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 & Opens June 1, 2024 - 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 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.
Speakers:

Jane Rosenthal, Co-Founder & CEO, Tribeca Enterprises (Producer, “The Irishman,” “Bohemian Rhapsody” and “Meet the Parents” 
Robert Legato, Director, Tool, Legendary VFX, Titanic, The Lion King, Avatar

Keith Soljacich, Head of Innovation, Publicis Media

Eric Levin, Chief Content Officer, Publicis Media U.S, Moderator

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.

Speakers:

Michael Sugar, Founder and CEO of Sugar23, Academy Award Winner, Spotlight

Adam Simon, SVP, Executive Director, IPG Media Labs

Additional speakers to be announced

Session II:

Co-Hosted by Digital Hollywood & the "TV Academy Emerging Media Peer Group"

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 2nd and 3rd 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.

Speakers to be announced

The Evening Keynote Roundtables

Wednesday, July 24th, 2024

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

Session I:

A Meditation on Bad Hollywood: A Warning from the Creative Community – “Is the Future Synthetic Entertainment”
While the “Strikes” of 2023 may have been settled, with a well negotiated and robust consideration of all things AI, nevertheless, even with the AI guardrails in place, the feeling among creatives and for good reason, continues as the “unknown impact” of AI remains front and center in our industry and for the future of creativity and entertainment. Reflecting on this past year’s “Writers’ and SAG-AFTRA Strike,” Justine Bateman, was one among many in Hollywood expressing concern for our coming “Synthetic Entertainment Future.” To quote from her Newsweek article, Bateman was passionate and direct, “AI stands for Artificial Intelligence, but I refer to it as "Automatic Imitation." And as Andy Weir, author of "The Martian," has said, "before my life is over—my profession will effectively disappear.” In this session, we will continue the conversation concerning “All-Things AI,” the conversation that likely will never end.

Speakers:

Danielle Van Lier, former,Senior Assistant General Counsel, Contracts & Compliance, SAG-AFTRA, Moderator

Charlie Fink, Consultant, Forbes Columnist, “This Week in XR Podcast”

Additional speakers to be announced

The Complete Conference Agenda (The Daytime Events)

Tuesday, July 23rd, 2024

Noon – 12:50 PM - Eastern Time Zone

Session I:

Architects of AI and Entertainment: VFX/CGI – XR – AR – Film & Branding to Live Events

AI has been an evolving resource for Hollywood creatives for the past twenty years, going all the way back to “Jurassic Park” and “T2: Judgment Day.” You might call it a “Superpower.” AI in the hands of the “Architects of Hollywood” has been 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.
Speakers:

Eric Shamlin, EVP Global Head of Entertainment, Media.Monks

Boo Wong, former, Director, Live Entertainment, Unity Technologies

Julian Sarmiento, Vice President, Innovation, Mirada Studios & Trailer Park Group

Tyler Cohen, Creative Director, Experience, Tool

John Canning, Director Developer Relations - Creators, AMD, Moderator

Session II:

Fashion Forward: The Immersive and Beautiful Internet Experience

The fashion and beauty retail experience is changing and the change is emerging before our eyes. Beautiful design is not new, but the “Immersive Experience,” of beautiful design on all platforms for the consumer, the impact of AI on real-time presentation and customer service as a high-end experience, from in-person to smartphone is incrementally being revolutionized. The pleasure and detail of the “In-Store High-End Customer Experience,” in the very near-future will be replicated and transformed as a mass culture “Digital Experience” online. We are pleased to share the concepts and vision of the transformation here, on this panel today.

Speakers:

Jordan Robinson, Global Partnerships Director, Journee

Adrian Whant, Founder & CEO, trooVRS, Moderator

Additional speakers to be announced

Session III:

Generative AI and Cinematic Hollywood: The Transformation of the Media Industry

While full AI video production hasn’t quite arrived, each week it seems that OpenAI debuts another generation of Sora and Pika one ups them with Audio software to lip-synch with the new video clips and another billion dollar investment is announced for a Virtual Humanoid company. And that was all in a three day stretch in March of 2024. And that’s not counting the Pro AI Music Generators from Google, Adobe and Meta and to paraphrase Stability AI’s CEO, “Emad Mostaque, "It has become possible to imagine an AI-generated new season of "Game of Thrones.” It with that thought in mind that we address the future of AI and Hollywood with our esteemed panel.

