Are you exploring how AI is reshaping the way we experience, preserve and share cultural heritage? Join us to learn, re-imagine, and co-create solutions to keep culture alive and resilient in a rapidly changing world.
When: 20 and 21 November 2025
Where: Online (Registration will be available soon)
How to Contribute: Fill out the form
Digital is a continent—vast, evolving, and accessible to anyone, anywhere. In a world where digital is the new domain—expansive, ever-shifting, and accessible to all[1]—our cultural heritage faces unprecedented opportunities and urgent challenges. It is a realm where heritage is not only preserved but continuously created and reimagined. In this dynamic space, Artificial Intelligence (AI) emerges as a powerful tool that can transform how we safeguard, interpret, and share our cultural heritage.
Ctrl+S Culture is more than a conference—it is a collective call to protect, activate, and reimagine cultural heritage in the age of artificial intelligence. We invite researchers, practitioners, and professionals to submit abstracts for the international online workshop “AI and Cultural Heritage”, which will take place on.
Conceived by ICCROM’s Sustaining Digital Heritage (SDH) initiative, this two-day online event is organized in close collaboration with the First Aid and Resilience for Cultural Heritage in Times of Crisis (FAR) and Youth.Heritage.Africa (YHA) programmes. It is held in partnership with VAIA – the Flemish AI Academy – and CIFAL York, part of UNITAR’s global network of training centres. Ctrl+S Culture brings together visionary thinkers, creators, and practitioners working at the intersection of AI, culture, and heritage protection.
This conference will explore the opportunities, challenges, and ethical implications of applying Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies in the field of cultural heritage. It aims to stimulate critical reflection and cross-disciplinary exchange among those engaged in the preservation, interpretation, and dissemination of cultural heritage through digital means.
Themes & Questions We’re Exploring
We welcome submissions on a broad range of topics related to AI and heritage, including (but not limited to):
- AI-driven heritage documentation and data analysis
- Machine learning and pattern recognition for cultural content
- AI in conservation, restoration, or site management
- AI in assessing conflict, climate and disaster risks to heritage
- AI in assisting in emergency response, first aid and post-crisis recovery for heritage
- AI in storytelling and creative reuse of heritage
- Generative AI and creative heritage applications
- Ethical and philosophical implications of AI in heritage
- Case studies, pilot projects, and experimental approaches
- AI, accessibility, and community engagement for heritage conservation and management
- Addressing bias, fairness, and transparency in heritage AI tools
- Legal, social, or policy perspectives on AI use in heritage
Formats & Contributions
Accepted submissions will be invited for one of the following formats:
- Ignite Talks (7 minutes, concise showcase of a tool, idea, or case study)
- Full Presentations (15 minutes + Q&A)
Some contributions may be selected to participate in a moderate panel discussion. If you are interested in moderating or proposing a panel, please briefly describe your proposed topic or format in your submission.
If you would like to propose a keynote speaker—or express interest in delivering one—please let us know in your submission.
Contribute Now
We welcome abstracts from a diverse range of contributors, including (but not limited to):
- Heritage professionals, conservators, and site managers
- AI researchers, developers, and data scientists
- Digital humanities and cultural studies scholars
- Curators, archivists, and educators
- Civil society actors and community leaders
- Early-career professionals and youth engaged with digital heritage
Interdisciplinary and cross-cultural collaborations are especially encouraged.
Submission Guidelines
Please submit your abstract via this webform.
- Abstract length: max. 500 words
- Language: English
Submission deadline:
- Keynotes and panels: 1 July 2025
- Other: 20 August 2025
Notification of acceptance: mid-September 2025
Conference Proceedings
All accepted contributions and conference outcomes will be compiled in digital conference proceedings, to be published online in early 2026, ensuring continued access to the insights and findings shared during the event.
Join us in shaping the conversation around the responsible, creative, and critical use of AI in heritage work.
For questions or more information, please contact far_programme@iccrom.org