AI Day at the «Sady i Lyudi» festival

On 12 August the Moscow «Sady i Lyudi» festival gets a dedicated Artificial Intelligence Day. We came up with it and are putting it together with the organisers.

What the day is

«Sady i Lyudi» is a big Moscow festival of landscape art: over ten years of history, its XI season, this year’s theme «The Line of Beauty». In 2026 it runs at the Kuzminki-Lyublino museum-reserve, has joined the «Moscow Festivals» program and is free for everyone for the first time. We’re taking one day of its Green Lecture Hall, 12 August, for artificial intelligence.

So why AI at a festival about gardens? Because it’s already here — visualising a plot from a photo, matching plants, catalogues for garden centres, chatbot consultants. There’s just a lot of noise and little honest talk about what actually works and what only sounds fashionable. A garden is about soil, hands and patience; AI is about speed and loud promises. We find it interesting to bring the two into one room — no «magic button». Not «AI does it all for you», but an honest look at where it really saves a gardener and a professional time, and where it lies with a straight face.

How we’re putting it together

The idea is simple: across the day, two sides meet on stage. One comes from AI itself — telling you what this creature is and where it’s heading, in plain human language rather than the language of a developer conference. The other comes from the field: designers, garden centres, nurseries who try, apply and experiment with AI in their actual work. Out of that symbiosis the day takes shape — not dry theory and not a vendor pitch, but an honest conversation from both sides.

For visitors, beyond the talks, we’re thinking about light activities — some online, some right there on site, perhaps a separate interactive AI zone together with a partner. Nothing is set in stone yet: the formats we’ll choose together with the festival. The one idea holds — that a person doesn’t just listen about AI, but does something with it themselves and takes the impression home. And all of it in a warm, green, family setting that usually draws around twenty thousand guests over the festival.

The day is already on the calendar — 12 August. We’re shaping the program right now; closer to August we’ll tell you who takes the stage and what runs in the guest zone.