New York, NY
March 31st, 2026
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Runway AI Summit
The Runway AI Summit brings together industry leaders across media, technology, consumer brands, robotics and more to explore how AI is reshaping how work gets done—and what comes next for enterprise.
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$350
Hear from leaders of the world’s top organizations, including:
EAEdelmanLucasfilmAdobeBlockKPFNVIDIAParamount
Speakers & Sessions
The world's leading creatives, designers, architects, writers, producers and makers—on what they've built, what they've learned and where they're headed next.
Kathleen Kennedy
Fireside Chat
Kathleen Kennedy
Lucasfilm
President
Cristóbal Valenzuela
Keynote
Cristóbal Valenzuela
Runway
Co-founder and co-CEO
Chrysty Esperanza
Panel
Chrysty Esperanza
Block
Chief Legal Officer
Phil Wiser
Keynote
Phil Wiser
Paramount
Chief Technology Officer
Richard Kerris
Keynote
Richard Kerris
NVIDIA
VP and GM of Media and Entertainment
Mihir Vaidya
Fireside Chat
Mihir Vaidya
Electronic Arts
Chief Strategy Officer
Hannah Elsakr
Keynote
Hannah Elsakr
Adobe
VP, GenAI New Business Ventures
Stephen Fefferman
Panel
Stephen Fefferman
Paramount Skydance
EVP, Deputy General Counsel
Dave Clark
Keynote
Dave Clark
Promise AI
Co-Founder & Chief Creative Officer
Chris Harrelson
Panel
Chris Harrelson
Why Brands
Associate Creative Director
Gabe Michael
Panel
Gabe Michael
Edelman
SVP and EP
Anastasis Germanidis
Keynote
Anastasis Germanidis
Runway
Co-founder and co-CEO
Rob Wrubel
Panel
Rob Wrubel
Silverside
Founder and Managing Director
Brian McDonald
Panel
Brian McDonald
Story First Studio
Co-founder
Andy Christoforou
Panel
Andy Christoforou
KPF
Senior Applied Technology Specialist
Nick Parkinson
Panel
Nick Parkinson
Salomon
Global Creative Director
Tom-Jacques Perret
Panel
Tom-Jacques Perret
Unveil
Co-founder and Studio Director
Alexis Foucault
Panel
Alexis Foucault
Unveil
Co-founder and Creative Director
Eddy Lee
Keynote
Eddy Lee
Runway
Enterprise Growth and Deployment
Filip Williander
Panel
Filip Williander
Le Truc
SVP Head of Creative Technology
Rhys Noelke
Fireside Chat
Rhys Noelke
Bertelsmann
Chief Data Officer
Additional speakers to be announced.
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Schedule
9:00 AM
Doors Open

10:00 AM
The Normalization of Magic: AI and What's Ahead of Us

AI is reshaping every stage of media and entertainment. Join Runway co-CEO Cristóbal Valenzuela as he explores how AI is enabling new creative possibilities across entertainment, advertising and content creation, shares updates on Runway's progress and reveals what's coming next for the platform.

Cristóbal Valenzuela
Co-founder and co-CEO, Runway
10:25 AM
Signals, Systems and the Next Creative Inflection Point

As media enters another period of foundational change, Paramount CTO Phil Wiser reflects on how new production technologies—from advanced software to modern compute—are reshaping the creative landscape. Drawing on decades at the intersection of internet, music and video, this session explores how emerging capabilities move from experimentation to real creative impact, how workflows evolve without losing human authorship and what signals media companies and creators should be watching as the next era of storytelling takes shape.

Phil Wiser
Chief Technology Officer, Paramount
10:50 AM
Imagination Meets Infrastructure: Redesigning Creative Workflows in the AI Era

Adobe has spent decades as the backbone of the world's most iconic creative and brand ecosystems – powering everything from design and cinematic storytelling to global marketing at scale. Today, as AI collides with unprecedented content demand, enterprises face a new challenge: how to increase speed without increasing complexity. In this keynote, Hannah Elsakr explores why real transformation isn't about standalone tools or treating AI as a point solution, but about redesigning creative systems – embedding AI as an intelligent layer across workflows from ideation through production and distribution. Generative AI promises acceleration, but lasting advantage comes from orchestrated workflows where AI serves as foundational infrastructure and human imagination and judgment remain the ultimate differentiators.

