Education &
Professional Development
📣 Enrolments now open for AI and Emerging Tech Policy 4-7 November 2025 📣
At TPDi, we’re growing the art of tech policy as a professional discipline. Our courses are designed to provide policy practitioners with the tools and insights needed to design tech policy with positive impact.
Our courses are not your standard training. Experience hands-on policy labs, interactive exercises and guided tech deep dives, all co-designed and co-delivered by TPDi in partnership with industry, government, and civil society.
As you can see from the photos below, the expertise, energy and collaborative spirit of participants and presenters on our courses is palpable. Join us to develop your skills and knowledge, and have fun while doing it.
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Course Spotlight: AI, Emerging Tech & Policy, A Professional Development Bootcamp
Over four days, AI, Emerging Tech & Policy, imparts core tech policy skills and knowledge tailored for policy practitioners working across the Australian tech ecosystem.
This interdisciplinary course focuses on the ‘how’ and ‘why’ of tech policy design and practice, including a methodological framework and guiding principles for best-practice policy design and deep dives into contemporary technologies and tech policy issues.
Co-designed by practitioners for practitioners, this course builds theoretical and practical skills and knowledge at the intersection of public policy, law, technology and society, and establishes the foundation for best-practice tech policy.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
- Apply best-practice tech policy design skills, harnessing the TPDi Tech Policy Design Process and Principles
- Understand key policy issues and core technologies influencing contemporary tech policy and their implications for society
- Identify and engage with diverse stakeholders across Australia’s tech ecosystem to foster co- designed and collaborative tech policy.
Co-designed for practitioners by practitioners: participants from Government, Industry, Civil Society at the Co-Design Workshop in May 2024.
Who is the course for?
Watch these vox pops from past course participants sharing what they loved most about the course
The course targets individuals passionate about harnessing policy as a tool to shape technology for the benefit of humanity. It is recommended for APS EL1 and EL2 policy officers, industry professionals, civil society members and academics of similar levels.
No prior tech policy or technological experience is necessary.
“Five Stars: this is a must attend for tech industry professionals, industry advocates and policy makers alike. Brilliant course, carefully designed and expertly delivered. Helping build a bridge between the tech industry and policy makers to secure a prouder, more prosperous Australia.”
– participant testimonial
⬇️ The Course Brochure
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⬇️ Enroll here
Course Outline – Zoomed In
Day One introduces participants to the course, the cohort, and Tech Policy 101. Uncover your Tech Policy Philosophy, and be introduced the Online Avatar you will inhibit for the 4-days of the course in the interactive Spectrum of Online Experiences exercise. The course then takes its first guided Tech Lab revealing how the Internet actually works, and wraps up with a policy deep dive on Digital Rights.
Day Two focuses on tech policy from an economic and industry perspective. Our second guided Tech Lab demystifies the Tech Stack, Artificial Intelligence, and the Cloud. The a policy deep-dive onto the Innovation Cycle and Tech Business Models. The day concludes with a fireside chat with Frances Haugen, and a pitch panel on the Opportunties of Tech: prepare to be inspired by incredible stories of Australian innovation.
Day Three starts with Geopolitics & Tech Policy, the course then zooms in for sessions on Mis and Dis-information, followed by the State of Play of Tech and Democracy. We then take a deep dive into Quantum Technologies and Wargaming Quantum Policy Futures. Before wrapping up the day examining National Security Tech Threats and a Fireside Chat with Marcus Thompson, delving into the shadows of cyber operations.
Day Four begins by unpacking the policy tensions and ethical dilemmas driving today’s Online Safety debates. We say goodbye to our online avatar, reflecting on what the exercise has taught us about the Spectrum of Online Experiences. We revisit the Tech Policy Process as participants face the ultimate challenge and apply their newly learned knowledge and skills in a culminating Tech Futures Scenario Exercise, demonstrating the power of tech policy to shape a positive future.
Read the detailed course overview here.
What to Expect
Interactive Presentations
Interactive Presentations
Engaging and informative policy labs that go beyond traditional lectures
Dynamic Discussions
Dynamic Discussions
Thought-provoking conversations with peers and experts
Hands-on Activities
Hands-on Activities
Practical exercises that reinforce learning and encourage collaboration.
Guided tech deep dives
Guided tech deep dives
Demystifying core technologies influencing contemporary tech policy and their implications for society.
Introducing some of our expert faculty:
Course Fees, Scholarships & Enrolment
Course Fees
Course Fees
AI, Emerging Tech & Policy, A Professional Development Bootcamp is an in-person, catered, four- day intensive course.
Prices per participant is $6,250, plus GST.
Scholarships
Scholarships
TPDi is proud to offer scholarship positions in each of our professional development courses to help ensure equitable representation in tech policy, particularly for those from underrepresented (and underfunded) groups. These scholarships are supported by our industry funders.
Scholarships will be prioritised for individuals from civil society and those who actively contribute to gender, cultural, First Nations, linguistic, economic, and neurodivergent inclusion. We strongly encourage applications from people whose lived experiences and perspectives are often missing from tech policy discussions.
We also welcome sponsorship from organisations interested in support additional scholarships. Please contact us for more information.
Course Dates
Course Dates
2025 course dates:
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4-7 Nov
Enrolments are now open for the 4-7 November course. To secure you spot, register and pay by filling in the form below, or by following this link.
Tailored Course Options
Tailored Course Options
We also welcome the opportunity to discuss creating tailored TPDi courses to address the unique educational requirements of your organisation, in addition to our core educational offerings. Please contact us for more information.
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“Brilliantly curated course full of impactful, heavy-hitting topics. Delivered by expert speakers sharing the unvarnished truth of policy design and implementation. Fast paced, no fluff. Looking forward to delving deeper in Volume 2.”
“I was so pleased to be part of the inaugural cohort for one of the best development programs I have come across in many years. TPDC has put together a fantastic balance of theory and practice to make it easy to learn and navigate such deep and complex subjects. And what an amazing lineup of industry, academia and public sector leaders to learn from. I highly recommend this program.”
– participant testimonials