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"The AI Entertainment Summit: Breaking the Net"
Tuesday, July 18th, 2023
12 Noon: Eastern Time Zone
Opening Keynote One-on-One
The AI Inflection Point – Summer 2023: A Creativity, Internet & Media Explosion
The innovation in AI this year represents the largest technology transformation of our lifetime. The internet and web arrived in the 1980s/1990s and took 15 to 20 years to impact 100s of Millions. Generative AI arrived in the Winter of 2023 and took a few months to reach 1B Users. In this the opening session of our conference, we will begin to address this phenomenon.
Richard Kerris, General Manager, Media and Entertainment, NVIDIA
Charlie Fink, Podcaster, Forbes Columnist, Author, Adjunct
1:00 - 1:45 PM - Eastern Time Zone
Session I:
Investment Strategies in Generative AI: Desktop & Mobile Apps to Hollywood Content
The significant rush to AI investment will undoubtedly sprout “Unicorns” as well as transform current market leaders. It is the perfect barometer to best understand the future of consumer products, tech companies, even providing insight into the ongoing global economy. How the VCs, tech & media executives and analysts describe their outlook, makes this session a must-attend event.
David Higley,
Managing Director, Lazard Frères & Co.
Kirthiga Reddy, Co-founder & CEO, Virtualness (former Investment Partner, Softbank (SBIA) & former Global Partnerships, Facebook
Tara Tan, Managing Partner, Strange Ventures
Joanna Popper, Emerging Media and Technology Executive, Moderator
1:00 - 1:45 PM - Eastern Time Zone
Session II:
AI Superclusters: Realtime Photorealistic CGI – XR – Streaming – Metaverse
AI Superclusters have revolutionized the entertainment industry. It didn’t happen overnight, but over the past 3-4 years, especially the Covid years, everything from Realtime CGI, XR to Streaming and the Virtual Human evolution have taken quantum leaps forward. And now with the arrival of powerful and creative Desktop AI tools for the entertainment, media and advertising industries, "The Sky is the Limit."
Ted Schilowitz, Futurist, ViacomCBS
Leslie Shannon, Head of Ecosystem and Trend Scouting, Nokia
Annie Hanlon,
Production Innovation Executive
Marc Maleh,
SVP of Connected Experiences, Valtech, formerly R/GA and Crypto.com
Angus Kneale, Chief Creative, Preymaker (co-founder, The Mill)
Remington Scott, Founder, CEO and Chief Architect, Hyperreal® Inc., VFX, THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS
Solomon Rogers, Global Director of Innovation, Magnopus, Moderator
2:00 - 2:45 PM - Eastern Time Zone
Session I:
The Digital Brand Experience: AI + 3D + XR + Holography + Metaverse
Advertising and “Brand Experience” in an AI-enhanced creative environment is opening the door to an array of magical experience. With 100s of Millions of viewers on mobile, TV and video as well as experiential platforms, the possibility of breaking the “Creative Sound Barrier” has arrived.
Kelsey Whitaker, Head of Innovation and Creative Experiences, Mindshare
Emily Wengert, Managing Director, Global ECD, Experiential, Huge
Eric Shamlin, EVP Global Head of Entertainment, Media.Monks
Adam Baskin, Managing Director, Tool
Scott Broock, founder, Totem Networks, LLC
Bill Newell, CEO, SparX Works Inc., Moderator
2:00 - 2:45 PM
- Eastern Time Zone
Session II:
The Disruption: Visual & Audio AI = The Supercharged Experience
The arrival of AI, AR and Prompt/Interactive UI has altered the “Visual & Audio Creation and Media Equation.” The personalization and creative experience has become a wonderland of words, prompts, discovery where an "Actual Human" may collaborate in a new world with a "Virtual Human." It will be a new era of film & video communication. Call it fact or call it fiction, we are entering a new world of communication and experience.
Leslie Shannon, Head of Ecosystem and Trend Scouting, Nokia
Cathy Hackl, Founder & Chief Metaverse Officer, Journey
Devo Harris, CEO/founder, Adventr, co-founder GOOD Music with Kanye West
Dade Orgeron, Vice President, 3D Innovation, Shutterstock
Paul Trillo,
Artist, Writer, and Director
Keith Soljacich, Head of Innovation, Publicis Media, Moderator
2:00 - 2:45 PM
- Eastern Time Zone
Session III:
The Legal Track
Generative AI & Intellectual Property Rights of the Creative Artist
The moment every artist, writer, producer, performer as well as network and publishing executive grasp the power of Generative AI, they immediately call their lawyer or legal department. As the massive AI supercomputers in the cloud “scrape data,” or what artists might refer to as their life’s work and begin “Doing their Business,” the entire legal profession, especially in New York, Los Angeles and Silicon Valley get to work. In this session, we will explore these ideas.
