AI Virtual Humans 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 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

Dave Clark, Award-Winning, Film Maker & Creative Director

Tyler Cohen, Creative Director, Experience, Tool

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

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Session II:

Session Hosted by SAG-AFTRA

The Clones Have Arrived! What You Need to Know

In the entertainment industry, technology should be the tool, not the star. In 2023, SAG-AFTRA and WGA battled AI in an historic dual-strike that resulted in groundbreaking protections. But the fight is far from over as Capitol Hill and state houses across the country grapple with what's coming. What protections has SAG-AFTRA achieved in its collective bargaining agreements? What do existing state laws say? What is coming in the states? What is being proposed by the federal government?

Speakers:

Jessica Johnson, National Director of Entertainment Contracts, SAG-AFTRA
Doug Mirell, Partner, Greenberg Glusker Fields Claman & Machtinger LLP
Sue-Anne Morrow, National Director of Contract Strategic Initiatives & Podcasts, SAG-AFTRA

Dade Hayes, Business Editor, Deadline, Moderator
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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

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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

Momo Wang, Animation & Creative Director, Illumination Entertainment

Jason Zada, founder, Secret Level

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

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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

Michael Olaye, EVP, Managing Director, Hero Digital

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

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

Annie Hanlon, Co-founder, Playbook PLBK, Moderator

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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

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Session III:

Cinematic AI: A World of Tools and Technology

The operative word is “Creativity!” While AI may provide amazing tools to enhance, expand, accelerate and even, to use a troublesome notion, to “Synthesize” the creative process, at its core, Cinematic AI is about “Storytelling,” and at least for the moment, the human touch is very much “At the Controls” of assembling an artistic cinematic vision. While the creation of some musical tasks and even individual images can approach human level creativity, for the moment, “Storytelling” is a bit more complex. In this session, we will hear from creators and technologists who are at the forefront in the application of “Cinematic AI Tools.”

Speakers:

Evo Heyning, CEO, Realitycraft

Emily Golden, Head of Growth Marketing, Runway

Vova Ovsiienko, Business Development Executive, Respeecher

Russell Palmer, CEO & Co-Founder of CyberFilm AI

Joanna Popper, Former Chief Metaverse Officer, CAA, Moderator

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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, Group Creative Director, Creative Technology, PXP Studios, Publicis Groupe

Candice Alger, Executive Producer and Member of Advisory Board, Wild Capture

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

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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.

Tim Moore, CEO and Co-Founder, Vū Technologies

Kathryn Brillhart, Cinematographer, Director, and Producer

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

Irad Eyal, CEO, Quickture

Eliot Mack, CEO, Lightcraft Technology

Jocelyn Wexler, Development Executive, Wild Sheep

Erik Barmack, Founder/CEO, Wild Sheep Content

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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"

Isaac Bratzel, CEO, AvatarOS

Sally Slade, Lead XR Technical Artist, Genies

Eduardo Yeh, CEO, The Digital Audrey Hepburn Collection

Sarah Parnicky, Innovation and Operations Director, Mawari

Matthew Chavira, Business Development Manager, Hanson Robotics, “Sophia"

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

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Session II:

AI Music Monetization: DeepMind’s Dreamtrack, The Grimes AI Strategy: Let’s Go 50-50%

There’s no way to slow down the explosion of AI created music. It’s here, it’s now and everyone, young and old have become AI Sound Engineers by the hundreds of thousands. So as the ocean of new music arrives, the idea of “AI Music & Monetization” has now become front and center. For example, Google’s DeepMind recently unveiled DreamTrack, an AI system allowing customizable music generation via text prompts. Their partnership with the music label EMI hints at future platforms streamlining rights-cleared AI music tailored to user taste. Such tools could enable independent musicians, creative agencies, and brands to license bespoke soundtracks on-demand. Along the same lines, the famous musician Grimes is exploring equally disruptive models, granting fans collective ownership in her AI-assisted compositions through NFTs and decentralization. It’s only the start, but with music AI software getting better and better, the market is ripe for legal monetization strategies to emerge.

Speakers:

Daouda Leonard, founder and CEO, CreateSafe

Anthony Ramirez, Partner, Technology Transactions Group, Morrison Foerster

Alex Mitchell, CEO, Boomy

Karen Allen, CEO & Co-Founder, Infinite Album

Joanna Popper, Former Chief Metaverse Officer, CAA, Moderator

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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 and Doctor of Design Program, Florida International University

Ulrike Kerber, Principal and Creative Director, Viva Design

Sandu Baciu, founder, Baciu Co.

Curt Doty, Founder, RealmIQ, Moderator

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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
Dade Orgeron, Vice President, 3D Innovation, Shutterstock

Quinn Hallec, Director/Producer, Tool (“Sigma_001”)
Emily Golden, Head of Growth Marketing, Runway
Marco Paglia, Chief Product Officer, Musixmatch

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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

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1 PM – 1:50 PM - Eastern Time Zone

Session IV:

The AI Breakthrough: Establishing a New Art Form - Algorithmic, Poetic Computation and Digital Art

What does it mean for art when creativity intersects unbounded computation? New frontiers emerge. As algorithms dance with imagination, revolutionary artifacts are the result. We witness math-derived beauty, code-constructed consciousness, silicon muses. The origins of these ideas trace to pioneers like John Whitney animating to electronic beats in 1960s Los Angeles or Frieder Nake algorithmically auto-drawing alongside Andy Warhol's Pop Art ascent. And today, we must look to and thank Zach Lieberman of MIT, for his seminal contribution to the field of algorithmic, poetic computation, and digital experiences. Today, there are an unlimited number of artists and adventurers experimenting in algorithmic and poetic computation. In this session we honor this magnificent tradition.

