The Digital Hollywood AI Summer Summit

Monday, July 22 - Thursday, July 25, 2024

The Defining Event: The Future of Entertainment, Media & Technology

A Virtual Event • Registration is Free to All Attendees - An Expected Audience of 12,000

• Speakers Note: Some Sessions will be Taped Prior to the Event - Please check with your moderator

The Evening Keynote Roundtables

Monday, July 22nd, 2024

8:00 PM – 8:50 PM: Eastern Time Zone

Session I:

The 21^st Century Boom = AI & the US Economy: R&D + Investment + Strategic Rollout

Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA, has stated, "Artificial intelligence is unquestionably the most powerful technology force the world has ever known.” And Marc Andreessen, General Partner of Andreessen Horowitz has said, “AI will save the world.” During the four days of this conference, we will meet the hundreds of executives in the Entertainment, Technology and Advertising industries, executives and creatives who, if the prognosticators are correct, will lead the organizations, the teams of artists and executives, that will be a part of the greatest innovative and transformative force of the 21^st Century.

Session II:

AI, Cinematic, Spatial and Media Artists: The Next Level of Creativity
The artist, the creator, from Indie filmmakers to experimental visionaries, in this moment of tech innovation, are finding a new voice and a new universe of opportunity. With traditional entertainment platforms, from “Tent-Pole Extravaganzas” to Reality TV overload, the global audience is making clear its preference for new mediums and new technologies that deliver new and more innovative experiences. In this roundtable we will explore how AI together with XR and other digital breakthroughs are not only powerful production tools, but they represent technologies that are gateways to entirely unique visions of artistic expression. On one hand, the indie filmmaker might be enabled by the virtues of “Virtual Production,” but as artists quickly discover, AI and Spatial technologies also provide pallets of creative choices unknown to them prior to this amazing journey.

9:00 PM - 9:50 PM - Eastern Time Zone

Session I:

AI and Safety: Governance and Restraint vs. Industry Self-Regulation

AI didn’t arrive in the past 18 months.  For nearly twenty years, AI has steadily become a technological societal force, serving as a backbone to the Medical Imaging community, directing traffic on the internet and regulating electrical power grids across the country and making possible self-driving cars. However, with the arrival of Generative AI and the anticipation of AGI, Artificial General Intelligence, and massive surge in technology investment and company valuations, there is deep concern that the exuberance of discovery will lead to an unwelcome future.  We welcome this conversation.

9:00 PM - 9:50 PM - Eastern Time Zone

Session II:

AI and the Crisis of Creative Rights: Deep Fakes, Ethics and the Law
Even with the successful resolution of the Entertainment industry “Guilds” strike of 2023, there remains an ongoing fear that "artificial intelligence poses an existential threat to creative professions." The core AI issue sparking debate in Hollywood is not only based on compensation and creative control production. Deep fake technology in particular has raised concern about potential harmful uses, such as political disinformation, revenge porn, and misuse of intellectual property. At the same time, many “creatives” tout the game changing benefits this technology can bring to artistic and other endeavors, such as educational opportunities, enhanced freedom of expression and reduced barriers to entry. This panel will discuss these competing concerns and whether existing legal frameworks, such as right of publicity, copyright, and existing regulations, are sufficient to address this powerful technology.

The Evening Keynote Roundtables

Tuesday, July 23rd, 2024

8:00 PM - 8:50 PM - Eastern Time Zone

Session I:

Brands & Agencies as Global Studios: The Medium is the Message

The Medium is the Message has truly outpaced the growth and influence of our traditional media powers. While the “Super Bowl” was indeed the most watched TV event of the year, the everyday reach of “Social Networks,” plus YouTube channels and others in “absolute numbers” far outstrip our traditional media system. One might conclude that in determining consumer reach and engagement, the creative combination of Global Brands, Global Agencies powered across the Social Networks, Websites and Mobile enablers, with the added possibilities of AI, XR, AR and Live Events create what we might consider as deployable Global Studios. Such Global Studios might be “Ad Hoc” or transitory, but they represent a paradigm shift. It is not an exaggeration to suggest that the consumer reach of this “Modern Media Plan” will consistently reach into the hundreds of Millions.

Session II:

Generative AI and the Transformation of Entertainment, Virtual Humans & Creativity

When Generative AI arrived in full force in early 2023, there was no way to understand that in a little more than a year, the 2^nd and 3^rd iterations of Gen AI software would arrive that would clearly represent the arrival of a substantive first generation “AI Cinematic Experience.” Providing greater clarity and detail to the atmospherics and to the individual characters, enabling fluid movement, emotion, replicating human-like skin tones on visuals that had been digitally enhanced and upscaled, that compare favorably with the attributes of traditional Hollywood close-ups. The quality of AI voice and tonal modulation had been wildly improved nearing the levels needed for serious consideration. Our Roundtable Guests represent many decades of “Hollywood and Technology Innovation” and we are honored to hear from them and to learn from their vast experience in traditional Hollywood production, as they build new “Creative Teams” in developing the new platforms for “Storytelling,” “Human Character Development,” in what will clearly become the next Generation of Hollywood.

9:00 PM - 9:50 PM - Eastern Time Zone

Session I:

Tech Giants vs. Billion-Dollar Startups: What Happened to the Danger of Monopolies?

