Speaking at CREATE 2026

The agents are getting good. Your thinking still has to be yours.

Vanessa Chang returns to the CREATE stage with a session on cognitive sovereignty, the practice of keeping your own thinking intact while agentic AI does more of the work around you. She is the co-founder of Bernie, an SMS fraud-protection service for seniors, and the founder of Think with V Media, and she brings that lens to a room of women deciding how much of their judgment to hand over and how much to keep.

• What cognitive sovereignty means when agents can plan, decide, and act on your behalf
• Where to keep your own thinking in the loop, and where handing off is the right call
• How to work with agentic AI without letting it quietly do your thinking for you

Vanessa is a returning CREATE speaker who builds tools and communities that protect human thinking as AI gets smarter. Her session is for women who use these tools daily and want to stay the author of their own judgment while they do.

work with agentic AI while keeping your own thinking clearly your own.

Why this session lands

Vanessa Chang builds Bernie, Think with V Media, Mosaek AI Consulting, and the AI Recess community, and she returns to CREATE because this audience is living the exact tension she writes about. She is measured, sharp on the tradeoffs, and unwilling to let a good tool become a substitute for your own mind.