Digital Hollywood: The AI & Entertainment Summit
Conversational AI: Personality · Nuance · Emotion · Vocal Expression · Hyper-Realistic Prose
The chatbot is dead. What has replaced it is something far more sophisticated, far more human and far more consequential for every brand, platform and creative professional in this room. Conversational AI has crossed a threshold — developing genuine personality, emotional nuance, vocal expression and the ability to generate hyper-realistic prose that is increasingly indistinguishable from human writing. This is not an incremental improvement. It is a civilizational shift in how intelligence communicates. The implications for advertising, entertainment, customer experience, virtual humans and creative production are staggering and only beginning to be understood. In this roundtable we bring together the researchers, creative directors and platform leaders who are building conversational AI with genuine personality and emotional depth — and ask what it means when the machine finally learns to speak like a human
Speakers:
Keith Newman, Managing Partner, TheGTMFirm & Newman Media Studios, Inc., Moderator
Patrick Levy-Rosenthal, CEO, MetaSoul
Pat Pataranutaporn, Technologist & Researcher, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Rochester Institute of Technology School of Design,
speaker to be announced
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.
