The Keynotes - July, 2024

The Digital Hollywood AI Summer Summit

Monday, July 22 - Wednesday, July 24, 2024

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

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The Evening Keynote Roundtables

Monday, July 22nd, 2024

8:00 PM – 8:50 PM: Eastern Time Zone

Session I:

The AI & Entertainment Innovation Roundtable

While AI has been front and center in the entertainment and media industries for more than a decade, enabling on the one hand predictive and qualitative analytics and then serving as the backbone of major creative innovation in feature film, advertising, and the cloud on the other. But now, with the establishment of “Generative AI,” that process of innovation and disruption is unfolding at an accelerated and unprecedented rate. In this roundtable, we bring together executives from major entertainment and technology organizations who are at the forefront of that innovation transformation. We thank them for their time and very much look forward to their commentary.

Speakers:

Phil Wiser, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Paramount Global

Samira Panah Bakhtiar, General Manager, Media & Entertainment, Games and Sports, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Eliot Sakhartov, Business and Technology Strategist, Media and Entertainment, Microsoft

Michael Kaplan, Global Business Development. Generative AI, Media and Entertainment (M&E), NVIDIA

Seth Hallen, President, Hollywood Professional Association (HPA), Moderator

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Session II:

AI, Cinematic, Apple Vision Pro/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 AI and Cinematic creation, XR innovation and we’re also pleased to welcome the creative team behind Apple Vision Pro’s breakthrough "Encounter Dinosaurs.” As artists quickly discover, AI, XR and Spatial technologies provide pallets of creative choices unknown to them prior to this amazing journey.
Speakers:
Robert Legato, Director, Tool, Legendary VFX, Titanic, The Lion King, Avatar

Kymber Lim, CEO & Producer, MAJYK Studios, "Prehistoric Dinosaurs Immersive Team”

Ed Ulbrich, VFX Pioneer, Chief Content Officer, Metaphysic

Robert Keyghobad, Producer, Remy H. Industries, "Encounter Dinosaurs Team”

Keith Soljacich, Head of Innovation, Publicis Media

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

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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.

Speakers:

Richard Kerris, General Manager, Media and Entertainment, NVIDIA

Dr. Rumman Chowdhury, United States Science Envoy, Artificial Intelligence, CEO and co-Founder, Humane Intelligence

Mary Hamilton, Managing Director, Technology Innovation, Americas, Accenture

Dan Hendrycks, Director, Center for AI Safety

Dr. Megan Ma, Associate Director, CodeX and Law, Science, Technology Program, Stanford Law School, Moderator

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

Session II:

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

Andy Beach, CTO, Media & Entertainment Worldwide, Microsoft

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

Jen Hollingsworth, Chief Commercial Officer (CCO), Flawless AI

Phillip Fury, Immersive Technology Innovator and Advisor

Peter Csathy, Chairman, Creative Media, Moderator

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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:

Valerie Madden, Creative Director of Marketing Innovation, Amazon MGM Studios, Prime Video & NBC Universal Alum

Melissa Bolton-Klinger, Award Winning Director, former, Group Creative Director - Studios, Paramount

Adam Simon, Managing Director, IPG Media Lab

Shannon Pruitt, Global Chief Marketing Officer, Stagwell Brand Performance Network

Greg Kahn, President and CEO, GK Digital Ventures, Moderator

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

AI and the Crisis of Creative Rights and Disinformation: 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. Concerns about disinformation are particularly high in an election year. 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.

Speakers:
Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, National Executive Director and Chief Negotiator, SAG-AFTRA
Ilke Demir, Sr. Staff Research Scientist, Intel Labs
Ellen L. Weintraub, Commissioner, Federal Election Commission

Rob Rosenberg, principal, Telluride Legal Strategies; former EVP & General Counsel, Showtime Networks
Lisa Oratz, Senior Counsel, Perkins Coie, Moderator

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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”

Marie Kelly, National Executive Director and Chief Negotiator, ACTRA Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists

Bryn Mooser, CEO, XTR

Chris Regina, Chief Content Officer, TCL North America

Caleb Ward, CEO/Artist, Curious Refuge

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8:00 PM - 9:00 PM - Eastern Time Zone

Session I:

AI and The Future of Creativity: Insights from Reid AI

How will the creative process change when people can collaborate with digital twins of themselves? Exploring this question was one of the motivations behind the Reid AI project-- a digital twin built to replicate the thinking and cadence of entrepreneur, venture capitalist and AI innovator Reid Hoffman. Reid AI is built using a custom GPT trained on Reid Hoffman's articles, podcast interviews, speeches and books. The video is created using the platform Hour One, and the voice using ElevenLabs. This session led by Ben Relles will feature a conversation with Reid Hoffman on the impact of AI on creativity, and what Reid learned from creating an AI version of himself. In addition it will feature perspectives from the team that created the project, along with a perspective on AI and Hollywood in a discussion with Reid AI.

Speakers:

Reid Hoffman, Co-founder LinkedIn, Co-founder Inflection, Venture Capitalist, Author

Ben Relles, Content Strategy, Office of Reid Hoffman

Parth Patil, AI Specialist, Office of Reid Hoffman

Oren Aharon, CEO and Founder, Hour One

Margaret Burris, Producer, Unscripted Executive

Reid AI, Reid Hoffman's AI generated digital twin

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

AI-Powered Business Models for Media and Entertainment: Opportunities and Investment Strategies
The market caps of Hollywood studios and the “Magnificent Seven” (Alphabet/Google, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia and Tesla) are a stark tale of two cities. In 1994, the economic power of Hollywood and Tech were more or less equal. Today, the big tech 7 are worth $11.6 trillion, while the seven largest studios clock in under $400 billion— 3.45% the market value of their counterparts. AI represents a chance for M&E to harness tech to add revenue stream, decrease costs and force multiply efficiencies. This panel will present some specific examples how A&I can supercharge M&E ROI and growth.

Speakers:

Guy Gadney, CEO, Charisma.ai

Marcie Jastrow, Advisor, Shiba Inu

Virl Hill, Digital Media Leader, Former, Head of Worldwide Business Development & Strategy, Media & Entertainment, Microsoft

Matt Edelman, President and Chief Commercial Officer, Super League

Dan Goman, CEO, Ateliere Creative Technologies

Seth Shapiro, Two-time Emmy winner, Partner, Alpha Transform Holdings, Moderator

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