Speaker's Profile

Samuel Dorison is a national expert in artificial intelligence strategy and product deployment. He is the Cofounder and CEO at ReflexAI, a technology company that brings AI-powered tools to emergency dispatch, crisis response, and healthcare organizations. 

In 2023, ReflexAI was recognized as a winner of Mission Daybreak, the Department of Veterans Affairs suicide prevention competition, for tools to more rapidly and effectively train responders on the Veterans Crisis Line. ReflexAI is also developing, with support from Google, a tool to equip veterans to support each other with mental health challenges. 

Before launching ReflexAI, Dorison served as Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer at The Trevor Project, where his team’s work was recognized on TIME’s 100 Best Inventions of 2021. As the founding executive of The Trevor Project’s research team, he is the co-author of five peer-reviewed papers on mental health. Dorison previously worked at McKinsey & Company in Washington, DC, and at Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. 

Dorison graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Princeton University. He also holds an LLM from Cambridge University and an MSc in Security Studies from University College London, both as a Marshall Scholar. 

He lives in New York City with his husband.