New York City  ·  Fall 2026

Le
Bonza

There's a lot of AI-made content out there. Very little of it is being watched carefully or talked about honestly. That's what Le Bonza is for.

200 people
1 day
NYC fall 2026
Inaugural edition
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What is this

AI is changing entertainment. Nobody's figured out how yet.

The tools showed up fast and people started making things. Some of it genuinely new, some of it strange, a lot of it going viral for reasons nobody can fully explain.

The interesting question isn't whether it's good. That's the wrong frame. A fully AI-generated video with no exceptional story and no awards-caliber craft can become one of the fastest-growing accounts on any major platform. Why? And what does that mean for everyone who makes, funds, or distributes entertainment?

We put peers on stage to react to each other's work. Slop and high-craft in the same conversation. Programmed for contention and true discussion.

We screen the work first. Then creators, tool-builders, and the executives who'll fund what comes next all sit with it together.

No curatorial hierarchy. The full range on display, from things that took months of obsessive craft to things that went viral because someone nailed a prompt.

The arguments that aren't happening in public yet, happening in public.

Programming

Six tracks. One day.

01
Film & Video
High-craft cinematic work alongside the stuff going viral for reasons nobody can fully explain. No hierarchy between them.
02
Cross-critique
Artists reacting to each other's work, live on stage. Slop and high-craft in the same panel. The people who made the work sit in the audience.
03
Debate
Ethics, deepfakes, where this work lives, whether any of it is good. Programmed for contention, not consensus.
04
Music
AI-native sound and live performance.
05
Gallery
Installed visual and generative works.
06
Technical demos
Five-minute how-it-was-made segments. Strictly technical. No philosophy, no origin stories.

The room

200 people.
Two audiences, designed to meet.

The artists making work that matters right now, including accounts with 200 followers and a body of work almost nobody has seen yet. And the people with budgets to commission what comes next. Both sides, one room.

Filmmakers
AI-native editors telling stories in entirely new ways, and the AI-curious directors who are beginning to adapt their workflow.
Artists
Generative artists who are redefining what it means to make art.
Musicians
The people making AI-native sound that's actually landing with audiences.
Label & studio
The executives who need to understand what's coming, and who'll commission a lot of what comes next.
Investors
The people funding the tools that are fueling this new era.
Builders
The teams at the platforms making all of this possible.
Private track

A parallel track runs through the day: structured time for commissioners, studio heads, and investors with the artists they want to meet, held away from the main floor so the introductions that matter actually happen.

200 invited attendees
1 day, NYC
6 tracks
2026 inaugural