How Visual Tech is Fueling the Creator Economy
The future of content creation, monetization and our digital selves.
September 15, 2021, 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM ET (Online Event)
The internet used to be considered “not real life” but now, we live as much online as we do in person and this will only continue post-pandemic. We work, date, laugh with grandparents, play games, attend cooking classes, concerts, church services & dinner parties; we participate in politics, appear at court, go to school, shop, visit doctors - all via computer screens.
We find ourselves in the midst of a paradigm shift: digital is becoming another dimension of our human existence. Even post-lockdowns, on average, people are spending 13 hrs a day online. As we embrace digital life, it is only natural that we choose to represent and express ourselves in new methods online. We want to digitally express our thoughts, tastes, style, talents…our creativity.
Join us on September 15th and explore the next frontier in human existence with some of the top visionaries in this space.
Speakers
Peter Welinder
OpenAI, VP of Product & Partnerships
Rebecca Paoletti
CakeWorks, Co-Founder & CEO
Evan Nisselson
LDV Capital, Founder & General Partner
Chen Zhang
Aquifer, Co-Founder & CEO
Roy Taylor
RyFF, Founder & CEO
Liyia Wu
ShopShops, Founder & CEO
Inderbir Sidhu
TVision Insights, CTO
Michael Gormish
Clarifai, VP of Research
Victor Riparbelli
Synthesia, Co-Founder & CEO
Abby Hunter-Syed
LDV Capital, Former Partner
Azeem Khan
LDV Capital, Former Venture Fellow
Agenda
We will discuss the future for content creation over the next five years and define where the greatest business opportunities will be, including:
What types of content will businesses create: photos, video, synthetic media, animation, 3D, immersive?
What businesses are launching to support streaming pros?
How many avatars will we each have?
Are GANs the new Photoshop?
What kinds of content will be dynamic and personalized?
Are NFTs the future of content monetization?
What will we buy for our digital selves?
How will we co-exist in the physical world and the metaverse?
Our team at LDV will also give a sneak peek at the findings we will publish in our 2021 LDV Capital Insights report. Our past LDV Capital Insights reports have covered Healthcare, Logistics, Manufacturing, Agriculture, and more.
Schedule
11:00AM Introduction to LDV Capital & LDV Insights Report 2021
11:40AM Keynote by Chen Zhang, Co-Founder & CEO at Aquifer
11:45AM Keynote by Victor Riparbelli, Co-Founder & CEO at Synthesia
11:50AM Keynote by Peter Welinder, VP of Product & Partnerships at OpenAI
12:00PM Keynote by Inderbir Sidhu, CTO of TVision Insights
12:05PM Keynote by Azeem Khan, Former Venture Fellow at LDV Capital
12:10PM Keynote by Liyia Wu, Founder & CEO of ShopShops
12:15PM Fireside Chat between Rebecca Paoletti, Co-Founder & CEO at CakeWorks, and Abby Hunter-Syed, Partner at LDV Capital
12:45PM Keynote by Roy Taylor, Founder & CEO at RyFF
12:50PM Keynote by Dr. Michael Gormish, VP of Research at Clarifai
12:55PM Closing
More about our speakers
Peter Welinder, VP of Product & Partnerships at OpenAI
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company aimed to develop friendly AI in a way that benefits humanity as a whole. It was founded in late 2015 by Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and others, who collectively pledged US$1 billion. In 2020, OpenAI announced GPT-3, a language model trained on trillions of words from the Internet.
Previously, Peter was an engineer at Dropbox and ran the machine learning team, and before that, he co-founded Anchovi Labs a startup using Computer Vision to organize photos that were acquired by Dropbox in 2012.
Re/watch his keynote or read the transcript here.
Rebecca Paoletti, Co-Founder & CEO at CakeWorks
CakeWorks is a full-service video agency that utilizes the power of video to ignite sustainable, profitable, high-growth media businesses. Rebecca is an industry-leading expert in digital video strategy and monetization with 17 years of experience in digital media. She has a history of award-winning creative direction, editorial management and go-to-market strategies for portals, broadband networks and Fortune500 brands, and a proven track record in developing, driving and implementing elective online monetization strategies.
As Head of Video for Yahoo!’s North America division, she quadrupled the video revenue in less than 4 years, streamlined the playback, search and social video experiences; created two award-winning video ad formats that are now IAB-recognized standards; and pioneered a network syndication strategy across multiple platforms including mobile and Connected TV.
Roy Taylor, Founder & CEO at RyFF
RyFF has developed a pioneering, AI-driven video platform — “Placer” — that enables content-creators to tailor products, people, and other images in their video programming to individual viewers. Roy founded Ryff in 2018 and has served since its inception as president, chief executive officer, and a member of the board of directors. Previously, he was Corporate Vice President and Worldwide Head of AMD Studios based out of Hollywood.
Chen Zhang, Co-Founder & CEO at Aquifer
Aquifer is a tool to create studio-quality animation without the studio. Previously, Chen co-founded COO, an immersive story studio with a focus on 3D animated videos, and augmented and virtual reality experiences. Her team led strategy and design for groundbreaking products for Merck, Molina, AT&T, and other brands.
Victor Riparbelli, Co-Founder & CEO at Synthesia
Synthesia is bringing sci-fi to life and taking a key role in the emerging field of synthetic media. Victor and the team are developing AI-driven synthesis technology to empower content creators. Prior to founding Synthesia Victor has been involved in technology entrepreneurship for the last 10 years and has been involved in building products across many industries.
Liyia Wu, Founder & CEO at ShopShops
ShopShops is the leading livestream retail marketplace for fashion, beauty and lifestyle products. ShopShops streams with over a thousand partners, across the U.S., Middle East, Europe and Asia. By virtualizing the physical shopping experience, ShopShops is breaking down geographical boundaries for savvy customers and allowing them to shop from the palm of their hand.
Dr. Michael Gormish, VP of Research at Clarifai
Clarifai helps companies use machine learning and artificial intelligence to analyze, sort, label and organize images, videos and text. The company offers tools like Visual Search and Custom training so that anyone can train their own recognition models (on anything) and also search through them. Dr. Gormish is a pioneer in deep learning-based computer vision. He has 20 years of inventing and implementing computer vision, machine learning, image compression and image processing algorithms that are key differentiators for customers.
Inderbir Sidhu, CTO of TVision
TVision captures, at the person-level, exactly who is watching TV and CTV and how much attention they pay to the content and ads. Prior to TVision Inderbir was the CTO at Altman Vilandrie & Company where he led the Marketing Analytics product line, taking the products from the proof of concept stage to successful commercial deployment at large enterprises. Prior to that, he was a Software Architect and Engineering Manager at Brightcove. Inderbir has published in leading IEEE journals on the topics of Natural Language Processing and Genetic Algorithms. Inderbir holds a B.S. in Computer Science from York University in Toronto.
More about the LDV team.
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