HNK 2, Zagreb
1 — 3 June
1 — 3 June
Aileen Carville is a fashion-tech entrepreneur with nearly three decades of experience in luxury fashion and the past ten years at the forefront of AI and Web3 innovation. She is the CEO and Co-Founder of COLONII, a platform redefining AI companionship through agentic avatars and an on-chain trust economy, with proven activations for brands such as Nike, Levi's, BAPE, and Nothing.
A pioneer in the digital transformation of the fashion industry, she introduced the first virtual “Fit Model” at Fashion Week as early as 2018. Through the SKMMP Virtual Showroom, she has digitalized global wholesale processes and implemented Voice AI in luxury retail. She curated three seasons of London Fashion Week FRINGE metaverse experiences, connecting AI tools with creative practice and enabling Web3 brands to access investors and markets.
In 2026, she became a board member of La French Tech Dublin, while her AI avatar Anja became the first AI member of Superteam Ireland. Through this work, Aileen positions AI, fashion, and culture at the center of a new digital trust economy.
“The future no longer belongs only to humans, nor only to technology. It is created where they meet,” says Anyja, a metahuman avatar who already has a voice, an audience, and a place in the world of new generations.
While older generations are still discussing what AI is, Gen Z and Gen Alpha are already living in a space where digital identities are not futurism but everyday reality. They trust them and build a sense of belonging with them.
This is a world in which metahumans are not just content, but cultural actors. They are models on virtual runways, faces of global campaigns, and digital conversational partners who, although they do not feel, know how we feel. Precisely because they enter the space of emotion and identity, the question of ethics becomes more important than ever. How do we build AI that does not manipulate attention, but encourages responsible interaction and real connection?
Take a look with us into a new digital world and meet avatars, AI metahuman characters who are becoming the front line of communication for new generations. Whether we will be just observers or active participants in that world depends on us.
Because artificial intelligence is not a replacement for humanity, but a space through which we decide what kind of relationships we want to build. Those that connect identity, culture, and trust of generations that are already living the future we are only beginning to talk about.