Speakers:

Ted Schilowitz, Visionary & Futurist, formerly Paramount Global & 20th Century Fox

Sasha Kasiuha, AI Innovator & Director, Madonna “The Celebration Tour”

Pinar Seyhan Demirdag, Co-Founder & CEO, Cuebric

Diana Williams, CEO & Co-founder, Kinetic Energy Entertainment

Leslie Shannon, Head of Ecosystem and Trend Scouting, Nokia, Moderator

1 PM – 1:50 PM - Eastern Time Zone

Session II:

Gen AI Cinema & Hollywood Video: A Director, Producer & Critic’s Roundtable

The entertainment industry has a new category of film to discuss and analyze, one that did not exist prior to 2023. It is almost remarkable that “Generative AI Cinema” is now a category of “Creativity” that we must begin to take seriously. All through the year 2022 AI Image Generators began to improve and in 2023 the images began to move. It would make Thomas Edison and Auguste and Louis Lumière proud. And the practitioners of “Gen AI Cinema,” the directors and technologists, today’s AI storytellers are creating amazing short films and video experiments. Our roundtable today will bring together a group of “Creatives” that are breaking the ground for what will surely be the “Hollywood of the 21^st Century.”

Speakers:

Quinn Halleck, Director, Tool (“Sigma_001”)

Katya Alexander, President, Pillars (AI Studio) & Freelance Indie Producer 

Jason Zada, founder, Secret Level

Max Einhorn, Gen AI Producer, Creator, "True Crime AI", Moderator

Session IV:

The Complexity of AI & Art – Imagination of the Human + Machine:  Cinematic Arts - Media Arts - Fashion Design

What does it mean when an artificial intelligence can dream? What does it mean to create art fabricated by neural networks rather than solely human hands and hearts. What does our future hold? Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon, is a magnificent and devastating portrait of grandeur and privilege of Europe of the 1700s and in equal measure, we can look to the magnificent treasure of Antoni Gaudi’s architecture of Barcelona, and both might be thought of as progenitors of the AI Art we aspire to today. While Generative AI art is like opening a door to a limitless supply of “Digital Art,” this new world of art by “Human and Machine” will be no less distinct and intriguing than any era of art which has come before.

Speakers:

Angus Kneale, Chief Creative, Preymaker (co-founder, The Mill)

Michael Olaye, SVP, Managing Director - Strategy & Innovation, R/GA

Cathy Hackl, Co-CEO, Spatial Dynamics

Amelia Bearskin-Winger, Banks Family Chair of AI and the Arts, University of Florida, Digital Worlds Institute 

Johannes Saam, Futurist/Creative Technologist, Framestore/atara.xyz

Annie Hanlon, Production Innovation Executive, Moderator

2 PM – 2:50 PM - Eastern Time Zone

Session I:

The Digital Brand & Advertising Experience: AI + 3D + XR + Holography + Metaverse

The combination of visual and electronic platforms and digital creativity have completely transformed the role of global brands in public consciousness. Or perhaps it’s the other way around; global brands have exposed technology and creativity to the world. Either way, between AI, 3D, XR and Spatial Realities, a universe of magical experiences and creative environments are capturing the imagination of 100s of Millions of viewers on mobile, video as well as experiential platforms.  We are reaching a next level; we may be breaking the “Creative Sound Barrier.”

