Skydance, Blumhouse and Pinterest Chiefs are Announced as Speakers for Variety Entertainment and Technology Summit

Variety will return with its annual Entertainment and Technology Summit presented by City National Bank on Sept. 26 in Los Angeles, featuring such elite speakers as comedian Iliza Schlesinger; Skydance chief creative officer Dana Goldberg; Blumhouse president Abhijay Prakash; Pinterest chief content officer Malik Ducard; Parkwood Entertainment SVP Justina Omokhua, and Eli Collins, VP Deep Mind, Google.

The day-long conference, open for registration here, explores the intersection of the two industries and technology’s impact on TV, film, gaming, music, digital media and consumer brands.

Schlesinger, host of “Ask Iliza Anything,” will join the Podcast All-Stars panel also featuring Jesse Tyler Ferguson, host of “Dinner’s on Me with Jesse Tyler Ferguson”; Whitney Cummings, host of “Good For You”; and Jenna Ushkowitz, host of “And That’s What You REALLY Missed.”

Ducard, Goldberg and Prakash will join the Entertainment Content Visionaries roundtable, also including Dan McDermott, president of entertainment and AMC Studios, AMC Networks.

Omokhua is part of the panel discussion Power Couple: Entrepreneurship + Entertainment additionally featuring Asad Qizilbash, president of PlayStation Productions; Asa Kalama, VP and executive creative director, Disney Imagineering; and Donald Mustard, partner at AGBO.

Eli Collins, VP Deep Mind, Google joins Phil Wiser, CTO at Paramount Global, and Victoria Bousis, director and creative technologist on the panel discussion “Generative AI – Succeeding with the Genie Out of the Bottle.”

The panel discussion Marketer Renaissance – Masters of Storytelling Across Platforms features Mike Benson, CMO at CBS; Danielle Bekas, EVP of international marketing at Warner Bros. Pictures; Danielle De Palma, EVP of global marketing at Paramount Pictures; Kristine Segrist, VP of consumer marketingat Canva; and Jennifer Storms, CMO of entertainment and sports at NBCUniversal.

Additional speakers to be announced.

“City National Bank’s financial technology and service has made it the preferred bank for the entertainment industry, entrepreneurs and family offices,” said Verna Grayce Chao, executive vice president of commercial and consumer products at City National Bank. “We build and tailor our services to client needs and we look forward to hearing from industry leaders about the latest trends and next generation of technology that will impact the entertainment ecosystem.”

“We are very appreciative of City National Bank continual partnership of our annual Entertainment & Technology Summit,” said Dea Lawrence, chief operating and marketing officer at Variety. “Technology plays such an integral role in entertainment, and we’re honored to host some of the top industry leaders for a day of engaging and thought-provoking conversation.”

City National Bank is the presenting partner of the summit. Amazon Ads is a premier partner of the event. Samsung Ads, AMC Networks and Vizio are supporting partners of the event.