The issue AI and Monopolies, bring to bear so many fascinating issues case studies, and examples to the greater subject of Monopoly. As we are aware, all the major tech companies are deeply invested in AI: Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Google, Meta, IBM and Adobe, not to mention the Chip companies, NVIDIA, Intel, AMD and Qualcomm to name a few. And then there are the AI Billion-Dollar Startups: OpenAI, Anthropic, Inception AI, Databricks, Mistral AI and that’s not to mention the many AI start-ups that we read about everyday; Synthesia, Runway, Pika Labs, Character AI, Hugging Face & Perplexity AI. Which companies are deploying Monopoly power and if the industry is approaching 50 major and 250 minor AI powers, how do we discover “Monopolies.” 

9:00 PM - 9:50 Eastern Time Zone

Session II:

“AI Music: The New Renaissance. The Leonardo Di Vinci Era for Hypercreatives.” Says Will.i.am
The thought of “AI and Music” can make anyone schizophrenic. Notwithstanding the copywrite and legal concerns, not to mention the ethical, the value of human-created music itself, if you are a musician, a film maker, a producer of any form of creative art, you must acknowledge that “AI and Music,” like a superpower toy, has opened a giant treasure chest of fun and unlimited expectation. In the first two minutes you realize that your inner Mozart, inner BeBop or inner Abba is exploding in front of your eyes. “Where did this come from! I can’t stop. Let’s do it again! And that reminds me . . . !!” Superstar musician and activist Will.i.am has famously called, “AI Music: The New Renaissance. The Leonardo Di Vinci Era for Hypercreatives” and it’s easy to agree. In this session, we will not forget about its ethical and legal problems, but we will primarily focus on "AI Music and Creativity" in our roundtable of spectacular musicians and producers in an exploration of music and artificial intelligence.

The Evening Keynote Roundtables

Wednesday, July 24th, 2024

8:00 PM - 8:50 PM - Eastern Time Zone

Virtual Humans: The AI Intelligence Machine: From Virtual Humans in Hollywood, AI Companion & Conversational AI Co-Pilot to Humanoid Robot

Some industry experts say, “2024 is Going to be the Year of the AI Intelligence Machine.” Virtual Humans started some years ago with Benjamin Button and Ex Machina and has evolved into amazing GenAI, Cinematic production and Virtual Influencers. But it doesn’t stop there. The “Virtual Human” category is now manifesting itself in human to machine interaction. We know that at this moment you’re “Tsk-Tsking,” we’re exaggerating, and maybe we are, but have you spent a few hours in a back and forth with a text-based AI-Copilot? If you haven’t, you should. Engage a Co-Pilot on any subject that you have deep knowledge, and you will be amazed, assuming you are engaged with an up-to-date powerful AI. Your conversation will be amazingly good. And if you can “Train the System,” ie. help develop further informational input, your AI may well begin to make your head spin. And this goes for the development of the physical Humanoid Robot as well. 2024 may well be the year of the Virtual Human AI.

Session II:
AI: The Greatest Economic Engine of Our Lifetime

In the past few years, a number of our most illustrious industry leaders have come forward with memorable quotes concerning the impact of AI. Sundar Pichai has said, “AI is one of the most important things humanity is working on. It is more profound than electricity or fire. Marc Andreessen has famously said, “Software is eating the world, and AI is going to eat software,” and Jensen Huang has stated, “Artificial intelligence is unquestionably the most powerful technology force the world has ever known.” In this roundtable, our group of illustrious speakers will address the power of AI and add their thoughts to this ongoing global conversation.

9:00 PM - 10:00 PM - Eastern Time Zone

AI Global Monopolies or Benign MegaTechs vs. The Role of Government: FTC, DOJ and EU
Brilliant business minds, legal scholars and prominent government regulators, representing political views from left leaning to right, representing countries from the EU and UK, the US to China are currently engaged in a process that may well determine the future of Artificial Intelligence, Quantum Computing and other advanced technologies which will impact the US and in turn the global economy. Much of the decision making will be based on interpretations of monopolies and restraint of innovation. While the discussion may seem academic and hypothetical, may well in the not too distant future, have significant impact on all our lives.

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Sponsoring Organizations - Various Options including hosting online "Content Spaces" & "Panels" during this Virtual Summit. "Content Spaces" will have full Zoom Room - Demo capability along with other interactive and display features. Please complete the form for further information - Click Here

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The Evening Keynotes - Click Here

 I. Track One: AI: Artists of the 21st Century

II. Track Two: Virtual Humans and Robotics

III. Track Three: AI and Hollywood Production

IV. Track Four: AI and Music: Artists vs. Tech

V. Track Five: AI Startups & Investment

VI. Track Six: AI & Threats, Bias & Rights

VII: Track Seven: AI Fashion & Design

To View By Day - In Eastern Time Zone

I. The Evening Keynotes, July 22nd - 24th

II. Tuesday, July 23rd - Noon - 5 PM

III. Wednesday, July 24th - Noon - 5 PM

IV. Thursday, July 25th - Noon - 5 PM

Speaker Submission: If you wish to submit a speaker - email - Click Submission - indicating session(s) you would like to be considered - indicating day, time, and session name. We request that you include a bio of the speaker and a backgrounder of the company.

Sponsoring Organizations - Various Options including hosting online "Content Spaces" during this Virtual Summit. "Content Spaces" will have full Zoom Room - Demo capability along with other interactive and display features. Please complete the form for further information - Click Here