AI: Brand and Consumer Experience

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2025 - A Virtual Event

4 PM – 4:50 PM: Eastern Time Zone

Virtual Human Exploration: Nuance & Emotion • Vocal Expression • Facial Movements – Sentiment - Hyper-Realistic Synthesis of Prose

Can we as humans create emotional bonds with virtual or synthetic beings? That is a good question that we cannot answer, at least we have not experienced it quite yet. We have experienced it through movies such as “Her” and “Blade Runner.” And today we can experience conversational AI with Chat Bots, which are becoming more advanced in their ability to explore complex philosophical and emotional questions, which can be exceedingly helpful in academic, work related and even through creative composition. AI developers are not far away from not only imagining but creating the virtual human, in video form and soon, as a “Humanoid Robot.” It is about nuance and emotion, vocal expression and sentiment and synthesis of prose. Don’t be surprised when a door opens, and in it will be a brother from another planet.

Patrick Levy-Rosenthal, CEO, MetaSoul

Marcus “Bellringer” Bell,  Director, Bellringer Productions

Gregor Hofer,  CEO, Speech Graphics and Rapport - Sent

Rich Sutton, Managing Partner, DMRS Advisory, LLC, Moderator

Speaker to be announced

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    Patrick Levy-Rosenthal

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    Rich Sutton

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Marcus “Bellringer” Bell has marketed and promoted, produced, remixed and written for, mentored and developed some of the world’s superstars and brands. His list of credits include Shelita Burke, Nicki Minaj, Snoop Dogg, Timbaland, Gala, Hadise, Park Jung-Ah, Amitabh Bachchan, Sony Music, HBO, Netflix, Showtime, Discovery Network, Amazon, Warner Brothers, Arista Records, EMI and Universal Music to name a few. He has also created music for worldwide brands such as McDonalds and General Mills.Marcus Bell, the entrepreneur, is the CEO of Bellringer Productions LLC, a music sync licensing and production company that operates a catalogue of over 11,000 songs and over 600 recording artists. Bell published an Amazon #1 best selling book titled “Bellringer Branding Bible: The 5 Musician Branding Principles for Singers, Rappers, DJs, Music Producers, Composers, Writers, and Recording Artists.” Global superstar Beyonce performed to one of the songs produced by Bellringer on her “On the Run II Tour” co-headlined with husband Jay-Z. Recently, one of the songs he produced for a commercial went viral on Tik Tok and has reached over 1 Billion streams across platforms. Beginnings The son of national tennis champion Carolyn Williams Bell and entrepreneur father, Harvey Lee Bell Jr., Marcus Bell was born into an environment of African-American excellence and creativity in Norfolk, Virginia. With a love for the arts fueled by the support of his parents, he started playing piano and studying music when he was two years old and started an independent record label at twelve. His teen years were spent studying and developing his craft as he learned to play over twelve instruments and gained mastery in songwriting and producing music. He also learned how to build audiences of fans and supporters at an early age. After high school, he attended Virginia Commonwealth University where he majored in business with a minor in music. He later transferred to the famed Berklee College of Music in Boston where he graduated with honors.


Gregor Hofer, Chief Executive Officer at Speech Graphics: Gregor Hofer has held various roles throughout their career. Gregor started as a Research Associate at the Ludwig Boltzman Institute for Urban Ethology in 2002 and worked there until 2003. Gregor then joined the University of Edinburgh as a Researcher from 2009 to 2011. In 2011, they had multiple positions, including Senior Researcher at the Telecommunications Research Center Vienna and Supervisory Board Member at System Industrie Electronic Holding, AG. In the same year, they became the Chief Executive Officer of Speech Graphics and held the position until an unspecified date. In 2020, Gregor Hofer founded another company called Rapport and is currently serving as its Chief Executive Officer. Gregor Hofer has a strong education background. In 1998, they started their undergraduate studies at Rochester Institute of Technology in the field of Psychology and Computer Science. Gregor successfully completed their Bachelor of Science degree in 2002. Following this, Gregor proceeded to pursue their higher education at The University of Edinburgh. From 2004 to 2009, they focused on obtaining their PhD in Speech Technology. Overall, Gregor's education history showcases their dedication and expertise in the fields of Psychology, Computer Science, and Speech Technology.


Patrick Levy-Rosenthal is the CEO and CTO of MetaSoul Inc. He is presented to the Artificial Intelligence Council of the United Nations; he won the IST Prize from the European Union and is written about in Forbes magazine. TEDx speaker his 2006 worldwide-acclaimed invention, Virtual Lens, is used today by more than 1.3 billion people on Snapchat and Instagram daily. He moved to NYC to work and develop his passion and ideas surrounding bio-inspired emotion synthesis. He studied the relationship between cognition and emotion, the root of the cognitive processes underlying each emotional response, emotions synthesis, and the influence of emotion on decision-making. Patrick has developed EPU (Emotion Processing Unit) MetaSoul technology for AI, NPC, digital humans, and robots, which allows 64 trillion nuances every 1/10th of a second in wave form to create more life-like human interactions.


Rich Sutton, Managing Partner, DMRS Advisory, LLC: Highly regarded and with proven success in digital media, Sutton has more than 30 years of experience in management, marketing, startups, turnarounds and working to grow world-class brands. Sutton's been Chief Revenue Officer at Everyday Health, Trusted Media Brands and The Daily Mail. Previously, he was Senior Vice President of consumer markets at WebMD, where he tripled and broadened the company’s client base. Prior to joining WebMD, Sutton served as Senior Vice President for Warner Bros. Entertainment where he led digital media sales and client marketing for Warner Bros. Online for more than 13 years. Sutton’s work with brands has been recognized by Ad Age, Forbes, AAAA, and Adweek, among other industry publications, and online and marketing awards. He is the author of “Best Practices in Branded Entertainment” for the Association of National Advertisers, as well as several White Papers for Trusted Media Brands, including: “The Future of Digital Video” and “Can Video and Native Formats Rule Mobile Advertising?”. In 2018 Digiday named Sutton "Top Boss.” Partnered with Doug McFarland, Sutton today is Managing Partner of DMRS Advisory, LLC. www.dmrsadvisory.com With a wide range of clients, start-ups to Fortune 100 companies, DMRS Advisory consults on business growth, go-to-market strategy as well as fundraising. Rich lives on Long Island with his wife of 30 years Wendy who consistently beats him at Scrabble. Sutton’s side hustle is commercial voice over work: www.richsuttonvoiceover.com



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