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"What must we not forget in our AI enthusiasm"

An event about AI, art, and the questions we must not overlook. AI is transforming our world—but what happens to tactility, creativity, and ethics when algorithms take over? Join us for an evening where researchers, artists, and business professionals come together to explore what we must remember amid the digital revolution.

The event aims to:

  • Explore the ethical and societal implications of AI, including questions about tactility, humanity, and creativity.
  • Foster dialogue between research, business, art, and policy.
  • Inspire participants to think critically and innovatively about AI’s role in the future and to see the potential for collaboration with art in this area.

The event is a collaboration between Copenhagen Business School, Kunstkonsortiet & Danish Industri.

Participants and roles:

  • Welcome:
    • Trine Bille, Professor, CBS. On behalf of the Arts Committee at CBS,
    • Mette Marcus,  Kunstkonsortiet
  • Moderator:
    • Joanna Woronkowicz, Visiting Professor, CBS
  • Participants:
    • Deepti Zacharian, PhD, focusing on the importance of tactility in a digitized world.
    • Tanya Lindkvist, CEO Kunst på Arbejde – with insights into art as a counterbalance, perspective, and conversation partner for AI development. 
    • Jonas Sølberg, Creative Director of Drobe Media where he develops communication, creative systems and AI-enabled workflows.
    • Amalie Smith, artist – to read loud from one of her publications and to bring a creative and critical perspective to the debate.
    • Andreas Holbak Espersen, Director, DI Digital – with a business policy and strategic perspective on AI.
Meet the participants – click the arrow on each photo to read more.

Joanna Woronkowicz is a cultural economist who conducts research on labor, capital, and technological investments in arts and culture. She is currently a visiting professor at the Copenhagen Business School and a professor in the O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University. Woronkowicz is co-founder and faculty director of the Center for Cultural Affairs and co-director of the Arts, Entrepreneurship and Innovation Lab. Her latest book, Artists at Work: Rethinking Policy for Artistic Careers, published in fall of 2025 with Stanford University Press, examines how artists build careers in the context of institutions and how to design policy for the artistic workforce. Her latest research focuses on the impact of AI on artist labour markets. 

 

Deepti Zachariah is a designer, researcher, and educator who works with design, craft, technology, and cultural production. Her doctoral research, Entangled: Rethinking Design and Craft in the Digital Age, examines how digital technologies reshape material and creative practices across global contexts. She is an External Lecturer at Copenhagen Business School, where she brings perspectives on materiality, making, and innovation into business education. Her research draws on professional experience in cross-cultural collaboration, social innovation, and creativity. Alongside academia, Deepti advises organisations in luxury design, craft and technology sectors on product development, research, and strategic initiatives. Deepti has built a design career starting at Zaha Hadid Architects, London, followed by her own studio, Revolution by Design, Chennai, and independent cross-disciplinary collaborations. She has worked on award-winning architecture, objects, and digital design projects in Europe and India. In research, as in practice, Deepti seeks out the transformative potential of emerging technologies, local practices, and cultural ecosystems. 

 

Tanya Lindkvist is the Director of Kunst På Arbejde, where she is responsible for bringing art into workplaces across the country. She works with both art, leadership, and business, where she advices companies on how art can help strengthen well-being, innovation, and recruitment. She is an expert in and lecturer on regenerative leadership, and serves on the board of Fabrikken for Kunst & Design, the Danish Industry IAA Representative Council, and Fødselshjælpen.

 

Jonas Sølberg is a strategist and cultural entrepreneur working across technology, creative practice and human-centred design. He is Creative Director of Drobe Media, where he develops communication, creative systems and AI-enabled workflows. He is also co-founder of Dignity Design, a platform exploring how identity, lived experience and human dignity can become design parameters, particularly in situations of vulnerability. His background spans journalism, brand strategy and business development, with work across academic, public and corporate contexts.

 

Amalie Smith is a Danish artist and writer whose practice spans text and image, manifesting in exhibitions, video, audio, and books. Her work explores the intricate interplay between idea and matter, leading her to engage with a wide range of subjects—from the relationship between woven textiles and digital fabric, to the original colors of ancient sculpture. Smith holds a Master of Fine Arts (2015) from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, and graduated from The Danish Academy of Creative Writing in 2009. Her visual work has been exhibited across Denmark at prestigious venues such as, ARoS, ARKEN, The National Gallery of Denmark, as well as internationally, in New York at the New Museum, and in Germany at Kunstmuseum Bonn. From 26 September 2026 to 21 February 2027 Smith presents her most extensive solo exhibition to date at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.

 

Andreas Holbak Espersen holds a master’s degree in Political Communication and Management from CBS and has worked at the Confederation of Danish Industry (DI) since 2021. He is currently the Executive Director of DI Digital, responsible for DI’s work in the digital sector. Previously, he held positions such as team leader at the Danish Agency for Digital Government. Additionally, Andreas serves on the boards of Digital Hub Denmark, DIFO, and the Danish Quantum Community.

 
Lars Bertolt Winther

Lars Bertolt Winther

Chef for DI Turisme, Kultur & Oplevelser

Pernille Thornholt

Pernille Thornholt

Branche- & Foreningskoordinator

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