The Evening Keynote Roundtables

Monday, July 20th - Wednesday, July 22nd, 2026

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

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Registration will Open, June 1, 2026

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The Pre-Keynote Events Creativity Roundtables

Monday, July 20th, 2026

5 PM - 5:50 PM

The Kling Roundtable: The AI Creativity Visionaries
An exclusive virtual fireside with 2–3 leading creative visionaries shaping AI-driven content in 2026–2030. Through live demos of cutting-edge tools, candid strategy sessions, and unfiltered vision, we explore how cinematic storytelling, brand experiences, and super creativity collide with artificial intelligence. No soft platitudes—just provocative conversations and bold takes on the future of human-AI collaboration. In the hands of the most creative storytellers, AI and virtual production are going to unleash a new and larger entertainment industry: an industry of Super Creativity. Serious dialogue only.

6:00 PM - 6:50 PM Eastern Time Zone

The AI Royalty Marketplace: Licensing, Monetization & Rev-Share
For the past two years, the AI content creation explosion has raised one unavoidable question — who gets paid? Users have embraced AI as a creative platform for everything from writing and imagery to music composition and full film scores. But the training data that makes all of it possible came from somewhere — and the creators, rights holders and content owners who provided it are demanding their share. The entertainment and technology industries are locked in a classic struggle to balance innovation against compensation, and the courts are only part of the answer. A robust marketplace of AI data royalties, licensing agreements, micro-payments and revenue sharing models is emerging from the negotiation. This is not just a legal conversation. It is the future architecture of the creative economy.

The Evening Keynote Roundtables

Monday, July 20th, 2026

8:00 PM – 8:50 PM:  Eastern Time Zone

Session I:

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.

Session II:

Hollywood IP: The Creativity Engine: Film · TV · Video · Games · Social Media

Hollywood has always been the world's greatest IP factory — from the golden age of cinema to the golden age of television to the birth of the blockbuster franchise. But today the platforms have changed everything. The insatiable appetite of YouTube, Netflix, TikTok, Instagram, Roblox and every emerging social and gaming universe is forcing Hollywood's greatest brands to rethink, reinvent and reposition across every screen simultaneously. Dominance on one platform is no longer enough. The new goal is total platform presence — film, television, video, games and social media all feeding the same IP universe. In this roundtable we bring together the producers, studio strategists, game designers and platform leaders who are building Hollywood's next creative empire across every screen on the planet.

Session III:

In the Age of AI Slop, Quality is the New Currency

Every director, showrunner, and creative executive is asking the same question right now: how do you make something that actually cuts through the slop? We have more tools than ever, more data than ever, and somehow more slop than ever. In this panel we bring together the people who are reading the cultural signals in real time alongside the creatives who are acting on them, to have an honest conversation about what quality means when AI can fake everything… except for taste. In a world that demands more content every single second, how do you protect what you've built while finding new revenue? How do you use viewership and culture data to reinforce value? How do you back the right horse from the beginning so the quality speaks for itself?

9:00 PM – 9:50 PM: Eastern Time Zone

Session I:

Cinematic AI Achievement: An Extraordinary Standard of Excellence

Something extraordinary is happening in the world of Cinematic AI — and the evidence is on the screen. What began as an experiment in generated imagery has evolved into a genuine artistic movement, producing work of breathtaking visual beauty, emotional depth and narrative sophistication. The tools have matured. The artists have found their voice. And the results are redefining what cinema can be and who gets to make it. In this roundtable we celebrate and examine the highest standard of achievement in Cinematic AI — screening work from the most gifted filmmakers pushing the boundaries of the form, and asking the questions that matter most. What does excellence look like in this new era? Who is setting the standard? And what comes next?

Session II:

Brand + Network + Agency + Technology = Next Level of Strategies & Partnerships
The global influence and partnerships between “Brands, Networks and Agencies” are reaching new levels of complexity and empowerment with the further developments and deployment of AI and ML technologies. On the one hand, consumer personalization has always been at the forefront in decision making, but now with the addition of powerful and direct AI engagement with consumers, which is only at its formative stages, will likely emerge as something of a breakthrough “Brand/Consumer Co-Pilot Relationship.” And in the world of immersive content experiences, AI as a “Creative Partner” is taking the ideation and production process to an entirely next level experience. In this roundtable, we bring together the executives deeply involved in exploring and delivering on this promise.

The Evening Keynote Roundtables

Tuesday, July 21st, 2026

8:00 PM - 8:50 PM:  Eastern Time Zone

Session I:

Hollywood Visionaries: Building Worlds Beyond Boundaries

Hollywood's boldest creative visionaries are building worlds that didn't exist yesterday and will define entertainment tomorrow. These are the filmmakers, showrunners, game creators and immersive storytellers who have never accepted the boundaries of the possible — and who now have access to an arsenal of AI, VFX, XR and CGI tools that would have seemed like science fiction a decade ago. The result is a new era of blockbuster ambition where the only limit is the imagination of the artist holding the tools. In this roundtable we bring together the legendary creative minds who are forging the storytelling experiences of tomorrow — from the silver screen to the gaming universe, from streaming platforms to fully immersive worlds. What sparks a blockbuster? What drives the visionary fire? This is where we find out.

