Feb 14 2026 to Feb 14 2026 6:30 p.m.

Where

Bangalore International Centre

7 4th Main Rd, Stage 2, Domlur 560071

Event Description

A tool is only as good as the hands that wield it.

And AI is, after all, another tool.

This talk explores how Artificial Intelligence functions as a collaborator for creativity: accelerating exploration, provoking new directions, and sharpening creative judgment. The session opens with live demonstrations that surface instinctive reactions to AI-generated content, then lifts the veil on how these systems actually work and why their outputs can feel genuinely creative. No jargon, just clarity on what’s happening under the hood and why it’s more interesting than you might expect.

A live co-creation segment puts theory into practice. Using tools like ChatGPT, Suno, and Midjourney, the session demonstrates real creative workflows in action. You’ll discover that the power lives in iteration, selection, and rejection, revealing how human judgment shapes everything that emerges from these systems.

AI represents the next generation of creative tools, shifting how creation happens, not why it happens. Intent remains yours. Taste remains yours. Meaning remains yours. The talk concludes by exploring the questions that make this moment genuinely intriguing: authorship, originality, bias, ethics. As AI makes output abundant and accessible, your context, lived experience, and values determine what’s worth making in the first place.

Speaker

Gopichand Katragadda
Technologist, Entrepreneur & Writer
Gopichand Katragadda is a technologist, entrepreneur, and writer working at the intersection of artificial intelligence, creativity, and human systems. He is the Founder & CEO of Myelin Foundry, a deep-tech company deploying AI across media, industrial, and automotive domains, with deep expertise in video, audio, and language AI.

Previously, he served as Group CTO of Tata Sons and Managing Director of GE’s John F. Welch Technology Centre, leading large-scale applied research and industrial AI initiatives. He currently serves on the boards of Bosch, ICICI Securities, and Asian Paints.

Alongside his technology career, Gopichand is a practicing writer and indie filmmaker who actively experiments with AI as a creative collaborator, using it to shape poetry, music, and narrative while critically engaging with questions of authorship, originality, and meaning. He writes regularly for Deccan Herald and speaks widely on technology, culture, and governance.