AI agents are evolving with orchestration layers enabling modular, autonomous systems beyond traditional SaaS, reshaping workflows, labor, and software design.
The Artificiality Summit 2025 will gather a diverse group of creatives and innovators to explore the human experience as the boundaries between organic and synthetic systems blur.
A future-forward, opportunity-focused gathering for people interested in AI, creativity, design, and knowledge.
Join us on October 23-25, 2025 in Bend, Oregon our second annual Summit.
The Summit will focus on the human experience of “The Artificiality”: the emerging paradigm where the boundaries between organic and synthetic systems blur, driven by the fundamental role of information and computation in complex systems.
The Artificiality encompasses the reshaping of human consciousness, identity, and experience through our increasing symbiosis with digital technologies, artificial intelligence, and information networks. It challenges traditional distinctions between living and non-living, evolved and designed, biological and artificial, proposing a new understanding of life and intelligence based on information processing and computation.
The Summit will explore five key domains where AI is transforming human experience:
Intimacy: How AI reshapes human relationships and connections
Spatiality: The impact of AI on our experience of physical and digital spaces
Knowledge: Evolution of learning and discovery in an AI-augmented world
Consciousness: Shifting understanding of human and machine awareness
Minds: The emergence of hybrid human-AI cognitive systems
For those who didn't make it in 2024, here are some of the reactions we received:
"Thank you, Helen Edwards and Dave Edwards for the engaging, diverse group you have put together. This is not your everyday conference, and especially not the everyday AI conference." Don Norman
“I will remember the Artificiality Summit, well…forever. It was more intellectually compelling than anything I can remember participating in.” John Pasmore
“The Artificiality Summit struck the perfect balance of rigor and playfulness, formality and informality. It was a dazzling event and a impeccably curated roster of speakers.” Jamer Hunt
"Still glowing from the conference, so much intelligence, but also kindness, safety and warmth. A humane and vital discussion of technology as a part of humanity and humanity as part of something much bigger." Whit Morriss
"From the beginning to end, it was a perfectly curated weekend of building connections, sharing ideas and having genuine conversations across science, design, art and the innovations that are expanding our future and imagining what can be next in AI." Abigail Snodgrass
"That was one of the best tech experiences I have ever had. I have been to all sorts of screwball conferences and big-name experiences. I even built a few. But yours was something different. It was intimate, humble, and curious. A little feisty, a little nervous, but completely authentic. On Sunday afternoon, I looked around and thought, 'THIS is my tribe.'" Dave Merwin
Artificiality Summit 2025 Details
Due to limited space, Artificiality Summit will be invite-only event. If you have not yet received an invitation, please submit your interest below and we'll be in touch.
Location: Bend, Oregon
Opening at 5pm Thursday October 23. Closing at 9pm Saturday October 25.
Super Early Bird Fee until January 31, 2025: $1,495
Early Bird Fee until June 30, 2025: $1,995
Standard Fee: $2,495
Fee includes all content, meals, entertainment, and more! Yes, you'll enjoy some of Bend's best food as part of your attendee fee.
Corporate sponsorships are also welcome and will help extend our reach and include more people. Please email us at hello@artificiality.world for more information.
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