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Palm Springs Hosts AI and Creativity Expo 2025
The City of Palm Springs is hosting a unique event focused on artificial intelligence Monday, June 23rd at the Palm Springs Convention Center.
The AI and Creativity Expo 2025 showcases how AI affects our lives and how it can help empower our community, offering attendees a chance to learn, ask questions, and see how technology shapes our future.
The Palm Springs AI and Creativity Expo 2025 serves as a community dialogue designed to demystify Artificial Intelligence and explore its impact on our daily lives, local economy, and creative landscape. In a world increasingly shaped by AI, organizers aim to foster understanding, inspire innovation, and empower the community to navigate the future with confidence and insight.
The expo features a large lineup of thought leaders exploring AI's impact across various fields, such as:
Emmy-nominated host and writer Baratunde Thurston, creator of "Life With Machines," a YouTube podcast focusing on the human side of the AI revolution.
Acclaimed filmmaker Rob Minkoff, director of Disney's "The Lion King" and the "Stuart Little" films.
Christine Vendredi, Interim Executive Director of Palm Springs Art Museum.
Val Martinez Garcia, Acting Superintendent/President of College of the Desert.
Mark Talkington, founder of The Palm Springs Post and The Indio Post.
and Ken Buechele, Vice President and Chief Information Officer for Eisenhower Health.
All these speakers and more are set to contextualize Artificial Intelligence within their respective fields and help bring this new technology to people in an understandable and approachable way.
You can learn more at pschamber.org
By: NBC Palm Springs
June 23, 2025
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