Shoreditch Town Hall (Council Chamber)
June 5, 2025, 2:00 - 2:40 PM
The Creative Sandbox: Leveraging the Arts in the Tech Innovation Pipeline
As the pace of innovation accelerates, tech companies are increasingly collaborating with arts organisations to leverage artists, curators and performers as technologists, ethicists and provocateurs. This panel unpacks how arts-sector partnerships are transforming the development of innovative technology and technology-enabled experiences, and why platforms should treat cultural experimentation as essential R&D. From AI to AR, the panelists discuss what happens when creatives enter the R&D pipeline, why that enables organisations to embrace risk, and how co-creation can surface the values and blind spots behind emerging tools before they scale.