AI for Magazines Without Losing the Plot: Practical Adoption for Creative, Editorial, and Community-Led Media
When and where
Date and time
Monday, November 23, 2026 12:00 PM
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM PST / 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM MST / 2:00 – 3:00 PM EST
MagsBC, AMPA, Magazines Canada, AQEM members, and students: $20 for one seat or $30 for two seats
Non-Members: $30 for one seat or $45 for two seats.
Magazine teams are being pushed to understand AI at the exact moment their organizations are already stretched across editorial, audience, revenue, operations, and trust. This webinar will give publishers, editors, and creative leaders a practical, human-centred way to think about AI adoption: not as a replacement for editorial judgment or creative voice, but as a set of tools that can help small teams reclaim time, strengthen workflows, and build new forms of community and reader value.
Drawing from his work as a photographer, publisher, community builder, and AI ecosystem organizer, Kris Krüg will cover how media organizations can use AI responsibly across research, ideation, editing workflows, audience engagement, knowledge capture, event programming, and internal operations, while staying alert to the real risks around provenance, consent, bias, quality, and trust.
Attendees will leave with actionable strategies, real-world examples, and a framework for evaluating AI tools beyond the hype.
This program is made available with support from the Governments of Canada and Alberta.
Webinars are held via Venuelive – a Canadian based tech company for online events. For those who use Closed Captioning, Venue is compatible with Chrome CC features. For more information on how to set-up and use Chrome CC, visit their help page.
Speaker & Host
Kris Krüg is a photographer, creative technologist, community builder, speaker, and field-note person for the weird edge where humans meet the machines they keep inventing.
Krüg has spent two decades documenting technology, art, activism, conferences, communities, and the back rooms where culture actually changes. These days, most of that work points at one question: how do we use AI to increase human capacity instead of flattening human judgment?
His current projects include leadership of the BC + AI Ecosystem Association, a member-supported nonprofit building practical, responsible AI capacity in British Columbia and the Futureproof Festival, taking place October 2026 in Vancouver.
Joyce Byrne is Alberta Magazine Publishers’ past President and an award-winning veteran of the Canadian magazine industry. She has led publishing, creative, marketing and sales teams and boards in Toronto, Edmonton and Calgary, and has worked on nearly every type of magazine, from literary to light industrial, with consumer, business, visual art, health and cannabis in between. She is the recipient of the National Media Awards Foundation Award for Outstanding Achievement (2018), AMPA’s Achievement in Publishing Award (2018) as well as the NABS Honour Roll (2013) and Advertising Club of Edmonton Fellowship Award (2014). Joyce is AMPA’s curriculum consultant and the host of the Strategies for Canadian Magazines series. Her personal brand is I Love Magazines.
Frequently Asked Questions
AMPA Member pricing is available to all AMPA members, as well as members of the Magazine Association of BC, Magazines Canada, L’Association québécoise des éditeurs de magazines (AQEM), and the International Regional Magazine Association. We also welcome students and freelancers to take advantage of the AMPA-member pricing. Non-member prices are for anyone interested in attending who is not a member of the listed associations.
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