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11 November 2024; A general view of Centre Stage during the opening night of Web Summit 2024 at the MEO Arena in Lisbon, Portugal.

Are AI actors a threat to human performance, or the arrival of a new art form? AI actress Tilly Norwood and her creator Eline van der Velden present a bold vision for the future of film and TV. In this session we ask how synthetic performers can sit harmoniously alongside traditional entertainment as a separate, thriving industry built for the next generation of digital-native audiences.

How AI actors are creating entertainment's next frontier

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🥇 First timers at Web Summit meetup

Most conversations about AI sovereignty focus on the model: who trains it, who owns the weights, where inference runs. Samar Abbas, co-founder and CEO of Temporal, will talk about the layer underneath: the execution infrastructure that decides whether a company can actually change course later.

AI sovereignty starts with infrastructure

No fusion power plant has ever produced more energy than it consumes, yet the race to commercialise it is already splitting in two. One path bets everything on building the full-scale power plant first; the other funds itself by selling what fusion can already do today, like medical isotopes, one step at a time. The question is which bet pays off first.

Fusion's fork in the road

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🧠 Product people meetup

Atlassian Williams F1 Team is on a mission to get back to the front of the grid. But in the world's fastest-moving sport, the edge now lives in data, decisions, and the milliseconds between them. Mike Cannon-Brookes and James Vowles, discuss what it takes to rebuild one of the world's most iconic teams. It’s a preview of the question facing every enterprise: how do you get more intelligent and more connected faster than the competition?

AI and the human at 300km/h

Tech marketing sells specs. High fashion sells culture. Charlie Smith, Chief Brand Officer at Nothing and former LOEWE CMO, shares how he's adopted the luxury playbook to build hardware with real cultural impact and cult-level desire. Moving past feature lists to start building a brand people actually want to show off.

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How AI actors are creating entertainment's next fron...

🥇 First timers at Web Summit meetup

AI sovereignty starts with infrastructure

Fusion's fork in the road

🧠 Product people meetup

AI and the human at 300km/h

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