Our LA summit is looming on the horizon and we’ve been working flat out to make it as spicy as possible. Here are just a few of the sessions that we’re sure will get tongues flapping:

The Alien inside the Machine 

We know how to build large AI systems, but how they function under the hood can appear as something of a black box. Today's frontier AIs invent strategies, pursue hidden goals, and sometimes resist control in ways nobody programmed.

In this conversation, AE Studio’s Cameron Berg and Natalie Monbiot explore the strange interior life of modern AI. Their discussion will broach issues such as why do these systems behave intelligently, yet opaquely; how do current alignment methods like Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) fall short; and what it will take to make AI both powerful and trustworthy.

From Fear to Frontier: How Creative Professionals are Turning AI into Their Next Competitive Advantage

AI is no longer a future trend — it’s changing the way films, series, and branded stories are made right now. This session dives into the creative frontier where human imagination meets intelligent tools, reshaping everything from storyboards to final cut.

Join Jessica Conway, two-time Emmy-nominated producer and showrunner; Alexia Adana, Edelman Creative Director and visual artist reimagining storytelling through design and emotion; and Caroline Ingeborn, COO of Luma AI, the company behind Dream Machine and the next generation of video intelligence.

Together they’ll explore how AI is transforming production into a new kind of collaboration — one where creators lead, machines accelerate, and entire workflows evolve. Expect an unfiltered discussion on what’s working, what’s breaking, and how professional creatives can harness this revolution to move faster, tell bigger stories, and expand what’s possible across screens.


IP in the Age of Infinite Content

As generative AI floods the world with content, the definition of ownership is up for debate. This session brings together perspectives from law, design, and innovation to explore how IP is evolving when anyone - human or machine - can create at scale. From virtual artists to co-creative fandoms, panelists will unpack how rights, royalties, and creative control are being redefined in the age of infinite creation.

Featuring Savannah Niles, co-founder and CEO of Wide Worlds, an AI-native platform for worldbuilding; David Beiner, co-founder of the metaverse record label Hume; and Vejay Lalla, a 25-year IP veteran and Partner in Manatt’s Digital and Technology Transactions practice.

Welcome: ElevenLabs

We’re thrilled to welcome ElevenLabs as a returning sponsor of the Artist and the Machine Summit in Los Angeles on November 19, 2025!

ElevenLabs is transforming how the world communicates through voice. As the leader in AI audio innovation, they empower enterprises and creators alike to harness the power of sound in entirely new ways. Leading organizations use ElevenLabs to grow their business—powering AI voice agents, enabling personalized tutoring, and facilitating large-scale media creation. Their models unlock efficiency, scalability, and storytelling potential across industries.

At the LA Summit, Emilie Drishinski of ElevenLabs will join Kakul Srivastava, Founder of Splice, for a Main Stage conversation exploring the future of sound, creativity, and human expression. Together, they’ll dive into how AI voice technology is shaping the next era of music creation - bridging enterprise impact with artistic innovation.

Creative strategist Kiron Heriot-Darragh wrote about the future of multimodal communication tools like ElevenLabs in a recent Substack, check it out here. 

My Tool of the Week: by artist Lisa Jamhoury

Lisa Jamhoury is a movement artist and programmer who creates embodied, computational experiences. She does this by combining physical actions, drawn from the vocabulary of contemporary circus performance, with experimental software that translates real-world actions into a virtual space. At the heart of her creative practice is the exploration of tech as a mindful augmentation of human physicality.

For her playtest with APOSSIBLE at Onassis ONX last  week, Jamhoury used Claude Code to agentically code her new interactive installation, sync : mirror, and re-build the open-source software Kinectron.

“I’ve tried a bunch of agentic coding tools this year, but these days I stick solely with Claude Code. It’s gotten so good — and it saves me so much time. It’s liberating to spend less time debugging and more time focusing creatively on what I want to build.”

Try out Claude Code HERE

Hot Take: Harry McCracken

📰 News Roundup

Hollywood Without Borders?: Wonder Studios wants to accelerate the adoption of AI tools for use in original content. Recently, the London-based startup raised $12M which it plans to use to double its engineering team and create its own IPs.  

Peep the new specs: Amazon is planning to outfit its delivery drivers with smart glasses. But not everyone is convinced that this will amount to a benign productivity hack as privacy concerns swirl around the decision.

Newsroom highjinks: There is a big reveal at the close of the documentary, Will AI Take My Job? “In a British TV first,” the host of the program confesses, “I’m an AI presenter.”

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Dani Van de Sande (Founder) & the Artist and the Machine team.

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