Erin Kelly — Media Coverage 2015–2026

Oct 19, 2026 · @Erin Kelly

About 110 media items found from 2015 to October 2026: about 30 TVO items and roughly 80 other interviews, profiles, podcasts, talks and articles. Searches covered Erin Kelly, Advanced Symbolics, Polly and askpolly. Each list runs newest first.

TVO appearances (2018–2026)

TVO has featured or cited you about 30 times, from the Ontario 2018 campaign through The Rundown in September 2026. No 2017 TVO appearance turned up, and the earliest confirmed one is May 2018.

Interview Link
Sep 29, 2026 — TVO Today, The Rundown: askpolly CEO Erin Kelly joins the show askpolly.ai write-up
Apr 20, 2026 — TVO Today article by Steve Paikin: “ANALYSIS: Doug Ford could have seen this coming” (Polly survey; you are quoted) tvo.org
Mar 30, 2026 — TVO Today article by Steve Paikin: “Does anyone remember Nathan Phillips?” (you are quoted) tvo.org
Mar 2025 — TVO, “Does Polly Want an Election?” (federal 2025) (unconfirmed) Transcript
Feb 13, 2025 — The Agenda: “What’s Trending with Voters in the Ontario Election?” YouTube
Feb 2025 — The Agenda: “What Issues Are Shaping Ontario’s Election?” (unconfirmed; may be 2022) YouTube
Mar 9, 2023 — The Agenda: “Why Did Elon Musk Really Buy Twitter?” YouTube
Jun 13, 2022 — The Thread with Nam Kiwanuka: “What does AI say about Ontarians’ school experience?” YouTube
May 30, 2022 — The Agenda: “Will Doug Ford Win Another Majority?” YouTube
May 24, 2022 — The Agenda: “Controversies on the Campaign Trail” (Ontario 2022) YouTube
May 16, 2022 — The Agenda: “Ontario Reacts to the Leaders’ Debate” YouTube
May 9, 2022 — The Agenda: “Who’s Got the Best Plan for Ontario’s Economy?” (Polly’s top voter issues) YouTube
May 9, 2022 — The Agenda: “What are Ontario Parties Promising Voters?” YouTube
Sep 21, 2021 — The Agenda: “Why Did Canada Get Another Liberal Minority?” YouTube
Sep 17, 2021 — The Agenda: “What’s Motivating Voters in Election 2021?” YouTube
Sep 9, 2021 — TVO Today article: “Trust issues: How much faith do Canadians have in government?” (company only) tvo.org
Sep 7, 2021 — The Agenda: “Election 2021: What Does Ontario Want?” (panel) YouTube
Oct 17, 2020 — TVO Original documentary Margin of Error (Polly in the 2019 federal election) YouTube
Oct 16, 2020 — The Agenda: “Erin Kelly: Polling the U.S. Election” YouTube
Jun 9, 2020 — The Agenda: “What Canadians Think of the BLM Protests” YouTube
Jun 5, 2020 — The Agenda: “Polling the Pandemic” Episode listing
May 1, 2020 — The Agenda: “Polly’s AI Tracking of the Pandemic” YouTube
Apr 3, 2020 — The Agenda: “Erin Kelly: Polly and the Pandemic” YouTube
Oct 4, 2019 — The Agenda: “Polling Update” (federal 2019) Episode listing
Sep 27, 2019 — The Agenda: “Erin Kelly: Gauging the Emotions of Canadian Voters” YouTube
Jun 8, 2018 — The Agenda: “Ontario’s New Political Landscape” (panel) YouTube
May 25, 2018 — Nation Valley News: “Wynne Liberals to be decimated, AI pollster tells TVO’s The Agenda” Article
May 24, 2018 — The Agenda: “The Changing Minds of Ontario Voters” YouTube
May 2018 — The Agenda: “Tracking Voters During Election 2018” (unconfirmed) tvo.org
Apr 2, 2018 — The Agenda: “Psychographically Exposed” (Cambridge Analytica; unconfirmed) YouTube

Other interviews, profiles, awards and podcasts

The biggest waves of coverage were the 2016 US election call, the January 2018 suicide-prevention AI contract with the Public Health Agency, the 2020 US election and Margin of Error, and the September 2026 askpolly seed round and Microsoft integration.

