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Creative technologists, innovators, and curious minds meet in New York for Creative Tech New York 2026, a day dedicated to the ideas, tools, and talent shaping the next era of creative innovation.

This is where creativity meets code, where experimentation drives transformation, and where the boundaries between art, technology, and experience disappear.

In an age of AI acceleration, immersive worlds, and connected audiences, Creative Tech New York is your space to explore what’s next - and how to make it real.

Michael Quintana is a highly accomplished and visionary Strategy Head of Innovation and Emerging Technology, focusing intensely on the sports and digital entertainment sectors. He specializes in translating complex technological advancements, such as AI/ML, XR (AR/VR/MR), Optical Player Tracking Systems, and Virtual Worlds (Metaverse), into commercial products that deliver growth and sustained user engagement.

Sara Soskolne is an Executive Creative Director at Monotype and one of the most respected voices in contemporary type design. Previously Senior Designer at Hoefler&Co, she has contributed to some of the most influential revivals and original typefaces of the past two decades with a unique balance of rigor, craft, and cultural insight. At Monotype, she helps global brands navigate the complexity of typography, ensuring that type remains both a discipline of precision and a living art that shapes how we communicate.

Charles Nix is a typographer, designer, educator, and creative provocateur. As Senior Executive Creative Director at Monotype, he helps some of the world’s most recognizable brands express themselves through type. His work spans custom typefaces for M&M’s and Progressive Insurance to global library releases like Helvetica Now, Walbaum, Ambiguity, and Hope Sans. Raised in a print shop and trained at The Cooper Union, Charles began his education with every intention of becoming an artist but was quickly drawn into the world of type.

Ben is a writer, surfer, and father (not necessarily in that order).

His creative reputation has been built over an 18-year career working in Australia and the United States.
In this time, he has won hundreds of local and international awards across dozens of brands at Cannes, D&AD, One Show, CLIO, AWARD, The Webbys and more, as well as multiple Effies.