Vision of Sakıp Sabancı

The brief

For over two decades Sabancı University has honored Sakıp Sabancı's memory with an annual commemoration. The question this time: could his voice, wisdom and vision still speak — live — to today's world?

The build

Using AI, we meticulously reconstructed his speech patterns, tone, knowledge and vision: a fine-tuned LLM integrated with a custom voice model. The digital Sakıp Sabancı answered questions in his own voice — and in a deeply moving moment on stage, held a live conversation with his granddaughter, Melisa Sabancı, bridging generations in front of the commemoration audience.