Inclusive AI in Practice: A Cross-Sector Roundtable

Moving from Conversation to Implementation

Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping workplaces, products, services, and decision-making systems across sectors. As organizations accelerate AI adoption, many teams are being asked to make high-impact decisions without clear governance structures, shared implementation standards, or practical guidance for assessing risk, accountability, accessibility, and long-term impact.

Across workforce, technical, and community contexts, organizations are grappling with how to ensure AI is implemented in ways that are inclusive, responsible, and grounded in real-world realities. HR professionals, AI practitioners, nonprofit leaders, governance stakeholders, and community advocates each hold critical perspectives on how AI systems can either reinforce existing inequities or help build more equitable futures.

This in-person QT Inclusive AI Roundtable brings together professionals across sectors for a facilitated cross-sector working session focused on one core question:

What do organizations actually need in order to implement inclusive AI responsibly in practice?

This session is designed as a collaborative implementation lab where leaders and professionals can explore the real-world challenges of implementing AI responsibly, share practical insights across sectors, and help shape the tools, frameworks, and approaches organizations need to move from theory into action.

Through guided dialogue, peer exchange, implementation exercises, and collaborative activities, participants will explore:

• where AI is already influencing organizational decisions and systems
• the governance, operational, and accountability tensions organizations are navigating
• how different sectors experience and define AI risks differently
• where misalignments and gaps currently exist
• what practical tools, frameworks, and supports are needed to move from theory into implementation

Grounded in queer-informed approaches to systems, safety, accessibility, and community-centred accountability, this session centers lived experience as a critical source of implementation insight. Participants will examine how AI systems can unintentionally reproduce invisibility, exclusion, surveillance, or harm when deployed without meaningful community grounding or governance structures.

This session is part of QueerTech’s broader initiative to move from conversation into practical implementation. Insights gathered through this roundtable will directly contribute to the development of community-informed toolkits, frameworks, case studies, and practical resources designed to support organizations implementing inclusive AI across sectors.

The session will include both implementation perspective-based discussions and cross-sector exchange, creating space for participants to deepen within their own organizational realities while learning from different approaches, constraints, and experiences across the ecosystem.

Participants are encouraged to bring:

• real organizational scenarios
• current implementation challenges
• governance questions
• operational tensions
• decision points they are actively navigating

Following this roundtable, there is a QT Connect for the broader community at the same location in the evening.

Participants will Leave With:

✨ A clearer understanding of the governance, operational, and accountability challenges organizations are currently facing in AI implementation
✨ Cross-sector perspectives on how AI risks, tensions, and opportunities are experienced differently across workforce, technical, governance, and community contexts
✨ Greater insight into the practical tools, frameworks, and supports organizations need to move from intention into responsible implementation
✨ New ways of thinking about inclusion, safety, visibility, and accountability through queer-informed and lived-experience perspectives
✨ Practical ideas, questions, and next steps to bring back into their organization, team, or community
✨ Connections with peers across sectors navigating similar implementation realities and decision-making challenges
✨ The opportunity to contribute to the development of future QT Inclusive AI resources, frameworks, and toolkits
This roundtable is supported by WAGE (Women and Gender Equality) Canada and by RBC’s approach to helping strengthen the capacity of Canada’s nonprofit sector.

Who Should Attend

This session welcomes professionals working across:

• HR, workforce, and organizational leadership
• AI, product, design, and technical systems
• Nonprofit, public, and community-serving organizations
• Governance, policy, accessibility, legal, and strategy roles
• Research, advocacy, and ecosystem-building spaces

No advanced technical expertise is required.

Event Details

📅 May 28, 2026
🕑 2:00 PM – 4:30 PM ET
📍 Toronto | In Person
🗣 Language: English

About QT Inclusive AI

QT Inclusive AI is a national initiative designed to support professionals across Canada in understanding, assessing, and applying inclusive AI practices within real organizational contexts. Through curriculum, assessment tools, facilitated dialogue, and community-informed resource development, participants examine how AI systems are being used in practice and where risks, tensions, and opportunities are emerging.
The goal of QT Inclusive AI is to help translate responsible AI principles into practical implementation across technical and non-technical environments.
Read more on the QueerTech website:[ https://queertech.org/en/qt-inclusive-ai](https://queertech.org/en/qt-inclusive-ai)
If you have questions about the program, contact:
Amos B.
Program Manager, Community Learning and Development
amos@queertech.org
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