Creative Tech 2024
Come to Creative Tech 2024 to expand your perspective on the horizon of art, design, and technology.
Continuing our exploration at the intersection of emerging tech and creative practice, this year’s focus is on the role of artificial intelligence, the challenges of sustainable design, and new approaches to career building and entrepreneurship. Through three days of dynamic sessions, Creative Tech 2024 will showcase ArtCenter’s legacy and significance as a vanguard institution that is leading conversations across creativity and technology.
Why are these speakers and topics relevant for you?
As the complexities surrounding AI, digital infrastructure, and communication technologies continue to multiply, insights from change-makers outside of design are increasingly vital to be able to interpret and address the viability and effects of creative work. In keeping with ArtCenter’s mission to empower creatives as informed and impactful contributors in their fields, participants can expect to gain a broader understanding of how policy and practice shape the tools, platforms, and environments to which they contribute.
Public Programming
October 23
5 – 7:30 p.m.
Regulating Innovation: Policy, Privacy and Creator’s Rights
The widespread adoption and growing influence of generative AI technologies raise critical questions best addressed by cross-disciplinary expertise. Join us to hear from three distinct and influential voices and expand your perspective. Sanford Williams of the FCC brings a legal lens to the possibilities of future AI implementation and regulation; Bill Gross, Founder & CEO of ProRata.ai, represents AI's expanding entrepreneurial and economic potential; Founder of AI LA Todd Terrazas will contribute an intimate view of the community’s role, and to the social implications and innovation felt across Southern California.
Moderated by Maggie Hendrie, ArtCenter’s Dean of Media & Technology, this panel promises a dynamic examination—weaving through policy, profit, and people—each angle distinct, but interconnected, offering a multilayered look at AI’s impact as it continues to unfold.
Light food & drinks
Panelists: Sanford Williams, Bill Gross, Todd Terrazas
Moderated by: Maggie Hendrie
Presented in partnership with Innovate Pasadena
October 29
5 – 7:30 p.m.
Purpose Driven Creative Tech
The fabric of our world is shifting. Across industries, businesses are confronted with new materials, processes, and strategies. Increasingly, demands are being leveraged at companies of all sizes with a clear mandate: to reduce the continuous harm to the earth and its ecosystems. In this session, ArtCenter president Karen Hofmann will invite Vicki von Holzhausen and alum Jessie Kawata to the stage for an urgent conversation.
von Holzhausen, a trailblazer in material innovation, and Kawata, recently Director of Sustainability at Microsoft, put forth invaluable insights into how creativity and technology are transforming possibilities for sustainability at scale. These shifts have already begun to open new vocational pathways, from the entrepreneurs accelerating futures from the ground up to the intrapreneurs pioneering change from within. Together with Karen Hofmann, these leaders will address the tools and methods that students need to succeed in a world where sustainability is no longer optional or negotiable, but essential for survival.
Light food & drinks
Panelists: Vicki von Holzhausen, Jessie Kawata
Moderated by: Karen Hofmann
Student Programming
ArtCenter’s Careers in Creative Tech sessions are designed to present our students with opportunities to hear from and interact with professionals who are fearlessly building new possibilities and resiliently prioritizing impact and sustainability in their work. These presentations will give you a view behind the scenes into how creative careers can be thoughtfully designed and how you too can channel what you learn here at ArtCenter to make meaningful difference in the world.
October 29
12 – 2 p.m.
Careers in Creative Tech
Speaker: Jessie Kawata, User Experience Design Director, educator, co-founder, speaker, and Design x Space Exploration pioneer
October 30
12 – 2 p.m.
Careers in Creative Tech
Speaker: Iain Finch, Senior Manager of 3D & 2D Digital Visualization & Product Creation at Patagonia
Registration
Join industry leaders and innovators for a transformative experience. Secure your spot today!