NEW EVENT FORMAT
Paradigm
Five speakers.
Seven minutes each.
The room decides.
Most events are built for you. This one is built by you.
Applied AI for Business Owners. Monday 13 July at 6pm AEST. Register free. Every attendee gets the full report, recordings and post-event webinar.
YOUR HOST
Byron Preston
Founder - Dharma Events
Byron is the Founder of Dharma Events, an event strategy and production agency helping organisations build event success your business can actually measure. He’s worked nationally with government and social enterprise clients and professional sectors.
FREE ONLINE EVENT
Monday, 13 July at 6pm AEST.
Can’t make it live? Register anyway. Every registrant gets the full recording, the Audience Intelligence Report, and access to the post-event webinar. No cost. No catch.
WHY THIS ROOM EXISTS
AI is a changing how businesses operate. But most of what you hear about it is theory, product demos, or hype.
The business owners who are actually getting results aren’t on stage at conferences. They’re running small teams, testing tools in their own workflows, and figuring it out in real time.
This room brings those people together. Not to talk about AI in the abstract, but to share what they’ve tried, what worked, and what didn’t.
WHO THIS IS FOR
For business owners who are past the theory on AI and want to know what other operators are actually doing with it.
What you hear, who you meet, and what you leave with are all shaped by the room itself, in real time, from the moment you register.
Before the night, you get to choose the speaker topics. At the event, you submit the questions. You decide by vote which ideas go deeper. The program is yours.
HOW PARADIGM WORKS
What happens in this room is shaped by the people in it.
Every part of the event is designed so you leave with practical takeaways + genuine connections.
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BEFORE YOU ARRIVE
You vote on who takes the stage.
Once you register, you vote before the event to decide which topics take the stage. Just the idea and whether it is relevant to how you run your business. The five most relevant topics win. The program is yours before the first speaker walks on stage. No organiser decides what you hear.
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FIVE SHORT TALKS
The room responds to every one.
Five talks. Seven minutes each. No spam. No pitching. After each talk the room votes and submits questions live. The three speakers who earn the most trust from the room advance to the panel.
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THE PANEL
Your questions drive it. The room’s trust decides what comes next.
Three speakers. Your questions, not a set agenda. The room votes one final time. The speaker who earns the highest trust delivers a dedicated 60-minute webinar, free for every registered attendee, in the weeks that follow.
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NETWORKING
Leave knowing exactly who to follow up with.
The shared experience has already done the work. You know which ideas resonated and which people in the room you want to stay connected to. The conversation does not end when the event does. The connections, the recordings, the intelligence report, and the webinar all follow you home.
WHAT YOU’LL WALK AWAY WITH
Leave with more than you came with.
The room produced impact and value. Here is what you take home.
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The Audience Intelligence Report
A full breakdown of what topics and connections the audience found relevant, what landed, and what didn't.
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All recordings
Every talk and every panel moment, recorded and delivered after the event so you can revisit what was useful.
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The post-event webinar
The speaker the room trusted by most votes deliver a dedicated 60-minute webinar in the weeks following. Free for every registered attendee.
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A program you helped build
You voted on who took the stage. What you hear tonight is what you and your peers chose, not what an organiser assumed you needed.
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Connections that go somewhere
Everyone in this room voted on the same ideas. The networking starts as warm leads because you already have something real in common.
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A community with shared context
The connections you make here are built on shared experience, not small talk. The community starts forming the moment the evening begins.
FOR ATTENDEES
One or two practical takeaways you can actually use this week.
Hear what’s working. Take something home you can use this week.
This is a room of business owners who are past the theory on AI and want to know what other operators are actually doing with it. What the results look like. What worked and what didn’t.
You won’t sit through pitches or product demos. Every speaker earned their spot through an audience vote on real AI use cases with real results.
Practical takeaways. Warm contacts. A clearer picture of what others in the field are actually doing. And a community of business operators worth coming back to.
Can’t make it on July 13?
Register anyway. Full recording, Audience Intelligence Report, and a post-event webinar included for all registrants.
FOR SPEAKERS
A room that already wants to hear what you know.
Seven minutes per speaker. A room that chose your topic. Relationships that continue well beyond the night.