Speakers:

Canaan Rubin, Creative Executive, Marketing & Immersive, Amazon MGM Studios & Prime Video

Albert Thompson, Managing Director, Digital Innovation, Walton Isaacson 

Jessica Berger, Senior Vice President, Innovation, Publicis Media

Fredrik Frizell, Founder, Buoy Studios

Elizabeth Kiehner, Global Chief Growth Officer, Nortal, Moderator

Session II:

AI and Identity Theft - A Taylor Swift Law – The Deep Fake Dilemma

“Deep Fakes” are not only a theft of property rights and a concern of Musicians and Hollywood personalities, bad-actors are scheming new, inventive and technologically bizarre ways to invade our privacy, our computer data and ultimately our electronic wallets. This is not a false alarm. While a “Taylor Swift Law” is needed to protect the personage of a pop star, it may be even more important to secure the personal electronic rights of everyday citizens. Recently in Hong Kong, a “Deep Fake” scheme successfully defrauded an investment company of $25 Million in a fraudulent Zoom call with visual impersonators representing colleagues. That Zoom call might have been you and a “Deep Faked” family member. 

Speakers:

Remington Scott, Founder, CEO and Chief Architect, Hyperreal® Inc., VFX, THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS

David Chow, Chief Technology Strategy Officer, Trend Micro, former CIO, Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)

Will Kreth, CEO, HAND (Human & Digital), Moderator

Additional speakers to be announced

3 PM – 3:50 PM - Eastern Time Zone

Session I:

Hollywood VFX Pros Discuss Virtual Humans & GenAI: Feature Film Perfection, Actor Longevity, Deep Fakes, & Impact of Generative AI

How good is the current state of Generative AI? Let’s hear first-hand from an All-Star Team of Hollywood VFX professionals. Hollywood has been using AI in film and video production for any number of years, but now the “Next Generation of GenAI” has arrived and it’s all over YouTube and Social Media. There are Virtual Human Influencers, Models, even Virtual Girlfriends. And what do they see coming down the road, in 2025 and 2026? And how will Generative AI be merged with the most powerful software in the VFX toolbox? This roundtable should be fun.

Speakers:

Akira Thompson, Creative Director and Generative AI Lead, R/GA

Tool, speaker to be announced

Sean Cushing, co-founder, Cantina Creative

Remington Scott, Founder, CEO and Chief Architect, Hyperreal® Inc., VFX, THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS

Lori H. Schwartz, Founder & CEO, StoryTech, Moderator

Session II:

The Digital Brand & Advertising Experience, Part II: AI + 3D + XR + Holography + Metaverse

The combination of visual and electronic platforms and digital creativity have completely transformed the role of global brands in public consciousness. Or perhaps it’s the other way around; global brands have exposed technology and creativity to the world. Either way, between AI, 3D, XR and Spatial Realities, a universe of magical experiences and creative environments are capturing the imagination of 100s of Millions of viewers on mobile, video as well as experiential platforms. We are reaching a next level; we may be breaking the “Creative Sound Barrier.”

Speakers:

Nigel Tierney, Executive Creative Director, Yahoo

Melissa Eccles, former, Head of West Coast, TikTok Creative Lab,

DEPT®, speaker to be announced.

Mark Kapczynski, President, Storymill, Moderator

Additional speakers to be announced

4 PM – 4:40 PM - Eastern Time Zone

Session I:

The Best in Virtual Humans and Synths: Influencers, Performers & Companions

Call them Synths; call them Virtual Human Celebrities, influencers and performers going by names such as Audrey Hepburn Digital, Lil Miquela, Lu do Magalu, Barbi, Guggimon, Any Malu or Milla Sofia. According to her Instagram account, Lil Miquela is a half-Spanish, half-Brazilian 19 year old Robot living in LA with 2.6m followers. Lu do Magalu, another Brazilian influencer has 6.8M followers. She is used by Brazilian retailer, “Magazine Luiza” for various campaigns and has partnered with big brands, including Adidas, McDonald's and Red Bull. There are AI Internet Girlfriend platforms named Replika, Candy AI and DreamGF and Virtual Singers and Performers are in the pipeline with the backing of major organizations. What are we to make of this phenomenon? “Barbi” afterall started out as a “Children’s Doll” over a half century ago and now as a “Movie Star” and “Virtual Human” has become a “Global Phenomenon.” With that in mind, perhaps the “Cultural Narrative” of “Synths” and “Virtual Humans as Celebrities” has yet to be decided.

