The Future of Entertainment: Human Creativity in the Age of Intelligent Machines
Join the Future of Entertainment Alliance and TAILORU at BrainStation NYC for a panel discussion exploring the future of storytelling, artistry, and creative work in an era of intelligent machines. From authorship and identity to process and soul, this conversation brings artists and technologists together to ask the questions shaping entertainment’s next chapter. Meet other artists, technologists, and industry leaders and examine how AI is influencing storytelling, authorship, and artistic identity, and why protecting human creativity has never been more important.
Our panel will discuss:
How AI is transforming storytelling and who gets to tell the stories
What it means to be an artist when machines can now generate music, scripts, and visuals
When content creation accelerates, what happens to the soul, intention, and the process of creative work?
Plus much more!
Panelists:
Thu Do: AI Product Builder & CraftTech Founder, TAILORU Collective
Jaime Schwarz: Brand Therapist, Serial Co-founder, Author of The IP Economy
Christina Krawec: Singer, Actor, & Founder, Earthnote
Timothy Cooper: Award-winning Screenwriter & Founder, Blueprint Screenwriting Group
Moderator:
Patrick McAndrew: Actor, Writer, Host & Founder, Future of Entertainment Alliance
The event concludes with an open networking session bringing together artists, technologists, founders, and thinkers shaping the future of entertainment.
Full Bios:
Patrick McAndrew: Patrick McAndrew is a host, actor, librettist, and playwright exploring how technology influences human behavior, and how we can design and use it responsibly. His new musical, The Startup, with music co-written by Kevin Mucchetti, explores the impact that Big Tech has on society today. It will premiere at The Flea Theater in NYC in April 2026. His solo show, Terms of Service, won the award for Best Fiction Show at the 2024 United Solo Theatre Festival. Patrick has appeared on HSN as an On Air Tech Expert and has acted in various plays and award-winning films. He is the Founder of the Future of Entertainment Alliance, a cultural think tank examining how emerging technology like AI reshapes storytelling and creativity.
Panelist Bios:
Thu Do: Thu Do is an AI Product Owner who has helped launch 20+ AI-native startups at the intersection of Product, Design, and Technology. She founded TAILORU Collective to help AI practitioners and startup builders navigate the rapidly evolving landscape of human-AI collaboration—work grounded in her belief in the undeniable abilities of technology to advance the irreplaceable power of human creativity. Previously, she held patents for TAILOAR (AR measurement technology connecting tailors and embroiderers with customers virtually) and worked on Knitrino (a platform building a community around knitters and teaching people how to knit). Thu has led product and design at organizations from Fortune 500s to artisanal platforms serving millions. She's also an adjunct faculty member at MICA, vintage lamp restorer, musician, stamp collector, road tripper, and overall a flawed but unique human exploring what it means to create in the age of intelligent machines.
Jaime Schwarz: After a dozen+ years as an award winning copywriter and creative director with spots that range from a dog barking up a lion-filled tree to a truck that jackknifes before exploding into ten thousand rubber ducks, Jaime Schwarz left the agency world behind to focus on products and systems that empower individuals, ideas, and the equitable distribution of the values they create. Today, he is a Brand Therapist, serial co-founder, author of The IP Economy and the world's first NFT patent and the founder of MRKD. MRKD's mission is to empower co-creative marketplaces, starting with MRKD.dj, an automated rights and royalty management movement to save the music industry. He happily lives in Hastings on Hudson, NY with his wife and two boys.
Christina Krawec: Christina Krawec's career has always sat at the crossroads of the arts and international security. Since majoring in both International Relations and Vocal Performance at Stanford University, she has pursued simultaneous careers as a professional soprano and as a nuclear nonproliferation and AI policy specialist. Following a career working at large institutions such as the International Atomic Energy Agency, Google, and the US government, she founded consulting company Earthnote, which provides expertise in open source research and satellite imagery analysis. Christina has also performed at the Vienna State Opera, Indianapolis Opera, Chesapeake Shakespeare Company, and other venues across the US, UK, Austria, Spain and China. Selected credits: Mabel in "The Pirates of Penzance" (Forbear! Theatre), Christine in "The Phantom of the Opera" (Stanford University), Papagena in "The Magic Flute" (Loudoun Lyric Opera), Johanna in "Sweeney Todd" (Footlite Musicals). More information at christinakrawec.com!
Timothy Cooper: Timothy Michael Cooper is an award-winning filmmaker, comedy writer, and script consultant. He wrote and directed the Writers Guild Award-nominated CONCIERGE: THE SERIES (starring Kate McKinnon); the short comedy LEMON (Tribeca premiere); and the sci-fi comedy KNEAD (Indy Shorts, HollyShorts, Sapporo, and 35+ more fests). He also wrote the screenplay for AWAY FROM HERE, starring Nick Stahl, Alicia Witt, and Ray Wise, and the upcoming sports comedy short ROCK, PAPER, DESTINY. As a longtime member of the writers’ room for the Writers Guild Awards, he’s written jokes and sketches for Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Roy Wood Jr., Bowen Yang, Amy Schumer, Michelle Buteau, Zach Cherry, Amber Ruffin, and many more. Timothy is the creator of 365 Short Stories, where he published an original high-concept short story every single day for a year. Through his company, Blueprint Screenwriting Group, he’s coached hundreds of screenwriters to complete and sell their scripts, which have gone on to win Emmys, Golden Globes, Writers Guild Awards, and more.
About the Venue
BrainStation is the global leader in digital skills learning and workforce transformation. They empower businesses and professionals to succeed in the digital age by equipping them with the necessary skills to create value in fields such as AI, data, design, marketing and product.
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