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Less than two years ago we hosted our first gathering. Today, Bloomberg Media has joined as the Official Media Partner of our AI & Creativity Summit, covering the New York edition on May 14 and the Los Angeles in December. This marks a new moment of growth for our Summit series shaping the front lines of AI & Creativity.
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Our AI & Creativity Summit convenes brand executives, creatives, founders and researchers 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 are opening a spatial frontier beyond language, and the agentic shift is fundamentally rewriting 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.
Summit Lineup So Far
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 (Cyborg Psychology Research Program, MIT), Anthony Lupo (Chairman, ArentFox Schiff), Farah Ahmed (President & CEO, Fragrance Creators Association), Matthieu Befve (Head of Fine Fragrance North America, 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.
We hope to see you in NY on May 14, 2026, where we will continue these conversations on the forefront of AI and Creativity:
If you’re creating something aligned with Artist and the Machine or you’d like to recommend work shaping this space, we’d love to see it for the chance to be featured. Reach out to us at community@artistandthemachine.com.
Til next time,
Artist and the Machine.
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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.