Grace Ng
Building the future of interactive entertainment at Playhouse.ai
Los Angeles Metropolitan AreaOn Unlinked
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About
I'm an AI Worldbuilder helping brands, creators, and media companies navigate the biggest shift in entertainment: from gatekept storytelling to decentralized, participatory worlds. As the first award-winning AI filmmaker in 2022, I used blockchain technologies to crowdfund a 3D animated short film that I directed and produced in 30 days with the help of AI. Now, I continue to research and build solutions for the future of interactive entertainment with Playhouse.ai. The future belongs to worldbuilders. For a century, a handful of studios and platforms decided what got made and who got seen. That gatekeeping is ending. Power is shifting to creators and communities, and audiences are becoming participants and co-owners. AI now makes building entire worlds possible for the first time. The next Disney won't be a studio that publishes content. It will be a creator, brand, or community that operates a world people live inside. I've been early to this shift at every turn. In 2022 I became one of the first indie AI filmmakers, crowdfunding an animated short through web3, co-creating it with AI and XR, and securing its assets on-chain; it won a Film Innovation Award. I was among the earliest NFT artists on Bitcoin. Today I'm building Playhouse, an AI-native platform where anyone can turn their IP into build participatory worlds for fans to step into. I work with brands, creators, and media companies to help navigate this shift: - How is AI changing entertainment while keeping human creativity involved? - How do we build fandom instead of followers? - What happens when audiences become participants? If you're a brand or studio who wants to learn more about the future of AI-powered entertainment, let's talk. My clients include: Sony, ESPN, Google, China Fashion Week, and more. Speaking Engagements: ♦ AWE XR ♦ Dubai AI Film Fest ♦ AI on the Lot ♦ Women in XR ♦ SXSW ♦ Singularity University ♦ The U.S. White House ♦ United Nations
Experience
Oct 2021
- Created a 9K Bitcoin NFT collection to celebrate Snow Crash and the metaverse. Became the largest Bitcoin NFT collection to sell out. - Developed partnerships with artists, collectors, and startups to strengthen community and ecosystem. - Invited Neal Stephenson in for a private Q&Q with my community. Became the first avatar to interview Neal Stephenson. - Hired and managed a team of artists. - Wrote, directed, and produced an award-winning animated short film in 30 days. - This short film pushes the boundaries of what's possible today, and uses AI, AR/VR, Web3 to create a compelling interactive story about the future of the metaverse. - Featured at various events
Jun 2022
Advisor to the Web3 Netflix Platform
Apr 2021 to Apr 2023
Investment DAO to fund women, non-binary and LGBTQ+ founders
Sep 2021 to Dec 2021
Early member of Cabin, a Web3 experiment in decentralized cities
Apr 2021 to Dec 2021
We invest in founders building dApps on Bitcoin that bring the next internet revolution.
Nov 2016 to Dec 2021
Mentor for the top 3-month seed accelerator program in China. Chinaccelerator, part of SOSV, focuses on the top startups in China with the potential to go global.
Sep 2018 to Dec 2020
Jan 2018 to Dec 2020
Worked with Google Launchpad to accelerate startup adoption of machine learning tools.
Sep 2016 to Dec 2020
Developing interactive experiences at the intersection of AR/VR, AI, biosensors, neuroscience. BrainPaint is one piece in my series of explorations on brain art interfaces, enabling anyone to interact with art through their minds. Exhibited in a few cities around the world.
Jan 2019 to Apr 2020
Ran the AI accelerator for Google for Startups Asia
Oct 2018 to Dec 2019
Mentor startups
Jun 2018 to Dec 2019
A pre-accelerator helping founders get from idea to product/market fit. LVP partners with funds, companies and universities to de-risk and prove out business models of early-stage startups to increase their success. Launched the first AI pre-accelerator fund in China.
Jan 2014 to Dec 2019
Javelin is an all-in-one product validation & innovation management software that helps entrepreneurs go from idea to product market fit, and helps Fortune 500 companies identify the business potential of new projects.
Jul 2018 to Jul 2019
Appointed to lead World Economic Forum's Global Shapers Community on impact related projects that address the world's pressing problems.
Dec 2011 to Jun 2016
Lean Startup Machine is a global innovation education workshop in 60+ countries changing the way entrepreneurs build new businesses through Customer Development, Design Thinking, Rapid Prototyping, and Early Market Validation.
Nov 2010 to Oct 2011
How can we learn about our world when what we see is not textually searchable? Peeq.it is a Photo Q&A mobile app with the goal of improving semantic image search. Peeq.it. For the curious.
Education
Specialized H.S Diploma in Math and Science