Design was the first discipline to feel this properly. Not because designers were early adopters, but because generative tools went straight for the thing designers sell, and did it in public. Two years on, the interesting question is no longer whether AI can produce an image. It is why almost all of those images look the same, and what a designer has that the model does not.
The speakers below, all on the English roster at Everything AI, have spent those two years answering that question in practice. They run creative departments, direct art for award-winning campaigns, exhibit in museums, and teach the craft of building a visual language that survives contact with a client brief.
Art directors and brand builders
Or Ayalon
Shenkar visual communication graduate, artist, designer and brand builder working with Israel's leading advertising agencies and tech companies for over a decade, from corporate identity through to events. Or is also a certified coach, and that is what separates her sessions: she works the relationship between human creativity and AI capability, then runs the room through exercises that change how people approach a problem. Audiences leave with a method rather than a tool list.
Best for: design teams, creative thinking workshops, branding conferences, agency offsites.
Efrat Yamin
Nearly twenty years as an art director at leading advertising agencies, on internationally awarded campaigns, and now one of the strongest AI artists in the market. Efrat applies directing, storytelling, photography and illustration through generative tools, and she does it with humor and real energy on stage. Her work sets a standard that most generative output does not reach.
Best for: design and advertising conferences, Midjourney and image workshops, creative departments.
Ziv Meiri
Ex-Google, where he led creative strategy for key clients and worked with research teams on AI product tools; ex-PepsiCo, where he ran global brand communications for SodaStream; former Chief Creative Officer at McCann Tel Aviv. Ziv now specializes in applying AI across advertising, branding, creative and production, and he lectures on developing creative thinking with these tools.
Best for: brand and advertising conferences, creative leadership, global marketing teams.
Lior Meiri
Twenty years leading creative teams in advertising agencies and tech companies, a former Bezalel teacher, a podcaster and a children's author. Lior argues that curiosity is the defining trait of a creative professional, and he keeps proving it by learning every new tool that appears rather than defending the ones he knows.
Best for: agencies, creative departments, advertising events.
Omri Marcus
Content editor, screenwriter and format developer with twenty-five years of work across international television and political campaigns. Omri is the strategist in this group: he works the exchange at the heart of all creative work, the strongest possible story in return for the audience's attention, and shows how AI raises the ceiling on ideas rather than replacing them.
Best for: creative strategy sessions, content conferences, marketing leadership.
Artists and researchers
Barak Rotem
Multidisciplinary artist working in video, photography and AI. Bezalel screen arts graduate, video art at the Vienna Academy, AI studies at Shenkar. His work explores the meeting point between tradition and futurism, between craft and code, and has been exhibited at the UAE Biennale, the Eretz Israel Museum Biennale, in European galleries and on the screens of Times Square. His workshop on working with AI under a brief is aimed precisely at studios that are tired of producing flat generative output.
Best for: studios, creative teams, art and fashion audiences, advanced workshops.
Ella Uzen
AI artist and researcher of digital art, focused on creating original and emotionally resonant work with advanced tools. Ella has published books and built online courses, and she lectures on the future of creativity and the intersection of art and technology. Her workshops are quiet, deep, and consistently produce work people did not know they could make.
Best for: creative workshops, cultural institutions, art schools, offsites.
Orit Litmanovitch Shiber
Art director and product designer, a Wizo Haifa photography graduate and Shenkar product design graduate, now working as an art director focused on creation with AI tools. Orit specializes in the intersection of design, photography and art with artificial intelligence, and teaches how to keep a human story at the centre of generative work.
Best for: design conferences, academia, product and brand teams.
Noa Rabiner
Painter and video artist combining traditional technique with AI, exhibited at the Artists' House in Tel Aviv and Binyamin Gallery. Noa's talks cover how artists can genuinely create with these tools, the censorship built quietly into the platforms, and the resonance between dreams and machine hallucination. She also spent years in journalism and comics, which shows in how clearly she explains things.
Best for: galleries, art schools, artist communities, creative conferences.
Maya Magnat
Artist, lecturer and independent researcher working on intimacy, internet culture and the world of teenagers online. Maya's practice sits at the point where design decisions become social consequences, and she is the speaker to book when a creative audience needs to think about the effect of what they are making rather than just the craft of making it.
Best for: culture events, education programs, technology awareness tracks, design ethics.
Ilan Bouni
Industrial design graduate who started out designing living spaces and fashion stores and moved into cinema, treating film and architecture as reflections of one another. Ilan uses design skill to express a director's or an agency's vision, and builds advanced visual language for film and advertising.
Best for: film and advertising production, creative direction, design-led teams.
Matan Cohen Grumi
Founding Creative Director at Pika, former rock musician, commercial director and one of the leading AI artists working today. Matan's viral work has reached millions of views, and he teaches teams how to make visual work that stands out rather than work that merely demonstrates a tool.
Best for: creative departments, advertising conferences, brand teams.
Doron Tsur
Screenwriter with more than twenty years of television credits, now an AI process lead at Overwolf, where he uses these tools daily to produce animation, music, dubbing and finished films. Doron teaches creative thinking with AI, using free and accessible tools, which makes his workshops unusually easy to act on the next morning.
Best for: creative teams, content departments, hands-on workshops.
Yaki Gani
Musician, innovation leader, AI artist, co-founder of STUFF and co-curator of the "Everything AI" conference series. Yaki works across generative creation, voice modeling and music, and his sessions make an audience feel the shift rather than simply hear about it.
Best for: keynotes, innovation events, creative and cultural programs.
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