Speakers:

Max Einhorn, Gen AI Producer, Creator, "True Crime AI"

Eduardo Yeh, CEO, The Digital Audrey Hepburn Collection

Marc Scarpa, Co-Founder, DeFiance Media (Virtual Human News Anchors), Moderator

Additional speakers to be announced

Session IV:

AI & the Design of Randomness: Unlocking the Inner Jackson Pollock

Our first thought was to call this panel, “AI: Inside the Black Box of the Imagination.” Artificial Intelligence, together with Machine Learning have opened the door to a relationship with a “Human Creator,” someone we might call an “Artist,” and the result is an exploration of the imagination that has never been seen before. The result is unique. Nevertheless, some critics, Jerry Saltz of New York Magazine’s Vulture among them, have articulated a clear disdain for this new and evolving art form. While others, the curators at MOMA in NYC to their credit, have honored AI’s best known artistic innovator, Rafik Anadol with a one-man show. Many have referred to AI Art as the “Design of Randomness,” referring to it’s kinship to Jackson Pollock. In this session we will explore some of those thoughts.

Speakers:

Neil Leach, Architect, Curator, Visiting Professor, Harvard University, Gao Feng Professor, Tongji University and Adjunct Professor, University of Southern California

Ulrike Kerber, Principal and Creative Director, Viva Design

Sandu Baciu, founder, Baciu Co.

Curt Doty, Founder, RealmIQ, Moderator

5:00 PM – 5:50 PM - Eastern Time Zone

Session I:

The Hollywood Trajectory: The Generative AI Video Timeline: 2023 – 2024 – 2025 – 2026

How fast will AI take over Hollywood? That’s the question. After YouTube; After VFX and the Nightmare of Sequels, After Netflix, Amazon and cord cutting; Remember, Napster Killed the Music Industry!! What’s next? Is AI the Machine that’s going to “Eat Hollywood.” We are already beginning to understand the impact of AI on Screenwriting, AI and Virtual Charters and AI’s impact on VFX. Video Editing is clearly in the eye of the AI storm and the role of extras not to mention complicated backgrounds that will magically appear through the power of AI. In this session, we will speculate on the impact of AI on Hollywood and try to understand the impact and growth of “The AI Blob.” How soon will entire movies, TV shows and Ads being fully produced by a giant AI. 2026? 2028? What will Hollywood look like in 2030?

Speakers:

Paul Trillo, Artist, Writer, and Director

Renard T. Jenkins, President, i2a2 LLC, President, SMPTE

Phillip Fury, Immersive Technology Innovator and Advisor

Peter Csathy, Chairman, Creative Media, Moderator

Additional Speakers to be announced

Wednesday, July 24^th, 2024

Noon – 12:50 PM - Eastern Time Zone

Session I:

AI, Cinematic Artists and Virtual Production: The Future of Independent Cinema

Indie filmmakers always find a way. However, in a world of fractured attention focused on instant content and big tentpoles, it’s increasingly challenging for these artists and their films to find a way to break through. For rising filmmakers and production teams, AI and virtual production has changed the game: access to technology and equipment has never been broader. What once could only be made by a major studio with funding can now be done in one’s backyard. This has opened the door to amazing innovation and opportunities. Filmmakers today have an incredible arsenal of tools at their disposal to innovate in the space. In this roundtable, we welcome leaders in the space of Cinematic Film Production.

Speakers:

Ty Roberts, CEO, FanTracks; former CTO, Universal Music Group, Moderator
Quinn Hallec, Director/Producer, Tool (“Sigma_001”)
Musixmatch, Speaker to be announced
Runway, Speaker to be announced

Additional speaker to be announced

Session IV:

Virtual Human Video: The Online Retail & Consumer Facing Experience: The Impact of Advanced Intelligence and Technology

The integration of advanced intelligence and technology into retail and consumer-facing experiences is revolutionizing the way we shop, interact with brands and their online support, and make purchasing decisions. As virtual humans and AI-powered systems become more sophisticated, they're transforming customer service, product recommendations, and even in-store navigation. This panel will explore the current state of the art in virtual human technology and its impact on the retail and complex online interaction, as well as examine future trends and challenges in this rapidly evolving field.

