Creative Intelligence Summit
An industry day for the culture-makers, artists, writers, designers and engineers shaping our world.
We kick off Creative Intelligence with a day of exploration into the world-changing innovations of creative entrepreneurs, with a packed line-up now announced.
Hear from artists and thinkers working in diverse fields including beauty, quantum computing and venture capital for artist products, expanding out to explore planetary-scale systems and art where nature is the main protagonist.
Speakers include K Allado-McDowell, Sougwen Chung, Alex Estorick, Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, Jordan Hemingway, Anab Jain, Xin Liu and Jenn Nkiru. Find the full list of featured artists and organisations in the schedule below.
Join this shared space for the people shaping our tomorrow, and stick around for the evening with a takeover of music demos and installations from Peckham Digital and deep listening with Holly Herndon.
Creative Intelligence is commissioned and produced by the Southbank Centre. Curated with PACT – Planetary Art Culture Technology.
Need to know
All tickets for this event include access to Holly Herndon: Listening Session.
Under-30s discount
There are a limited number of discounted tickets available to our Under-30s community for this event. If you’re aged 18 – 30, make sure you’ve signed up to our Under-30s scheme to access these tickets.
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See the full schedule
Hosted by Aasmah Mir
9.30am: Doors open
10.30am – 10.55am: Welcome and Address by Southbank Centre Artistic Director Mark Ball
How London’s dynamic DIY culture shapes culture
11am – 11.55am: Curating Communities
80 Studios, arebyte, Diasporas Now, Peckham Digital, Serpentine Arts Technologies and Somerset House Studios
Mapping London’s critical creative ecosystems through the communities that make it distinct, and why that difference matters. Hosted by Keri Elmsly and Jazia Hammoudi.
12.05pm – 1pm: When Nature is the Main Character
Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg and Anab Jain
Artists and researchers share their planetary-scale approaches to art where the protagonists are pollinators, rivers and ecological systems.
1pm – 2.30pm: Lunch break
2.30pm – 3.10pm: The Image After AI
Alex Estorick in conversation with K Allado-McDowell, Sougwen Chung and Jazia Hammoudi
A discussion with leading artists and thinkers who are making sense of an age of nonhuman vision.
3.20pm – 4pm: World Building – Ecosystems of Creativity, Rigor and Community
Jenn Nkiru and Jordan Hemingway
Vanguard artists and directors Nkiru and Hemingway discuss their vision, process and risk, and share what comes next in their expansive practice. Hosted by artist Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley.
4.10pm – 4.55pm: Planet City: The Drone Shepherd
Liam Young, with live music from Forest Swords
Performance lecture
Hosted by Libby Heaney
11am – 11.55am: Adventures in New Tools – Artist-Led Real-World Innovation
Lauren Bowker (EXIST), William Morgan (Restless Egg) and Harry Kumar (Moth)
Artist founders inventing world changing systems, materials and tools. Sustainable, industrial and computational, it all starts with creative practice.
Hosted by Jerome Misso.
12.05pm – 1pm: Incubating Artist-Born Products
Restless Egg x Mozilla Foundation
What is born when artists enter the VC world? The session opens with a Restless Egg and Mozilla Foundation panel, featuring special guest Diana Ayton-Shenker, followed by quickfire demos from the artist-born products being incubated by Restless Egg: Fuser · Yaya Labs · Glia · Self Engineering · Hidden Fish · Halcyon Mesh plus special friends Tonk.
1pm – 2.30pm: Lunch break
2.30pm – 3.15pm: Building Creative Intelligence: The Role of Creative Education in a World Shaped by AI
Justin Spooner and Professor Rose Luckin
What role should creative education play in enabling the next generation to critique, master and reshape AI and to invent entirely new creative processes around it?
3.20pm – 4pm: Cosmic Metabolism
Xin Liu
Performance lecture with talkback hosted by Jazia Hammoudi.
11am – 8pm: Get Your Hands-Dirty with Creative Tech
A takeover by Peckham Digital.
Featured artists
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Times & tickets
Dates, times and prices
Dates & times
11 Sep 2026, 10.30am
Run time
6 hours and 30 minutes (approx)
All timings are approximate and subject to change
Standard entry
From £86
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This event is held at the Queen Elizabeth Hall Southbank Centre
The Queen Elizabeth Hall is open from 90 minutes before events start until they finish. It’s closed at all other times.
Plan your visit
The Queen Elizabeth Hall is home to both our second-largest auditorium and the Purcell Room.
Getting here
Our address is Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XX.
The nearest tube stations to us are Waterloo and Embankment; Waterloo is also the nearest train station. And more than 20 different London bus routes pass within 500 metres of our venues. More information on getting here by rail, road or river is available on our Getting here page.
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We’re working hard to remove barriers, so that our facilities and events can be accessible to as many people as possible.
All help points, toilets, performance and exhibition spaces at the Southbank Centre are accessible to all, as are the cafes, bars and restaurants. We also have excellent public transport links with step-free access.
All information about booking wheelchair spaces, step-free access, blue badge parking, access maps and guides and other help available whilst you’re here, including details about our Access Scheme, can be found on our Access page.
Food & drink
From coffee to cocktails, filling favourites to fine dining, plus some of London’s best street food – it’s all here at the Southbank Centre.