28 Webinars this week about AI, Journalism & Media
/Mon, Nov 2 - Together We Rise: TikTok Edition
What: This is an informal dialogue and discussion space to be together, to share experiences, and to remind one another that we are part of a supportive community that cares deeply about learning, justice, and human dignity.
Who: Marie Celestin, podcaster; Renee Hobbs.
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Media Education Lab
Tue, Nov 3 - Beyond the CPU: Exposing AI Attacks in the GPU Stack
What: We will break down the GPU attack surface layer by layer, from orchestration and container runtime risks to driver exploits, side channels, cryptojacking, and ROME-class attacks. He will show what attackers gain, what current tools actually see, and what security teams can do to close the visibility gap.
Who: Chris Hosking, Director of Accelerator & AI Research, Stealthium.
When: 6 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: BrightTALK
Tue, Nov 3 - Write Into Art: Creative Writing Inspired by Visual Art
What: Discover how visual art can inspire creative writing and how writing can offer a powerful way to experience art. This course of three online workshops explore essential elements of writing and styles through close looking, word-sketching, and imaginative response to prompts.
Who: Mary Hall Surface, the founding instructor of the National Gallery of Art’s popular Writing Salon.
When: 10 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: $45 members, $55 nonmembers
Sponsor: Smithsonian
Tue, Nov 3 - Reclaiming Creativity
What: Join a panel discussion, the first episode of Canva for Creatives. Hear from leading creative and industry voices about what's shifting, what the new standard of professional creative work looks like, and how the best in the business are responding.
Who: Deanna German (Affinity); Liza Enebeis (Studio Dumbar/DEPT); Lisa Smith (Uncommon); Alex Bec (It's Nice That); Ollie Scott for Reclaiming Creativity.
When: 11 am, Eastern or 7 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Canva
Tue, Nov 3 - Designing ‘Sizing Chaos’: Creating engaging, interactive visuals
What: You’ll learn: The story behind the story of “Sizing Chaos,” and how the award-winning visual essay was brought to life; Tips on the craft of visual storytelling that powers The Pudding, a decorated media platform where innovative design meets culture journalism; How to use data and present visuals that capture readers’ attention and tell journalistic stories in unique ways.
Who: Amanda Sakuma is a freelance journalist, editor, and content strategist; Jan Diehm is the editorial director and a journalist-engineer at The Pudding and its sister studio, Polygraph.
When: 12 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: National Press Club Journalism Institute
Tue, Nov 3 - Beyond Search: From Keywords to AI-Integrated Discovery
What: How AI can work alongside lawyers and investigators.
Who: Wendy Robinson, Director, HKA Global, Dubai UAE; Dan Reed, CEO & Founder, R3nquist; John Tredennick, CEO & Founder, Merlin Search Technologies; William Webber, Chief Data Scientist, Merlin Search Technologies.
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Electronic Discovery Reference Model
Tue, Nov 3 - Preparing Your Nonprofit for 2027: Technology, AI, and Digital Strategy
What: We will guide nonprofit leaders through the key planning considerations that will shape technology and AI strategy in the coming year. Topics include: How to evaluate and prioritize platform investments; How to build a practical AI roadmap for your organization; How to plan for staff capacity and skill development; Which emerging trends are worth acting on now versus monitoring for later.
Who: Aretha Simons, founder of Multiplying Talents International.
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Tapp Network
Tue, Nov 3 - AI Works When People Do
What: This webcast will show you how to move past isolated pockets of adoption to build a strategy that sticks at every level. We’ll cover: How to turn AI driven disruption into team opportunities; The first steps leaders should take to kickstart AI adoption; The critical human behaviors that unlock AI adoption at scale.
Who: Kwesi Johnson Senior Consultant, Franklin Covey, Enterprise Consultant Team.
When: 3 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Training Magazine Network
Tue, Nov 3 - Open Source + AI: Where Attackers Move Next in 2027
What: We will identify the threat vectors set to define risk across open-source software, AI systems, and supply chains. The session will turn the hard lessons of 2026 into actionable foresight. Expect clear guidance on where advanced attackers are likely to strike next, which structural weaknesses enable those moves, and what defensive architectures can close the most critical gaps.
Who: Yesenia Yser, Founder, Yes2Tech- Software Security Engineering Consulting.
