TPF Summit

The TPF Innovation & Social Impact Summit, hosted by Turkish Philanthropy Funds, brought together leaders, thinkers, and builders at The Times Center in New York City on April 23, 2026, to explore a central question: not just what we can build, but how, why, and for whom we build it.

The Summit examined the intersection of technology, philanthropy, science, and the arts, exploring how innovation can be guided by responsibility, human values, and intention. Across every session, a clear message emerged: progress on its own is not enough. It needs direction and a deeply human lens.

Among the featured speakers, Grimanesa Amorós participated in the panel “Creativity in the Age of AI”, moderated by Ülkü Rowe. The conversation explored how human–machine collaboration is transforming art, music, film, and design, raising new questions about authorship, originality, and cultural responsibility. Through real-world examples, the panel demonstrated how emerging tools are reshaping creative industries while expanding access to storytelling in unprecedented ways.

The Summit closed with a reflection on AI as a structural shift in both power and possibility, and a shared belief that the future is not predetermined. It will be shaped by the narratives we choose and the systems we decide to build.

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(0:26) Well, I think the tools are there through our history, right? Artists use it through all times, and it’s just that how you’re going to be using those tools at that present moment. It happened to be that now, we have the machine that we call AI.

(0:41) The intuition, how I feel in the architecture…coming through my brain. So it’s impossible for AI to get that data that I myself am doing it right there on the moment in the present time. How could I make my piece at one point with the architecture, the viewer, and the sculpture?

(1:21) So inspire them in the future to make changes in their own life, whatever that is. The aim of the advertisement has been behind that film as well. So there’s a lot of components to a success in general in different areas. I could speak more about individual arts because that’s what I live and breathe, and every day when I wake up, that’s all what I’m focused.