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Creative Control: Premium AI Meets the Big Screen

Monday 22 June, 13:15–13:45

Duration: 30 mins
Location: Debussy Theatre, The Palais

Description:

AI is everywhere in advertising, and audiences are already pushing back. Not against the technology itself, but against how it’s often used.

This session tackles questions the industry can’t avoid: how do we use AI without losing craft, authorship and trust? What does creative control look like across technology, production, brand and media? How can AI meet the standards of the big screen?

Bringing together leaders from cinema, creative technology, filmmaking and brand marketing, the session explores how AI can be used with creative control, not as a shortcut. Using cinema as the ultimate benchmark, it shows how premium AI, guided by human intent and discipline, can elevate brand storytelling and deliver creative expression worthy of the big screen.

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Your guide to the pioneers, technologies and transformations already shaping tomorrow.

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Speaking
  • Kathryn Jacob OBE

    SAWA

    Author, SAWA President, and Pearl & Dean CEO

  • Joaquín Cuenca

    Freepik

    Founder & CEO

  • Billy Bohan Chinique

    Virgin Voyages

    VP, Marketing & Digital Innovation

  • Nik Kleverov

    Native Foreign

    Chief Creative Officer

Tags

Content streams
  • Innovation Unwrapped
Type of experience
  • Festival Talks
Accessibility
  • American Sign Language (ASL) provided
  • Live Captioning in 60 languages