Virtual

Talk

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Wednesday, October 14, 2026

October 14, 2026

Symptoms First, Cures Later

with

Marijke (Mj) Preston, Amy Stoks, and Ruth Hendry

6:00 pm

Pacific Time

Location:

Online

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Your content is being consumed and your customers' queries answered on your behalf by AI tools you don't control. What can you do about it, and where should you start?

In this talk, Mj, Amy, and Ruth will share a fictionalized case study, based on real client work, that demonstrates the iterative, experimental approach they used to understand where limited effort might deliver the biggest return in a large and complex content ecosystem. 

They'll walk through practical, replicable methods for:

  • Diagnosing how your content performs in AI tools today
  • Understanding what's driving the problems underneath
  • Mapping where the risk and value are highest

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About the speaker(s)

Marijke (Mj) Preston

Marijke Preston (Mj) is a strategist and program manager with 20 years' experience in the design industry. She specializes in helping organizations implement digital strategies through people-led processes and building capability in digital teams across government and corporate sectors.

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Amy Stoks

Amy Stoks is a digital strategist with 20 years' experience in content and user experience design across New Zealand and the UK. She specializes in user research and insight-driven content strategy for complex, information-heavy websites, and has presented at UXNZ and contributed to books and podcasts on content design and UX.

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Ruth Hendry

Ruth Hendry runs Ruth & Co., a content consultancy based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, New Zealand. Ruth has been making digital products for over 18 years, working with organizations such as Victoria University, Te Papa, Auckland Transport, Air New Zealand, TSB, and the Department of Conservation (New Zealand).

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