Bloomberg media unveiled as official media partner of ai & Creativity summit
Bloomberg Media joins as Official Media Partner across New York on May 15 and Los Angeles in December 2026, featuring CEOs of The Atlantic and Splice, MIT researchers, Adobe, ElevenLabs, Replit, Luma, frog design, and more.
NEW YORK, APRIL 2026 – Artist and the Machine today announced Bloomberg Media as Official Media Partner of its AI & Creativity Summit, covering the New York edition on May 14 and the Los Angeles edition in December 2026.
Bloomberg Media is the world’s leading multi-platform media company for business and finance, which draws on the editorial resources of more than 3,000 journalists and analysts in more than 100 bureaus around the world. Bloomberg Media is the consumer-facing media organization of Bloomberg L.P.
The Summit convenes brand executives, creatives, researchers and founders for a full day of programming at the frontier of AI and Creativity where artists are charting new territory with AI as collaborator, IP is repositioned as infrastructure for a generative era, world models open a spatial frontier beyond language, and the agentic shift rewrites how we work and exist. Sessions span fashion and luxury, media and storytelling, neuroscience and human augmentation, music and audio, with thought leadership and live practitioner workflows across all stages.
“What started as an underground salon series is now the Summit where the CEOs of major brands and media companies, Grammy-winning producers, and MIT researchers are all on the same stage. We are at an inflection point for creative work. What gets decided in the next few years about AI, creativity, and culture will matter for a very long time.” – Dani Van de Sande, Founder of Artist and the Machine.
Speakers & Sponsors Confirmed to Date
Speakers include Kathleen Grace (Chief AI Officer, Lionsgate), Nicholas Thompson (CEO, The Atlantic), Doug Shapiro (Founder, Doug Shapiro Media), Sinead Bovell (Futurist & Strategic Foresight Advisor), Francis Pierrel (Partner & CEO, LR Paris), Marcus Frödin (VP Engineering for Music, Spotify), Haya Odeh (Co-founder & VP of Design, Replit), Benjamin Benichou (Founder, ©3.11LABS), Kakul Srivastava (CEO, Splice), Matt Zien (Founder, KNGMKR Labs), Chris Neff (Global Chief AI Officer, Anomaly), Kristen Bender (VP, Digital Innovation Strategy & Business Development, Universal Music Group), Ceej Vega (Founder & Creative Technologist, Vega Studio), Ari Kuschnir (Founder, m ss ng p eces), Alex Henning (Academy Award Winner, Best Visual Effects), Coco Mao (CEO & Co-founder, OpenArt), Leonardo Giusti (Chief Design Officer, Archetype AI), Zan Gilani (Director of Product Management, Duolingo), Hilary Mason (CEO and Co-Founder, Hidden Door), Inna Lobel (Head of Industrial Design North America, frog), Fabien Giraud (Artist), Craig Elimeliah (Chief Creative Officer, Code and Theory), Pat Pataranutaporn (MIT), Anthony Lupo (Chairman, ArentFox Schiff), Farah Ahmed (President & CEO, Fragrance Creators Association), Matthieu Befve (Givaudan), Lauren Ducrey (Poet & AI Strategist).
Sponsors confirmed to date include Adobe, Replit, ElevenLabs, Luma, OpenArt, LTX, Epidemic Sound, frog design, AWS, FLORA; and the Summit will be hosted at The Lighthouse. Additional speakers, sponsors, and programming will be announced in the coming weeks, stay tuned.
Format
The Summit runs as a full-day program across three stages including a dedicated workshop track. The Main Stage features keynotes, fireside conversations, and panel discussions. The Machine Stage offers hands-on workshops, live workflow demonstrations, roundtables, and tool deep-dives for practitioners. An all-day networking program and demo floor runs in parallel throughout the event.
The 2026 edition opens its doors to just 400 attendees, all reviewed through an application process designed to keep the room high signal and cross-disciplinary.
About Artist and the Machine
Artist and the Machine
is the leading Summit at the forefront of AI & Creativity. The bi-yearly gathering in NY & LA is known for its elevated, strong curation that fosters inspiration and partnerships across creative innovation leaders, artists, and founders pioneering the future of creative Human-Machine collaboration. The NY AI & Creativity Summit on May 14, 2026 will gather 400 handpicked leaders in the space, featuring a Main Stage, bespoke breakout sessions & workshops, and interactive demos. If you’re exploring how AI is transforming creative work – you’ll want to be in this room.
Paige Piskin is an award-winning AI and XR creator, known for pushing the boundaries of digital makeup, character design, and augmented reality experiences. With AR effects generating more than 300 billion impressions, shared 2 billion times, Paige has worked with major brands like Netflix, Bratz, Warner, and Coldplay, bringing immersive storytelling to life. She has also been a guest judge for Netflix, consultant, and 2x hackathon winner, recognized for her innovative work in AI-driven AR experiences. Paige is passionate about blending generative AI with character design, expanding the possibilities of digital self-expression and interactive storytelling.
Claire Silver is an anonymous AI-Collaborative artist that works with oil, acrylic, collage, photography, and different digital mediums to create her work. She often blends the classical style and mythos into her art, collaboratively producing work that feels at once familiar and strange. Her work explores themes of innocence, trauma, the hero’s journey, and how our view of them will change in an increasingly transhumanist future. Claire’s art can be found in the permanent collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, has been at Sotheby’s London and Christie’s New York and in galleries, museums, and festivals all over the world. Featured in the New York Times, WIRED, Fortune, NPR, and countless podcasts, Claire takes every opportunity to explore her unending fascination with AI, fight for visibility for this budding art movement, and wonder at the magnitude of this moment in history. She often feels like a caveman painting fire. Claire is vocal in her belief that with the rise of AI, for the first time, the barrier of skill is swept away and that in this evolving era, taste is the new skill.