AI-volution of Culture
2025

A half-day event exploring how artificial intelligence is transforming creativity, culture and business. Join global thinkers, brand leaders and technologists as they unpack what AI really delivers.

🗓️ December 3rd 2025         📍 The Times Center, NYC

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Explore the Core Themes of AI & Culture 2025

Four sessions that bridge innovation, creativity and measurable impact. Uncovering how AI is shaping the relationship between technology, brands and people.

Technology & Humans

Discover how advancements in AI are reshaping creativity, storytelling, and human expression. Industry visionaries like Nick Thompson and Rishad Tobaccowala share how to stay human in an automated world.

Brands & Consumers

Learn how leading brands are co-creating with technology to better understand consumer needs. Featuring a special showcase from The Business of Fashion and President Nick Blunden.

The ROI of AI

See real-world results from organizations harnessing AI for tangible business growth. From revenue lifts to efficiency gains, explore practical use cases proving the value of intelligent automation.

The World in 2035

Get a glimpse into the future with Dr. Angad Chowdhry as he reveals how consumers, culture, and values will evolve by 2035, and what it means for brands and creators today.

A Look Back at AI-volution of Culture 2024

Generative AI is being described as the next Internet and people are beginning to experience a world where machines can help us  ideate and build faster than ever before. What we find particularly exciting is the democratization of translating culture into action and the interplay of culture and technology at a scale and speed that is almost impossible to keep up. 

Sign up for our 2024 edition event as we bring together marketers, storytellers, builders and technologists to understand how they are investigating and weaving AI into business, marketing, and work.

A limited number of tickets are available to join us in person at The Times Center, New York. Register to experience unique benefits including the opportunity to connect with AI-volution of Culture speakers and other attendees from participating brands at the networking lunch. Attendees will receive a quarterly subscription to the Quilt AI suite of products, autographed books from several of the speakers, deep cultural insight papers, and culturally fun products to take away.

Purchase your ticket now, below. 100% of proceeds will be donated to charity. 

Unable to join us in New York? The summit will also be live streamed exclusively on our website. Register now, below.

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Agenda

Attendees can expect 6 hours of intense and exclusive conversations on navigating the next wave of innovation using artificial intelligence, punctuated by a gourmet lunch and hands on experiences of various AI solutions!

9:50 - 10:00

Introduction & Welcome

Anurag Banerjee & Angad Chowdhry
Quilt AI

10:00 - 10:05

Making Art in an AI World

James Gerde, Visual Artist

10:05 - 10:25

State of AI in the World

Katie Drummond, Global Editorial Director, WIRED

10:25 - 10:35

Being Human: Building Community & Fans Presentation

Maria Garrido, CMO Deezer

10:35 - 11:00

Being Human in the Age of AI - Community, Loyalty & Fans

Marc Nicholson, Founder, 1880 Members Club
Tiffany Whitlow, Co-Founder Acclinate,
Allegra Krishnan, Chief Loyalty Officer, McDonalds
MR, Rangaswami, Founder Indiaspora

11:00 - 11:10

Being Human in the Age of AI - The Redefining of Work

Rishad Tobaccowala

11:10 - 11:30

Being Human with a Long View

Rebecca Robins, Author
Steve Stine, Author
Andy Pharoah, VP Corporate Affairs & Sustainability, Mars

11:30 - 12:00

Being Human in the Age of AI - the Poetry View

Poetry Camera Demo
Ivan Giraud, CEO Groupe Bel USA
Lauren Ducrey, Poet & AI Designer

12:00 - 12:30

Being Human in the Age of AI - Food

Massimo Bottura, Italian Restaurateur & Chef

12:30 - 1:30

Lunch  🥗
(AI Installations on Fragrance, Food & Generative AI Videos)

1:30 - 1:45

Who is the Happiest of them All

A report by Quilt AI

1:45 - 2:00

Chatting with Carrie

Carrie Tan & Anurag Banerjee

2:00 - 2:20

Partnership Spotlight: Acclinate

Del Smith

2:20 - 2:40

Enterprise AI: Healthcare

Brendan Gallagher, Chief Connected Health Officer, Publicis Health
Erica Taylor, CMO Genentech

2:40 - 3:00

Enterprise AI: Healthcare

Karen Lazan, Senior Director Marketing, Regeneron
Jasper Van De Sompel, Director Global Strategy & Customer Experience, Pfizer

3:00 - 3:30

Quilt AI Product Demo  🚀

3:30 - 4:00

Break  ☕️
(AI Installations on Fragrance, Food & Generative AI Videos)

4:00 - 4:30

Partner Spotlights

Kumiko Hariba, Chief Intelligence Officer, Hakuhodo Consulting Asia Pacific
Simone Morandi, Accenture
Rahul Malik, Business of Fashion
Kelly Buchanan Spillers, L'Oreal

4:30 - 4:40

Analyst View on AI & Beauty

Oliver Chen, TD Cowen, Managing Director - Retail, Luxury, New Platforms Sector Head

4:40 - 5:00

Enterprise AI: Lessons from a Beauty Giant

Raheel Khan, Senior Vice President Foresight & Growth Intelligence, Estee Lauder

5:00 - 5:45

AI & Creation

Trevor Noah

5:45 - 7:00

Reception  🍸
Music by the AI High School Band

Agenda

Attendees can expect a half-day format filled with exclusive conversations on navigating the next wave of innovation using artificial intelligence.
They will also have the opportunity to join Q&A sessions with our speakers, before connecting with them and like-minded attendees during the networking lunch.

9:25

Welcome: An AI-volution of Culture

9:30

Data and Representation

Del Smith

9:42

The World via Anthropology

Gillian Tett

9:59

An Investigation of Human Behavior

Gilian Tett
Luke Burgis

10:30

Sphere launch      🚀

10:35

Building Better Technology

Bhaskar Chakravorti
Philippe Beaudoin

10:57

An AI Deep-Dive

Jeremiah Lowin

11:20

Use Case: Predictive AI

Abbas Arslan

11:37

Launch:  Ad benchmarking       🚀

11:42

Bringing Human Stories to Life

Deepa Mehta

12:09

Launch:  Culture lens       🚀

12:14

Music and AI

Maria Garrido

12:35

Lunch

1:30

Clothes Maketh Us

Rebecca Robins
Dr. Katherine Anne Paul
Diana Thomas Rawlings

1:52

Use Case: The Art & Science of Brands

Imran Amed

2:20

Launch:  Magic index      🚀

2.35

Use Case: AI and Beauty

Raheel Khan
Kalindi Mehta

3:00

Launch:  Marketing copy       🚀

3:05

Tea break

3:20

Culture of Cool

Oshiya Savur
Kelly Buchanan Spillers
Eleonore Ogrinz

3:45

Use Case: Everyday Business

Ben McKean
David Goldweitz
Alex Schmelkin

4:20

Stories with Cecile

Cécile Beliot-Zind

4:50

Positive News - Math and Art

David McCandless

5:07

Culture of Future

Rishad Tobaccowala

AI Launch Party 

Experience the magic of our Diagnostic, Generative, Predictive AI platform, Sphere, during the event as well!

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Diagnostic AI

Capture timely trends and gain strategic insights to guide business decisions.

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Generative AI

Create original content at scale and rapidly transform innovative ideas into market-ready realities.

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Predictive AI

Forecast interest and identify concepts that tick the boxes for success.

Our text AI capabilities process cultural nuances, typos, and slangs in 250+ languages.

Our image & video AI capabilities are built on a base of a billion image-word pairs, contextually trained by anthropologists for nuance.

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