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RESET LA 26
PROGRAM

The AI Integration Battle Plan


The RealTime Executive Summit on Emerging Technologies
February 23–24, 2026 | The Third Floor – 5700 Wilshire Blvd, Suite 650, Los Angeles, CA 90036
(right before the VES Awards)

The AI Integration Battle Plan — Program

No panels. No theory. No hype.

RESET LA 26 is where AI integration becomes an execution plan — with constraints, commitments, and a 60–90 day runway to RESET London 26.

RESET LA 26 is a closed-door execution summit designed to answer one question:
how do we integrate AI into real production pipelines—without breaking trust, quality, or economics?

Over two focused days, participants move from shared constraints to working groups, commitments, and a 60–90 day action plan — with clear owners and proof of progress.
Explore the program and see how RESET LA 26 turns the conversation into an AI Integration Battle Plan that can survive outside the room.

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PROGRAM OVERVIEW

Monday, Feb. 23, 2026 — Execution Phase 1: Constraints & Operating Reality

The Third Floor — 5700 Wilshire Blvd, Suite 650, Los Angeles, CA 90036

How the Summit Is Designed
RESET LA 26 is not a sequence of presentations. It is a deliberately structured execution summit built to prevent the most common failure mode of industry conversations: great ideas that never get adopted.

RESET London 25 named the crisis. RESET LA is where execution begins — by locking constraints, surfacing adoption conditions, and identifying the first unavoidable decisions that move into Tuesday’s working groups.

    08:00–08:45 — Registration & Welcome Coffee
    08:45 – 09:00 — Opening Remarks
    09:00 – 09:30 — Opening Frame: Pressure-Testing the Sustainable AI Pipeline

    As a pioneer of Previsualization, Chris Edwards has always embraced rapid change and championed the early adoption of bleeding- edge technologies which had the potential to advance the creative process. Chris will open RESET LA 26 by describing how he navigated his company through the industry-wide downturn, which wouldn’t have been possible without the rapid adoption of real-time technologies.

    09:30–10:15 — Pressure-Testing the Survivable Pipeline (Plenary)

    Moderated collective discussion to validate what no longer works, what must change first, and what “survivable” means in practice.

    10:15 – 10:45 — Networking Break
    10:45–11:00 — Conversation Igniter: From Literacy to Leverage: When AI Moves Faster Than the Organization

    Rick brings a grounded view on what happens when teams know what’s possible — but lack the time, structure, and permission to transform. From large-scale asset conversion to internal tool creation, his experience surfaces a central challenge for the room: AI is already changing how people think and work — long before organizations are ready to support it.

    11:00–12:30 — Open Conversation: Constraints → First Decisions (Plenary)

    Facilitated working discussion to lock shared constraints (technical, human, economic, governance) and identify early decision paths that shape Tuesday’s execution work.

    Champion Interventions (short reality checks during plenaries)

    2–3 minutes interventions prompted by the moderator to keep the discussion grounded in implementation reality (not presentations):
    • Kim Adams — Vice President, Game Development, Scopely (Pokémon GO)
    • Peter Nofz — VFX Supervisor, Rodeo FX
    • Brett Ineson — President / CTO, Animatrik Film Design
    • Pierre-Adrien Forestier — Co-Founder & CEO, 3dverse
    • Javier Romero — Founder, STARFRAME FILMWORKS
    • Kerenza Harris — Executive Leader, Design Technology & Practice Innovation (AECO) | Faculty at SCI-Arc (Southern California Institute of Architecture)
    • Kevin Leeper — Technical Lead, Regional Virtual Production Academy; Associate Professor, Diablo Valley College

    12:30 – 14:00 — Networking Lunch
    14:00–14:15 — Conversation Igniter: The Adoption Trap — Why the Economics Don’t Work (Yet)

    Surfaces the constraint beneath every AI and real-time roadmap: economics and investment timing — and what “financially survivable adoption” means over the next 12–24 months.

    14:15–15:30 — Open Conversation: From Constraints to Adoption Paths (Plenary)
    Pressure-test adoption paths, resolve contradictions, and shortlist what moves into Tuesday working groups.
      Champion Intervention Focus: The New Fundamentals — Education as the Integration Engine
      • Kevin Leeper — Technical Lead, Regional Virtual Production Academy; Associate Professor, Diablo Valley College

      Introduces an Education SIG collaboration model designed to turn real industry problems into pilot-ready, open (non-IP) learning deliverables — modular tasks, documentation, and repeatable integration patterns — to accelerate workforce readiness under real constraints (compute, access, tool cost, evaluation skills).

      15:30 – 16:00 — Networking Break
      16:00 – 17:00 — Workshop Alignment & Commitment Session
      Participants select working groups, refine scope and deliverables, and align on “proof of progress” for the first post-summit checkpoint.
      Evening

      Closed-door executive dinner (participants only) to deepen alignment and confirm Tuesday priorities.

      Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2026 — Execution Phase 2: Work + Commitments

      The Third Floor — 5700 Wilshire Blvd, Suite 650, Los Angeles, CA 90036

      How the Day Is Designed
      Tuesday is a working day. Teams convert aligned constraints into decisions, a 60–90 day action plan, named ownership, support conditions (training / governance / budget), and proof thresholds leading into RESET London 26 (Sept. 7–9, 2026).

        09:00–12:00 — Parallel Working Groups (Execution Work Sessions)

        Each group produces: decisions + 60–90 day plan + proof of progress.

          Working Groups (Conveners)
          1. Judith Crow — VP Strategic Partnerships, SideFX
            Danilo Papić — CEO and Co-Founder, Netfork
            Hybrid Workflows & Production-Ready AI Integration
          2. Peter Nofz — VFX Supervisor, Rodeo FX
            Creative Roles, Skills & Operating Models
          3. Paul Salvini — CTO, DNEG (tbc)
            Economics, ROI & Executive Decision Models
          4. Kerenza Harris — Executive Leader, Design Technology & Practice Innovation (AECO) | Faculty at SCI-Arc (Southern California Institute of Architecture)
            AECO Playbook: Sustainable, AI-Ready Operating Model for Repeatable Adoption
          5. Kevin Leeper — Technical Lead, Regional Virtual Production Academy; Associate Professor, Diablo Valley College
            The New Fundamentals: Training & Enablement
          12:00–13:30 — Working Lunch
          Groups consolidate outputs and prepare concise readouts.
          13:30 – 14:45 — Working Group Readouts: What We’re Building
          Each group shares the execution problem, constraints, decisions, 60–90 day plan, owners, and proof threshold.
          14:45 – 15:15 — Cross-Group Integration: Dependencies & Collision Checks
          Align overlaps, resolve conflicts, and confirm sequencing across workstreams.
          15:15 – 15:30 — Networking Break
          15:30–16:45 — Runway to RESET London 26: Roadmap, Checkpoints & Ownership
          Lock the execution runway to London: checkpoints, owners, minimum proof requirements, and blockers to remove.
          16:45 – 17:00 – Closing Remarks: What Survives Outside the Room
          17:00–18:00 — Closing Cocktail

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