Variety Entertainment & Technology Summit Explores the Impact of AI on Film, TV and More

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Andrés Buenahora editor Variety’s Entertainment and Technology Summit on Sept. 26 will feature industry leaders who will discuss the impact of advancing technology on TV, film, gaming, music, digital media and consumer brands.

The one-day event, presented by City National Bank, will be hosted at The London West Hollywood. Among the guests is Eli Collins, Google DeepMind Vice President of Product Management, who will speak in the panel titled “Generative AI – Succeeding With the Genie Out of the Bottle.” He contextualizes how breakthroughs like the Transformer provided the foundation for today’s Generative AI boom, underpinning the image, video and other AI models that are disrupting the industry. “We’re going to see AI tools that serve as a creative collaborator…imagine a film that adapts its tone and pacing to match your mood, or a music playlist that evolves with your tastes throughout the day,” Collins says. “Most of us have a video camera in our pockets throughout the day; think about the stories you’ll be able to tell in a world where AI lets you transform the footage you’ve shot in any way you can imagine.” Annie Luo, EVP of Global Partnerships and Strategic Development at Peacock, will be on the “Perfecting the Business of Streaming” panel.

Her team is focused on launching innovative partnerships and cites Peacock’s deals with InstaCart and JetBlue as key examples.

She describes the streamer’s mixed virtual reality partnerships with Meta. “A growing area of the creative business we are leaning into is virtual and mixed reality with partners like Meta,” Luo says. “We have a multiyear deal that brings Peacock and iconic NBCUniversal IP into a variety of Meta’s Reality Labs surfaces, including Horizon Worlds and.