Creative AI & Art: Friends? Enemy? Frenemies?

Workshop Organiser - Jina AI
Please note: this is an offline event
Location of the workshop: Radisson Red Vienna (Obere Donaustrasse 61, Vienna 1020, Austria), Schottenring metro and bus station within 5 min walk distance to the venue.

Workshop Agenda:
15:45 - 16:00 Registration of the guests at the venue
16:00 - 17:30 "Creative AI: Key to Multi-/Cross-Modal Applications" talk presented by Dr. Han Xiao, followed by a Q&A session
17:30 - 17:45 Coffee Break with finger food
17:45 - 18:30 "Rival, ally, and liberator: how AI will transform the creative professions," talked presented by Linus Boman, followed by a Q&A session
18:30 - 19:00 Networking

Tool we will be using:
DiscoArt : Google Colab Link
Go and try it out, share your works on social media with the hashtag #discoart, and give a ⭐️ if you like it!

🎁Among the participants, we will giveaway one painting that has been generated by AI! The winner of a raffle will be announced at the venue!

Speakers information:

• Dr. Han Xiao is the Founder & CEO of Jina AI, a commercial open-source company based in Berlin. Before Jina AI, Han led a team on neural information retrieval at Tencent AI, laying down the next-gen search infrastructure. Han served as a board member at Linux Foundation AI in 2019, driving the opensource innovation and international collaboration. In 2014-18 Han worked at Zalando Research in Berlin as a Senior Research Scientist. Han received a Ph.D. (2014) and MSc. (2011) in computer science from the Technical University of Munich in Germany.
• Linus Boman is a designer, lettering artist, and communicator based in Malmö, Sweden. He has worked in corporate identity design for over 15 years for clients in Australia, the UK, US and Europe, as well as designing the best-selling Calligraphuck gift range. Since 2020 he has been sharing his passion for how and why design matters on YouTube, gaining over 6 million views and 85 000 subscribers. Linus takes a keen interest in machine learning and AI research and how it will impact the creative industry in particular.

About Jina AI
Jina AI is a commercial open-source company based in Berlin with offices in the US and China, one of the leading AI startups in the world. We help businesses and developers to build neural search-powered applications at scale.
Since its founding in 2020, Jina AI has raised $38M from top investors, including GGV, Cannan, YUNQI, [SAP.io](http://sap.io/). Jina AI is one of the most promising AI startups globally according to CBInsights 2022, 2021, and Forbes DACH 2020.

How to arrive to Radisson Red Vienna
📍Address: Obere Donaustrasse 61, Vienna 1020, Austria
Radisson RED Vienna overlooks the Danube Canal, in the hip second district, Leopoldstadt. Schottenring metro and bus station are within 5 min walking distance from the hotel, making it easy to get to the venue from other parts of the city.