Amit Sood
Director, Google Cultural Institute | Digitizing the World's Art and Culture
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Amit Sood leads Google's pioneering Cultural Institute and Art Project, which has made millions of cultural artifacts accessible to the public online. Under his leadership, the institute has partnered with over 2,000 museums, archives, and foundations to digitize and publish their collections in extraordinary detail.
Sood's work has democratized access to the world's art, history, and knowledge, empowering people to explore and learn in new ways. His keynotes share insights on the power of technology to preserve and share humanity's cultural heritage.
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Every piece of art you've ever wanted to see -- up close and searchable
What does a cultural Big Bang look like? For Amit Sood, director of Google's Cultural Institute and Art Project, it's an online platform where anyone can explore the world's greatest collections of art and artifacts in vivid, lifelike detail. Join Sood and Google artist in residence Cyril Diagne in a mind-bending demo of experiments from the Cultural Institute and glimpse the exciting future of accessibility to arts and culture.
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