Dawn Botti,
EVP, Legal and Business Affairs, AMC Studios and Streaming Services, AMC Networks
Randi Pollack,
SVP and Associate General Counsel, A+E Networks
J. Scott Evans, Senior Director, IP & Advertising Law, Adobe
Meeka Bondy, Senior Counsel, Technology Transactions & Privacy Group and Co-Chair, Film and TV Group, Perkins Coie LLP, Moderator
3:00 - 3:45 PM - Eastern Time Zone
Session I:
Architects of AI and Entertainment: VFX/CGI – XR - AR
AI and a supercomputer in the hands of the “Architects of Hollywood” is like giving a magic wand to a magician. From Feature Films, Live Experiences, Games and Advertising, the power to imagine has just been expanded exponentially. And an almost equal power has been given to the desktops of millions of the next generation of “Pixar and Walt Disney Imagineers” working at home worldwide.
Boo Wong, former, Director, Live Entertainment, Unity Technologies
Christina Lee Storm, founder, AsherXR, , former Director of Virtual Production, Netflix
Jon Weisner, Media & Entertainment Lead, Microsoft Azure
Johannes Saam, Futurist/Creative Technologist, Framestore/atara.xyz
Rob Gonsalves, Engineering Fellow, Avid Technology
John Canning,
Director Developer Relations - Creators, AMD, Moderator
3:00 - 3:45 PM - Eastern Time Zone
Session II:
AI in Advertising & Shopping: Predictive Ad Performance & Strategies
Contextualized advertising has been the guiding principle behind cross-platform advertising for more than twenty years, from social media to broadcast TV. But the arrival of real-time server power combined with AI reaching consumers on all devices is a game-changer. In both the shopping application and contextual decision making, predictive creative intelligence is the future, combining personal communications, personal preference with brand and experience.
Ikechi Okoronkwo, Global Executive Director, Advanced Analytics, Mindshare
Silke Meixner, Digital Customer Experience Strategy, ZS Associates
Tania Yuki, Chief Marketing Officer and EVP Digital, Comscore
Howard Shimmel, Head of Strategy, Board of Directors, DatafuelX
Peter Day, Chief Technology Officer, Quantcast
Brian Weiner, CEO, The Illusion Factory, Moderator
4:00 - 4:45 PM - Eastern Time Zone
Session I:
Virtual Humans: Hollywood CGI to Social Media & 3D Experience
Delivering “3D Human Presence” in Animation, Video, Immersion or AI technologies, has been an ongoing challenge for the entertainment and tech industries. But the latest iteration of Generative AI has taken giants steps forward empowering programmers and artists with AI and machine learning tools to simulate human movement, expressions, and even clothing physics. And now AI has added human-like conversations. From movies to Zoom and social media, Virtual Human presence and actual human are difficult to distinguish.
Edward Saatchi, CEO, Fable Studio
Matthias Wittmann, Visual Effects Supervisor, Digital Domain
Travis Cloyd,
CEO, WorldwideXR and VP of CMG (Celebrity Management Group)
Justin Hochberg,
CEO, Virtual Brand Group, "Barbi AI on Roblox"
Chris Kenny, Head of Product, Deep Voodoo
Lori Schwartz, Founder & CEO, StoryTech, Moderator
4:00 - 4:45 PM - Eastern Time Zone
The Legal Track:
Session II: The Legal Track
Generative AI and Copyright Law
How will the legal system come to grips with the massive power of AI, its ability to absorb the global aggregation of visual, written as well as musical data and reproduce, imitate, portray, reinterpret, or in one way or in other, manifest that data into some other state of intellectual property. The legal system works in mysterious ways and it is likely that as AI exponentially grows, so too will develop a “Mirrored Legal Digital Second Life.”
Michele Lee,
Deputy General Counsel, Pinterest
Dazza Greenwood,
Founder and Head, CIVICS.com and law.MIT.edu
Zachary St. Martin,
Head of US Commercial & IP Legal, TikTok & ByteDance
Ian C. Ballon, Co-Chair, Global Intellectual Property & Technology Practice Group, Greenberg Traurig LLP, Moderator
5:00 PM 5:45 PM - Eastern Time Zone
End-of-Day Roundtable
Session I:
AI: The Controversy - Voices of the Creative Community: Actors - Writers - Producers - Guild Members
The impact of AI on the creative community ranges from curse to blessing. For those of you who have tried AI or perhaps have even become “Expert” in AI application, you are well aware of the problems it may present. AI can as easily violate copyright of everything from image to story to voice as it can enhance the creativity of the most sophisticated artists. This our world to explore.
Marc Guggenheim,
Producer, Arrow, Legends of Tomorrow, LA Law
Schuyler (Sky) M. Moore, Partner, Greenberg Glusker
Brett Leonard,
Co-Founder/CCO, UBIQUITY VX, Legendary Director, "Lawnmower Man"
Peter Csathy, Chairman, Creative Media
Chris McGuire, Comedy Showrunner: Martha & Snoop, The Soup, Comedy Central Roasts
Moderator - Catherine Clinch, TV Writer, TV veteran, Hunter, Jake & The Fat Man, Knight Rider, Love Boat, Hart to Hart
5:00 PM 5:25 PM - Eastern Time Zone
Session II:
Generative AI Coca-Cola x Open AI Campaign
Chris Branch is one of the leading-edge Generative AI technologists that the Coca-Cola organization "discovered" to contribute to its recently produced Coca-Cola x OpenAI Generative AI-based marketing campaign. Digital Hollywood is pleased that he could share his "Creative Journey" working on this project.
Chris Branch, Managing Director, Seedily
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