After Abundance: What Makes AI Content Worth Making - #SFTechWeek
Anyone can generate a video now. That part is solved. The harder question is what makes something worth watching, remembering, and paying for once production costs almost nothing.
This is an afternoon for the people working on that question from both sides: the founders building creative AI tools, and the creators, filmmakers, and designers pushing those tools to their limits.
We'll dig into what separates a great creative agent from a generic one, how a model can hold onto a distinct voice and intent, and where the real content and business opportunities are opening up. Then we'll look at actual work and talk honestly about where today's products help and where they break.
Who's in the room
Founders, product leaders, and teams from Pollo AI, Fish Audio, PlotParty, Machine Cinema, Fantastic Day, Crreo.ai, and flatkey.ai, plus local creators, filmmakers, designers, researchers, and creative AI builders.
Meet the companies
Pollo.ai
Everyone deserves a film studio in their pocket. That's why 10 million people, from solo creators to global brands, create on Pollo AI's all-in-one video platform.
Fish Audio
Voice AI for creators and developers, with expressive text-to-speech and voice cloning that sounds like someone, not something.
Crreo.ai
Long-form AI video from a script or idea, built step by step from script to storyboard to timeline, with no editing skills needed.
Plotparty.ai
Agentic platform for AI-native microdramas, helping studios, brands, and creators produce cinematic vertical stories with consistent characters and real story control.
Flatkey.ai
One API key for 200+ AI models, from GPT and Claude to Seedance, so builders can test, switch, and ship without juggling providers or bills.
Machine Cinema
A 15,000+ member community of AI filmmakers and storytellers, known for GenJam events where people make short films together in a single evening.
OpenStages
The platform connecting founders and experts with speaking opportunities, and the host of AI community events across the Bay Area.
Speakers
Rissa Cao, Co-founder & CEO, Fish Audio
Sophia Xing, Founder & CEO, PlotParty
Minh Do, Co-founder, Machine Cinema & Fantastic Day
Ondrej Dusek, Founder & CEO, Crreo.ai
Danni Chen, Growth Advisor, Former VP Growth at Norton & Yellow.ai (Moderator)
Joshua Mason, Marketing Director at God's Way Foundation
Agenda
1:40-2:00 PM | Arrival, refreshments, and introductions
2:00-3:00 PM | Founder panel + audience Q&A
3:00-3:30 PM | Creator showcase
3:30-4:30 PM | Open meetup with speakers, creators, and builders
The conversation
When anyone can produce, what actually determines quality, differentiation, and value? We'll work through:
What happens after production becomes abundant
What makes a great creative agent
How tools shape the medium
What makes a model creatively distinct
How generated output becomes lasting content
Where new value shows up
What should be built next
This isn't a one-way panel. Bring your real workflow friction, deployment needs, and the capabilities you keep wishing existed. The builders on stage want to hear it.
Creator demos
Selected creators will show a finished piece or work in progress and walk through it: the creative intent, which models and tools they chose, how the workflow ran, where the tech delivered, where it fell short, and what they want it to do next.
Want to show your work? Submit an existing piece to mengyu@mail.pollo.ai for a chance to be featured in the screening. Audience favourites win Pollo AI credits.
This event is a part of #SFTechWeek - a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem. Learn more at www.tech-week.com.