AI is changing creative work, authorship, craft, and the value of creative output. Instead of asking, “How should creators adapt to AI?” let us ask: “What would AI look like if artists and creators themselves helped determine its direction?”
In a World Café format, people who work with images, sound, and stories will explore their concerns, hopes, and specific positive and negative experiences with AI. Together, they will translate these insights into needs, principles, and conditions that should guide the development and use of AI in culture and the creative industries. They will then define shared priorities for AI developers, policymakers, and other stakeholders, and propose initial steps toward putting them into practice.
The outcomes will contribute to broader Europe-wide research and help shape recommendations for public policy and technology development. The goal is to give artists and creators a stronger voice in shaping the future of AI.
→Time: 18:00–20:00
→Capacity: up to 30 participants
→Admission: free after refgistration
→What to bring: a smartphone with internet access
Facilitators: Lenka Hámošová (TAH), Alexey Steblev (Alliance CAI), Klaus Speidel (AIT), Anastasia Bonch-Osmolovskaya (Alliance CAI)
About the facilitators
→Lenka Hámošová (TAH) is a designer, educator, and researcher who explores how AI is changing creativity, cognition, and people’s ability to act and make decisions independently. She is a co-founder and executive board member of TAH Centre, where she develops interdisciplinary educational programs. Through Creative AI Workflows, she creates courses, workshops, and tools that help people work with AI without losing authorship or critical judgment, including the internationally distributed Creative AI Cards.
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→Klaus Speidel (AIT) is a Vienna-based philosopher, curator, and art critic. At the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, he leads artloop, a program connecting art with research and innovation. His work focuses on the relationship between generative AI and art, and he teaches at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.
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→Alexey Steblev (Alliance for Culture & AI) is a Vienna-based cellist, composer, and entrepreneur, and a co-founder of the CultTech Association and the Alliance for Culture and AI. His work brings together experience in culture, technology, and international business. He previously performed as a soloist with the Moscow Virtuosi and has also worked in venture capital.
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→Anastasia Bonch-Osmolovskaya (Alliance for Culture & AI) is a Vienna-based linguist and digital humanities expert. She leads educational programs at the CultTech Association and is a co-founder of the Alliance for Culture and AI. Her work focuses on education and dialogue at the intersection of culture and technology.
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TAH
TAH – Centre for Innovations in Technology, Art, and Humanities is a nonprofit center and research organization that brings together technology, the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Through international collaboration, it advances research, education, and joint projects with businesses, public institutions, nonprofit organizations, and the wider public. Its mission is to help shape a future in which technological progress improves people’s lives while respecting cultural and social values.
AIT - Austrian Institute of Technology
The AIT Austrian Institute of Technology is Austria’s largest non-university research organization. Working with companies and public institutions, it develops technologies for energy, transportation, health, and digitalization. Its goal is to translate research findings into innovations that benefit society and the economy.
Alliance for Culture and AI
The Alliance for Culture & AI is a public platform for dialogue, responsible innovation, and collaboration at the intersection of culture, artificial intelligence, and society. Operated by a Vienna-based nonprofit, it brings together stakeholders from different sectors and turns shared questions into common priorities and concrete action in creative practice, public policy, funding, and public engagement.
AI Days
AI Days is the Czech Republic’s largest multidisciplinary festival dedicated to artificial intelligence. Its fifth edition will take place from November 2 to 15, 2026, across all 14 regions of the country. The program brings together conferences, talks, workshops, and interactive formats. Most events are free and held in person. In 2025, the festival attracted more than 14,000 participants to 243 events in 35 cities.
