AI Media Strategist · Speaker · Educator

The tool generates. The human gives meaning.

I help studios, creative leaders, and organizations decide where AI belongs, how to direct it, and what should remain distinctly human. My keynotes, hands-on labs, and consulting draw on building agentic production systems inside StudioNow’s embedded operation at Coca-Cola’s Atlanta headquarters, and on helping originate and build Georgia State’s Creative Media Industries Institute.

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Based in Atlanta · Available worldwide · Booking fall 2026
TEDxAtlanta SXSW Coca-Cola · StudioNow Trilith Studios Dallas Austin Distribution Directors Guild of America Atlanta Georgia State CMII MENA ICT Forum
“Astonishing. Like it or not, AI is here, and it is something every filmmaker needs to understand.”
Tom Luse · Executive Producer, The Walking Dead · on the Generative Storytelling Lab

Three ways to work with me.

Keynotes / Labs / Consulting
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Keynotes & Talks

For conferences, leadership summits, and company events. Built around authorship, judgment, and strategy, not a parade of tools. Signature talks include:

  • The Script Is a Prompt for Humans. What happens to authorship, taste, and creative labor when stories and images can be generated instantly.
  • Directed Compute. How creative leaders turn abundant machine output into coherent work with intention, standards, and meaning.
  • Inverting the Loop. A practical model for making AI answer to human judgment rather than reorganizing human work around the machine.

Every talk is rebuilt for its audience. I travel.

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Workshops & Labs

The Generative Storytelling Lab: in one intensive day, your team develops, directs, and screens original short films using generative production tools.

  • Private editions for creative teams, agencies, studios, educators, and leadership groups. I bring the lab to you.
  • Public editions at Georgia State’s CMII in Atlanta. The seventh public lab takes place July 18, 2026.
  • Not a tool tour. Participants learn a production method built around story, visual direction, iteration, and judgment.
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Consulting

Embedded AI strategy for media, entertainment, and creative organizations.

Inside StudioNow’s long-standing embedded operation at Coca-Cola’s Atlanta headquarters, I built an agentic scripting system, trained producers to understand how AI content is created and how to produce with AI talent, and advised creative leadership on AI strategy.

Additional consulting and creative technology work includes Trilith Studios, Dallas Austin Distribution, and organizations across film, immersive media, education, and emerging technology.

Measured by whether people can use the system, make better decisions, and ship stronger work, not by the deck it came in.

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What a room can make in a day.

Proof, not promises

Two minutes of films created by students and lab participants, many of whom had never made a film before.

Six cohorts. Six screenings. Finished work made in a single day.

The AI Creative Resources Library
The living toolbox I maintain for students, lab alumni, and consulting clients. Updated constantly, because the field is.
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About.

Bio below is yours to copy for your program
Elizabeth Strickler

Elizabeth Strickler is an AI media strategist, creative technologist, educator, and institution builder working at the intersection of storytelling, production, and emerging technology.

At Georgia State University, she directs Media Entrepreneurship and Innovation. She helped originate and build the initiative that became the Creative Media Industries Institute, from its precursor, DAEL, through planning and implementation; designed the institute’s technology architecture; and created the core curriculum for its Media Entrepreneurship program.

Most recently, she worked inside StudioNow’s embedded operation at Coca-Cola’s Atlanta headquarters, where she built an agentic scripting system, trained producers to work with AI production methods and talent, and advised creative leadership on AI strategy. Her consulting has also included Trilith Studios and Dallas Austin Distribution.

She has spoken at TEDxAtlanta, SXSW, and the MENA ICT Forum; produced the Directors Guild of America Atlanta AI Seminar; and founded the Immersive Impact Review, a peer-reviewed journal of immersive media.

Strickler began her career building internet infrastructure and holds degrees in philosophy, computer science, and digital filmmaking. Across three decades, her work has focused on a persistent question: how can people direct powerful technologies without surrendering authorship, judgment, or meaning?

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Tell me the date, the audience, and what you want the room to understand, question, or believe differently afterward. I will tell you honestly whether I am the right person for it.

Prefer email? elizadaynight@gmail.com
Response within 48 hours · Based in Atlanta · Yes, I fly