The event is community-driven: participants both propose and moderate sessions, ensuring that the agenda remains open, peer-led, and relevant to current challenges. Parallel to the talks and panels, the CultTech artistic program, including collaborations with digital arts departments and experimental theater, serves as a living exploration of art’s critical role in reflecting and shaping the technological present.
CultTech Summit 2025 is defined by its commitment to critical dialogue around the intersection of culture and technology, inviting participants to actively question and shape emerging models for artistic production, access, and sustainability. The program is structured around three core themes:
Tech for Cultural Impact: Investigating how digital tools—from AI to no-code platforms—transform the creation, presentation, and preservation of art and heritage. Focus areas include responsible artificial intelligence, digital storytelling as a force for social change, and new methods for engaging audiences.
Sustainable Revenue Models for Culture: Exploring how technology can build lasting ways to support artists and cultural organizations beyond traditional patronage, from innovative funding structures, new economies, to equitable compensation models.
Democratising Culture: Looking at the possibilities tech creates for broader inclusion, examining digital access to museums, diverse participation in creative industries, and projects that lower entry barriers to cultural creation and appreciation.
Contributions come from artists, museum leaders, founders, policymakers, and researchers. Highlights include roundtables on AI and cultural policy, case studies on digital inclusion, and immersive projects tackling topics such as mortality (VR storytelling), digital empathy, and collective authorship.
