SCAD AI Summit 2026
Jan. 26-30 | ATL + SAV
Join top executives, academic leaders, and student creatives for SCAD's third annual AI Summit, an insightful and groundbreaking exploration of the transformative wave of AI applications across diverse industries. Experience impactful collaboration and invigorating discussion at innovative panels, roundtable conversations, and a student-led AI Jam. Across five days in Savannah and Atlanta, AI Summit guests will dive into real-world AI workflows for design, film and television, fashion, gaming, architecture, experience design, and beyond.
Schedule of events
Jan. 26-27
48-hour AI Jam, powered by NVIDIA
- Deloitte Foundry, SCAD Savannah
- FORTY FIVE, SCAD Atlanta
Jan. 29-30
AI Summit
- FORTY Event Space, SCAD Atlanta (invitation only)
Thursday, Jan. 29
State of Creative AI Panel Discussion
- SCADshow, SCAD Atlanta
Featured panelists
Brooke Hopper
Senior principal designer for machine intelligence and new technology, Adobe
CJ Jones
Head of design for generative AI, Canva
Ovetta Sampson
Founder, Right AI
Utkarsh Seth
Moderator and senior staff UX manager, Google
SCAD Executives in Residence
Kate Aronowitz
(B.A., graphic design, 1997) Portfolio operations lead, Google Ventures
Bob Weis
Former Walt Disney Imagineering president
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