Speakers:

Natalie Monbiot, Head of Strategy, Hour One 

Guy Gadney, Co-founder & CEO, Charisma.ai

Shara Senderoff, Co-Founder, Futureverse

John Gauntt, Host, The Culture and Code Podcast, Moderator

Additional speaker to be announced

1 PM – 1:50 PM - Eastern Time Zone

Session III:

Designing the Digital Fashion & Beauty Retail Experience: Social Media, AI/XR & Internet

The world of Fashion and Beauty will be first among the global brands to embrace technology, applying it into their dramatic “Live Runway Experiences,” transforming showrooms into XR media experiences, creating sensational social media campaigns that will “Break the Net.” It’s only a matter of time before a “Virtual Human Fashion Queen” becomes a “Global Celebrity,” and that “Global Sensation” will perform and dominate on every platform, including “The Runway,” when magically the “Digital will be Transformed” into “The Living.” The “Retail Experience” will live on every platform; website and Apps, in Live Retail as well as “Brand in Travel” and the idea of “Brand as Art” may well turn out to more powerful in eyes of the public than any other of the brand experiences.

Speakers:

Elav Horwitz, EVP, Global Director of Applied Innovation, McCann Worldgroup, Moderator

Speakers to be announced

2 PM – 2:50 PM - Eastern Time Zone

Session II:

Digital & AI Fashion and Beauty: The Designer + Virtual Humans + The Runway + Retail Experience

The fashion industry, which has always been a global and cultural trend setter, today with the explosive power and merger of the "AI, Design and Media Technologies," a fashion brand can dominate simultaneously “IRL" (In Real Life) and equally on “Social Media” as a form of entertainment. The Fashion Industry, uniquely among the creative arts, can innovate “Style, Personality and Identity” in AI and Spatial Environments like no others. In time, fashion brands may even establish “Virtual and Iconic Models & Avatars” and establish them as “Global Icons” and those future “Virtual Humans” might also perform as Musical Celebrities or “Reside in their own Metaverse.” The future of the AI Fashion will be nothing short of “Intriguing.”

Speakers:

Dmytro Kornilov, CEO and Co-Founder, FFFACE.ME

Metamorphix, Innovative Designer, Two-Time Winner, AI Fashion Week

Matthew Drinkwater, Head of London College of Fashion’s Fashion Innovation Agency

Jason Jercinovic, founder, UnLTD aka “Unlimited,” Moderator

Additional speaker to be announced

Session III:

Virtual Humans & AI: Advanced Design + Intelligence = Unique Levels of Complexity

In this session we will address the Intelligence and Design functions in the development of Virtual Humans. While other panels will focus on “Virtual Humans as Performers and Internet Personalities,” in this session we will explore the more profound issues of “Computer Intelligence” and “The Machine’s” ability to mimic human emotion and personality, verbal and vocal expression and respond in conversational interaction. Once a “Virtual Human” becomes “Conversant” as a mature human might, the role of this technology will quickly find a way into our daily life, from Virtual Human Co-Pilot as Educator, Colleague at work to companion in research and creative endeavors. The possibilities are quite frankly, limitless.

Speakers:

Remington Scott, Founder, CEO and Chief Architect, Hyperreal® Inc., VFX, THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS

Matthias Wittmann, Visual Effects Supervisor, Digital Domain (CGI, Benjamin Button)

Additional speakers to be announced

Session IV:

AI Produced Music Videos are Here - The AI Canary in the Coal Mine

Tech innovation concentrates first in the “Music Industry.” It is as simple as that. Generative AI is totally and fully capable of producing highly creative audio and short form cinematic video. And it is simply not yet ready, to produce fully realized long form film and TV. Thus, on this panel we will focus on the creation of “AI Empowered Music Videos” that are innovative, inspired and nothing short of spectacular. We will discuss production techniques and demo some of the best yet produced. In the 1980s, after MTV kicked off the “Music Video Revolution” with "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles and DEVO's great music video, "Whip It," the world was never quite the same. The same will likely be said of the AI Empowered Music Videos of 2024. The world will never quite be the same again!

