Arup University · Lunchtime AI session · Engineering team

Forty-five minutes, from data safety to a workflow people could use that afternoon.

Arup University, Arup's internal learning institute, invited Sam to run a lunchtime session for the Hong Kong team. The practice used Arup's own work: Copilot to draft a video script for an engineering project, then Canva's AI features to turn the text into visuals.

When: 28 March 2025
Audience: Engineers and colleagues from other departments in Arup's Hong Kong team
Format: One 45-minute Lunch & Learn session

The brief

Engineers routinely handle confidential client project data. Before touching any tool, they needed to know what may go into an AI tool and what may not.

How it was designed

The first ten minutes covered data safety with a traffic-light model: green for public information, yellow for internal material with identifiers removed, red for client-confidential material that never goes in.
The rest of the session taught one complete workflow, brief to draft to visual: Copilot for structured writing, Canva for visual execution. The pairing later became the "C-How Thinking" framework.

What came out

45: minutes
10: minutes on data safety first

The strongest response came from marketing, HR and project-management colleagues.

In the room

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