Hannah Elsakr
VP, GenAI New Business Ventures, Adobe
11:15 AM
From Concept to Creation

Video generation models unlock new creative possibilities for filmmakers – but what does that look like in practice? Promise Advanced Imagination Co-founder and Chief Creative Officer Dave Clark demonstrates specific ways he's using generative AI, hybrid production and models like Runway's to solve creative challenges and accelerate production through demos and case studies. This hands-on session reveals what happens when you put these tools to work on real projects.

Dave Clark
Co-Founder & Chief Creative Officer, Promise AI
11:40 AM
After the "Wow": What Actually Happens When Enterprises Adopt AI

The first reaction to generative AI is always excitement. The second is usually confusion about what to do next. Eddy Lee has spent hundreds of hours embedded inside enterprise creative teams (from film studios to global agencies and Fortune 500s) watching what happens after the "wow" moment fades. He'll walk through the real, sometimes messy paths organizations take to move AI from novelty to infrastructure, and the counterintuitive moves that make the difference.

Eddy Lee
Enterprise Growth and Deployment, Runway
12:00 PM
Lunch

1:00 PM
Cross-Industry Perspectives: AI Applications in Architecture, Film and Marketing

From Super Bowl advertisements to film production to complex architectural renderings, AI is solving domain-specific challenges across creative industries. Join Silverside Founder and Managing Director Rob Wrubel, Story First Studio Co-founder Brian McDonald, and KPF Associate Principal and Senior Applied Technology Specialist Andy Christoforou as they share how they're applying these tools in practice, and how Runway's technology has impacted their workflows and their industries.

Andy Christoforou
Senior Applied Technology Specialist, KPF
Brian McDonald
Co-founder, Story First Studio
Rob Wrubel
Founder and Managing Director, Silverside
1:25 PM
Storytelling in the Age of AI: A Conversation with Kathleen Kennedy

As video generation technology improves exponentially, filmmaking's most fundamental element—storytelling—remains constant. Join Kathleen Kennedy, Producer and former President of Lucasfilm, in conversation with Runway CEO Cristóbal Valenzuela as they discuss maintaining creative vision while embracing new production capabilities. This conversation explores the future of narrative filmmaking through the lens of one of the industry's most influential leaders.

Kathleen Kennedy
President, Lucasfilm
1:50 PM
Legal as Business Enabler: How Forward-Thinking Counsel Evaluate Generative AI

The most sophisticated legal teams don't just assess risk: they identify opportunity and build frameworks that allow their organizations to move quickly and confidently. Hear from Block Chief Legal Officer Chrysty Esperanza and Paramount EVP, Deputy General Counsel Stephen Fefferman about how they guided their teams to evaluate generative AI technology on its merits, enabling their teams to capture competitive advantage.

Chrysty Esperanza
Chief Legal Officer, Block
Stephen Fefferman
EVP, Deputy General Counsel, Paramount
2:15 PM
How Next-Generation Computing Infrastructure is Driving the Future of Creativity

AI is turning creative work into a real-time loop: generate, iterate, refine and publish simultaneously across all formats and platforms. The next wave isn't just better models; it's the computing foundation that makes the creative vision a real-time tool. Accelerated computing, AI-native software and low-latency pipelines move organizations from isolated demos to production. In this session, NVIDIA VP/GM Richard Kerris offers a view at where creative technology is headed and the evolution required to get there. He breaks down why generative video and intelligent creative tools are reshaping architecture—from GPUs to networking, storage and orchestration—and how teams can modernize their stack to unlock breakthrough speed, quality and scale.

