AI for Media
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Dr. Sam Khoze is an AI entrepreneur, scientist, and systems architect with twenty years of experience spanning AI research, infrastructure, robotics, and the application of AI in Hollywood production. His work connects the models and systems behind generative AI with the films, campaigns, and performers they make possible.

He was the first to cast and train an autonomous AI to perform in a Hollywood motion picture, a milestone covered by The New York Times. His short film Genesis, one of the earliest examples of AI-generated filmmaking, premiered at the Cannes 2024 AI Film Awards. He later returned to Cannes to announce his partnership with Higgsfield.

He led the AI behind Starburst’s “Different Every Time,” one of the first large-scale AI-generated commercial campaigns. His work includes collaborations with Tool of North America, DDB Chicago, and Critical Mass, and creative technology projects serving BBC, Cross Creek, Starbucks, Audi, Mercedes, LG, and Shutterstock. He has also developed and contributed to generative video tools, including DeepFuze, an open-source lip-sync system, and ComfyUI nodes for voice cloning, deepfake generation, and face swapping.

His creative practice draws on extensive experience building AI infrastructure. As founder and CEO of CGAI, he created ALEXIS Fusion, a frontier fusion model that coordinates specialist models through a single API and is designed to outperform leading frontier models. The initiative is supported by Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Stanford University.

Dr. Khoze also developed AI content detection and invisible watermarking technology acquired by Skreens, whose clients and partners include FOX One, MediaKind, and Amazon Web Services. His Compositional World Model research explores generative AI for 3D worlds, with applications across VFX pipelines, gaming, robotics, and foundational world models. This research helped underpin Microsoft’s multi-million-dollar investment in Global Objects.

In robotics, he worked with Professor Hiroshi Ishiguro at ATR and Osaka University, managing the humanoid robots Erica and Alter3, including Alter3’s autonomous conducting of the Dubai Philharmonic at Expo 2020 Dubai. With Dr. Firouz Naderi of NASA JPL, he co-developed multimodal robotic teleoperation systems. He also designed and developed social robots showcased at CES 2023.

At Imagination Studio AI, Dr. Khoze brings this experience to studios, brands, and production companies, combining the engineering expertise to build custom AI capabilities with the production judgment to translate them into compelling work on screen. He helps clients shape their AI strategy and guides projects from concept through final delivery, spanning fully AI-generated films and advertising campaigns.

Elena Kaya is Co-Founder and Chief Creative Technologist at Imagination Studio, bringing more than a decade of film production experience to the design of AI filmmaking systems. Her career spans independent cinema, studio development, global brand campaigns, and generative production, combining creative leadership with the ability to take projects from concept through final delivery.

At Timur Bekmambetov’s Bazelevs, the studio behind Wanted, Searching, and Unfriended, she served as a Development Executive and Creative Technologist. She oversaw development across more than ten active titles and helped introduce generative AI into the studio’s production process. She built workflows for AI trailers and creative development, trained creative teams, and coordinated international projects across production, technology, and post-production.

Her commercial work includes creative technology for Starburst’s Different Every Time campaign and AI-generated music and performance for Gucci. Earlier, she managed commercial productions at Stept Studios, including campaigns for Chase Bank, and produced thesis films for the American Film Institute.

She serves as Generative AI Supervisor on Hyperia and b, the science-fiction projects directed by Chuck Russell and announced with Neumorphic AI and Higgsfield. These productions bring AI into worldbuilding, visual effects, and post-production alongside live performers, connecting emerging technology with the demands of feature filmmaking.

Elena holds an MFA from UCLA’s Producers Program and received the Producer Award for Outstanding Achievement from Movie Magic Entertainment Partners. Her foundation in crews, budgets, schedules, and delivery informs the repeatable AI production systems she builds today.

Peter Scott is a two-time Emmy Award-winning digital strategist and media executive whose career spans television production, digital platforms, and emerging technology. He previously served as Vice President of Emerging Media and Innovation at Warner Bros. Discovery.

At Warner, he helped lead strategy and implementation for live virtual production, sports betting, ecommerce, name, image and likeness initiatives, and next-generation viewing experiences across the Turner Sports portfolio, including the NHL, NBA, MLB, U.S. Soccer, and March Madness. His work also encompassed partnerships in computer vision, AI, and interactive media.

As Vice President of Emerging Media at Turner Studios, he worked with TNT, TBS, and Adult Swim to introduce technology across production, post-production, visual effects, and content generation, helping the studio expand its capabilities for digital and social platforms.

Earlier in his career, he managed digital and mobile partnerships for NASCAR.com, PGA.com, NBA.com, PGATour.com, and March Madness Live. He helped launch NCAA March Madness Live in 2010. At FoxSports.com, he produced and directed the first live college football game streamed online.

His production experience began in news and sport, including work as a CNN sound technician and editor covering international events, and coordinating remote production for NBA, NFL, and MLB telecasts. He has also served as Chief Strategy Advisor to Play Anywhere, working on interactive experiences and monetization for sports leagues and intellectual property holders.

He holds a Bachelor of Arts in film and television, with a minor in business, from Boston University.

BJ Levin is a two-time Emmy Award-winning television executive, executive producer, and showrunner with more than 20 years of experience building content businesses, developing and commercializing IP, and creating premium programming across television, streaming, and digital media. Most recently, he served as Senior Vice President of Unscripted Content at Legendary Entertainment, where he led development and built a diverse slate of original formats, talent-led entertainment, global franchises, and premium nonfiction.

Previously, Levin built and led development at AGC Studios and served as Senior Vice President of Development & Original Programming at NBCUniversal’s Wilshire Studios, overseeing programming across competition, reality, entertainment, documentary, crime, sports, celebrity, and live events. Earlier, as a founding member of the executive leadership team behind VICE on HBO, he helped transform VICE from a disruptive digital media brand into an Emmy Award-winning global television franchise.

Beginning his career as an Investment Banker at Wachovia Securities and then pursuing his passion as a producer and showrunner, Levin has developed, packaged, sold, and produced programming for many of the world’s leading networks and streaming platforms. His work spans original formats, premium documentary and factual entertainment, creator- and talent-led programming, and culturally resonant IP, with a career built around identifying distinctive ideas and voices and transforming them into compelling, commercially scalable entertainment.

Reema Bhagchandani is an AI Creative Director with two decades of experience creating entertainment formats, branded content, and immersive experiences for Netflix, Paramount, Disney, Discovery, and Endemol Shine.

Her work focuses on designing AI-driven creative architectures that bring together storytelling, worldbuilding, and fan engagement.