Digital Hollywood: The AI & Entertainment Summit
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2025
2 – 2:50 PM Eastern Time Zone
Session I: A Virtual Event
Virtual Human Chatbots: Next Level Consciousness + Multi-Modal Engagement – A Social Experience
Virtual human chatbots transcend basic scripts, emerging as social forces with next-level consciousness—delivered through text, audio, or lifelike visuals. This session dives into 2025’s evolution: AI entities offering seamless text exchanges, voice-driven empathy, or advanced visual interactions with real-time expressions, powered by sophisticated rendering. Experts in AI, audio design, and visual effects explore the mechanics—natural language processing, speech synthesis, and facial animation systems—underpinning these multi-modal experiences. From customer service to companionship, they’re reshaping digital bonds across platforms. Attendees will assess their cultural weight: enhancing isolation or redefining connection? This is technology’s new social fabric—flexible, potent, and profoundly human.
Jennifer Quinlan, Global Managing Partner, IBM iX and Customer Transformation, Consulting Services Lead, IBM: Jennifer Quinlan is global leader and managing partner of IBM iX within IBM Consulting. She leads a team of over 23,000 creators, strategists and technologists who help the world’s most influential companies reinvent their relationships with customers, citizens, and employees through innovative experiences, digital products, and services alongside key technology partners such as Adobe, Salesforce, SAP CX, and more. Prior to her current role, Jennifer was SVP at Merkle. She holds a bachelor's degree from Northeastern University.
Amy Baril, President and CEO, Two Tango: Amy has managed the teams of Two Tango Collaborative for over seven years, and her client roster runs deep. She helped create award-winning campaigns for Sherwin-Williams, Audi, and NASDAQ, and has worked with Wounded Warrior Project, Nationwide Insurance, Kindred Healthcare, MCV Foundation, and VCU Health. Amy supports Two Tango’s client relations and contributes to overall campaign strategies.