Richard Kerris
VP and GM of Media and Entertainment, NVIDIA
2:35 PM
Break

3:00 PM
Exploring AI's Role in Interactive Entertainment

From emergent in-game worlds to accelerated creative pipelines, the interactive entertainment industry represents a powerful opportunity for generative AI. Join EA Chief Strategy Officer Mihir Vaidya, in conversation with Runway CEO Cristóbal Valenzuela, as they discuss how the games industry's early adoption of AI technology offers lessons for the broader entertainment ecosystem. They'll explore EA's approach to AI as a long-term creative and technological flywheel, balancing innovation with player experience, creative intent, and production efficiency.

Mihir Vaidya
Chief Strategy Officer, Electronic Arts
3:20 PM
Brand Storytelling in the Generative Era

Agencies and brands must maintain creative quality while accelerating production, all as client expectations evolve rapidly. In this panel discussion, Why Brands ACD Creative Content and Operations Chris Harrelson, Edelman VP Gabe Michael and Le Truc SVP Head of Creative Technology Filip Williander share how generative AI is transforming the advertising and marketing landscape. This panel offers a ground-level view of AI adoption in the fast-moving world of brand communications.

Chris Harrelson
ACD Creative Content & Operations, Why Brands
Gabe Michael
SVP, Edelman
Filip Williander
SVP Head of Creative Technology, Le Truc
3:40 PM
How Unveil Built Salomon's Latest Brand Campaign

Global brand campaigns require speed, creativity and flawless execution. Unveil founders Tom-Jacques Perret and Alexis Foucault, and Salomon Global Creative Director Nick Parkinson walk through how they used Runway to create Salomon's latest campaign, sharing their production workflows, creative decisions and final outputs. This discussion reveals what generative video looks like at a global scale.

Tom-Jacques Perret
Founder, Unveil
Alexis Foucault
Founder, Unveil
Nick Parkinson
Global Brand Creative Director, Salomon
4:05 PM
Empowering Creatives at Scale — and Multi-Modally

How do you implement AI tools across a company with multiple creative brands, each with their own workflows, cultures and needs? Bertelsmann Chief Data Officer Rhys Noelke shares how the company rolled out Runway across its portfolio. From initial evaluation to cross-brand adoption, this fireside chat offers insights into scaling creative technology in complex enterprise environments.

Rhys Noelke
Chief Data Officer, Bertelsmann
4:25 PM
Machine Intelligence for the Physical World

World models are transforming how machines understand and navigate the physical world. Join co-CEO Anastasis Germanidis to explore how Runway's world models are advancing robotics research and training, enabling breakthroughs in autonomous vehicles and powering real-time applications like gaming. This keynote reveals how generative AI is becoming the foundation for physical intelligence.

Anastasis Germanidis
Co-founder and co-CEO, Runway
Post-Event
Happy Hour

About
The Runway AI Summit is a one-day event bringing together enterprises, studios and executive leaders to dive deep into real-world applications of AI. From Hollywood to robotics labs and autonomous vehicles, generative video and world models are transforming the way we create and consume content. These shifts are enabling entirely new business models and driving increasingly advanced machine intelligence.

Join us to hear directly from the experts on how they’re using AI in their businesses today – and where enterprises are going next.
Why Attend
Strategic Insight
Learn how leading teams are integrating generative AI into existing workflows and production pipelines, with use cases ranging from advertising and film, to product development and scientific discovery. Attendees will also be the first to learn about the latest product updates and launches from Runway.
Real-World Case Studies
See concrete examples of video models in use across a wide variety of industries – from Hollywood production to frontier robotics labs.
Hands-On Exploration
Experience live demos and guided walkthroughs of Runway’s latest tools and enterprise solutions with opportunities to connect directly with Runway experts.
Industry Connections
Connect with creative professionals, top researchers and Runway users who are actively building, deploying and scaling AI inside their organizations.
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Location & Venue
The Glasshouse
660 12th Ave Floor 6,
New York, NY 10019
Date
March 31, 2026
10am - 5pm
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In Person
$350