Alexandra Samuel
Technology Journalist & Author
Independent
October 28–30 · Vancouver
What they’re bringing
Alexandra Samuel, independent technology journalist and author. She’ll get practical about working with AI without handing it your agency, judgment or humanity.
A daily practice for working with AI that keeps your judgment where it belongs, which is with you.
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Me + Viv
Her TVO podcast about building an AI coach named Viv and getting maybe too attached. Karen Hao drops by, and so do the songs.
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We Got Social Media Wrong. Can We Get AI Right?
She helped build the early social web and wishes she had worried more. Her case for being the agent who uses AI, rather than its subject.
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Working Neurosmart
Her next book, out April 2027: how to work the way your brain is actually wired, using AI to beat the overload.
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About Alexandra Samuel
Alexandra Samuel is a journalist and technologist whose AI stories appear frequently in The Wall Street Journal and Harvard Business Review. Her forthcoming book, Working Neurosmart (Simon Acumen, April 2027), shows how to conquer overload by using AI to work the way you're wired, drawing on decades of research on neurodiversity. She built a custom AI coach named Viv and made a TVO podcast about their relationship, Me + Viv, songs about AI ethics included. In 2005 she and her partner launched Social Signal, one of the first social media agencies. She works from Vancouver, wishes she had worried more about social media back then, and writes about how to use AI as an agent rather than a subject.
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Where to find Alexandra
- Friday · October 301:40–2:00 PM
- Friday · October 302:00–2:10 PM
Q&A
Zaro and Alexandra on stage, taking questions from the audience.
On stage with Zaro.
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Times are Vancouver time and can still move. See the full program