Exploring AI’s Role in Jewellery: The Goldsmiths’ Centre’s Next Creative Links Event Unpacks the Opportunities

AI is rapidly transforming the creative landscape, and jewellers are increasingly asking: how can this technology extend creative practice, support design and making, and open new doors in marketing and storytelling? This event will demystify the role of AI in jewellery and offer insight into how small businesses and independent makers can embrace its potential confidently and creatively.

Chaired by Lynne Craig, Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) at the Institute for Design Informatics, University of Edinburgh, the discussion brings together an expert panel of creative and technical leaders: Professor Mick Grierson, pioneering computer scientist and founder of the UK’s first Creative Deep Learning research project, MIMIC, in partnership with Google Magenta; Toyin Laketu, fashion business and digital consultant, with over 15 years’ experience helping brands grow with clarity and confidence; and Ana Thompson, award-winning multidisciplinary designer, jeweller, and educator, known for merging traditional craftsmanship with digital innovation.

Together, they will share their experiences working with AI across design, technology, and business — examining both its potential and its challenges.

“Embracing AI is about opening new creative possibilities, redefining how we imagine, design, collaborate, and produce,” says fine jeweller Ana Thompson. “It enables more fluid intersections between tradition and innovation, creating opportunities for personalisation and co-creation that transform how consumers engage with jewellery and design.”

The evening will begin with an opportunity to network with fellow attendees before the discussion begins. A live Q&A session with the panellists will follow, giving participants the chance to explore how AI could support their own creative and business ambitions.


Date and Time: Monday 17 November 2025 from 6pm until 8pm (UK time)
Ticket Price: Pay what you can: £7 or £10
Venue: Online (via Zoom), UK time
Booking link: www.goldsmiths-centre.org/whats-on/creative-links-ai-and-jewellery-what-are-the-opportunities



About the Goldsmiths’ Centre
At the Goldsmiths’ Centre, we support the jewellery and silversmithing industry to embrace learning as an essential lifelong practice. Our mission is to foster capability at every link in the chain, making ongoing professional development visible and accessible to all. Through technical courses and business support, affordable workspace, funding opportunities and events we aim to close the industry’s skills gap, so that creativity, craftsmanship and community can thrive.

About Creative Links
The Goldsmiths’ Centre’s monthly Creative Links talks and networking events, designed for emerging makers and creative start-ups, provoke thoughts and questions which enable participants to reflect on where they are and how to get to where they want to be. Hosted both online and in person, they help the jewellery, silversmithing and allied industries across the UK to build their networks, create links and learn to grow their businesses as part of a supportive community. Details of upcoming events and topics covered are listed the Goldsmiths’ Centre’s website.