Exclusive Webinar – Covering the Election

Webinar-Apr7-2025

April 28th is fast approaching and not surprising there are issues swirling around misinformation and disinformation, foreign interference, voter suppression, and voter turnout. How are these factors resonating and influencing the Canadian voter? How as journalists do we navigate through the weeds when the weeds themselves could influence the outcome on election day? Meet Erin Kelly, the creator of the AI Polly. Find out what Polly is tracking on the minds of Canadian voters.

Special Guest

Erin Kelly, CPA

Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA), MBA, Bachelor of Science

Erin KellyErin Kelly is President and CEO of Advanced Symbolics Inc. (ASI), creators of Polly, a Cognitive AI for predicting future behavior, replacing traditional market research and sales forecasting. Polly is the world’s first commercial “Zero Shot” AI, meaning an AI that requires no training. Polly learns autonomously, and therefore can produce market research in minutes on any bespoke topic and personalized audience at a fraction of the cost of traditional methods. Polly is the AI of choice for leading consumer companies including Disney, Mastercard and Nissan and her predictive abilities have been endorsed and presented by leading science bodies including the IEEE and The National Academy of Sciences. Erin is frequently interviewed and profiled by national and international media for her insights into AI and its future impacts on society.

Areas of Expertise

  • Artificial Intelligence (AI)
  • Market research using AI
  • Statistics
  • Text analytics, topic modeling, stance classification