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CREATING WITH INTELLIGENCE
AI has blown open the doors to creation. But when anyone can create and content is abundant, what makes creative work actually matter? This year, your ticket to TheGrill gets you two days of programming, starting with AI Creator Day on September 29. AI has put tools once reserved for studios, agencies and production companies into the hands of individuals. We’ll spend the day exploring what that shift means for creativity, and why originality, taste, trust, identity and human connection still matter.
AI Creator Day is co-hosted by Shira Lazar, Founder, CEO & Host of What’s Trending, who has spent two decades at the forefront of the creator economy and digital culture. A TIME100 Creator and Emmy-nominated expert, her work today spans AI, emerging technology, creator businesses and advocacy. - Prem Akkaraju, CEO, Stability AI
- Jon Flynn, Head of FoxNXT, FOX Entertainment
- Oren Rosenbaum, Partner & Co-Head, UTA Creators
- Rebecca Zamolo, Creator, Entrepreneur, Author & Founder, MOLO Fertility; Matt Slays, Creator, Musician, Producer & Entrepreneur
- Jesse Wellens, Filmmaker, Creator & AI Innovator; Taryn Southern, AI Strategist; Bernie Su, Head of Creative, Pickford
- Vincent Marcus, Content Creator, Comedian & Social Media Influencer; Katherine Rundell, Senior Director of Partnerships, Cantina
- Chris M. Williams, Founder & CEO, pocket.watch; Colin Petrie-Norris, Founder & CEO,
Fairground; David Bianchi, Actor, Producer & Director
- Caleb Ward, Co-Founder, Curious Refuge
- James Douglas, VP, Experience Center (Creator Economy and Gaming), IAB; Karen Robinson, SVP & Deputy General Counsel, Adobe Inc.; Rebecca Grone, Head of Impact, 11:11 Media
- Nik Kleverov, Co-Founder & CCO, Native Foreign
- Dorothy Pang, Creative Director & AI Filmmaker; Ana Kley, Creators & Partnerships Operations Lead, CapCut
- Verena Puhm, Founder & CEO, Matriarch; Chris Capel, Filmmaker; Jagger Waters, Writer, Storyteller & AI Creator
- Don Allen III, Director, A.R.T.; Jenny Stojkovic, Co-host, The AI Download; Maverick Maltin, Creator & Founder, MavGPT
- Darin Stewart, Director, The Arc; Simone Ferretti, Executive Producer, The Arc
What are we talking about, chat?
- Studio-level creative power without studio-sized budgets
- How creators are actually using AI tools in their workflows
- What it takes to make an AI-powered series from concept to screen
- The growing questions around authorship, ownership, consent and authenticity
- How agencies are building and scaling the next generation of creator businesses
- Hollywood’s push to upskill creative talent for an AI-powered future
- What YouTube’s first generation of creators thinks is working, overhyped and worth watching
- The impact of AI on storytelling, production and entertainment business models
- Where brands and creators are getting AI partnerships right, and wrong
- How creators are using AI to scale production, monetization and growth
- The potential for AI to take
creator characters, ideas and IP beyond the feed
- Plus screenings, demos and live workflow breakdowns showing how creators are putting these tools to work now
Come curious. Leave inspired. Spend the day seeing what others are building, learning how they’re doing it and finding new ways to put those ideas to work in your own creative process. One ticket to TheGrill gets you two
days. Join us for AI Creator Day on September 29 at UCLA’s Freud Playhouse, then TheGrill on September 30 at the DGA Theater, where Hollywood’s leaders come together to talk about the
business of entertainment. One ticket. Two days. Two stages. P.S. We see you lurking, but we’d rather see you IRL. Readers get 20% off with code REGISTERED20
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