Talks that challenge what the industry pretends to know

How artificial intelligence is reshaping script development, box office forecasting, and the gatekeepers who control which stories get told — and which never will. Drawing on seven years of building AI inside the film industry, this talk cuts through the hype to show what AI actually does in entertainment, what it can't do, and what the industry is getting wrong.

What does it mean to build AI responsibly — not as a PR claim, but as a daily operational reality? This talk explores the gap between the ethics conversation and the ethics practice in AI development, with particular focus on entertainment and creative industries. Why the responsible AI conversation is a decade behind, and what it would actually look like to close that gap.

The unwritten rules that govern who gets funded, who gets heard, and who gets credited — in Hollywood, in venture capital, and in the tech industry at large. Not a motivational talk. A forensic examination of the systems that determine whose ideas get resourced, with concrete observations from a decade of operating inside them as a woman who refused to perform smallness.

Seven years of applying machine learning to the most human of all activities — and what that reveals about creativity, bias, and the stories we choose to fund. This talk presents original research from ScriptBook on gender representation in film, box office prediction, and the ROI of independent versus blockbuster content — and draws lessons that apply far beyond the film industry.