September 26-27, 2017Princeton Club, New York City

Christopher Neff

The Community Senior Director of Innovation

This past year, Christopher Neff joined cross-cultural agency the community as the Senior Director of Innovation. Here he sits in an interdisciplinary role in the ideas division that incorporates creativity, strategy, education, and the application of innovation. Previously he was at production company Tool of North America as the Director of Digital & Experiential.  In this role, he managed projects across digital, experiential, AI, VR, and AR for brands including Infiniti, IBM, Toyota, and Domino’s.  This role allowed him to experiment with technology of all kinds with a team comprised of director talent, creative directors, designers, developers, producers, UI designers, motion graphics artists, and machine learning experts.  Prior to Tool, he served as Director of Interactive Production at 180LA, where he executed several notable projects including Pepsi’s “Now is What You Make It” World Cup campaign and HP’s award-winning interactive YouTube experience, “2Days Beat.” While there, he was also on the team that executed the award-winning campaign that buried $1 million in the oceans of Google Earth for Sony’s Facebook-based Project Shiphunt. Throughout his career, Neff has been recognized with more than 40 industry awards, including recognition from the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity, One Show, One Show Entertainment, FWA, CSS Design Awards, Clio, and D&AD.

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Panel: The Learning Machines
Date/Time: 9:00 AM

There finally is enough computing power for AI to advance into practicality. Consumers are interacting with digital voice assistants, companies are deploying chatbots and cloud-based capabilities can personalize and target in real time. This panel charts the course of how these learning capabilities will play in the world of marketing and advertising.

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