Anna Marie Piersimoni, Artist & Adjunct Professor, Department of Cinema and Television Arts, California State University, Northridge, Moderator

Juliana Loh, Award-winning Immersive Artist/Designer

Noah Taublieb, Sound Designer, Music Composer & Audio Editor

Dan Novy, Assistant Professor of Emerging Media Arts, Johnny Carson Center, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Patrick Donoghue, AI Innovation Leader | Emmy Award-Winning Creator | Expert in VR & AR

Tranel Bland, Senior Virtual Production Stage Operator, NEP/ Halon / Lux Machina

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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

Matilde Mariano, Creative Director, Designer, Architect, MOLNM
Evan Pesses, Co-founder | Head of Studio, Wild Capture

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

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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)

John Son, Global Marketing Manager, DeepBrain AI

Abran Maldonado & Virtual Human Claira, Create Labs Ventures

Pat Pataranutaporn, Technologist & Researcher, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Louisa Spring, Innovation and Strategy Lead, T-Mobile, AI, VR, AR, Moderator

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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 & Products = The Retail Transformation.” From the multi-faceted ad campaigns to the online retail, including the In-Store and product 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

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Session II:

Arrival of Virtual Humans: Retail Engagement, Entertainment & Media, Customer Service, Training & Education
Both OpenAI and Google have made major announcements about their new “Multimodal AIs,” which can converse like the OS from the movie “Her.” This marks the arrival of Virtual Human technology with advanced Operating Systems. Granted this technology is still early stage, we are seeing “Lifelike Human Voice and Nuance” and “Lifelike Human Interaction” become more real by the day. Voice interfaces have come a long way since Alexa, becoming a key way for people to interact with AI. This simultaneously creates a new opportunities and new tensions between human creators and AI technologists. This session will explore how Real and Virtual Humans in fields like Retail, Entertainment, Customer Service, and Training are adapting to a multi-modal future.
Speakers:

Carin Gilfry, Co-founder/Vice President, National Association of Voice Actors

Shyamala Prayaga, Senior Software Product Manager, NVIDIA

Noelle Russell, Chief AI Officer, AI Leadership Institute

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

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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:

Hannah Stouffer, Art Director and Visual Artist, Moderator
Robert Lester, Creative Director and Technologist
Clayton Weishaar, Creative Director, Wrld Space
Christian Holland (SUBHOLLAND), 360° Visual Artist and Creative Project Manager

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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.

Justin Hochberg, CEO, Virtual Brand Group, "Barbi AI on Roblox"

Randi Seiff, CEO/President & Co-Founder, Treun House Atelier

Adrian Whant, founder & CEO, MyOutlet AI

Jordan Robinson, Director of Immersive & Partnerships, Degen Distillery

Ola Sher, AI Artist and Content Creator

REO, Visual Artist, Music Producer

Cynthia Lieberman, founder, LieberComm

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Session II:

The Legal Implications of Chatbots & Virtual Human Discussion

As chatbots and virtual humans become increasingly integrated into our daily lives, a complex web of legal implications arise. In this session, we will explore the legal considerations surrounding the development, deployment, and interaction with these AI-powered entities. Our panel will delve into topics such as data privacy, intellectual property, liability for AI-generated content, and the ethical consequences of human-AI interaction. While our current legal landscape may be more focused on customer service and retail advice, the future of human to virtual human interaction suggests an increasingly complex world of personal dependance, relationship in the form of AI girl and boyfriends, personal healthcare advice beyond “WebMD” and Virtual Humans providing psychological care. In time, complex Virtual Human services will be commonplace, and its legal implications will be exceedingly interesting.

Speakers:

Amy Gajda, Jeffrey D. Forchelli Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School

Julie Krosnicki, Legal Director, IP & Product, Reddit

Lydia Ansari, Principal Corporate Counsel, Microsoft

Tre Lovell, Principal, The Lovell Firm

Meeka Bondy, Senior Counsel, Technology Transactions & Privacy Group and Co-Chair, Film and TV Group, Perkins Coie LLP. Moderator

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Session III:

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.

Gregor Hofer, CEO, Speech Graphics and Rapport

Mike Gioia, Co-Founder, Pickaxe

Curt Doty, Founder, RealmIQ

Dr. Cecelia Alm, Artificial Intelligence Program Director, Rochester Institute of Technology School of Design

Patrick Levy-Rosenthal, CEO, MetaSoul

Jason Mars, Professor of Computer Science, University of Michigan, President, Jaseci Labs

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

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5 PM – 5:50 PM - Eastern Time Zone

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:

Jessica Wynter Martin, Founder & CEO, JWM Concepts LLC

Jon Henson, Talent Manager, Underscore Talent Management

Christian Pierre, Chief Technology Officer, GUT
Erick Opeka, President and Chief Strategy Officer, Cineverse

Tinashe Chaponda, CEO, Sosani, Moderator

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 & Threats, Bias & Rights

VI: Track Six: AI Fashion & Design

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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

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