FUTURIST · PUBLIC SPEAKER · ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY EXEC
Ted Schilowitz
Former Futurist in Residence at Paramount Global and 20th Century Fox, and a founding member of Red Digital Cinema, exploring what’s next for film, TV and immersive entertainment.
FEE RANGE
In Person Keynote: $20,000
Virtual Keynote: $10,000
TRAVELS FROM
Los Angeles, CA
FORMATS
In-Person Keynote, Virtual Keynote
About Ted
Ted is a recognized Futurist that has presented worldwide at numerous conferences and events for the Movie, TV and interactive Entertainment industries. He’s been featured in Wired, Variety, NY Times, LA Times, Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, The Hollywood Reporter, NBC, CNET, Film and Video, DV Magazine, TV Technology, HD Video Pro, Engadget, Gizmodo, Millimeter, American Cinematographer, MacWorld, Post Magazine, Popular Science, and countless other publications.
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Most recently, Ted worked as the Futurist in Residence with the leadership and technology teams across Paramount Global, including CBS, CBS Sports, Paramount Pictures, Paramount Plus, MTV, Nickelodeon, BET, PlutoTV and Comedy Central, exploring emerging tech for entertainment with an emphasis on Virtual and Mixed Reality, Web 3.0 and Advanced Themed Entertainment pursuits. Prior to joining Paramount, Ted was the Futurist at 20th Century Fox, where he worked on the evolving art and science of advanced interactive visual storytelling. He was part of the creation team for the Martian VR and Wild VR experiences, which premiered at CES and Sundance.
Ted was an integral part of the product development team at Red Digital Cinema as the company’s first employee. The Red One and Epic cameras have made significant impact on the Motion Picture Industry, winning a Sci-Tech Academy and technical Emmy award. Many of the world’s biggest movies are shot with these ultra high resolution digital movie cameras. Ted is one of the founders of the G-Tech product line of advanced hard drive storage products. As the most recognized brand in that industry, they are implemented worldwide at the highest levels on cinema and television productions.Before being part of the founding teams at Red Digital Cinema and G-Tech, Ted was on the team that developed and launched the Macintosh desktop video division of AJA Video in tandem with Apple. These products are used on a massive scale worldwide for video production on many of the world’s biggest movies, TV series and sporting events.
Speaking Topics
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A candid discussion on how innovation manifests itself and cultivates impactful change in business and cultural dynamics. Are new forms of entertainment like Virtual Reality and Mixed Reality, and new tech enablers like AI setting the stage now for what the Future of Media and Entertainment will look like?
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Is artificial intelligence, intertwined with large language models fundamentally changing what we call entertainment and altering not only art, but our humanity? Where is the ethical line and how do we navigate all this change?
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Technology and Entertainment have always been intertwined, from the earliest days of Cinema’s chemical processes, to today’s Digital take over of every stage of entertainment creation and distribution.
What can we learn from the past generations of how technology has transformed the Entertainment business to guide us into an uncertain future?
The Rise and Consolidation of Entertainment and How it Reflects All Industries The global business and impact of entertainment is having anexistential crisis, just like tech, retail, healthcare, and well, you name it! So much change so fast, new players are emerging with different business models, goals and aims. Can the old guard survive and will they manage to out-innovate their new competitors?
Ted is also happy to customize a keynote talk to your company or event needs. He can present on specific technologies, products or company needs with some prep time and interfacing with the presenting company or event organizers.