AI Executive Creative Summit
AI is Reshaping Creativity. Is Your Agency Ready?
The future of creativity is being written in real-time, and AI is at the center of the transformation. For agency founders, CCOs, and creative leaders, the challenge isn’t just about using AI—it’s about hiring for it, integrating it, and leveraging it to future-proof your business.
The Executive Creative Summit at Creative Week NYC is an invitation-only gathering of the world’s top creative decision-makers—Chief Creative Officers, agency founders, partners, and key stakeholders. Over two days of closed-door discussions, we’ll tackle the real business challenges of AI, from hiring new creative talent and ethical considerations to redefining agency models and client relationships.
Key Topics of Discussion:
🔹 AI Integration Strategy – How to use AI without losing creative originality
🔹 Hiring for the Future – The new roles agencies need: AI specialists, prompt engineers & more
🔹 Repositioning the Agency Model – From service provider to AI-driven creative partner
🔹 The New Role of Creative Directors – From idea generators to AI orchestrators
🔹 AI-Driven Personalization & Client Offerings – Scaling creativity with intelligent automation
🔹 Future-Proofing Agency Culture – Training, upskilling, and fostering AI experimentation
No Press. No Recordings. No Distractions.
This is not a conference. It’s an exclusive, private discussion among C-suite creatives, designed to provide practical insights and strategies that will shape the future of the industry.
💡 Apply to attend and be part of the conversation. Seats are limited.
AI Executive Creative Summit
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Thursday, May 15 & Friday, May 16
8:30 am - 6:00 pm
Location
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450 W. 31st St. 7th Floor
New York, NY 10001
Speakers
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Schedule
8:30 am
Breakfast & Registration
9:30 am
Welcome Remarks
9:35 am
A Short History of Wonderpanic™
wonderpanic /ˈwʌn.dərˌpæn.ɪk/ noun
A sudden, electrifying blend of awe and dread triggered by glimpsing boundless possibilities— often accompanied by frantic brainstorming and a dizzying mix of delight and dismay.
History and tech have an ‘exciting’ habit of regularly forcing us into hard reboots. This time as generative AI officially goes from cute experiment to existential necessity. Lars is here to gently remind us that, historically, even though it may feel like the end of the world as we know it, we usually survive—mostly intact and armed with new superpowers.
10:15 am
100 Tasks That Suck
Every agency has a list of tasks that suck. Repetitive, soul-crushing work that eats time, resources and kills creativity. Learn how a mid-sized, independent agency identified their 100+ time-sucking tasks and mapped them to AI solutions. Some were small, some were game-changers, and all are making the agency faster, smarter, and more creative.
11:05 am
How do you float to the top of an infinite excellent slop?
When anyone can make anything at a very high quality for zero cost what’s it going to take to stand out? What should we be doing today to prepare? Standing on the sidelines waiting for someone else to work it out is NOT a good strategy. With (somewhat) practical examples and (hopefully) interesting provocations Iain hopes everyone walks out wanting to experiment more and worry less.
11:45 am
Lunch
Lunch will be provided to all ECS attendees.
12:30 pm
Art Is Dead. Long Live the Artist. Creative Leadership in the Age of Intelligent Tools
Change is fast. AI is faster. Fear narrows our vision—but curiosity and imagination expand it.
AI isn’t replacing creatives. It’s pushing us deeper—amplifying our ability to make sense of complexity, and shape it into something people can feel, understand, and remember.
In this talk, Lauren Indovina maps a new era of creative leadership—not a shift from artist to machine, but from certainty to discovery. A call to those bold enough to feel, interpret, and lead in shaping how the world sees.
1:20 pm
A New Creative Process
Artificial intelligence is transforming the creative process, shrinking the divide between idea and execution. Much as the invention of the camera created new art forms and mediums, today’s technology is transforming how we can realize our ideas, regardless of our resources. Runway’s Jamie Umpherson will dive into this new creative process and discuss how agencies, brands and filmmakers are evolving their workflows and production pipelines for a future where media creation is more accessible than ever.
2:10 pm
Creativity in the Age of Superintelligence
AI surpassing human intelligence isn’t science fiction—it’s an imminent reality. But where does that leave human creativity? What role can human teams play in an era that’s marked by super-intelligent machines?
In this talk, Paul Aaron will explore what the future of human creativity may look like as these systems become increasingly powerful, and why we could be entering the most exciting era of creative potential in history.
3:40 pm
Reflections & Reactions
3:00 pm
Rewiring Creativity for the Intelligence Age
In an AI-accelerated world, creativity isn’t slowing down—it’s scaling, fragmenting, and evolving faster than traditional agency models can handle. Tiffany Rolfe, Chair and Global CCO of R/GA, explores how creative leaders must transform—from being creators of deliverables to architects of adaptive systems that make great ideas possible. This session reframes long-held agency beliefs—like “the big idea,” “the campaign,” and “the creative team”—to spark a conversation about how creative leaders and organizations need to evolve. For CCOs navigating the intelligence age, this isn’t about managing disruption. It’s about designing for it.