Interview / profile Link
Oct 9, 2026 — Research Live (UK, MRS): “Askpolly expands Microsoft relationship” (quoted) Article
Oct 2026 — WindowsForum: “Askpolly Joins Microsoft Copilot Cowork” (unconfirmed) Article
Oct 1, 2026 — DestinationCRM: “askpolly integrates with Microsoft Copilot Cowork” (quoted) Article
Oct 1, 2026 — VMblog: “askpolly Now Integrated With Microsoft Copilot Cowork” (quoted) Article
Sep 2026 — Differential Ventures: “askpolly announces $3m in seed capital” Article
Sep 2026 — Private Capital Journal: “askpolly secures $3M seed financing” (unconfirmed) Article
Sep 4, 2026 — Citybiz: “askpolly Raises $3M to Accelerate AI-Powered Market Research” (quoted) Article
Sep 4, 2026 — The SaaS News: “askpolly Raises $3M Seed” (named) Article
Sep 4, 2026 — Recodex: “AskPolly Raises $3M Seed Round: Can AI Market Research Replace Traditional Surveys?” (named) Article
Sep 3, 2026 — SiliconANGLE: “Market research startup askpolly raises $3M” (quoted) Article
Sep 3, 2026 — Yahoo Finance (ACCESS Newswire): “askpolly Raises $3 Million to Turn Social Chatter Into Rigorous, Representative Market Research” Article
Sep 3, 2026 — Dealroom.co: “askpolly raises $3M to turn social media chatter into market research” Article
Sep 3, 2026 — FinSMEs: “askpolly Raises $3M in Seed Funding” (named) Article
Sep 2, 2026 — Retail Technology Innovation Hub (UK): “askpolly bags $3 million in seed funding” (quoted) Article
Jun 2026 — Easly: Innovation Spotlight case study on Advanced Symbolics PDF
2026 — SaaS North 2026: speaker, CEO and co-founder of askpolly.ai Speakers page
Apr 2025 — RTDNA Canada: “Exclusive Webinar: Covering the Election” (sole guest) Event page
Mar 26, 2025 — The Alex Pierson Show: “Ask Polly about the federal election. An AI take on traditional polls.” Apple Podcasts
Nov 2024 — Invest Ottawa, Invested in Our New Reality podcast, Season 14, Episode 5 Recap
Sep 11, 2024 — BDC: “Using AI to outsmart competitors: Advanced Symbolics Inc.” (profile) Article
Aug 28, 2024 — The Brian Crombie Hour: “Erin Kelly, Ask Polly AI Market Research” SoundCloud
2023 — DX3 Canada: speaker Speaker page
Dec 16, 2022 — The Insurance Podcast: “AI for Business Insight with Erin Kelly” Episode
Nov 29, 2022 — University of Toronto Mississauga, IMI BIGDataAIHub: “The Forecasting Power of AI with Erin Kelly” (seminar) Event page
Oct–Dec 2022 — askpolly tuesday podcast (your own show, 7 episodes) Apple Podcasts
2022 — Happy Market Research Podcast, Ep. 520: Insights Association Annual 2022 Conference Series Amazon Music
Feb 1, 2022 — CES: “Advanced Symbolics: CEO debuts AskPolly at CES” (video) ces.tech
Sep 2021 — Postmedia Polly election series, e.g. National Post, “Why the NDP is poised for one of its best showings” (Sep 10; company only) PressReader
Sep 2021 — The Conversation Canada: “Why we shouldn’t always trust ‘good’ political bots” (company only) Article
Nov 11, 2020 — DeepLearning.AI, The Batch: “AI Versus Voters” (company only) Article
Nov 4, 2020 — CTV News: “How one AI system’s U.S. election prediction got Florida and Texas wrong” YouTube
Nov 4, 2020 — CTV News: “CEO of AI pollster believes complex ballot issues led to incorrect predictions” (unconfirmed) Article
Nov 3, 2020 — Fortune: “Who will win today’s election? A.I. has answers” (company only) Article
Oct 24, 2020 — CTV News: “This AI pollster has predicted the chances of a win by Biden or Trump” (unconfirmed) Article
Oct 22, 2020 — University of Toronto Mississauga BIGDataAIHub talk series: “The Algorithm is the Message” Event page
Oct 17, 2020 — CBC Radio, Day 6: “Meet Polly, the AI pollster that wants to predict elections using social media” CBC
Oct 2020 — Canadian Press: “Doc examines what this Canadian-made AI system predicts for the U.S. election” (company only; syndicated) Pique Newsmagazine
2020 — CTV Winnipeg: “AI predictions ‘the way of the future'” (unconfirmed) Video
2020 — CPA Manitoba Virtual Conference keynote: “The Predictive Power of AI” Facebook video
Jul 17, 2020 — Women of Influence: “Q&A: How Erin Kelly is adapting to a new normal” (profile) Article
