Shapeshift Immersion Makes the Abstract Tangible
April 23, 2025
Each year ID gathers leaders from around the globe and across industries to tackle the issues at the center of our lives. This year, we’re delving into how we, as global innovators, policymakers, academics, and entrepreneurs can use AI responsibly. Together, we’ll explore approaches to AI that positively impact life as we move into the future.
The Shapeshift Immersion
We’ll kick off the Summit with a one-day Immersion on May 28. Offered to a limited, first-come-first-serve, number of participants, this Immersion will be an experiential journey through Chicago, uncovering AI’s real-world impact. Site visits with leading Chicago innovators will be paired with discussions and reflections that connect the day’s experience directly to the subsequent Summit programming.
Salesforce visit during the 2023 AI + Design Immersion; Image by Dylan Chandler, courtesy of Murmur Ring
Salesforce
Since its founding, Salesforce has incorporated social impact initiatives and responsible use of emerging technologies into its values and operations. Amy Guterman will welcome the Immersion cohort to the Salesforce Tower to discuss how these socially-minded values and business practices impact Salesforce as a for-profit venture.
Amy’s colleagues Estelle Winklemanwill and Andrew Irwin will join us to discuss their work supporting climate sustainability organizations with AI integration and readiness and will guide participants in creating their own AI agents.
Image courtesy of The National Public Housing Museum
The National Public Housing Museum & Open Communities
Our site visit at The National Public Housing Museum with Open Communities will ask the cohort to consider how AI can be deployed to improve housing equity.
Held within the interactive, multimedia exhibition spaces of the brand new National Public Housing Museum, this site visit will provide an overview of Open Communities’s 2023 fair housing lawsuit, which alleged that AI tools were used by a local housing provider to discriminate against rental applicants.
Dev Ambani and Saloni Patel, cofounders of Local, an AI-driven app connecting communities with local businesses, will join us to discuss the ML-assisted tool they are building in collaboration with Open Communities to combat such discriminatory rental practices.
Image courtesy of Mindworks
Mindworks
Operated by the Roman Family Center for Decision Research at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Mindworks is a working laboratory with hands-on exhibitions dedicated to the science of human judgment.
Professor of Psychology Alexander Todorov will join the cohort at Mindworks to discuss his behavioral science research and invite the cohort to consider how ascending technologies can improve human decision-making.
Image courtesy of Parsons & Charlesworth
Parsons & Charlesworth
Award-winning artists Parsons & Charlesworth draw upon research on the future of work and human enhancement to devise Black-Mirror-esque satirical objects and installations that prompt critical discourse of the intersection of human life, productivity, and technology.
The cohort will join the artists in their studio to discuss their body of work, such as the pseudo trade show booth created for the Venice Architecture Biennale 2021, and collaboratively create additional fictional products for their Lumen Prize-winning Catalog for the Post-Human.
2019 ART on THE MART projection with artist Jan Tichy; Image by Jackie Trezzo courtesy of Murmur Ring
The day will conclude with facilitated reflections over cocktails and hors d’oeuvres at a private reception in the Founder’s Room of Marshall’s Landing. Finally, we will close the evening with an exclusive ART on THE MART projection viewing—a large-scale digital art installation on the facade of the iconic Merchandise Mart in Chicago’s River North neighborhood.
Join Us
Immersion spots are limited—register now.