Infinity Festival Returns to LA November 12-15 With AI Focus Across Creative Industries

Infinity Festival lands back in Los Angeles this November for its ninth edition, staking out the Audrey Irmas Pavilion from November 12 through 15 with a program built around artificial intelligence's deepening integration across creative industries. The four-day event promises ideas, experiences, screenings, demonstrations, and conversations about what comes next for entertainment and technology. For anyone tracking how AI tools are reshaping production pipelines — from animation and virtual production to live sports and gaming — this festival has positioned itself as the convergence point where those conversations happen in the same room.

The significance here isn't just another tech conference with an AI track slapped on. Organizers are embedding AI throughout a broader program spanning animation, gaming, sports tech, filmmaking, music, virtual production, and live entertainment rather than siloing it. That structural choice reflects a genuine shift: the tools changing how a VFX studio handles character rigging are increasingly the same ones a game studio uses for procedural world-building, and the same ones a live-event designer uses for real-time audience interaction. Having NVIDIA, HP, and Intel return as presenting sponsors signals the hardware layer is taking this convergence seriously too.

What Is Infinity Festival?

Infinity Festival has spent nine years bridging entertainment and technology communities that historically operated in separate lanes. Past editions have drawn high-profile guests including the Russo Brothers, Brie Larson, Jon Favreau, Phil Lord and Chris Miller, and Jeff Bridges — names that signal the festival's pull within mainstream Hollywood and the gaming world alike. The 9th edition runs four days at the Audrey Irmas Pavilion.

Lieber frames the festival's purpose directly: the changes across entertainment and technology aren't happening in separate lanes anymore, and Infinity Festival is built for that reality. The festival's programming slate includes panels, keynotes, screenings, demonstrations, and exhibitions, with specific speakers and sessions still to be announced in the coming weeks.

AI Integration Across the Program

Rather than corralling AI into a single track, the festival weaves it through sessions covering evolving tools and workflows behind animation and filmmaking, the growing crossover between gaming and entertainment, new technologies reshaping live sports and fan experiences, and advances in immersive production and live event design.

The gaming-entertainment crossover deserves particular attention. Sessions exploring this crossover will likely address shared asset pipelines, narrative design across media, and the talent pool that now moves fluidly between game studios and VFX houses. For developers and artists, these aren't abstract trends — they're hiring requirements and pipeline decisions happening now.

NVIDIA and HP will participate in the festival's 2026 programming slate alongside Intel's return as a presenting sponsor, the hardware ecosystem underpinning AI-driven creative workflows maintains a visible presence. That matters because the practical adoption of generative tools in production often hinges on compute access, model optimization, and integration with existing DCC applications — areas where these vendors directly shape what's possible. The festival's value will ultimately come down to whether the conversations match the ambition of its framing, but the structural pieces are in place for a substantive edition.