The Peter Csathy Sessions: The April Roundtable: A Virtual Event

Video and AI: The Transformation of Hollywood

Special Guest Speakers

Thobey Campion, founder of Lore Machine

Rachel Joy Victor, co-founder, FBRC.AI

Zac Ryder. co-founder, Modern Arts

Benjamin Palmer, Co-Founder & CEO, The New Computer Corporation®

Hosted by: Peter Csathy, Media, Entertainment, AI & Tech Expert

Thobey Campion the founder of Lore Machine, a visualization system that transforms story text into multimedia adventures. Thobey is the former head of digital at VICE Media and founder of Motherboard. He has won 32 awards for his projects including 13 Webbys, 2 Clios and a Cannes Lion. He lives in Glendale, California where he writes stories and builds software with his trusty cat Megabyte.

Rachel Joy Victor is the co-founder of FBRC.AI, a company focused on creating AI-supported tools for the future of content production--from films to games to location-based experiences. Rachel's work as a designer, strategist, and worldbuilder for emerging technologies (XR/AI/web3) focuses on creating cohesive narrative, brand, and product experiences. She designs for a range of applications: from multiplatform narratives and gaming experiences, to tools and platforms, to spaces and cities. She draws from her education in computational neuroscience and spatial economics to facilitate the creation of data-informed emergent experience where world simulation, systems design, and cognitive architectures intersect. Rachel’s clients have included Disney, HBO, Technicolor, Vans, Ford, Nike, Havas, Meow Wolf, Niantic, and many more.

Zac Ryder is the co-founder of Modern Arts, a new kind of a new kind of creative partner for brands that combines the imagination and expertise of storytellers from across entertainment with the strategic thinking and creative vision of a world class agency. Together with the rest of the Modern Arts team, Zac helps ambitious brands engage audiences like never before, with a particular focus on creating scalable IP that translates into vast content ecosystems. Their most recent project is a first of its kind AI-generated comic book written in collaboration with the Emmy winning writer of Netflix’sLove, Death and Robots for HP’s Omen gaming brand. Prior to starting Modern Arts, Zac co-founded The Lab at Anonymous Content, the brand studio inside the Oscar and Emmy winning production and management company. During his nearly six years at Anonymous, Zac worked in collaboration with top producers, filmmakers, screenwriters and actors from across the Anonymous universe to create several groundbreaking branded projects. Among the most recognized are FULL BLEED, Adobe’s Tribeca X winning TV series about breakthrough creative projects in history and the provocative documentary WE ARE AYENDA for WhatsApp about the Afghan Girls National Football team’s escape from the Taliban.

Peter Csathy, Media, Entertainment, AI & Tech Expert, Chairman, Creative Media: Peter is a leading international media, entertainment, AI and tech expert who has worn just about every “hat” in his 30+ year career that spans both traditional and tech-driven media. He is a frequent speaker, writes a weekly column about media, entertainment, AI and tech in TheWrap, hosts a major music podcast series on Consequence, and has written several best-selling industry books. Peter is Chairman of Creative Media, a boutique media, entertainment, AI and technology business advisory and legal services firm. He previously served as CEO and President of several pioneering media-tech companies with successful exits. He also spent several years as a senior executive at Universal Studios where he negotiated over $3 billion in deals. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School and began his career as an entertainment and intellectual property attorney representing major media companies and artists, including ground-breaking rap group N.W.A.

Benjamin Palmer, Co-Founder & CEO, The New Computer Corporation®: Benjamin quit school for Physics when he saw the first web browser, and has been making new Internet ever since. He founded and led the creative/innovation agency Barbarian Group from 2001–2016. The multidisciplinary agency was a potent combination of emerging media, radical new content & interaction design, technology innovation, and product design. He has won virtually every award in the creative industry, including twice winning the coveted Cannes Grand Prix. He is now CEO and Co-Founder of The New Computer Corporation®, a product studio focused on content discovery, advertising technology, and teleportation. 

Stewart Copeland, The Police

Alex Ebert, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros

Stewart Copeland has spent more than three decades at the forefront of contemporary music, as a rock star and acclaimed film composer, and across the worlds of opera, ballet, chamber, and world music. Recruiting Sting and Andy Summers in 1977, Copeland is renowned as the founder of The Police, a band that became a defining force in rock music from the 80s to the present day. His career includes the sale of more than 60 million records worldwide and numerous awards, including seven Grammy awards—most recently a 2023 Grammy for Best Immersive
Audio Album and a 2022 Best New Age award for Divine Tides, a collaboration with Indian musician Ricky Kej.He has composed dozens of film and tv scores, including Francis Coppola’s Rumblefish, Oliver Stone’s Wall St. and Talk Radio, Simpatico, The Pallbearer, Boys, Earth Girls are Easy, Silent Fall, Highlander II—The Quickening, The Equalizer, Dead Like Me, and Boys and Girls, among many others. In 2007 Copeland was honored as the Chevalier de l'ordre des Arts in Paris and will be on the Jury at the Cannes International Series Festival, Canneseries, in France this April 2023. Copeland’s operatic works include two based on the works of Edgar Allen Poe---The Cask of Amontillado and The Tell-Tale Heart; The Invention of Morel, a surreal 2017 chamber opera which premiered at Chicago Opera Theatre; Electric Saint, a 2021 Weimar DNT premiere; Satan’s Fall—an oratorio based on Milton’s Paradise Lost, which was performed across the U.S. in 2021 with UK and European performances still to come; and The Witches Seed, his new collaboration with creative partner and Pretenders lead singer/songwriter Chrissie Hynde.   

Peter Csathy, Media, Entertainment, AI & Tech Expert, Chairman, Creative Media: Peter is a leading international media, entertainment, AI and tech expert who has worn just about every “hat” in his 30+ year career that spans both traditional and tech-driven media. He is a frequent speaker, writes a weekly column about media, entertainment, AI and tech in TheWrap, hosts a major music podcast series on Consequence, and has written several best-selling industry books. Peter is Chairman of Creative Media, a boutique media, entertainment, AI and technology business advisory and legal services firm. He previously served as CEO and President of several pioneering media-tech companies with successful exits. He also spent several years as a senior executive at Universal Studios where he negotiated over $3 billion in deals. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School and began his career as an entertainment and intellectual property attorney representing major media companies and artists, including ground-breaking rap group N.W.A.