# Event Details - **Event Name**: ChatGPT for Business: A Full-Day Hands-On Intensive (Melbourne) - **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 14 Oct, 2026 at 09:00 am – Wed, 14 Oct, 2026 at 05:00 pm (+11:00) - **Event Description**: One full day, hands-on. Walk in curious, walk out a top 1% ChatGPT Power User, applied to your business. MCEC Melbourne, catering included.About this EventMost people using ChatGPT are getting maybe a tenth out of it. A question here, a quick answer there, handy enough, but nowhere near what it can actually do. This day is about closing that gap inside your own business, in a room full of other owners and leaders doing exactly the same thing.We ran the first of these at the MCEC in August. A full room from roughly 20 different businesses, laptops open the whole way through. The post-event NPS came back at +80, and four companies came back to us that same week wanting to do more.It runs 9:00am to 5:00pm, one room, led from the front by Andrew Gargiulo with a floor team moving between tables so nobody gets stuck. You bring your laptop and a couple of real jobs from your business, and you leave having actually done them with ChatGPT, not just watched someone else do it.Location: Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre (MCEC), South Wharf. A 10-minute walk from Southern Cross Station, or trams 96, 109 and 12 stop at the Clarendon Street door. Secure underground parking on site.What is new for OctoberThe August room told us they wanted more time to apply. So this run has two blocks of protected build time where you work on your own jobs with Andy and the floor team circulating and no new content coming at you. What you will walk out withBy 5:00pm you will have ChatGPT set up properly, personalised with deep context on you and your business, you will be using it like a top 1% Power User, and you will have put it to work on real tasks from your own desk. The centrepiece of the day is Work, Projects, Skills, Sites and Agents, which is where ChatGPT stops being a clever chatbot and becomes a system that runs on your business.Who it is forOwners, directors, founders, managing directors, leaders and senior managers of Melbourne businesses, plus the people they trust to lead AI internally. If you are curious about AI but not yet using it properly across the business, this is built for you. No technical background needed, we take you from wherever you are today.Why hands-on, and why the floor teamThe usual failure mode of big AI sessions is that half the room falls behind in the first hour and quietly gives up. We run it the other way. Small-group energy at your table, experts circulating the whole day, and real work in your own context so it actually sticks. You are not here to take notes on theory, you are here to get your own work done faster by the time you leave.What is includedA full day of hands-on training, morning tea, a working lunch, afternoon tea, good coffee, and a toolkit to take away.Before you book, worth knowingYou will need your own laptop and a ChatGPT Pro, Business or Enterprise subscription. The entry tier is not enough for a full day of heavy use. We send a full setup guide once you book, run a short online session before the day to get everyone organised, and our team is on the setup desk from 8:30am.AgendaπŸ•‘: 08:00 AM - 09:00 AMArrival, registration and setup deskInfo: Coffee on, laptops out. We check your account and clear any setup issues so you start at 9:00 ready to work.πŸ•‘: 09:00 AM - 09:20 AMThe big pictureInfo: Where AI actually earns its keep in a business, what the top 1% do differently, and how to treat ChatGPT as a Strategic Thought Partner, going beyond just a productivity tool.πŸ•‘: 09:20 AM - 10:00 AMGet ChatGPT set up properlyInfo: Switch on the capabilities most people never find, then connect ChatGPT to your email, documents and tools. We cover read and write permissions, and you test your own connectors rather than watching us test ours.πŸ•‘: 10:00 AM - 10:30 AMBuilding critical contextInfo: Context is the single biggest lever on output quality. You set custom instructions properly, take deliberate control of memory rather than letting it accumulate by accident, and load the context files you prepared before the day.πŸ•‘: 10:30 AM - 11:00 AMEveryday productivityInfo: Scheduled morning research briefs, working from screenshots, turning a messy email thread into a reusable draft-reply skill, and prompting properly with dictation. On your own inbox.