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2026 Presenting Creative Partner
Featuring Adobe alongside an artist feature and agenda roundup
Welcome to the dawn of a new era for AI & Creativity. We’re honored to welcome Adobe as our returning Presenting Creative Partner across 2026.
Adobe gives everyone, from emerging artists to global brands, everything they need to design and deliver exceptional digital experiences. They are passionate about empowering people to create beautiful and powerful images, videos, and apps, and transforming how companies interact with their customers across every screen.
“Adobe has long been at the center of how the world creates, and we’re proud to partner with them to explore how human creativity and intelligent tools can evolve together, responsibly and powerfully, across every industry.”
See them onstage and activating at our AI & Creativity Summit in NY in May, and in the meantime explore Adobe Firefly Foundry. Adobe Firefly Foundry enables users to unlock creative precision at enterprise-scale with proprietary, IP-protected generative AI models – responsibly trained on your brand or franchise.
Artist Feature
Alexia Adána is the Forward Deployed Creative Lead at Luma and visual artist whose work explores the intersection of brand storytelling, emerging technology, and culture. Her practice is grounded in the belief that technology can be a powerful force for creative expression and human-centered innovation. Seen here, Bloomchild is an immersive narrative and evolving artistic universe rooted in self-acceptance, empathy, and healing. The trailer offers a first glimpse into a dreamlike world that invites viewers to see their uniqueness as a source of beauty. Alexia takes the stage at our NY Summit for the session “New Brand Imagination” alongside David Rager of NASA, Ari Kuschnir of m ss ng p eces, Craig Elimeliah of Code and Theory, and Ryan Jones of David Yurman.
On the Agenda
Voices of the Impossible: How AI Is Redefining Creative Expression.
What if you could learn, create, and experience content through the voices of icons? In this fireside chat, David Joerg from Chess.com and Taheeb Sonekan from ElevenLabs explore how voice AI is unlocking entirely new creative formats, from training with legendary chess players to reimagining how products teach, engage, and inspire. A look at how creators and companies can now build experiences that were unimaginable just a year ago.
The Art & Algorithm of Scent
How olfactory culture, luxury perfumers, and disruptive technologies such as AI are revolutionizing the consumer experience and defining the future of fragrance artistry. A conversation across the industry - from legacy fragrance houses already integrating AI into their craft, to master perfumers, to the disrupters and cultural voices challenging the status quo - on what happens when algorithms enter the lab, how they change the creative process, and what it all means for the future of scent. Featuring Farah Ahmed of Fragrance Creators Association, Matthieu Befve of Givaudan, Natasha Côté-Mouzannar of IFF, and Teddy Haugan.
Stop Selling AI Content
The photo, the commercial, the deliverable – these are no longer the prize. What clients crave is the unfolding ritual of creation itself. In this new age of Creative, process becomes the product. Which leaves the industry to confront a larger truth: what forms in the wake when the making, not the made, is what clients seek? Featuring Benjamin Benichou of ©3.11LABS and Charlton Roberts of FLORA.
We hope to see you in New York on May 14, 2026, where we will continue to explore the forefront of AI & Creativity together, in-person. We're down to our last few spots:
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 [email protected].
Til next time,
Artist and the Machine.
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