Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Tech-Art: What's Next?

Abhinav Aggarwal is one of the founders of Fluid AI (www.fluid.ai). Abhinav dropped out of the MBA program at ISB Hyderabad to found his company, Fluid AI. He is a part of the Forbes 30 under 30 Asia list and the Fortune 40 under 40 India list. He is a Chartered Accountant and a self-taught coder. He began his journey when he emerged as one of the winners at the world’s biggest 24-hour coding competition, the TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon in New York in 2012. His case study about him and Fluid AI is now being taught at Harvard and ISB. He was recently featured on the cover of Forbes Magazine. He has also worked with Warren Buffett to launch the world’s first A.I. magazine cover for the Forbes 100th year anniversary. He is the person behind the world’s first international bestseller book written by an AI.

Mansoor Rahimat Khan, Co-founder & CEO of Beatoven.ai is a professional sitar player with 19 years of experience in the recording and live music industry. He is the son of Ustad Chhote Rahimat Khan and comes from a family of musicians called the Dharwad Gharana of Sitar which pioneered the shape of the modern day Kharj Pancham sitar and currently has 15 world renowned active sitar players from a family that has been dedicated to music for the past 7 generations. He is an alumnus of the Georgia Tech Centre for music technology, National Institute of Technology and has led teams across several startups such as Great Learning, ToneTag, Edelweiss in tech and product roles. As an artist, Mansoor has performed more than 200 concerts across the world at prestigious festivals and has millions of streams across Spotify, SoundCloud, Youtube and other streaming platforms. Mansoor also co-founded EDMofy, which had a community of more than 100000 fans and were official partners of Sunburn & Supersonic as a media partner.

Prateek Arora is a writer experimenting with AI image-making to generate new fictional worlds and alternative realities. He works in the entertainment industry and his work is heavily informed by that context. His initial engagement with image-making was as a street photographer while studying in Delhi. Prateek’s work examines the impact of popular culture on memory and identity, technological progress as an index of cultural change, and the potency of genre cinema as a conduit for otherwise repressed or censored ideas. Prateek’s work has been featured in publications such as Homegrown, Grazia, Designboom, and WePresent.

Sanjana Shah comes from an Indian Art and Real Estate background. Having studied Design & Communication from ISDI Parsons she has helmed Tao Art Gallery as its Creative Director since 2018. Her role entails curating the gallery programming and digital presence, academic writing for exhibitions and catalogues and being on the lookout for new potential artists and collaborations to carry forward the legacy of Indian Art. She is involved in external projects both in India and internationally as an Art Curator and Consultant. She has been the Indian ambassador at the Arte Laguna Prize Competition in Venice and is currently a Cultural Ambassador for the Asia Society India. As an extension of her role as consultant she works with the real estate company, Group Satellite, overseeing show flat interiors and aesthetics and engaging with clients and interior designers for art sales post completion. As part of her enthusiasm for education she founded the #EducateForArt series in Tao with the vision of conserving our rich heritage of art and allowing audiences to explore the wonders of it through wholesome workshops for kids and adults promoting Art Appreciation, Art History and Art Knowledge.

Pankhuri Upadhyay has over a decade of experience in corporate law, having worked at leading law firms in India. She is now the founder of Maker's Legal, a full-service law firm with a strong focus on intellectual property, media, and entertainment laws. One of the primary objectives of the firm, since its inception, has been proactive engagement with the creative community and quantitative research to help better the legal infrastructure for creators in India. This includes anticipating and preparing for legal challenges that innovations in media and technology bring about. Given the rapidly evolving nature of these systems, there is an urgent need for active discourse, problem-solving and equally innovative strategies around concepts of intellectual property along with the legal infrastructure that supports the execution of new media. Maker's Legal strives to work at this intersection of 'future' law, research, education, multimedia, and technology and the facilitation of intermediary processes.