πŸ•‘: 11:00 AM - 11:20 AMMorning teaπŸ•‘: 11:20 AM - 12:30 PMWork, Projects, Skills and AgentsInfo: The centrepiece, and if you take one thing home from the day make it this. Projects are persistent workspaces that hold everything about your business and remember it across every chat, so you stop re-explaining yourself. Skills are workflows you build once and run with a single command. Agents take a brief and go away and do the work while you get on with something else. Work is where the heavy jobs run, and you will set an ambitious one going before you break for lunch.πŸ•‘: 12:30 PM - 01:00 PMWorking lunchInfo: Eat, problem solve, keep building.πŸ•‘: 01:00 PM - 01:35 PMOpen buildInfo: Protected time on your own work, with support from the floor crew and Andy, going deep into building skills and projects for your actual work.πŸ•‘: 01:35 PM - 02:35 PMCanvas and artefactsInfo: Turn a conversation into something you can use. Calculators, decision trees, checklists, dashboards and scoring rubrics built in Canvas, all without writing a line of code. We finish with something we will not give away here, except to say there is a prize on the line.πŸ•‘: 02:35 PM - 02:55 PMAfternoon teaπŸ•‘: 02:55 PM - 03:35 PMImage generation and SitesInfo: Finished visual collateral for your business, from social graphics to product mockups to diagrams, made properly rather than by luck. Then building a working site you can actually publish, in about the time it used to take to brief someone else to do it.πŸ•‘: 03:35 PM - 04:15 PMChatGPT inside Excel and PowerPointInfo: ChatGPT working in the tools you already run your day in. Cleaning and analysing your own data in Excel and building the charts that go with it, then building and reshaping a deck in PowerPoint. Bring a real spreadsheet, this block works best on your own numbers.πŸ•‘: 04:15 PM - 04:45 PMBring your own jobInfo: The second block of protected time. You brought two or three real jobs from your business, this is the room and the help to get them finished.πŸ•‘: 04:45 PM - 05:00 PMWrap up and problem solvingInfo: A rapid review of the day, then we roam and help with anything still stuck. Our team stays on after 5:00pm for questions and to tidy up remaining builds. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/melbourne/chatgpt-for-business-a-full-day-hands-on-intensive-melbourne/100001998543866504 - **Event Categories**: virtual, business, workshops, exhibitions - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 - **Event Highlights**: - Duration: 8 hours - Location: Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre (MCEC) - Languages: English ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 690.82, max: 690.82, currency: AUD ## Event venue details - **city**: Melbourne - **state**: VI - **country**: Australia - **location**: Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre (MCEC) - **lat**: -37.8253797 - **long**: 144.9523539 - **full address**: Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre (MCEC), 1 Convention Centre Pl, Melbourne, Australia ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: ChatGPT for Business: A Full-Day Hands-On Intensive (Melbourne) - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events2/banners/9e69e1d99fd7f3eaf375c71c9347cb8a25e1a48822df924ace8b2e03bc718b0a-rimg-w1200-h600-dc082858-gmir.jpg?v=1787559411 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is ChatGPT for Business: A Full-Day Hands-On Intensive (Melbourne) being held? - **A:** ChatGPT for Business: A Full-Day Hands-On Intensive (Melbourne) takes place on Wed, 14 Oct, 2026 at 09:00 am to Wed, 14 Oct, 2026 at 05:00 pm at Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre (MCEC), 1 Convention Centre Pl, Melbourne, Australia. - **Q**: Who is organizing ChatGPT for Business: A Full-Day Hands-On Intensive (Melbourne)? - **A:** ChatGPT for Business: A Full-Day Hands-On Intensive (Melbourne) is organized by Andrew Gargiulo. - **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me? - **A:** ChatGPT for Business: A Full-Day Hands-On Intensive (Melbourne) is ideal for curious learners, students, and skill-builders looking to gain hands-on knowledge and practical expertise in a focused, interactive setting. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Melbourne, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. 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