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NFT2As AI becomes increasingly embedded in content production, this session explores how factual producers and production teams are using emerging technologies to bring ambitious real-world stories to life with limited budgets.
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NFT3Beyond today’s AI hype, what technologies are set to reshape the creative industries next? This forward-looking session explores the emerging tools, platforms and breakthroughs on the horizon — from AI and automation to spatial computing, virtual production and whatever comes next. Hear from the innovators looking beyond the current landscape and discover what the future of creative production could look like.
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NFT1Eline Van der Velden, founder and CEO of Particle 6 and the creative force behind the much-discussed AI-generated actor Tilly Norwood, joins the AI Creative Summit for an exclusive keynote conversation exploring what happens when artificial intelligence moves from a production tool to a creative collaborator.
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NFT3Ready to put AI to work? Join Brett Danton, Leon Dean and Ryan Phillips for a fast-paced, hands-on storytelling workshop that explores how AI can take an idea from a spark of inspiration to something you can actually see on screen. Expect creative challenges, practical techniques, live experimentation and plenty of “what if we tried this?” moments. Come with an idea, leave with a story — and a few new tricks for your creative toolkit.
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NFT2Animation is entering a whole new world. As technology evolves at breakneck speed, creators are finding themselves in uncharted territory—but three trailblazing filmmakers are already successfully charting the course. -
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NFT1AI is rapidly changing the way visual effects are created, delivered, and managed. From automating labour-intensive tasks like rotoscoping and clean-up to accelerating asset creation, compositing, and post-production workflows, UK VFX studios are exploring how AI can improve efficiency while maintaining the creative standards demanded by premium film and television productions.
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NFT3Could AI help reignite the UK’s post-production industry? Leaders from production, broadcast and post will explore how AI can enhance workflows, boost efficiency and unlock new creative opportunities. The discussion will examine the impact on skills, talent and client expectations, as well as the challenges around trust, provenance and creative responsibility. Most importantly, what can the UK do now to turn AI into a competitive advantage for post-production? -
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NFT2This session explores the critical guardrails needed as artificial intelligence integrates into the screen industries. It examines the four pillars of responsible AI adoption: stopping low-quality "AI slop" from polluting content pipelines, securing data privacy, embedding sustainability within the production process, and dismantling invisible biases baked into creative algorithms. Together, the panel outlines how the creative sector can embrace technological innovation while protecting its ethical, human-centred values. -
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NFT1AWS's Visual Computing team and EngineLab, an AWS Media & Entertainment Specialist Partner, tackle the dilemma facing studios today: trying AI is easy, but trusting it with a client's IP isn't. Unapproved models, unstable workflows, hardware scarcity and untraceable outputs all stand between a promising test and real client work. Together, they'll show how EngineLab AI, a managed generative AI platform built on AWS, closes that gap. It's deployed in the studio's own cloud, never trained on studio content and fully compatible with ComfyUI, giving every artist its full power so they can spend their time being creative, not fixing tools.

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NFT3With millions of views explosive across social media, the viral success of AI-generated time-traveller Chloe Vs History proves that synthetic characters have the power to deeply captivate young minds. ... -
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NFT2As AI open us new possibilities for storytelling how can we create experiences, environments and scenarios that have previously been impossible to prohibitively expensive? In this exclusive session th ... -
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NFT1How can filmmakers harness AI without letting technology dictate the creative process? Wonder Studios’ Justin Hackney and filmmaker/editor Hal Watmough discuss their work and the vital importance of c ... -
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NFT3A practical live workshop showing how production companies can use AI to turn the files and workflows they already rely on into bespoke software that saves time, improves how the business runs or helps win more work. Across two live builds, Jack Jones, Emma Corbett and Jayme Baggio will move from idea to working software, refining each result in real time and demonstrating how teams can apply the same approach themselves.
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NFT1The AI hype cycle is clearing, leaving tech leaders with the practical challenge of building tools that actually work at scale. In this session, technology executives from major broadcasters, independ ... -
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NFT3Isabel and Guy have spent their careers balancing creative media and technology. This session shares the experiences of creativity and filmmaking with AI, focusing on Isabel's roles with NASA, DDB, Wunderman and Meta, and her recent films like Soledad which she will show and discuss how AI can be used to become more creative, to experiment, to make mistakes, to fail, and ultimately to go beyond what we already know how to do.
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NFT2AI is rapidly transforming the way stories are conceived, produced and performed — but where does that leave the human artistry at the heart of filmmaking?
Join acclaimed actress Alice Krige, award-winning director Andy de Emmony for a powerful conversation about protecting actors, their identities and their creative contribution in an AI-driven industry.
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NFT1This thought-provoking panel brings together leaders from across media, entertainment and film to examine the policy, regulatory and industry challenges shaping the future of AI. As businesses move fr ... -
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NFT3As artificial intelligence transitions from an experimental tool into a core business reality, media organizations are rewriting the playbook for corporate strategy, asset management, and talent devel ... -
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NFT2What happens when you design a world but let AI control the story? Tom Paton, filmmaker and founder of AiMation Studios, joins us to discuss the future of entertainment. He dives into Non Player Comba ... -
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NFT1As AI reshapes film and TV, the industry’s ultimate strength remains its people. Moving past the tech hype, this panel explores how to equip creative and production teams with the baseline literacy needed to work confidently alongside emerging technologies. Bringing together leaders from higher education, grassroots talent development, and hands-on production, the panel will outline real-world strategies for upskilling the existing workforce, establishing scalable industry-education partnerships, and building inclusive talent pathways to transition the next generation seamlessly from training to employment.
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NFT3Pioneering AI filmmakers take us behind the scenes of their latest projects, sharing the creative thinking, tools and techniques bringing their stories to life. From concept and prompting to productio ... -
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NFT1Join industry veterans David Barron (Harry Potter), Simon Rumley (Fashionista), and Producer and Innovator Nick Price as they pull back the curtain on their ground-breaking new feature, The Call of th ... -
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