Best known for his Emmy-nominated 1987 animated feature film The Brave Little Toaster and for creating visual effects for the pioneering 1982 film Tron, animator, director, and Disney Imagineer Jerry Rees has been an animation industry mainstay since Pete’s Dragon in 1977.

He’s seen technologies and techniques come and go, but at the Dec. 5 Content Production Summit (CPS), presented by the Content Delivery & Security Association (CDSA), Rees will dive into the newest revolutionary filmmaking tool: AI.
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At the Dec. 5 Content Production Summit (CPS), presented by the Content Delivery & Security Association (CDSA), Hasbro’s Nick Matlach, director of global security compliance, and Evelynn Glausman, program manager of corporate IP security, will present “A Look at the Legal and Moral Challenges of AI.”

The speed of the development, training, and leveraging of AI is leading many people to raise significant concerns over some of the legal and moral implications of using the technology.
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At the Dec. 5 Content Production Summit (CPS), presented by the Content Delivery & Security Association (CDSA), Keith Ritlop, VP of enterprise and production technology for NBCUniversal, and co-chair of production security work streams at CDSA, will deliver the presentation “Using AI to Drive Efficiencies in Production and Post.”

In this session he will review some of the ways in which the industry is leveraging AI in production technology to help reduce “friction” and drive systems consolidation to better support creative workflows. Hear about the efficiencies which can be gained and what best practices can be employed to ensure we are using the technology to the best of its ability.
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Lee Kent, content protection manager for beIN Media Group, the Qatari global sport and entertainment network that distributes entertainment, live sports, and major international events, will deliver the opening keynote at the Dec. 5 Content Production Summit (CPS), presented by the Content Delivery & Security Association (CDSA).

Preparing, presenting, and protecting major live events is a core challenge for the industry, both from a streaming and a broadcast distribution perspective. Kent’s presentation — “Securing the World Cup: Going for the Win!” — will take attendees through the planning, setup, and execution of one of the most successful overall efforts to protect the biggest and most hotly anticipated sporting event of the world, the FIFA Men’s World Cup.
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AI is invading every element of content workflows, from production through long-tail distribution, causing both a host of new ways for media and entertainment to get the job done, and a whole new set of headaches for content protection teams to deal with around the world.

Entertainment supply chain security tops the list for studios and vendors in the Hollywood community and each year they gather in L.A. in early December to discuss the latest impacts to our global network of partners that make the magic happen.

The Dec. 5 Content Production Summit (CPS), presented by the Content Delivery & Security Association (CDSA), addresses how the industry is protecting itself against the new challenges AI presents, with the theme “Where AI and Security Collide.”
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