Ben Relles
Founder and CEO · Make Believe
Ben co-created Reid AI and previously led innovation and unscripted programming at YouTube, bringing experience in internet video formats to interactive AI media.
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Fireside Chat with Ben Relles (CEO- Make Believe)
with Aishwarya Srinivasan, Arvind Narayanamurthy
Ben Relles discusses interactive video and digital humans through Make Believe's Reid AI project, exploring product reliability, creative possibilities and decisions in a rapidly changing model ecosystem.
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What you’ll explore
Design believable digital humans
Examine how identity and personality shape the experience of an AI avatar.
Move beyond demonstrations
Identify the engineering and product challenges of live interactive media.
Choose creative opportunities
Consider how AI changes storytelling and what to build as capabilities evolve.
About this session
Ben Relles discusses interactive video and digital humans through Make Believe's Reid AI project, exploring product reliability, creative possibilities and decisions in a rapidly changing model ecosystem.
Guest speaker
The Gen Academy
Hosted by Aishwarya Srinivasan and Arvind Narayanamurthy.
Aishwarya Srinivasan
AI Advisor / AI Educator
Aishwarya Srinivasan is the Co-Founder of The Gen Academy and a Developer Relations Lead at Nebius. Her experience spans Fireworks AI, Microsoft for Startups, Google Cloud and IBM, where she worked with developers and businesses on practical AI and machine-learning solutions. She holds a postgraduate degree in Data Science from Columbia University and teaches AI engineering, applied machine learning, generative AI and LLMOps.
Arvind Narayanamurthy
Founder @ The Gen Academy | AI Solutions Architect | Ex - Adobe, Microsoft, IBM
Arvind brings a cross-company perspective on AI at scale, built across Microsoft, IBM, and Adobe, where he led data science teams and developed production-grade machine-learning solutions. He has built and deployed enterprise AI systems and focuses on translating AI concepts into practical, production-ready solutions. He holds a Master's from Carnegie Mellon University.