Hands-on A.I. Producers Lab

Eva Fischer is a specialist in immersive media, AI, and experimental art, known for her pioneering work at the intersection of creativity and technology. Her experience bridges artistic practice, innovation strategy, and university-level teaching, ensuring that digital transformation is handled with nuance and ethics. As an independent curator, festival director, and cultural manager, she has been director of the media art festival Civa since 2021 and the sound:frame – festival for audiovisual art, which she initiated in 2007. Between 2016 and 2019, she led the production of the Diagonale film festival in Graz and was COO of the International Screen Institute in Vienna between 2023 and 2025. She has been teaching experimental media and immersive art at various universities since 2011.

Claudia Larcher is an artist, experimental filmmaker and AI researcher based in Vienna. Treating photography as a socially entangled, politically charged practice, she extends the still image through algorithmic animation, video, and immersive “phygital” installations. Her current research interrogates the materiality of data, ecological futures and bias‑aware artificial intelligence, contributing to international debates on digital humanism and post‑human image culture.

He bridges the gap between creatives and technical nerds in a practical way for production. His 20 years of production experience, broad technological knowledge, and constant curiosity about emerging technologies, brought him to a place, where he acts as an interpreter among the diverse stakeholders of modern film teams. In the era of AI transformation, his expertise helps develop forward-looking strategies for team and process evolution. He promotes the term ‘digital storytelling,’ which he sees as the natural successor to the now-outdated concept of ‘film and TV production’.

Maciej’s career began in the early 2000s in the production department, and evolved through nearly a decade in motion control and SFX shoots, culminating in 2020 with the founding of ATM Virtual Studio in Warsaw and today extending into consultancy and AI-assisted workflows that emphasize human values and creativity.

He has spent much of his career moving between the European and Indian (Bollywood) film industries, working on productions of all scales from both regions. Maciej is one of the initiators and leads of the ‘Picture from Auschwitz’ Certified Virtual Film Location project, which sets new global standards for authentic, safe, and ethical data management in digital storytelling. The project is carried out together with Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation and Memorial.

Maciej has been a keynote speaker, mentor and consultant at events such as Berlinale, Cannes Next, WEMW Trieste, Camerimage, Black Nights, Bifan Korea, CES Vegas, Tallinn Digital Summit, VivaTech Paris and many more. He has also worked in the field of professional film technology and training with ACE Producers, EAVE, European Producers Club, European Film Academy, European Commission.

Joanna Szymańska is a Polish film producer and co-founder of Shipsboy, an independent production company focused on international co-productions and new models of development. With nearly two decades of experience across the European audiovisual landscape, she specializes in international co-productions, strategic development, and innovation in storytelling.

She has been an early adopter of AI in film, exploring its use in audience research, production workflows, and narrative development. Joanna is also a lecturer and strategic consultant, currently pursuing a PhD on evolving financial models in the European film industry.

She is actively engaged in shaping the future of the industry, serving as a member of the Board of the European Film Academy, as well as President of the Producers Guild of Poland.

Joanna believes the future of film depends not just on talent, but also on collaboration, courage, and knowing how the system works — so you can find your own way through it.