Digital Hollywood: The AI & Entertainment Summit

Monday, July 20th, 2026

8 – 8:50 PM Eastern Time Zone

Session I: A Virtual Event

Super Creativity Studios: The Future of Hollywood

Hollywood has always reinvented itself, from silent films to talkies, from broadcast to cable, from DVD to streaming. But the current reinvention is different in kind, not just in degree. A confluence of breakthrough technologies is fundamentally rewriting the economics of production itself. Virtual production workflows and LED volume stages are eliminating location costs. AI-assisted VFX is compressing post-production timelines and budgets. Without question, AI plays a critical role. But real-time game engines are also replacing traditional pre-visualization. The result; low budget indie productions are viable industry contributors but on the traditional studio lot, a $220 million movie can become a $75 million movie without sacrificing the vision. In this session we bring together the producers, technologists and studio strategists who are deploying these tools in real productions today, and ask the question every financier, filmmaker and platform executive needs answered — what does the future of the Hollywood studio really look like.

Speakers:

Charlie Fink, AIXR Podcast Host, Producer, Adjunct, Chapman Univ., Author, Moderator

Jie Yang,  Chief Technical Officer and Co-Founder, Utopai Studios

Darren Frankel,  Head of Film & Television, Adobe

Diana Colella is executive vice president of Autodesk’s Entertainment & Media vertical solutions group. In this role, she manages product, strategy and execution for the company’s portfolio servicing the film, TV and games industries. Colella has been with Autodesk for more than 20 years occupying a range of leadership roles, including head of product management and worldwide support. She has extensive experience in strategically transforming business models, creating new product offerings and optimizing processes on a global scale. Most recently, she served as vice president in Autodesk’s Business Strategy and Marketing group, leading the M&E and AutoCAD businesses, which represent more than $1B in annual recurring revenue. In this role, she drove the company’s strategy for digital conversion of non-compliant users and launched One AutoCAD. She is the executive sponsor of the Autodesk Women’s Network.