At Paradigm you don’t walk into a random room and hope the right people are in it.
You walk into a room where your topic was voted in by the people sitting in front of you, where the audience fits your ideal client profile, and where every person showed up because your subject matter is directly relevant to how they run their business.
First-time speakers are welcome. The format is designed to let the idea shine, not the presenter.
BEFORE THE NIGHT
The room already chose your topic.
Registered attendees vote for your idea before the event. By the time you walk on stage, every person in that room has already signaled that what you are about to share is relevant to how they run their business.
You are not convincing anyone you belong there. The room already decided you do.
AFTER YOUR TALK
The right conversations find you.
The networking session that follows is not cold. The people who resonated most with what you said know who you are and what you do.
Every speaker receives their individual audience score privately after the event, along with the Speaker Intelligence Report and all recordings.
For the speaker the room trusts most through the panel, the webinar extends that relationship further. More time. More depth. An audience who chose to stay.
FOR SPEAKERS
We are not looking for polished presenters.
We are looking for business owners who applied AI to a real problem in their business and have a result they can describe clearly.
This pilot event is themed on Applied AI for Business Owners. If you’ve used AI to solve a real problem in your business and have a result you can describe clearly, apply.
If your experience is specific and honest, it belongs on stage. First-time speakers are welcome.was built for you.
If you work in any of these fields and have an AI result worth sharing, this stage was built for you.
Marketing Consultants
AI Implementation Consultants
Property Managers
Business Coaches
Mortgage and Finance Brokers
Accountants and Bookkeepers
Financial Planners
IT Managed Service Providers
and more…
FOR ORGANISATIONS
What if your next event told you exactly what your audience valued?
Paradigm is an event format, not a one-off. It is designed to run on any theme, for any industry, by any organisation that wants real-time intelligence from the audience in the room, not just a survey three days later.
Every vote, every question, every resonance score is a data point generated by your audience in real-time. The Audience Intelligence Report that follows is not a summary of what happened. It is evidence of what your community actually values, what they are ready to act on, and where the opportunities are.
Paradigm is available as a delivered service and as a licensed format for associations, corporates and community builders.
FAQ’S
The things people actually ask.
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No. You will hear from operators who started where you are. The voting system means the most relevant topics for your situation rise to the top. You helped shape the program before you walked in.
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At a regular event the program is fixed before you arrive. The organisers picks the speakers. A moderator controls the questions.
At Paradigm, registered attendees vote on which topics take the stage. The audience submits the panel questions. The room decides which speaker continues the conversation in a dedicated webinar. The organiser does not make any of those decisions. The people in the room do.
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After each talk the room votes on their phone. It is quick, anonymous, and happens simultaneously so the result reflects the whole room. The votes shape what happens next, which speakers advance to the panel and which speaker earns the webinar.
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No. The only public moment is the announcement of which three speakers advance to the panel, shared after all five talks. Each speaker receives their individual score privately after the event.
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Topic relevance scores, voting patterns, audience question themes, and a before-and-after picture of what the room expected versus what it actually valued. All talk and panel recordings included. Delivered in the days following the event.
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The speaker who earns the highest trust from the panel delivers a dedicated 60-minute webinar on their topic presented during Paradigm in the weeks following the event. Free for every registered attendee. The webinar includes its own Audience Intelligence Report and all recordings.
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No. First-time speakers are welcome. The format is designed to make the idea do the work, not the presenter. If you have a genuine AI use case with a specific result, your experience belongs in this room.
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That is exactly what we want to talk about. Paradigm is available as a delivered service and as a licensed format for associations, corporates, and community builders. Get in touch at byron@dharmaevents.com.au.
FREE ONLINE EVENT - 13 JULY - 6PM (AEST)
Hear what business owners are actually doing with AI. Free.
Paradigm pilot event. July 2026. The first in a new series of audience-led business events.
Monday, 13 July at 6pm AEST. Five speakers. Seven minutes each. The room decides who goes deeper.
Every registrant receives a full recording, the Audience Intelligence Report, and access to the post-event webinar. No cost.
Keen to present your AI use case?
Speaking spots still available. Sign up via EOI