Event to showcase the intersection of technology and entertainment with speakers from HP, NVIDIA, AMD, Sony Pictures Imageworks, Dolby, and The Belgium Economic Mission; event runs October 9–10.
Infinity Festival, led by founder & CEO Mark Lieber and CCO Adam Newman, has announced its initial lineup of featured speakers for this year.The event runs October 9–10 at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, and the newly opened Sony Pictures Imageworks Mid-Wilshire campus.
This year’s theme, “Innovators in the Age of Change,” celebrates the creators and technologists who seek to shape the future of culture, entertainment, and media from AI breakthroughs to immersive storytelling.The festival speaker lineup includes: A conversation with Michelle Wong, Producer, Jacky Priddle, VFX Producer, and Josh Beveridge, Head of Character Animation at Sony Pictures Imageworks, who will offer an inside look at , from Netflix and Sony Pictures Animation.Tomorrowland and Insomniac collaborate for UNITY.
This conversation will explore how Tomorrowland’s UNITY experience reimagines the traditional open-air festival.The Festival opening and plenary session, in attendance of HRH Princess Astrid of Belgium, will host Minister-President Matthias Diependaele, for the session “Innovators in the Age of Change.” Other speakers this year will include keynotes from Jed Harmsen, VP and GM of Cinema & Group Entertainment, Dolby Laboratories, as well as top executives at NVIDIA, HP, AMD, the Belgium Economic Mission, Dolby, AWS and the AI Studio Lab in association with ETC at USC.“Infinity Festival has always been about uniting the most innovative voices from Hollywood and Silicon Valley, and this year we’re raising the bar,” said Natalie Novak and Erik Weaver of the Infinity Festival programming team.
“From AI and gaming to immersive storytelling and studio innovation, our speakers embody the future of entertainment.We’re thrilled to create a space where bold ideas meet real-world applications to spark what’s next.”
The event will also feature the annual Monolith Awards.
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