Session II:

Reasoning Models are Rewriting Hollywood: The Deep Dive
Average reasoning token consumption per organization increased 320X in the past twelve months according to OpenAI. We’re seeing an actual structural shift, and it is happening inside the workflows of the people across all sectors of the industry whether they are paying attention or not. This panel is for the professionals who are already using AI day to day and want to go deeper. Not the demo version. Not the press release version. The real version. What actually happens when reasoning models get embedded into creative workflows, visual tools, and production pipelines used by working writers, directors, producers, and technologists? The people who are figuring this out are quietly rebuilding how they work from the inside out, and the gap between them and everyone else is widening every quarter. This is where you find out what they know.

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

Session I:

The Intelligent Consumer: Conversational AI – The Engagement Engine

The consumer has changed forever — and the brands and agencies that understand this first will own the next decade. Conversational AI has fundamentally transformed the relationship between a brand and its audience, turning every screen, every platform and every touchpoint into an intelligent, responsive and deeply personalized engagement opportunity. This is not the chatbot of five years ago. This is a sophisticated Engagement Engine — capable of understanding intent, anticipating need, expressing genuine personality and delivering experiences that feel less like advertising and more like conversation. The executives in this roundtable are at the forefront of deploying conversational AI at scale — for the world's most powerful brands, across the most influential platforms. The consumer is smarter than ever. The question is whether the brands can keep up.

Session II:

The Creator Economy & Unique Vision: Algos, Analytics & Monetization

The "Creator Economy" has effectively slayed the giant of "Hollywood Entertainment" with a combination of YouTube and a host of Social Media platforms — and there is a "Secret Sauce," a massive black box of AIs, Algos and Analytics. With billions of dollars at stake, this session looks to explore the intricacies of social media's inner workings. From the role of AI and machine learning to the impact of user behavior and feedback loops, we'll examine the complex systems that shape the online landscape. But the secret sauce is more than technology — it is vision, voice and the relentless ability to build and own an audience. By demystifying the algorithms, we'll uncover the hidden patterns and principles that govern success in the Creator Economy — and provide creators and executives with the insights they need to thrive.

The Evening Keynote Roundtables

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2026

8:00 PM - 8:50 PM:  Eastern Time Zone

Session I:

The Intelligence Economy: Demand & Investment in AI, Compute, Energy & Software

Let's first familiarize ourselves with the notion of "Compute" as a descriptor of the baseline of our future economy. "Compute" represents the fundamental infrastructure that underpins the AI-driven world, encompassing the complex interplay of hardware, software, and energy. So that a city, region, country or group of countries strategically develop their economies around the notion of "Compute," that strategy will indicate the readiness of that entity to provide services to its populations and compete within this vision of the modern world. And what of the critics who warn of AI's insatiable energy appetite? The industry has answered decisively — every Data Center will develop and fund its own energy source, selling surplus power directly back into the consumer grid. AI doesn't drain the grid. It feeds it. We are entering a Re-Defined World and the Compute-driven global economy is its foundation.

Session II:

Super Creativity and Visual World-Building: When AI Masters Real Physics

For the first time in the history of visual storytelling, artificial intelligence is mastering the fundamental laws of the physical world — light, gravity, fluid dynamics, atmospheric pressure, the way fabric moves in wind, the way water catches fire at sunset. This is not CGI approximation. This is AI that understands physics at a molecular level and renders it with a fidelity that challenges the human eye to find the difference between the generated and the real. The implications for cinema, gaming, architecture, advertising and immersive experience design are staggering. In this roundtable we bring together the visual world-builders who are already working at this frontier — the artists, engineers and creative directors for whom Super Creativity and real physics are no longer separate conversations.

Session III:

The Infinite Remix: What Happens When AI Floods the World with Catalog Versions and Covers

What if there were suddenly ten AI versions of "Hotel California" in five different genres, eight fresh takes on "Country Roads," and a dozen new interpretations of "O Holy Night" every holiday season — all generated in minutes? It is no longer a hypothetical. As agentic AI tools make high-quality covers and catalog remixes effortless, the floodgates are open. Rights holders collect royalties they never anticipated. Streaming platforms fill with familiar sounds in unfamiliar arrangements. And somewhere in the noise, the working songwriter and the original voice struggle to be heard. This panel examines the strange new arithmetic of an AI-saturated music landscape — who wins, who disappears, and whether a world of infinite remixes leaves any room for something genuinely new.

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

Session I:

The Agentic Moment: Bringing AI Agents to the Desktop – What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

As Jensen Huang recently observed, the arrival of Agentic AI is as significant a moment as the launch of ChatGPT in 2022. It arrived quietly. No fanfare, no government warning, no prime-time news alert. One morning you woke up and your desktop had a new tenant — an AI Agent capable of browsing, deciding, executing and acting on your behalf across every application, every platform and every transaction in your digital life. Welcome to the Agentic Moment. The most significant shift in human-computer interaction since the invention of the mouse has arrived — and nobody fully understands the implications yet. Who is the Agent working for? How does it make decisions? What happens when it's wrong? And what happens when it's right in ways you didn't anticipate? What could possibly go wrong?

Session II:

Training the “Stanley Kubrick - Charlie Kaufman” AI: Creativity, Ethics & the Limits of Intelligence

What would happen if an AI were trained on the entire life's work of Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Quentin Tarantino, Stanley Kubrick, Billy Wilder and John Ford? That would be like handing an intelligence the Keys to the Hollywood Kingdom — the finest in cinematography, screenwriting, humor, drama and editing ever committed to film. And even with that extraordinary assemblage of greatness as its foundation, would an AI with a near-Einstein level mind be able to create — even with professional human assistance — a truly great work of cinema? This is not an idle question. In a world racing toward Artificial General Intelligence, it is a question we may very soon have to answer. The ethics, the creativity and the limits of machine intelligence are on trial in this roundtable.