AI & The Culture IRL | Build Your Creative Operating System
🎉 AI & The Culture Is Back — In Person at Salesforce
We're back for another edition of AI & The Culture IRL in partnership with Salesforce. This is yet another incredible in-person gathering, hosted at the Salesforce offices in New York City and sponsored by Boldforce.
This Month We Present...
Build Your Creative Operating System
Build a personalized AI workflow that supports your entire creative process—from capturing ideas to publishing finished work—so you're never starting from scratch.
Most of us don’t have an idea problem. We have a system problem.
Ideas live in our Notes app. Research is scattered across browser tabs. Drafts are hiding in Google Docs. Inspiration gets screenshotted and forgotten. And every new project somehow feels like we’re starting all over again.
What if your creative process actually remembered how you work?
At this month’s AI & The Culture meetup, we’re exploring how to build your own Creative Operating System—a personalized workflow that uses AI to help you capture ideas, organize knowledge, research, create, refine, and publish your work.
Instead of collecting more AI tools, we’ll focus on connecting the ones that actually support your process.
Together we’ll explore:
✨ How to map your creative process from idea to finished work
✨ Ways to capture and organize ideas so they don’t disappear into the digital abyss
✨ How AI can help you research, brainstorm, draft, edit, and refine your work
✨ Building a personal knowledge base that makes past ideas and research useful again
✨ How to connect AI tools into repeatable workflows instead of using them one at a time
✨ Where automation can save time—and where your human judgment should stay firmly in the driver’s seat
✨ How to create a system that gets smarter and more useful the more you use it
The goal isn’t to automate your creativity.
It’s to build the infrastructure around your creativity so you have more time and energy for the work only you can do.
Expect a welcoming room filled with creators, technologists, educators, founders, artists, and curious minds ready to rethink how we organize and support our creative lives.
Who Should Attend?
• Creators and content makers
• Filmmakers, writers, artists, and storytellers
• Educators and community builders
• Entrepreneurs, founders, and solopreneurs
• Marketers, strategists, and creative professionals
• Technologists and AI enthusiasts
• Anyone with too many ideas, too many tabs, and not enough systems 😅
Whether your creative process is already organized or currently held together by screenshots, open tabs, and vibes, you’re welcome here.
Come Ready to Build
This won’t be a sit-back-and-scroll kind of evening.
Bring your laptop, something to write with, and a mindset ready to learn, experiment, and share. We’ll be exploring ideas, tools, and workflows you can begin applying to your own creative process.
💻 Bring your laptop
📝 Bring a notebook or something to take notes with
🤝 Bring your curiosity and questions
Come ready to learn. Come ready to contribute. Come ready to build.
About AI & The Culture
AI & The Culture is a growing movement exploring the intersection of artificial intelligence, creativity, and culture.
Founded by Shirley Vernae Williams and King Willonius, we connect creatives of color, innovators, and culturally rooted creators through events, education, storytelling, and community.
We’re building spaces where the people shaping culture can also help shape the future of AI.
This gathering represents the next chapter of AI & The Culture — grounded in community, focused on real-world use, and centered on learning together in the room.
Pull up with curiosity. Let's have the important conversations.
Let’s build — together. 💛
About Your Hosts
Shirley Williams-Toney is an award-winning storyteller, AI technologist, and co-founder of AI & The Culture. Her work sits at the intersection of culture, technology, and creative systems, with a focus on helping people use AI tools in ways that support clarity, productivity, and real-world execution.
About King Willonius
King Willonius is a creative technologist and cultural strategist exploring how emerging tools can support storytelling, workflow, and creative expression. Through demos, experimentation, and community-based learning, Will focuses on making AI feel approachable and useful — especially for creatives and innovators who want practical applications without technical overwhelm.
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