The Symposium was developed by Goldsmiths, University of London, in partnership with Jesus College Oxford, and generously supported by The Alan Turing Institute. 

The event brought together leading experts from the worlds of computing, AI, art, robotics, and virtual and augmented reality, including speakers from King.com, Deepmind, Oxford Computational Neurosciences, MIT Technology Review, Spotify, and the V&A, for a day of talks and networking opportunities themed around AI and creativity. Topics included ‘AI and visualisation in scientific discovery’, ‘Can AI be creative?’ and ‘Curating AI and digital art’. The event featured demonstrations of some of the latest creative AI technologies, and a digital art exhibition, plus a keynote panel discussion on the impact and implications to society of AI in the 21st century, hosted by Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt, Jesus College Principal and Professorial Research Fellow in Computer Science at the University of Oxford.

Co-Chairs were Prof William Latham, Prof Frederic Fol Leymarie, Dr.Janina Schupp and Dr. Steve Taylor.