When: 5 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: BrightTALK
Wed, Nov 4 - Practical AI for Small Business: What’s Possible, What’s Worth It, and What Isn’t
What: We’ll cover the most common places automation shows up in a small business; How to audit your own operation for tasks that are good candidates; How to evaluate whether a task is actually worth automating; What this realistically costs and what the return looks like, using real numbers from real implementations; and more.
Who: Barb Donnini is the President and Founder of Boxplot.
When: 9 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Small Business Development Center, Temple University
Wed, Nov 4 - Media Literacy in a Time of War: Voices from Palestine
What: This session presents findings from Media Literacy: Critical Thinking for an AI World, a 21-month program that trained 17 Palestinian educators, reached 138 youth, and drew 4.9 million views on Instagram for youth-created media work. Learn what the data revealed about teaching media literacy competencies amid propaganda, deepfakes, and "conflict entrepreneurs" who profit from polarization and why educators described media literacy as civic survival.
Who: Jad Melki of the Lebanese American University, author of Media Literacy of the Oppressed.
When: 11 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Media Education Lab
Wed, Nov 4 - SEO Fixes for AI Search Visibility in 2027
What: In this session, you’ll watch a couple experienced auditors work through a real site from first check to final priority list. You’ll leave knowing which problems deserve your next dollar of dev time.
Who: Loren Baker, founder of SEJ; Vahan Petrosyan, head of SEJ technology; Katie Morton, Executive Editor, Search Engine Journal.
When: 12 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Search Engine Journal
Wed, Nov 4 - AI Across the Employment Lifecycle
What: This webinar will examine AI’s developing role in hiring, pay, promotion, performance monitoring, and termination, with a focus on discrimination and accommodation risks, federal and state law developments, recent litigation and related takeaways, and mitigating attendant risks when using AI for employment decisions. Attendees will learn practical strategies to capture AI’s benefits while keeping consequential workforce decisions defensible.
Who: Katy Bell Bremmer, Of Counsel, Carlton Fields; Lucas Michelen, Of Counsel, Carlton Fields.
When: 12 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Carlton Fields
Wed, Nov 4 - AI Impact Hour for Nonprofits
What: A practical, interactive conversation designed for executive directors, staff, board members, and volunteers who want to understand what AI can realistically do in a nonprofit setting. You’ll see simple demonstrations and real examples, and you'll have a chance to share your experiences, challenges, and insights with the group.
Who: Aretha Simons, TechSoup’s Webinar Producer.
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: TechSoup
Wed, Nov 4 - Donor Outreach Made Easy: How to Leverage AI but Maintain Authenticity
What: We will explore how fundraisers can use AI and automation to make donor outreach more timely, personalized, and authentic. We’ll share strategies on how to streamline donor communications, tailor outreach based on donor information and engagement, and use AI to save time without losing the human connection that makes fundraising effective.
Who: Marissa Minter, Product Marketing, Velora.
When: 2 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Nonprofit Learning Lab
Wed, Nov 4 - Agentic Super Intelligence and the Future of the Department of War’s Materials Science & Technology Enterprise
What: This workshop will explore how advances in super intelligence (SI) can help overcome longstanding barriers to transitioning promising research and development into practical applications, manufacturing capabilities, acquisition programs, and operational deployment.
When: 3 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Wed, Nov 4 - Weakest Link: How Security Gaps and Bad AI Hygiene Can Kill a Business
What: We will walks through the security gaps and bad AI habits he sees most often in real organizations: free tools that keep or train on what employees type, shared and orphaned logins, sensitive data pasted into public AI, and AI agents wired into business systems with no owner and no oversight. He'll show how these small gaps chain together into a business-ending incident, and why adopting AI without a plan means adopting risk without a plan.
Who: John Hansman, CEO, Tru.
When: 5 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: BrightTALK
Wed, Nov 4 - Transform Marketing with Storytelling
What: Discover how to share your story in a way that helps people connect with you and what you do.
Who: Mariah MacInnes of Content Queen.
When: 8 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Gippsland Women in Business
Thu, Nov 5 - Rethinking your Creative Stack
What: Why creative teams are reconsidering long-standing tools and workflows; What drives the decision to adopt a new creative stack; What teams can learn from making the transition in the real world.
Who: Duncan Clark (Canva); Eddie Opara (Pentagram); Luca Gonnelli (Algo & Illo); Tim Siddons (Blackmagic Design).
