

04 June 2020

Decimated or Liberated? Higher education and the future of law in Australia

21 May 2020

Education and the Bureaucracy: what does learning look like after all of this?

23 April 2020

Co-design with purpose

09 April 2020

Accessing Justice during COVID-19

02 April 2020

Remote Design Research — How to connect with your users and co-design online

25 March 2020

Gender in our cities: reshaping our world

11 March 2020

Neighbourhood Drinks: YourCase edition

26 February 2020

Plato was a project manager

04 July 2019

All the feels: empathy in design and what to do with it

30 June 2019

Unlearning school

14 November 2018

Considering mental health in research and design

27 September 2018

Storytelling moves to conversational UI

13 June 2018

A human centred approach to artificial intelligence and machine learning

31 May 2018

How feminists do agile

02 January 2018

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Do you have an event you would like us to speak, facilitate, or participate in? Please reach out to events@portable.com.au so we can speak more about the opportunity.

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