AI Safety Comms - Lightning Talks and Networking ⚡
🧠 What is this event about?
The speed of AI Safety demands fast-learning communicators. Many of us are doing this in isolation. That’s not efficient. We want to create a community, and learn from each other: real wins (or mistakes!) from your personal journey.
Good AI safety communication is clear, accessible, and actionable. We need less abstraction and more action: AI safety ideas only matter if people actually understand them.
📍 What to expect
We’ve reserved tables at The Sipping Room, with built in time to effectively learn from each other. This is a space to exchange ideas, test communication approaches and meet others who aspire to build stronger strategies to mobilise AI safety awareness and action.
Schedule:
14:30: Arrival & informal mingling
Gather your name tags, and claim your first drink!
14:45: Welcome and greetings from the organisers
Introduction to the lightning talk framework:
We’re focusing on real-world lessons:
• one big win
• or one big mistake
Each speaker gives a lightning talk (max. 5 minutes):
what was your comms objective?
what was your idea/theory?
what did you do? What was the result?
why did/didn’t it work?
what would you do differently?
15:00: Lightning talks begin (5 min max each)
Caitlin Yardley – Cofounder of Cascade, AI safety communications consultant and creator (Future Briefing)
Ana Paula Castillo – Co-Director SAIN Amsterdam and Head of Growth of Safe AI Netherlands (SAIN)
Giulia Consonni - Lead at Pause AI Italy, AI Safety Communications Freelancer
Ben Matthews - Co-Founder at Empower, Common Signals
Suzy Shepherd - Freelance Video Editor, director of Seat at the Table - Short Film on the AI Industry (2026) and Writing Doom – Award-Winning Short Film on Superintelligence (2024)
15:30: Open networking & discussion afterwards
After the talks, we open the space for networking, discussion, and questions.
We encourage you to reflect on each of the talks. We will provide some reflection questions to help you have insightful conversations.
Tip: tag your Linkedin profile to your luma page, so you can network easily through this event page!
From here, we will head to the EA Global conference together!
👥 Who should join?
Anyone interested in or working on:
AI safety, policy, and existential risk communicators
Journalists, creators, marketers, and designers
Educators, translators, facilitators, and behavioural scientists
Anyone interested in communicating complex or high-stakes ideas more effectively.
We need more people who can amplify AI Safety clearly, responsibly, and effectively. Anyone curious about how to communicate difficult, technical, or high-stakes ideas is encouraged to come!
🥤 What’s offered?
• First drink included!
• Snacks available
• Community-driven networking