Hungry Talks - AI in Advertising

Episode two of RMIT’s advertising student-run talk show, Hungry Talks, aired last night.  

With the theme AI in Advertising, the show looked at the role of AI in the creative industry, and how it can be used as a brainstorming and idea generation tool.  

Hungry Talks is run by a team of six advertising students, 22 cert IV screen and media students, and two supervisors, John Dingeldei and Chris Paterson. 

This week’s industry guests included Tyler Hamilton, conversational AI specialist lead at Deloitte Digital in a pre-recorded interview before joining the show live to answer questions. Digital learning resource specialist, Kelly Ann Smith, also featured in a pre-recorded interview. 

In line with the AI theme of episode two, the mystery guest was a chat bot. 

Next week, Hungry Talks will be looking Barbie vs Oppenheimer with live guests Rebecca Robertson, managing partner, and Sasha Smith, chief media officer, at Howatson+Company as well as Claudio Palmeri, founder of Acaerr and RMIT advertising student. 

Other industry guests confirmed for the 2023 season include Belle Kwan, account director and multicultural story-teller at CultureVerse, John Burgess, CEO and director of strategy, and Kelsey Dubar, marketing and events manager, at First Nations owned and operated agency, Little Rocket. 

Also joining the show will be Paul Reardon, chief creative officer at TBWA, Felix Barnett, creative at The Bundy Agency and 2021 Split Second winner; and Maddie Fricker, integrated producer, Charlotte Kuster, senior account manager, and Meesha Laboo, account executive at VMLY&R. 

The 2023 team includes two hosts Charlie Borracci and Jaia Guildford-Carey, writer Luca Battaglia, editor Simone Petrovski, marketing manager Steph Leong and creative producer Chelsea Addison. 

Book here, or watch the show live every Wednesday at 5.30pm here. 

Credits: 
Co-Host Charlie Borracci 

Co-Host Jaia Guildford-Carey 

Creative Producer Chelsea Addison 

Writer Luca Battaglia 

Editor Simone Petrovski 

Social Media Manager Steph Leong 

Studio Director Anthony Roberts  

Studio Producer Caitlin Archibald 

Production Manager Sam Di Florio 

Vision Mix Rebecca Le Roy 

Director’s Assistant Kyan Goodrich 

Senior GFX Alex Viti 

GFX Operator Liam Bradford 

EVS Playout Josh Deveraux  

Editor Josh Devereaux  

Floor Manager Alice Coffey 

Assistant Floor Manager Ruby Zogopoulos 

Lighting Director Jayden O’Connor 

Lighting Operator Darcy Poynton 

Audio Director Sean Richardson 

Audio Operator Laura Wilson 

Camera A Brian Dominiecki 

Camera B Gary Richardson  

Camera C Liam Bradford 

AutoCue Operator Sam Di Florio 

Intro Composer Alex Prust 

Supervisor John Dingeldei 

Supervisor Chris Paterson