Palau de Congressos de Fira Montjuïc
Space: Room+D

15th and 16th June
2:00pm to 6:00pm

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The sessions will be in English
 

Presentation of start ups, spin offs, applied research and artistic projects.
A space for inspiration and debate, around
cultural and creative industries with emerging technologies.

 

Direction: Teresa Roig, UPF Ventures and Andrea Faroppa, Sónar+D
Advisory  Committee: Albert Domingo, Anna Giralt and Roc Parés
 

The Summit consists of four sessions revolving around creativity and emerging technologies: Cinema & AI, Music & AI, Expanded Media and Web3 & creativity. The aim of the sessions is to inspire, showcase emerging talent that undertakes, researches and creates around these themes, as well as to debate the relationship between creativity and emerging technologies; the ethical use of AI; authorship rights or the role of Web3 in the cultural and creative industries. Start-ups and spinoffs that develop technology and digital tools for the cultural industry, applied research projects and creative projects will be presented. These sessions aim to encourage interaction between entrepreneurs, creators, investors, accelerators and incubators and professionals from these industries. These sessions are intended to encourage interaction between entrepreneurs, creators, professionals and companies, and to serve as a space for new relationships, initiatives, proposals and projects to emerge.

AI & Web3 Creatives Summit is a project promoted by Sónar+D and UPF Ventures. An innovation management company in which Pompeu Fabra University has a stake and whose mission, among others, is to promote and help generate entrepreneurship; accompany and grow startup projects and create two-way relationships between academia and business.

 

Cinema & IA

15th June, from 2pm to 4pm
Venue: Room+D


SESSION PRESENTED BY:
Violeta Kovacsics is a film critic, Doctor of Communication, and lecturer at the ESCAC and Pompeu Fabra University

TALK given by:
Cristóbal Valenzuela, CEO and co-founder of Runway. A platform with more than 30 AI tools designed to create, generate and edit audiovisual content

PRESENTATIONS of startups and spinoffs:

  • Artefacto. An applied research laboratory that, through an experimental and interdisciplinary approach, generates new methodologies and computational tools for cinematographic creation
    Presented by: Jorge Caballero, co-founder
  • Quantic Brains Technologies. A software start up for generating AI movies and video games
    Presented by: Roy Conan, Julio Covacho and Manuel Lucania, co-founders
  • Fermat. A virtual and collaborative whiteboard for creative professionals that allows you to use all the help offered by AI during brainstorming, ideation or moodboarding tasks.
    Presented by: Pol Baladas, founder and responsible for Design and Engineering.

    COLLOQUIUM: “AI & film: challenges and opportunities for creators and producers”
  • Cristóbal Valenzuela, CEO and co-founder of Runway, the promotors of the first annual AI film festival. A celebration of art and artists doing the impossible at the forefront of film using artificial intelligence
  • Mayte Hidalgo. Head of the Innovation and AI Centre of the MEDIAPRO GROUP
  • Bill Cusick, Bill Cusick, Creative Technologist (Stability AI) and assistant Professor (The New School)
  • Chaired by:
    Anna Giralt, filmmaker, researcher and co-founder of the film production company GusanoFilms

 

Music & IA

15th June, from 4pm to 6pm
Venue: Room+D

 

SESSION PRESENTED BY:
Frederic Font, senior researcher at Pompeu Fabra University's Music Technology Group, software developer and musician

TALK given by:
Nao Tokui, artist/DJ, researcher and founder of Qosmo, a creative AI studio based in Tokyo

PRESENTATIONS of startup, creative project and research project: 

COLLOQUIUM: “The sound of the uncertainty”

  • Nao Tokui, artist/DJ, researcher and founder of Qosmo, a creative AI studio based in Tokyo
  • Yotam Mann, musician and instrument maker. Co-founder of AI music creation platform, Never Before Heard Sounds
  • Nicolas Obin,  is a scientific researcher in speech, artificial intelligence and arts at Ircam. Co-founder of Deep Voice

    Chaired by:
    Frederic Font, senior researcher at Pompeu Fabra University's Music Technology Group, software developer and musician

 

Expanded Media

16th June, from 2pm to 4pm
Venue: Room+D

 

SESSION PRESENTED BY:
Roc Parés, research artist in interactive communication. Professor and researcher with the DigiDoc Interactive Communication Group at Pompeu Fabra University

TALK "Altered states of (non)consciousness"
given by: Mónica Rikić, electronic artist. Catalan National Culture Award 2021

PRESENTATIONS:

  • Slowly Fading into Data. The new speculative audiovisual project produced by Albert.DATA. An unreleased audiovisual experience that experiments with disembodiment, extended cognition, hybrid beings and synthetic identities.
    Presented by: Albert Barqué-Duran
  • EMIL, European Media and Immersion Lab. A reference network of extended reality laboratories that allow Europe to lead the next digital revolution
    Presented by: Narcís Parés
  • Muse Scene Lab. A VR-XR desktop tool for music practice that increases your musical skills by providing the opportunity to perform with a virtual orchestra or band; select the instrument you want to play; become the conductor of an orchestra or a singer of classical music, jazz or pop.
    Presented by: Luis Parra

COLLOQUIUM: “Expanded Media for our extended cognition”

  • Mónica Rikić, electronic artist
  • Pau Garcia, cofunder Domestic Data Streamers
  • Andrea Guzman, expert in Human-Machine communication, artificial intelligence and automated journalism

    Chaired by:
    Roc Parés, research artist in interactive communication. Professor and researcher with the DigiDoc Interactive Communication Group at Pompeu Fabra University

 

Web3&creativity

16th June, from 4pm to 6pm
Venue: Room+D



SESSION PRESENTED BY:
Vanesa Daza, senior lecturer at the Department of Information and Communication Technologies at Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona. Her research focuses on cryptography primitives to address security and privacy challenges in emerging technologies, with special emphasis on blockchain technologies

TALK given by:
Portrait XO (she/they) research(es) computational creativity, human-machine collaboration, and explore(s) new formats and applications for forward-thinking art and sound

PRESENTATIONS of the startups:

  • OPENFORT. Frictionless crypto accounts for game developers.
    Presented by: Joan Alavedra and Jaume Alavedra
  • Union Avatars. The first avatar company to offer complete metaverse interoperability through an end-to-end identity creation, management and distribution platform
    Presented by: Cai Felip, CEO
  • Blockets. A marketplace for the cultural and entertainment sector that uses blockhain technology to improve processes, make instant payments and automate all daily management and invoicing.
    Presented by: Victor Ferrer, CEO

 COLLOQUIUM:  "Token-Gating: The innovative approach to fostering communities around the cultural and creatives industries"

  • Patxi Barrios, Web3 gaming expert focused on NFT experiences and player-owned economies, and Web3 Product Lead at Telefónica.
  • Andrés Lauer, co-founder & Navigator thirdculture Music
  • Carlos Solana, Virtual Economy, Web3 & Metaverse Director of MEDIAPRO Group

    Chaired by:
    Esther Achareandio, Senior Manager of Growth at the metaverse Continuum Business Group at Accenture