RMIT and Wyndham City Council partner to upskill local businesses

RMIT and Wyndham City Council partner to upskill local businesses

RMIT University will partner with Wyndham City Council to deliver an innovative new business program, Partnering on the Future: Wyndham AI for Business.

The partnership and program were officially announced at a formal ribbon-cutting ceremony at the new studio earlier this week.

By leveraging the strengths of both RMIT's research capabilities and Wyndham City’s community networks, this collaboration will foster innovation and strengthen skills within the local business community through initiatives including Business AI Workshops and Business AI Solutions Sprints, initially with an AI theme and with a view to expanding out to all technology.

Together, the long-term objective of the partnership is to establish a Wyndham & RMIT AI Hub as the dedicated space for emerging technology training, ongoing research, and innovation addressing shared business challenges, using technology led solutions to enable new learning and growth opportunities in the region.

Image 1 (L-R) Stephen Wall (Wyndham Council CEO), Mia Shaw (Wyndham CC Mayor), Prof. Colin Picker

RMIT Deputy Vice-Chancellor Business and Law Professor Colin Picker said the partnership was part of a broader focus on technology in the College of Business and Law (CoBL).

“At RMIT, we are undertaking a focused effort to advance our approaches and strategies related to technology as applied to business and law,” he said.

“It’s wonderful to be able to work with Wyndham City Council, utilising our respective strengths to help prepare local businesses to be able to respond to the challenges and opportunities of traditional, new and emerging technologies, such as those presented by the rise of Artificial Intelligence.”

"This partnership is a fantastic example of how the tertiary education sector can work alongside government at all levels, for the benefit of local communities."

In the first phase of the partnership and business program, RMIT will reside and operate within Council’s SPARK Business & Innovation Hub in the dedicated ‘Business & Technology Studio’. 

In the newly refreshed studio environment, RMIT will host interactive activities designed to engage the local business community, explore how artificial intelligence can be applied to solve business challenges and have staff available to discuss participation in the program, and nurture ongoing creative collaboration with the economic development team.

Image 2 Group image featuring Stephen Wall, Mia Shaw, and Colin Picker

The partnership will enable local business to access contemporary research, knowledge and skills in Wyndham.

Wyndham City Mayor Cr Mia Shaw hailed the groundbreaking initiative as a partnership that will benefit the business community in Wyndham.  

“Through the partnership, Wyndham City Council and RMIT University will deliver a suite of tailored AI specific training programs,” she said.  

“RMIT and Wyndham City Council aim to create a strategic partnership that will provide businesses in the Wyndham area with affordable access to advanced training, innovation, and resources in Artificial Intelligence (AI) for business.”

Find out more about our partnership with Wyndham.

 

Story: Finn Devlin

12 June 2025

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