Wednesday, May 23rd, 2018

Keynote Evening Roundtable - 6:15 PM, Open to All Attendees

Presented by the Television Academy Interactive Media Peer Group

Demystifying the Immersive Hollywood Experience

With VR promising to be the future of the storytelling and AR driving real engagement and business solutions….How can television creatives make the promise real? Isit possible to produce inspiring and innovative immersive experiences while the tech and business model aren’t quite there.  Will there really every be a ‘broad cast’ for immersive content? We’ll talk to award winning producers, writers and directors on how their digging into immersive content and charting the way for the future of television. In this exciting session, we’ll take a look‘behind the digital curtain” and find out from the movers and shakers , what’s the secret sauce to creating the latest immersive entertainment.

Lori H. Schwartz, Governor, Interactive Media, The Television Academy

Tanner Stransky, Director of Digital content, HBO

Tammy Glover Park, VP Production TNT/TBS, a division of Turner Broadcasting, Inc.

Jacob Robinson, Director, Original Programming, TBS

Rick Hack, Media and Entertainment Partnerships, Intel Americas

Lori H. Schwartz is a leading advisor and speaker on innovation, media and technology trends worldwide. She works with top creative and strategic executives of multiple brands, agencies and content companies to ensure understanding of new and evolving technology as well as emerging business

models. With a focus on the habits of the consumer and the goals of the marketer, Lori provides the latest solution recommendations for this ever changing media landscape. Lori works on her StoryTech™ initiative which facilitates communication between storytellers and technology companies. Her trends briefings and tours products have become well known globally through her work @NABSHOW, @CES and other prominent industry events. You can listen to her weekly on her live radio show and podcast, The Tech Cat Show.

Tammy Glover Park is the Vice President of Production at TNT/tbs, a division of Turner Broadcasting, Inc., where her shows include The Last OG, Angie Tribeca, People of Earth, The Guest Book, Wrecked, Search Party, Full Frontal with Samantha Bee and The Detour. She helped launch Studio T, Turner's in-house studio, and supervises their animation slate, which includes Tarantula, Final Space and J.G. Quintel’s highly anticipated Close Enough, as well. Prior to that, she was VP of Production and SVP of Production at FremantleMedia, North America where she worked on such notable programs as American Idol, America's Got Talent and The Price Is Right. She also launched their first scripted programs including The Returned and The Wedding Band. Before joining Fremantle in 2011, Park was VP of Production for Comedy Central, where she guided hits like Workaholics, Key and Peele and Tosh.0 from development through their first cycles on the network and supervised everything from sketch comedy, to game shows, animation and long-form scripted shows on a network whose notable programs include The Daily Show, Inside Amy Schumer and South Park.

Tanner Stransky is Director of Digital Content at HBO Digital & Social Media, where he leads development of marketing content—everything from video and text to AR, VR and voice—for the HBO brand and programming. His goal is to build digital and social content that solves marketing and messaging challenges and drives consumer awareness, engagement, delight, retention and acquisition. Tanner loves big ideas, unforged paths and prioritizes a “let’s try it” mentality that has led to complex, stunning work on shows including Game of Thrones, Westworld, Big Little Lies, Girls, The Leftovers and more. Through collaborating closely with HBO’s showrunners and programmers, Tanner’s campaigns have been widely recognized for their imagination and innovation, garnering him an Emmy and multiple Webby and Promax awards. Tanner began working in entertainment media and marketing for more than 15 years ago, beginning his career at Entertainment Weekly and EW.com, rising from editorial assistant to staff editor over a seven-year tenure that found him working in both New York City and Los Angeles, writing several cover stories and hosting a weekly radio show, Bullseye Hour, on EW's Sirius radio station. In May 2008, he published an entertainment-pegged career-advice book, Find Your Inner Ugly Betty: 25 Career Lessons for Young Professionals Inspired by TV Shows, through Kaplan. Tanner has freelanced for Cosmopolitan.com and TheKnot.com and previously worked at Teen People, the New York Post and ON DIRECTV. He lives on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, loves to travel and enjoys rosé spritzers.

Jacob Robinson, Director, Original Programming, TBS: Jacob Robinson has been a film and television executive for over a decade. He began his career in New York, producing features and short form content through his company Brooklyn Abridged Films. After completing his MBA/MFA at NYU, Jacob moved to Los Angeles to work at De Line Pictures. He then co-founded Particular Pictures with principal John Hamburg. Currently, Jacob is an executive in original programing at TBS, where he works on shows such as Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, Search Party, The Last OG, and the upcoming Miracle Workers. He is also the creative head of TXR, a Turner studio focused on the development of extended reality content.”

Rick Hack, Head of Media & Entertainment Partnerships, at Intel Corp.: He has an 18 year history in the media, entertainment and technology space. In his latest role, Rick was hired to operate as Intel's liaison to U.S. M & E companies pursuing transformational tech-based partnerships and strategic relationships.  He's responsible for engaging industry leaders, influencers, technical decision makers, and policy makers to ultimately drive awareness and early adoption of new Intel technologies, platforms and products. Since then, Rick has helped propel several unique opportunities including partnerships with Warner Bros. envisioning entertainment experiences in the future inside autonomous vehicles, and Paramount Pictures with the newly created Intel Studios in Los Angeles, including a volumetric stage spanning 10,000 square feet of capture space. Most recently, his collaborative virtual reality project with Intel's Software Services Group and Sony Pictures for the Spider-Man: Homecoming VR experience and received a Lumiere Award from the Advanced Imaging Society.  Before Intel, Rick also operated as a Consultant and VP for several digital startups. In this capacity, he launched a social media, fan advocacy platform with Social Toaster for top rated FOX TV series ‘Glee’, theatrical releases with Sony Pictures for Mortal Instruments and The Amazing Spider-Man 2 including the official ‘Spidey Fan’ program. In addition, Rick was Head of Content Strategy for Michael Bay's commercial and transmedia company - The Institute where he assisted in the re-boot branding of the 'Need for Speed' video game franchise with launch elements across Facebook and other platforms. Earlier in his career he was Head of Entertainment for CBS's Radio division and invented several noteworthy projects including 'Traffic on Demand' with the first U.S. texted based traffic service to consumers. He also led a fully digital branded radio station with ABC and their series 'Life on Mars', and a very early OTT project - 'Live from the Web Carpet' covering blockbuster releases of Transformers and Bourne Ultimatum. Before he ventured in the business side of entertainment, Rick fronted several rock bands opening/ touring with artists including Haim, Big Country, Tonic, Marcie Playground and Cowboy Mouth where his music has been placed in various film releases.