Podcast "Meet the Member", Victoria Klipova (Theatre Director) & Igor Labutin (AI Researcher)

9/9/2025 11:29 AM

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In this episode of the Tech Nomads Club Podcast, host Evgeny Pavlov, CEO & Founder of Tech Nomads, speaks with two extraordinary members of our community: Victoria Klipova, a Theatre and Film Director, and Igor Labutin, an AI Researcher and Composer. Together, they share the story behind their groundbreaking immersive musical AI: Save Our Souls — a unique project at the crossroads of art and technology.

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What you’ll take away from this episode

Victoria Klipova  Theatre & Film Director

Victoria Klipova is a theatre and film director with 30+ productions across seven countries.

She has staged original plays, films, and cultural projects at leading venues in Moscow and St. Petersburg, and worked on commercial, social, and music video productions.

With an international background in arts and media, she brings creative vision and team leadership to projects of any scale. Now in London, she explores how creativity can reveal the human side of technology.

Igor Labutin — AI Researcher & Composer

Igor Labutin is an AI researcher and composer whose work spans NeurIPS publications, speech recognition at Yandex, TTS at Nvidia, and AI R&D leadership at Mayflower.

He has supervised 26 student projects across NLP, CV, and music generation. As a trained composer, he has written a string quartet and multi-genre works, and is now producing AI: Save Our Souls, a musical about AI’s creation and risks.

His focus today is AI safety and alignment, combining science and art to make sense of technology’s future.

About Speakers

– How a theatre director and an AI researcher ended up building a musical together.

– Why research can feel like composing music — and music like solving equations.

– What AI: Save Our Souls is really about: loneliness, algorithms, and the fine line between toy and torture.

– The messy but magical process of putting 20+ creatives into one project.

– What it actually takes to break into London’s art and tech scene when you’re new.

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