Variety + Meta Innovators Dinner Photos
Variety and Meta hosted an intimate dinner with top entertainment marketing executives in Beverly Hills on Wednesday at Gucci Osteria da Massimo Bottura. Among the notables who took part were Universal Pictures’ Dwight Caines, Paramount Pictures’ Marc Weinstock, Warner Bros.’ Josh Goldstine, Hulu’s Barrie Gruner, Searchlight Pictures’ Michelle Hooper, HBO/Max’s Pia Chaozon Barlow, the CW’s Chris Spadaccini, Disney’s Ryan Stankevich, Netflix’s Shelly Gillyard, Paramount+’s Michael Engleman and BET Networks’ Kimberly K. Wilson.
The evening featured a spotlight conversation on AI trends with Nathan Garvie, Meta’s director of product design, and Cynthia Littleton, Variety co-editor in chief.
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Barrie Gruner, Michelle Hooper
Barrie Gruner, executive vice president, Hulu originals series marketing and publicity and Michelle Hooper, executive vice president marketing at Searchlight Pictures.
Dwight Caines, Elias Plishner, Danielle De Palma
Dwight Caines, president of domestic marketing at Universal Pictures, Elias Plishner, executive vice president worldwide digital marketing and data analytics at Sony Pictures Entertainment, Danielle De Palma, executive vice president of domestic marketing at Paramount Pictures.
Cynthia Littleton, Nathan Garvie
Variety’s co-editor-in-chief Cynthia Littleton and director of product design at Meta, Nathan Garvie, warm up before the guests are seated.
Shelly Gillyard, Grace Song, Julie Geer
Shelly Gillyard, Grace Song and Julie Geer, head of entertainment partnerships at Meta.
Shannon Mattingly
Shannon Mattingly, head of strategic media partnerships for Instagram.
Pia Chaozon Barlow, Chris Spadaccini
Pia Chaozon Barlow, executive vice president of marketing at HBO & HBO Max, and Chris Spadaccini, CMO at The CW.
Markus Gerdemann
Markus Gerdemann, senior vice president of creative marketing at Crunchyroll.
Omar Zayat, Michael Engleman
Omar Zayat, head of industry for entertainment, Meta and Michael Engleman, CMO/Global brand director, Paramount+ and Showtime.
Shelly Gillyard, Kimberly K. Wilson
Shelly Gillyard, vice president of marketing at Netflix and Kimberly K. Wilson, senior vice president of Marketing at BET.
Elias Plishner, Cynthia Littleton, Dwight Caines, Alex Sanger, Gita Rebbapragada
Elias Plishner, executive vice president of worldwide digital marketing and data analytics at Sony Pictures Entertainment, Cynthia Littleton, Dwight Caines president of domestic marketing at Universal Pictures, Alex Sanger executive vice president of global digital marketing at Universal Pictures and Gita Rebbapragada COO of Crunchyroll.
Laura Mehaffey, Charlton Gholson
Laura Mehaffey global client partner lead at Meta and Charlton Gholson head of strategic partnerships at Meta.
Michelle Sobrino-Stearns, Cynthia Littleton
Michelle Sobrino-Stearns, CEO and group publisher for Variety, and Cynthia Littleton welcome the crowd.
Nathan Garvie
Nathan Garvie dives into a deep discussion before the start of the dinner.
Nathan Garvie
Nathan Garvie speaks during Variety + Meta Innovators Dinner.
Ryan Stankevich
Ryan Stankevich, senior vice president of marketing at Walt Disney Studios.
Dwight Caines
Dwight Caines speaks at the Variety + Meta Innovators Dinner.
Charlton Gholson, Grace Song, Nathan Garvie, Jon Carvill, Alex Cook, Shannon Mattingly, Myles O’Connell, Omar Zayat, Julie Geer, Frank Spada
Charlton Gholson, Grace Song, Nathan Garvie, Jon Carvill (head of communications for AI, Meta), Alex Cook (strategic partnerships, innovation lead for Meta), Shannon Mattingly, Myles O’Connell (head of media partnerships at Meta), Omar Zayat, Julie Geer and Frank Spada (strategic partner manager, digital publishers for Meta).
Variety + Meta Innovators Dinner – Inside
An interior view of Variety + Meta Innovators Dinner.