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The teachers

Who taught what, and where to find them

The two course instructors and every guest lecturer, with what they taught and the public profile they gave the class. Photos are from the Creative AI Academy site where it had one.

Dominik Heinrich

Course instructor

Dominik Heinrich

Global Head of Design Intelligence, The Coca-Cola Company; Co-founder, Creative AI Academy

Taught: Course introduction, Demystifying AI, Thinking Design and Think Print, the final project brief, Custom GPTs and vibe coding

Tony Jones

Course instructor

Tony Jones

Co-founder, Creative AI Academy; ex-ECD, McCann

Taught: AI Remix Jam, ethics, and the capstone check-ins across the back half of the course

Geoff Gibbins

Guest

Geoff Gibbins

Founder, Corrix; author, Critical Intelligence

Taught: Critical Intelligence

Sydney Seifert-Gram

Guest

Sydney Seifert-Gram

Art director, photographer, designer; educator, Creative AI Academy

Taught: Prompt Design for LLMs, AI Image Generation and Visual Prompting, Creative AI Video and coded design

Irina Kelly

Guest

Irina Kelly

UX Designer, Salesforce; Creative AI team

Taught: AI-Enhanced Workflows

Seb Saga

Guest

Seb Saga

Sebastian Sagastume, founder, Seb Saga LLC; Pratt After Effects and video editing instructor

Taught: Node-Based Workflows in Krea

CT

Guest

Ceren Topçu-Weigand

Creative AI for cultural institutions; Pratt alum; built the Gropius Bau ChatGPT visitor guide

Taught: AI-Enabled Ideation

Ekta Mody Vakil

Guest

Ekta Mody Vakil

Head of Design at a Google-brands agency; ex-Accenture innovation practice

Taught: Data Cleanup and Prep for Agentic Workflows

Wouter Oomen

Guest

Wouter Oomen

Hybrid Creative, Edelman Rotterdam; creator of Generated.Earth

Taught: Bias in Our AI Data

Angella Tapé

Guest

Angella Tapé

SVP Group Strategy Director, Havas

Taught: AI Strategic Foresight, Brief Mining with an End-to-End Creative Collaborator

Antonio Fragoso

Guest

Antonio Fragoso

Freelance Creative Director, OpenAI; former Global Creative Director, TikTok

Taught: Copy Craft and AI

Jaeyoung Lee

Guest

Jaeyoung Lee

Director of AI Human Insights, The Coca-Cola Company (they/them)

Taught: Creating Synthetic Personas; their Custom GPT material taught in class 19

KZ

Guest

Katrin Zimmermann

Partner, Creative AI Academy; Transformation Partner, Credera (Omnicom)

Taught: AI, Design and Innovation: systems thinking and multi-order effects

Sharon Panelo

Guest

Sharon Panelo

Founder, Stories and Strategy; ex-McCann, ex-Martin Agency; Braze innovation lab

Taught: Storytelling and Designing Story Systems with AI

Pratt AI Design Certificate · Summer 2026