About Tom

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Tomislav “Tom” Cebic is a strategic leader and researcher operating at the intersection of arts, technology, and urban governance. Currently serving as Director of Investor Relations at Institution, he is spearheading a $10 million seed campaign for an international museum network set to launch in Milan (2026), New York (2028), and China, collaborating with curators like Fabio Cavallucci and artists such as cai guo-qiang. His role extends beyond fundraising to overseeing cross-functional teams, technology rollouts, and partnerships with entities like MoMA, Clouds AO, and sovereign wealth funds.

Parallel to his institutional work, Tomislav contributes to Institution Lab, where he co-authors research at the forefront of ethical AI and civic technology. He is a key contributor to ALAN (Associative Learning Affective Art Network), an emotionally intelligent AI curatorial system that employs disentangled attention mechanisms—inspired by Jeff Hawkins’ cortical democracy—and federated consensus models, akin to Thomas Seeley’s honeybee colonies, to mitigate cultural bias in art interpretation. His governance research, evidenced in the policy paper “Challenges for Municipal and Regional AI Governance,” addresses the “invisible integration” of AI in local government, advocating for regional procurement blocks, human-in-the-loop mandates, and sociocratic oversight to preserve public trust and data sovereignty.

Drawing from a decade in real estate development and community-focused ventures—including co-founding a streaming startup and managing a $2B family office portfolio—Tom brings a practitioner’s lens to systemic innovation. His work reflects a consistent ethos: leveraging collaborative, ethically grounded frameworks to build resilient cultural and civic infrastructures in an age of algorithmic complexity.