Speakers:

Jesse Kirshbaum, CEO, Nue Agency, Beats & Bytes Newsletter, Moderator

Dr. Nicolai Klemke, founder, Neural Frames UG

Additional speakers to be announced

3 PM – 3:50 PM - Eastern Time Zone

Session I:

Digital Design, Branding, Fashion & Retail: The Innovation Experience

Design and fashion have forever defined the cutting edge of cultural innovation and now with the explosion of “Digital Platforms” and consumer demand, the “World of Retail” has finally merged with “The Innovation Experience.” Every major brand and retailer is adapting to the reality of “Consumer Engagement + Immersive Technologies = The Retail Transformation.” From the multi-faceted ad campaigns to the online retail, including the In-Store experience, it’s a holistic strategy of design, technology, and engagement. In this session, we welcome the industry leaders.

Speakers:

Neha Singh, Founder & CEO, Obsess

Silke Meixner, Digital Customer Experience Strategy, ZS Associates

Bill Newell, CEO, SparX Works Inc., Moderator

Additional speakers to be announced

Session IV:

AI Art, Design and Language: A Vocabulary of Syntax and Exactitude

The partnership between the designer or artist and the AI has a goal, to convert the concept into something real, from the blank page to the design, from the imagination to the architectural structure. To successfully navigate with an Artificial Intelligence, a machine, the artist must develop a vocabulary of subtlety. The artist is inventing a new language of art and design, a vocabulary suited to the “Machine” of “Syntax and Exactitude.” Well-known Italian architect and computational designer, Arturo Tedeschi has often described his process using this descriptive language. In this session, we will explore the techniques and imagery that Tedeschi speaks of.

Speakers to be announced

4 PM – 4:50 PM - Eastern Time Zone

Session: I:

AI & Magnificent Fashion & Beauty: An Exploration of the Imagination – Retail, Runway, Advertising and Virtual Human

“Fashion and Beauty Design” is always on the cutting edge of cultural identity and with the addition of AI tools, the level of innovation has exploded. In this session, we will further explore those levels of innovation, in imagery ranging from “Couture, Runway and Indie Collections” to advertising, retail experience, social media campaign, out-of-home campaigns as well as nationwide TV. Art and design are at the core of the fashion and beauty product as well as through its creative brand and advertising strategies and in this panel we hope to get first-hand insight from the creators themselves.

Speakers to be announced

Session III:

Revolutionary Virtual Production: AI & Computer Vision in Modern Filmmaking

It’s almost impossible to exaggerate how much has changed in the past five or six years in the world of visual creativity and film production. What started out as an already impressive world of “Green Screens” and CGI has emerged as a universe of Gen AI video, prompted 3D images and full audio tracks, plus a vast war-chest of pre-visualization tools, all placed in the hands of our greatest storytellers. The industry is revolutionizing before our eyes. Filmmakers are transforming the ideation process, a world of AI and Virtual Production and in a matter of days, weeks and months, bringing it to life as a fully realized feature films, TV shows, advertisements and YouTube videos. In this session, we examine the phenomenon.

Speakers:

Joerg Bachmaier, founder & CEO, Enter New Worlds, Moderator

Irad Eyal, CEO, Quickture

Additional speakers to be announced

Session IV:

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.

