Chaitali Samani | Project Manager – AI Strategy
Institute of Applied Technology

Chaitali Samani is a Project Manager for AI Strategy at TAFE, working at a system level to support education leaders as generative AI reshapes learning, assessment, and quality assurance. Her work focuses on the practical implications of AI for assessment design, academic integrity, equity, and defensibility across vocational and tertiary contexts. Prior to her current role, Chaitali has worked in a range of education and education‑adjacent roles, including as a teacher and lecturer, as well as in product specialist and project delivery roles. She has led and contributed to initiatives spanning course development in the micro‑credential and micro‑skill space, assessment validation, and broader curriculum and capability uplift work. This combination of strategic responsibility and firsthand experience with teaching, assessment design, and qualification development informs her interest in moving AI conversations beyond tools and compliance. Chaitali is particularly focused on how assessment can be designed to foreground thinking, judgement, and process in AI‑enabled environments, and on creating spaces where practitioners can share what is being trialled and co‑design approaches that are practical, credible, and transferable.

Appearances:

Day 1 @ 15:15

Designing assessment in the age of AI: Rethinking authenticity, integrity and learning

This ConnectED round-table session will support educators to step beyond headline conversations about AI and move into practical, peer-informed approaches to assessment design in AI-enabled learning environments.

Participants will engage in a facilitated, solutions-focused discussion centred on questions such as:

What good assessment looks like when generative AI is readily available
How to design assessments that privilege thinking, process, and judgement over production
Where AI creates risk — and where it creates opportunity — in assessment practice

Through shared examples, challenges, and strategies, attendees will:

Exchange current approaches being trialled across schools, RTOs and tertiary settings
Surface common tensions around academic integrity, workload, equity, and policy
Co-design practical assessment ideas that are authentic, defensible, and transferable
Build confidence in using AI-aware assessment practices that support learning rather than simply policing technology use

The session will be conversational and participant-led, reflecting the unconference model. Attendees will leave with practical strategies, reflective questions, and design principles they can apply immediately within their own classroom, team, or institution.

Chaitali Samani, Project Manager – AI Strategy, Institute of Applied Technology

last published: 15/Apr/26 06:55 GMT

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