4:10 pm
Roundtable Discussions
6:00 pm
Cocktails and the AI Creative Challenge
Registration to the ECS includes admission to the AI Creative Challenge; An electrifying fusion of creativity and technology. Network with top creative minds and AI leaders while witnessing a live, head-to-head creative showdown. Watch the brightest talents harness AI to tackle a randomly assigned brief in real time, with the winner crowned at the event. Agency Afterhours DJ Supes Base will be spinning, and drinks and light bites will be provided as innovation and inspiration take center stage.
Attendees
Executive Creative Director, Independent
CEO, Johannes Leonardo
Partner & Chief Creative Officer, LG2
Partner, Creative Director, Barber Warren
Founder, Bastholm Creative Consulting
Creative Director, Schneider Electric
Creative Studio Director, Schneider Electric
CD, Cocoon s.r.o.
VP, Global Executive Creative Director, Formerly Spotify
Chief Creative Officer, Chemistry
Independent, Sonic Signatures
Founder & Chief Creative Officer, Ladyship
Director & ECD, Google Creative Lab
Global Creative Director, Schneider Electric
Founder, 5:45 AM
Professor, Michigan State University
Executive Creative Director, Catch+Release
Head of School , ONE School
Founder, 72 & Sunny
EVP, Executive Creative Director, Rescue Agency
Founder and CCO, Murder Hornets
Interpublic Global Creative Advisor, IPG
President, ATTN
CCO & Partner, GUT
EP, NotReal
CEO & Founder, FLORA
Head of Creative, Brand, The Washington Post
CEO, MADEBRAVE
Executive Creative Director, Adams & Knight
Chief Creative Officer, Day One Agency
Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Voss +Fischer
Executive Creative Director, Independent
Creative Studio Director, Schneider Electric
Independent Consultant, book180
Managing Director, Our Man In Havana
Executive Creative Director, JOAN
Founder/Executive Creative Director, Our Man In Havana
ECD & Co-Founder, NotReal
Global Head of Creative Operations, Schneider Electric
EVP, Director of Integrated Studios, Doner
Executive Creative Director, YouTube Studio, Google
Managing Director and CMO, Emerson Collective
Chief Creative Officer, Allstate
Executive Creative Director, Burson
Chief Creative Officer, Paulus
Executive Creative Director, Drake Cooper
Principal Creative Director, Worldwide Sustainability, Amazon
Director & Visual Artist, House of Indovina
Global Chief Creative Officer, Edelman
CCO & Partner, Goodby, Silverstein & Partners
Founder & CCO, Hakuhodo Inc.
Executive Creative Director, MX
Head of Brand Creative, Square
Partner & Executive Creative Director, LG2
CEO, VIA
Global Lead Creative, BCG BrightHouse
Visual Artist, Independent
Co-Founder & CCO, Design Army
Founder & Creative Chairman, Leavingstone
Creative Studio Director, Schneider Electric
Executive Creative Director + Production Head, Anheuser-Busch
Creative Lead, AI & Creativity Research, Google DeepMind
Multimedia Art Director, Schneider Electric
Studio Head- India, Schneider Electric
Head of Innovation & Global Creative, The Martin Agency
Founding Partner / CCO, Black Cat White Cat Music
President, Furlined
Founder, ECD, Cutwater
Founder, Ashley McKim Consulting
Co-Founder & CCO, Sid Lee
EP, NotReal
Global Head of Creative Family of Apps, Meta
Executive Creative Director, Method1
Creative Chairman, Pereira O'Dell
President, One Club For Creativity, Miami Chapter
Founding Partner / CCO, Black Cat White Cat Music
Chief Creative Officer, IMPACT BBDO
Co-Founder & CCO, Joan
Global Head of Production, WPP / Hogarth Worldwide
Global Chair and CCO, R/GA
Founder/Executive Creative Director, Our Man In Havana
Founder & CEO, Day One Agency
Chief Creative Officer, Miami Ad School
Co-Founder, CCO, kvell collective
SVP, Creative Director, Macmillan Publishers
Founder, FOOD
Executive Producer, Furlined
CCO, Cocoon s.r.o.
VP Creative Director, Macmillian Publishers
Head of Creative + Studios, Runway
Founder & CEO, GoSpooky
CCO Latam, Tombras Niña
Founder, Mrs & Mr
Founder & CCO, Mrs & Mr
President, McKinney
CTO/Partner, Hook Studios
CEO & Founder, FLORA
Co-Founder, Google Creative Lab
Sr. Art Director, Mrs & Mr