Team
The co-creators
We don't call them volunteers. Volunteers help with someone else's thing; co-creators build their own. Several of the people below first walked into MAP as participants. That's not a coincidence — it's the model.
Team members
Michelle Yang
Founder
Technology and people leader, currently a Senior Technical Program Manager at Canva.
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Maggie Liu
Treasurer
CPA-qualified finance leader, currently Financial Controller at Enervest.
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Vanessa Cai
Committee Member
AI-enhanced business analyst at NAB, specialising in requirements analysis and prompt design.
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Nancy Cai
Committee Member
Senior data engineer at SmartestEnergy Australia, with ten years of building data products across the energy industry.
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Yongshan Liang
Operations Lead
AWS-certified cloud and full-stack engineer, switching into tech from a teaching background.
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Eric Hu
Committee Member
AI engineer with a Master's from Monash, building LLM agent systems, including this website.
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Chloe Zhou
Events & Social Media
Data-driven marketing analyst with experience in user growth and social media strategy across Chinese and international markets.
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Jodi Liu
Partnerships Lead
Jodi leads MAP's business partnerships — connecting organisations and enterprises with opportunities to collaborate with Make AI Practical's AI practice community.
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