Arts Dynamics Impact Summit 2026
Stockholm 2026 - First Edition
Where Arts and Culture Meet Emerging Tech and Business for Impact. Your Home for All Things Exponential Creative Business Growth™ with Digital Innovation. The Artist´s Way.
"It all starts with imagination. What we imagine we can create"
- Sofie Marin, Founder & CEO Arts Dynamics
📍 Full agenda and speaker info, see below
🎫 Tickets first-come-first-serve basis, 295 + VAT
(Arts Dynamics Members free, included in membership)
Who is it for?
For curious and open minded music professionals, artists, creative freelancers, startup founders, scaleups, visionary change-makers, leaders, companies and organisations with an interest in cultural creative entrepreneurship, emerging tech, cross-innovation, culture driven urban development and exploring new paths to creation and commersialisation with the heart and soul of the Arts at the core. Digital beginner or pioneering tech innovator, working within cultural and creative sectors, tech, private sector, academia, science, STEAM, space art, public sector, VCs, Angels, investors - all are welcome. You feel the spark to learn more and believe that it's time for new, updated, agile business models and paths to cross-collaboration to help solve the big challenges of our time - surfing the waves of digital change? Then this is the place for you!
About the event
Eight hours. Top speakers. Hands-on workshops. Curated networking. Cross-innovation Matchmaking. A digital safari. Breakthrough conversations between artists, technologists, business leaders and policymakers. All in one room for the very first time and you are invited!
The World Needs a Cultural Firewall
We are living through one of the most disruptive periods in human history. AI is rewriting entire industries overnight. Technology is accelerating faster than institutions can adapt. In this turbulence, there is one thing that holds society together and it isn't code.
The Cultural Firewall
Artists, culture workers, creative entrepreneurs and visionaries form the very fabric of societal and financial resilience. Not on the margins. At the centre.
Arts Dynamics has been quietly building the foundation and support system for the next generation exponential creators™: meetups, B2B training, cross-innovation partnerships with Nordic Tech Week and Global Game Jam among others, and a creative tech cluster at Epicenter Stockholm with members spanning every corner of the creative industries, tech and innovation for impact.
Now, for the first time, the doors are open to our very own full day Impact Summit. Come and see what has been growing in the intersection of creativity, technology, and business.
🚀 Agenda: IMAGINE
08.30 Doors Open: Registration & Networking
09.00 IMAGINE: Opening Remarks & Official Cluster Launch
Arts Dynamics Creative Tech Cluster KickOff
- Sofie Marin, Edgar Luczak & Adrian McDonald
09.30-10.00 Behind the Cultural Firewall
- Thor A. Pettersen Founder New Internet Media / CopyrightChains. Moderated by Alfons Karabuda
10.00 Keynote: Arts & Culture for Sustainable Societies
- Kajsa Ravin, Director General, the Swedish Arts Council.
Moderated by Alfons Karabuda
10.30 Break
10.50 Arts and Business: Mapping the Creative Ecosystem
Showcasing cross-innovation initiatives shaping the creator economy
Panel 1
- Arts & Business: Money Models Re/Imagined with Creative Tech and Cross-Innovation
With Edgar Luczak, Ami Malmros, Rikard Borggård, Jenny Björk
Moderated by Sofie Marin
Panel 2
- Arts & Business: Mapping the Ecosystem, Strategic Partnerships & Alliances
With Andreas Fogelqvist, Head of Business Development Stockholm Business Region and Melodi Askelöf, CEO and Founder Satocci
Moderated by Sofie Marin
12.00 Break + Digital Safari: Explore Emerging Technologies
13.00 A New RenAIssance: Arts & Culture in the Age of AI
AI is entering the cultural and creative industries in profound ways. As technology expands what we can create, it also reshapes how, why, and for whom we create. When creative tools become almost limitless, how do we make the most of the opportunities that open up without selling out?
After a short talk that broadens the perspective, we invite you into roundtable conversations where your reflections and experiences become part of the discussion and solutions for tomorrow.
- Bengt Wessborg and Sophia Båge, Cluster Captains AI / Epicenter Stockholm
14.30 Break
14.50 From Imagining to Enhancing Swedens Competitiveness
Immersive Intelligence is the next generation of AI that is not only artificial but experiential. Intelligence built not only on data and algorithms, but on perception, context, emotion, and human understanding. In this session we'll unveil the latest developments and explore how the cultural and creative industries can benefit from these emerging technologies.
In conversation:
- Albert Bengtson, Cluster Captain XR Experience. Epicenter Stockholm and Sofie Marin, Founder / CEO Arts Dynamics
Three case studies
- Shadan Sharifi - Imaginary Perspectives: Rubrics Cube
- Godwin Udu - Imaginary Tools: Unreal Engine for Artist and Creators
- Daniel Kemppi, AktiVR - Imaginary Health Benefits Case studies from Children´s Hospitals
XR Developers Hyper Island
16.00 Closing Remarks: Connecting the Dots & The Road Ahead
Next steps for the cluster and the community
17.00 Event ends
MC and Moderator
• Sofie Marin, Founder & CEO, Arts Dynamics
Moderator/Speaker
• Alfons Karabuda, Senior Advisor Arts Dynamics, Composer and cultural rights advocate
❤️ Speakers
Kajsa Ravin, Director General Swedish Arts Council
Edgar Luczak, Chairman of the Board/Head of Advisory Epicenter
Adrian McDonald, CEO Epicenter
Thor A. Pettersen / Founder New Internet Media/ CopyrightChains
Albert Bengtson, Cluster Captain XR Experience, Epicenter
Bengt Wessborg, Cluster Captain AI Cluster, Epicenter
Sophia Båge, Cluster Captain AI Cluster, Epicenter
Ami Malmros, Head of Department Technology and Studios, the Swedish National Touring Theatre
Jenny Björk, CEO Nordic Music Tech
Melodi Askelöf, Founder & CEO Satocci
Andreas Fogelqvist, Director of Business Development, Stockholm Business Region
Shadan Sharifi, XR Developer, Hyper Island
Godwin Udu, XR Developer, Hyper Island
Daniel Kemppi, Founder non-profit AktiVR
+ XR students from Hyper Island
⭐️ Want to be a partner or sponsor for the event?
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💙 Event sponsor
Roots of Malmö Kombucha
🎫 Tickets
Non-members: 295 SEK + VAT
Members: 0 SEK (see info inside the Circle Cluster Member platform)