When: 11 am, Eastern or 7 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Canva
Thu, Nov 5 - Developing critical thinking skills with primary sources in the age of AI
What: How AI is influencing research. They’ll explore approaches to AI literacy and how technology can enhance discovery and engagement with primary source material.
Who: Sarah Morris, Library Director, Educator and Curriculum Designer, Oglethorpe University; Hannah Phillips, Associate Director for Editorial Production, AM.
When: 11 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: AM
Thu, Nov 5 - AI Voices vs Humans: What We’re Learning and What It Means Speakers
What: This session unpacks the latest market stats on AI voice adoption Research-based comparisons of learner outcomes; Practical use cases for AI and human narration; What the options are in AI vs voice actors vs DIY in-house recording; A model for quantifying the decision between AI vs humans; Strategies to blend the strengths of both for future-proof training.
Who: David Goldberg CEO, Prosody; Kerri Acheson, CEO, WordsCompany.
When: 12 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Allego
Thu, Nov 5 - How to Limit Risk and Exposure from Agentic AI
What: We will contextualize the fundamental shift occurring in 2026, including the "Bring Your Own Agent" phenomenon where autonomous agents are now integrated directly into operating systems and corporate workflows. We'll dissect the real-world threat vectors that security teams must address—from indirect prompt injection attacks and software supply chain compromises to the architectural trade-offs between cloud-based frontier models and self-hosted alternatives.
Who: Pascal Geenens, VP of Cyber Threat Intelligence at Radware; Simon Ratcliffe, Independent Management & Technology Consultant.
When: 12 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: BrightTALK
Thu, Nov 5 - AI at the VA: Current Uses, Governance, and What’s Ahead
What: An overview of the benefits and risks of using AI in public services, examine the current uses and governance of AI tools at the VA (with a focus on high-risk tools), and explore the future challenges and opportunities as AI at the VA continues to evolve. Attendees will leave with a clear understanding of how AI tools are currently being used at the VA, as well as the potential risks and benefits that come with those uses.
Who: Hannah Quay-de la Valle, Senior Technologist on the Center for Democracy & Technology’s Equity in Civic Technology team.
When: 12 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Military Veterans in Journalism
Thu, Nov 5 - AI for Small Business Finance — Know Your Numbers, Grow with Confidence
What: You’ll use AI tools to understand cash flow, explore pricing and profit scenarios, and turn confusing numbers into actionable insights. End the session with a clearer financial picture and a repeatable process for making confident, number-driven decisions.
When: 12 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Small Business Development Center, Widener University
Thu, Nov 5 - No Budget Marketing Tips to Give Your Nonprofit More Buzz!
What: In this session, you will learn easy and inexpensive marketing tips to better communicate your mission and give your nonprofit more buzz! How to use your smart phone to capture quality images/videos and transform them into compelling promos for your nonprofit.
Who: Nonprofit fundraiser and marketer for 20+ years Michael Hemphill.
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: $40 members
Sponsor: Public Relations Society of America
Thu, Nov 5 - Archival & Clearance for Today’s Storytellers
What: We will pulls back the curtain on one of the most overlooked pillars of nonfiction production. Topics covered include: How to integrate clearance thinking from day one, not as a final step; What E&O insurance actually requires and how to prepare for it; Fair use in documentary: what it covers and where it ends; How to clear footage, music, life rights, and third-party IP; When you need a legal opinion letter, and when you don’t.
Who: VC member Teddy Cannon, an Archival & Clearance Producer and the founder of Crux Entertainment, Inc.
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Video Consortium
Thu, Nov 5 - Beyond the Final Score: Stronger Sports Reporting and Storytelling
What: This session will cover: Finding compelling stories beyond traditional game coverage Fresh angles that engage readers Building productive relationships with sources Conducting stronger, more revealing interviews
Who: Scott Dochterman covers national college sports for The Athletic.
When: 2 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: $35
Sponsor: Online Media Campus
Thu, Nov 5 - Preparing Students for the AI-Powered Ag Tech Workforce: Real-World STEM Connections
What: We will share how educators can prepare students for careers in agricultural technology (Ag Tech). Learn how AI, math, computer science, and real farm challenges come together to make STEM feel relevant to students.
Who: Deborah Crawford, Coordinator of Secondary Mathematics, Frederick County Public Schools (VA); Laura Rice, Assistant Professor, Agricultural Economics, Sociology, and Education, Penn State University; and Alan Ireland, Brand Marketing Lead, CodeVA.
When: 2 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Pitsco Education