What could AI actually do for your organisation? How do you start making decisions that serve your audiences, your collections, and your mission? A set of focused sessions and hands-on upskilling to help museums, galleries, heritage sites, and arts organisations find out - responsibly and strategically.

To help you navigate the AI in the cultural space, we can help you with:

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AI Camp‍

‍Concept:  AI is already shaping how audiences discover, experience, and connect with culture. But is your whole organisation ready to engage with it - not just leadership, not just the digital team? AI Camp brings everyone together to build a shared foundation: what AI is and isn't, where the risks and responsibilities lie, and what responsible adoption looks like for a mission-driven organisation. Through plenary sessions, small group formats, and practical challenges, the day tackles AI literacy, ethical use, and common pitfalls - without the jargon or the hype.

‍Outcome: Your whole organisation leaves with a common language around AI, a realistic sense of the risks and responsibilities, and the confidence to engage with what comes next.

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Strategic Session ‍

‍Concept:  Every cultural institution will face a version of the same question: what do we actually stand for when it comes to AI? This session is designed to help your leadership team work that out together - not in the abstract, but in relation to your mission, your artists, your collections, and your communities. Using scenario-based methods, Group NAO designs and facilitates the conversation, then delivers a written synthesis of the tensions and strategic questions your team surfaced.

‍Outcome:  A leadership team aligned on the choices ahead, and a concrete set of strategic questions to guide any AI strategy or policy work that follows

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Esc(AI)pe the Gallery

Concept: An interactive digital escape room experience that gets your whole team working and thinking together around AI - in a way that's engaging, fun, hands-on, and a lot more memorable than a training session. Teams work through different games, quizzes, and challenges covering AI concepts, responsible use, common pitfalls, and what it all means for organisations in the cultural sector. Facilitated by Group NAO, with an optional train-the-trainer session so you can run it again independently.

‍Outcome:  Staff across the organisation develop practical AI literacy in a gamified format that sticks, fosters engagement and sparks conversation.

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AI Policy Toolkit

Concept:  Is AI already being used across your institution without a clear policy in place? We help you build one. We bring the guidance, best practice examples and ready-to-use templates. Your team works through it at your own pace, with a clear framework to shape a policy that fits your organisation's values, risk appetite, and day-to-day realities. We facilitate the thinking, you own the outcome.

‍Outcome:  A clear, usable AI policy that gives your organisation a defensible stance and a practical framework for day-to-day decision-making - not a legal document, but something your team can use from day 1.

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AI Readiness Review

Concept: Are you ahead of the curve or already falling behind? Are there risks you haven't named yet - to your collections, your communities, your creative integrity? And how do you move forward without compromising what your organisation stands for? This structured diagnostic gives cultural leaders an honest baseline: what's already being tried, where the real barriers are, and what needs to be resolved before investing further.

‍Outcome: Leadership has a shared, grounded starting point - a clear picture of current AI adoption across the organisation, and the right questions to address before making any further commitments.

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Keynote: AI and the Cultural Institution

Concept: What is AI actually doing to the cultural sector - and what should your institution be doing about it? This keynote cuts through the noise: what's really happening across the sector, where cultural institutions tend to stumble, and what the organisations navigating this well have figured out. Tailored to your audience and available with Q&A or in panel format.

‍Outcome: Leadership, board members, or conference audiences leave with a grounded, honest picture of AI adoption in mission-driven organisations - and a clearer sense of what it means for their collections, their communities, and their institution.

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Group NAO has designed and delivered AI programmes for 120+ organisations across tourism and the cultural sector. If you have something else in mind or want to talk through what would work best for you, reach out at nao@groupnao.com

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