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\n\tLaunched in 1967, the Consumer Electronics Show bounced around cities and spots on the calendar before finally settling down in 1998 as an event held every January in Las Vegas. For more than half of those years, the Variety <\/em>Entertainment Summit has been a fixture of that New Year\u2019s tradition, bringing together leaders from various media verticals for onstage discussions about how bleeding-edge technologies are transforming entertainment and shaping the culture.<\/p>\n \n\tThis year, Variety<\/em>\u2019s CES offering comes in two parts, both held at C-Space Studio at the Aria: the Variety <\/em>Entertainment Summit on Jan. 7 from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and the Variety <\/em>Business of Creators Summit, presented by Samsung Ads, on Jan. 8 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. <\/p>\n \n\tParticipants will include everyone from Disney president of global advertising Rita Ferro and Hasbro president of licensing and entertainment Kim Boyd to actors Joseph Gordon-Levitt<\/a> and Simon Helberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n \n\tThis year, there will be added urgency to the conversations brought on by the lightning-fast emergence of AI, which is viewed by many as an existential threat. <\/p>\n \n\tBut Jon Liebman<\/a>, chairman and CEO of Brillstein Entertainment Partners, points out that AI is just the latest in a long line of tech disruptors that were supposed to spell doom for the biz, from the arrival of sound movies in the 1920s to home video in the 1980s and the internet in the 1990s.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cI would say Hollywood has cried wolf a lot about technology destroying its business, and actually, the opposite has probably occurred,\u201d says Liebman, who will appear on \u201cThe Future of Content\u201d panel, moderated by Variety <\/em>co-editor-in-chief Cynthia Littleton on Jan. 7. \u201cThe technology, when harnessed appropriately, has become a tool for what we now have, which is global distribution of content. And so while I don\u2019t think anyone really knows what it will do to our business, I think that the fear that we have has to be tempered by the reality of what technology has actually historically done for the entertainment business, which is fuel its growth in era after era.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tLiebman will get no argument from Jonathan Yunger, co-founder and CEO of AI-powered content production platform and studio Arcana<\/a>, who will join actor-producer Breckin Meyer<\/a> (who stars in Arcana\u2019s AI short \u201cEcho Hunter\u201d) and Luminate chief analyst and president Andrew Wallenstein for a conversation on AI storytelling on Jan. 7.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cThe [AI] toolset can really make a difference and help with being able to maintain or raise production value, but lower costs,\u201d says Yunger, adding, \u201cAI doesn\u2019t work without the creative, without the storyteller.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tOther panels at the Variety <\/em>Entertainment Summit on Jan. 7 include \u201cThe New Business of Entertainment,\u201d moderated by Danny Ledger, telecom, media & entertainment leader for consulting services, Deloitte; \u201cExperience This! What\u2019s Next in Events Across Platforms\u201d and \u201cFandom in the Zeitgeist,\u201d moderated by Variety<\/em> business editor Todd Spangler; \u201cAI in Overdrive\u201d and \u201cThe Big Picture Outlook \u2014 What Trends Will Shape 2026?\u201d moderated by Littleton; and \u201cHarnessing Fandom Through Live Sports Content Featuring Amazon Ads & WPP Media.\u201d There will also be a \u201cBrandmakers Elite Roundtable\u201d and a headliner conversation with Anthony Wood, founder, chairman and CEO of Roku.<\/p>\n \n\tThe Variety <\/em>Business of Creators Summit on Jan. 8 will feature such panels as \u201cThe State of the Creator Economy in Media and Entertainment,\u201d moderated Wallenstein; \u201cNew Hollywood Power Players: The Rise of Creators on TV\u201d and \u201cThe Power of the Creator Brand,\u201d moderated by Littleton; \u201cThe Live Shopping Era Has Arrived\u201d and \u201cAudiences Unlocked \u2014 The Future of Creator Marketing,\u201d moderated by Spangler, as well as fireside chats with \u201cmedia cartographer\u201d Evan Shapiro and Substack co-founder Hamish McKenzie.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source variety.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Launched in 1967, the Consumer Electronics Show bounced around cities and spots on the calendar before finally settling down in 1998 as an event held every January in Las Vegas. 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