Jun 19, 2020 — Women of Influence: “25 Women to Watch: Succeeding in a COVID World” (you are #3) Article
Mar 2020 — Ottawa Business Journal: Ottawa tech CEOs’ open letter to Premier Ford on COVID-19 support (signatory) Article
Sep 26, 2019 — The Walrus: “Political Polls Are Flawed. Can AI Fix Them?” (feature) Article
Sep 18, 2019 — Ottawa Business Journal: “Ottawa’s Advanced Symbolics applying AI tool to monitor key federal election ridings” Article
Sep 10, 2019 — Smart & Biggar f2 series: “Leading female founders share their experience” (panellist) Recap
Mar 7, 2019 — Ottawa Business Journal: Advanced Symbolics picked for the Lazaridis ScaleUp Program Article
Jun 18, 2018 — CPAC: “Using Artificial Intelligence to predict election outcomes” YouTube
Apr 2018 — CBC Montreal: “What are Quebec’s political parties doing with your personal information?” (unconfirmed) Article
Mar 2018 — CBC Ottawa: “Cambridge Analytica scandal ‘a gross violation,’ Ottawa data firm’s CEO says” Article
Jan 29, 2018 — CMAJ News: “AI opens new frontier for suicide prevention” (company only) Article
Jan 2018 — BetaKit: “Canadian government to use AI to search social media and predict suicides” (unconfirmed) Article
Jan 6, 2018 — VentureBeat: “Canada is exploring using AI to help prevent suicide” (quoted) Article
Jan 6, 2018 — Futurism: “Can Canada Use AI to Crack Suicide Trends?” (quoted) Article
Jan 4, 2018 — CTV News: “Canada could use artificial intelligence to ID suicide hotspots” (company only) Article
Jan 3, 2018 — Ottawa Business Journal: “Ottawa’s Advanced Symbolics to lead AI project looking for suicide warning signs” (company only) Article
Jan 2018 — Globe and Mail / Canadian Press: “AI startup enlisted for project to predict suicide risk in Canada” (company only) Article
Jan 2, 2018 — CBC News: “Ottawa turns to AI to search social media for patterns of suicide-related behaviour” (quoted) Article
Jan 2, 2018 — Global News / Canadian Press: “Ottawa backs artificial intelligence program looking for early suicide warning signs” (company only) Article
Jan 2, 2018 — Vice: “Canada taps AI firm to analyze social media for possible suicide spikes” (company only) Article
Jan 2, 2018 — Gizmodo: “Canada Is Using AI to Study ‘Suicide-Related Behavior’ on Social Media” (company only) Article
Jan 2, 2018 — Engadget: “Canada will track suicide risk through social media with AI” (company only) Article
Jun 2, 2017 — Ottawa Business Journal (Techopia, sponsored): “Advanced Symbolics shaking up opinion polling using customized Artificial Intelligence” Article
2017 — Digital Journal: “Using an AI named Polly to predict human behaviour” (unconfirmed) Article
Nov 21, 2016 — Ottawa Business Journal: “Good call: Ottawa firm’s U.S. election prediction not far off mark” Article
Nov 2016 — Globe and Mail, ROB Commentary: “How our company called Trump’s climb” (your op-ed) Article
Nov 7, 2016 — Ottawa Business Journal: “Ottawa firm’s vote-forecasting system trumps competition” Article
Oct 2016 — CBC Ottawa: “Ottawa company banking on real-time data over history to predict U.S. election” (unconfirmed) Article
Jun 16, 2016 — PRWeb press release: “Brexit Vote Hinges on Football: Study” (quoted) Release
Oct 2015 — CBC Ottawa: “Twitter analysis during Canada election campaign helping parties build strategy” (unconfirmed) Article

Undated items

Interview / profile Link
CTV News: “Public perception of the war in Ukraine” (listed on askpolly.ai; likely 2022) Video
“A New Era for Conspiracy Theories in Canada?” (listed on askpolly.ai) YouTube
“One Last Look at the Polls” (listed on askpolly.ai) YouTube
“10 Days from Voting Day” (listed on askpolly.ai) YouTube
The Strong and Free Podcast: “Artificial Intelligence: A Conversation with Erin Kelly” Episode
CPA Canada: interview on smart applications of data (video) Facebook video
Entrepreneur: “Why Are You Still Risking Millions on Your Intuition?” (your byline) Article
Ivey / Harvard Business Publishing case: “Betting on Diversity at Advanced Symbolics, Inc.” (NA0631) Case page
YouTube: “Erin Kelly, CPA” (AI and market research) YouTube

Leads to confirm and known gaps

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