Dr Beatriz García
Independent Researcher and Strategic Advisor
Urban Cultural Policy and Major Events
October 28–30 · Vancouver
Dr Beatriz García, independent researcher and strategic advisor. She’ll ask where AI gets its cultural lenses, who chose them, and how we can keep one machine-made worldview from swallowing all the others.
About Dr Beatriz García
Dr Beatriz García is an independent researcher and strategic advisor on cultural policy, cities and major events. For 27 years she has studied who gets to tell the story of a place – at every Olympic Games since Sydney 2000, at World Expos and international art festivals, and across the European Union's longest-running cultural programme, whose selection panel she chaired for the European Commission. She co-founded and directed the Institute of Cultural Capital, is an appointed expert member of the International Olympic Committee's Culture and Olympic Heritage Commission, and holds a Senior Research Fellowship at the University of Liverpool. Her research project AI &I interrogates the storyteller itself: where does artificial intelligence get its lenses, and who chose them?