Speakers to be announced

5 PM – 5:50 PM - Eastern Time Zone

Session I:

AI-XR: The Spatial Experience - Exploring Next Level Human Interaction

While AI has become the convenient “Umbrella Concept” under which all other computer platforms can be best understood, with the release of Apple Vision Pro and Meta’s industry leading Quest 2, the conversation has centered around VR, Gaming and the latest buzzword, Spatial Computing. For industry cognoscente, the goal has always been “Immersion,” platform agnostic, mobile, computer, gaming, in any environment, on any device. Apple refers to its AVP introduction as “Spatial Computing” and the developers of XR, VR and AR experiences will likely be pleased to embrace this descriptive note. With the power of AI, advanced connectivity through “The Cloud” and with continued device innovation, we will all be pleased to welcome the “Era of Spatial Computing.”

Speakers

Kymber Lim, CEO & Producer, MAJYK Studios

Robert Keyghobad, Producer, Remy H. Industries

Speakers to be announced

Session II:

AI, Video, 3D Images, Photography and Computer Vision - The Revolutionary Technology 

It would hardly be a leap to refer to the new “AI Video and Image Creators, Enhancers and Upscalers” as revolutionary. From the manipulation of images to the prompting of visuals, the creative artist has never experienced this level of innovation. In this session, we bring together “Visual Artists” to discuss their experiences in applying these new technologies. And the toolbox of creative options, and the power of these new applications grows and become more powerful by the week. Even for creative professionals using traditional tools such as Photoshop, there are new AI based programs that “Upscale” images to create fully unique and new visual experiences, that must be integrated into the creative process. Today’s revolutionary “AI Computer Vision” technology has made what we might call, “Cinematic or Photographic Fiction” an available option to every graphic designer.

Speakers to be announced

Session IV:

Virtual Human Chatbots: Next Level Consciousness + Advanced Visuals – A Social Experience

The movies “2001,” “Data from Star Trek,” “Her” and “Ex Machina” have created a public expectation, for what “Virtual Human Technology” is understood to be. Is this level of AI consciousness out of reach? Since the mass exposure of Generative AI, to literally more than one billion computer users in the past year, a level of comfort and dependency has been readily embraced, and the anticipation of an enhanced immersive experience would surely be welcomed. AIs are already employed for “Deep Research,” as “Medical Co-Pilots,” as “Conversational AI Companions,” “Virtual Performers or Celebrities” and “Company Spokespersons.” In fact, there may be no limit to the role of AI Co-Pilots in our everyday lives. The manifestation of a fully realized “Virtual Human” as a Humanoid Robot or like “Her,” as a synthetic persona will likely be a welcome colleague. In this session we will see demos of the current “Best in Class.”

Speakers:

Tinashe Chaponda, CEO, Sosani

Additional Speakers to be announced

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 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

VIII: Track Eight: AI & the IMOs: The In My Opinion AI Roundtables

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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

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The Evening Keynotes - Click Here

 I. Track One: AI and the Future of Film, Video

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, Creative Rights

VII: Track Seven: AI Fashion  & Design

VIII: Track Eight: AI & the IMOs: The In My Opinion AI Roundtables

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

To View By Track - Click Here

The Evening Keynotes - Click Here

 I. Track One: AI & Future of Film, Video

II. Track Two: Virtual Humans & Robotics

III. Track Three: AI & Hollywood Production

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

V. Track Five: AI Startups & Investment

VI. Track Six: AI & Threats, Creative Rights

VII: Track Seven: AI Fashion & Design

VIII: Track Eight: AI & the IMOs: The In My Opinion AI Roundtables

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

To View By Track - Click Here

The Evening Keynotes - Click Here

 I. Track One: AI and the Future of Film, Video

II. Track Two: Virtual Humans and Robotics

III. Track Three: AI & Hollywood Production

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

V. Track Five: AI Startups & Investment

VI. Track Six: AI & Threats, Creative Rights

VII: Track Seven: AI Fashion & Design

VIII: Track Eight: AI & the IMOs: The In My Opinion AI Roundtable

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

To View By Track - Click Here

The Evening Keynotes - Click Here

 I. Track One: AI and the Future of Film, Video

II. Track Two: Virtual Humans and Robotics

III. Track Three: AI & Hollywood Production

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

V. Track Five: AI Startups & Investment

VI. Track Six: AI & Threats, Creative 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