AI and mental health, human trust, AI adoption and leadership resilience
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Digital health leaders, clinicians, health systems, insurers, prevention and public health teams
Plan together
Keynote: 20 to 45 minutes plus Q&A. Workshop: half day, customized to the audience. Panel: moderator or panelist. Fireside conversation: 30 to 45 minutes. Virtual keynote or fireside: 20 to 45 minutes.
Presentation languages
German, Swiss German and English for a full keynote and audience Q&A.
Conversational languages
French and Spanish. These are not offered as full keynote languages.
Speaking topics
Signature talks
Three speaker supplied sessions, tailored to your audience. The first is Karin’s lead talk.
Who Would Trust a Machine With Their Inner Life?
Audience: Digital health leaders, clinicians, health systems, insurers, prevention and public health teams
In 2019 Karin pitched a “therapist in the ear” and met a wall of skepticism. Drawing on five years of building Earkick, she explores what makes people trust a machine with their inner life, where that trust is earned, and where it breaks.
Audience takeaways
Why people open up to AI in moments when they tell no one else, and what that demands of the builders
The design choices that earn trust: clear limits, honest language and a named human expert behind the answer
How health organizations can use AI to fill the gap between the first worry and the first appointment
Brilliant AI, Empty Seats: Adoption Is a Language Problem
Audience: Executives, transformation and innovation leads, HR and L&D, communications and product teams
Organizations buy powerful AI and then wait for people to use it. Karin has spent her career turning technical brilliance into words, experiences and voices people trust, from multimodal sentiment analysis at Earkick to expert knowledge channels at Sidekick. This talk treats adoption as a translation job and gives leaders the vocabulary to do it.
Audience takeaways
A way to diagnose whether adoption stalls in the tool or in the words around it
A method to turn a technical capability into a story people repeat to each other
Why putting human expertise at the front of AI tells users whose knowledge they are trusting
Audience: Leaders, founders, teams working under pressure, HR and workplace wellbeing
Based on Overnight Power, coauthored with Dr. Herbert Bay. Karin uses nights under the stars as a lens on how leaders build resilience, recover effectively, decide and stay steady under chronic load, then turns it into practices that work indoors on any ordinary day.
Audience takeaways
The broken-thermostat model: how chronic stress keeps the system running day and night
Recovery as a leadership skill that you train before the crisis
Concrete recovery practices a team can start the same week
AI and mental health, human trust, AI adoption and leadership resilience
Karin Andrea Stephan is Chief Growth Officer of Sidekick Platform and cofounder of Earkick, the mental health AI acquired by Elomia Health. She speaks on trust, AI and human behavior. She is coauthor of Overnight Power (Campus Verlag, 2026), an international keynote speaker and panelist.
Based between Switzerland and the United States. Company and publishing affiliations: Sidekick Platform, Earkick (acquired by Elomia Health), and Campus Verlag / Overnight Power.
Keynote: 20 to 45 minutes plus Q&A. Workshop: half day, customized to the audience. Panel: moderator or panelist. Fireside conversation: 30 to 45 minutes. Virtual keynote or fireside: 20 to 45 minutes.
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