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ProgrammeGlitch Talks with Paweł Deląg, actor, director and producerToday at the Documentary & Feature Film Studio in Warsaw we are gathering for another Glitch Talks, the regular Casting Studio & Warsaw Glitch community meetup. Our special guest is Paweł Deląg, an acclaimed European actor, director and producer.Read more PartnersCopySight AI checked every nominated film for IP risk before the awardsOne of the most important conversations at Warsaw Glitch 2026 was not about what generative AI can create, but about what happens before that work is released, licensed or commercialized. That is why we partnered with CopySight AI.Read more AwardsWhen You Run From Your Mom: Best Screenplay at Warsaw Glitch 2026The tools may be shared. The story should not be. When You Run From Your Mom, directed by Edmond Yang from Norway, is the winner of Best Screenplay at the Ground Zero Edition.Read more AwardsHard Dayzzz: Best Editing at Warsaw Glitch 2026Hard Dayzzz, directed by Max De Donato and produced by Nation Studio (France), is the winner of Best Editing at the Ground Zero Edition.Read more AwardsUnderground: Best Fashion Video at Warsaw Glitch 2026Underground, directed by Ock Jae-kyung from South Korea, is the winner of Best Fashion Video at the Ground Zero Edition.Read more AwardsNominated films and honorable mentions, with a montage for every categoryThe awards page now shows the full results of seven categories: Best Animation, Best Music Video, Best Horror, Best Sound, Best Student Film, Best Commercial and Best Online Vertical. Each has its own montage of the nominated films, the winners, the runners-up and the honorable mentions, with the complete list beside it.Read more AwardsNINA: Best Ukrainian Film at Warsaw Glitch 2026NINA, directed by Ukrainian filmmaker Valerii Kocherhan, is the winner of Best Ukrainian Film at the Ground Zero Edition, an award sponsored by CopySight AI. It was the first of the awards announced after the festival.Read more AwardsThe Gift: Best Animation and Best Music at Warsaw Glitch 2026The Gift took two awards at the Ground Zero Edition, Best Animation and Best Music, plus a finalist mention in Best Editing. Written and directed by Junho Her of Grab AI Studio (South Korea).Read more AwardsBlack Harvest: Best Horror at Warsaw Glitch 2026Black Harvest is the winner of Best Horror at the Ground Zero Edition. Directed by Giulio Fulchignoni, an Italian filmmaker blending artificial intelligence with cinematic storytelling.Read more AwardsKościuszki St.: Audience Award at Warsaw Glitch 2026This time the decision belonged to the audience. Kościuszki St. won the Audience Award at the Ground Zero Edition. A film by Łukasz Suchocki, Marta Solik and Paulina Shepanic.Read more AwardsFreedom: James Drake Award: Historical Documentary & True Crime at Warsaw Glitch 2026Freedom, produced by James Drake Media and Creait.Me, was recognised by a jury of producers as the winner of the James Drake Award: Historical Documentary & True Crime at the Ground Zero Edition. The film was also a finalist for Best Polish Film and part of the IPF Award official selection.Read more AwardsThe Wind Changes: Best Sound at Warsaw Glitch 2026The Wind Changes won Best Sound at the Ground Zero Edition, a category powered by ElevenLabs. A film by Oscar Burgos and Tomas Burgos (Colombia and the UK).Read more AwardsRainy Day: Best Student Film at Warsaw Glitch 2026Rainy Day, directed by Hue Zhan from Hong Kong, is the winner of Best Student Film at the Ground Zero Edition. The film also took third place in Best Sound.Read more PressFOR THREE DAYS, WARSAW BECAME THE GLOBAL CAPITAL OF CREATIVE AIWarsaw, Poland, August 28 to 30, 2026. More than 1,400 attendees, over 120 speakers and approximately 70 panels, conversations, screenings, masterclasses and special events came together across three Warsaw venues for the inaugural edition of Warsaw Glitch. Guests came from across Europe, North America and Asia.Read more ProgrammeCompetition screenings (block I) & talks with creatorsSunday, Aug 30, 10:00-12:00, GLITCH, Warsaw.Read more ProgrammeCompetition screenings & Q&A (block II)Sunday, Aug 30, 12:00-14:00, GLITCH, Warsaw.Read more ProgrammeACTOR VERSUS ALGORITHMSaturday, Aug 29, 14:30-15:00, ACADEMY, Teatr Szóste Piętro · Palace of Culture and Science. Who can really act an emotion?Read more ProgrammeAgent to Agent communicationSaturday, Aug 29, 11:00-11:10, WARSAWJS, Teatr Szóste Piętro · Palace of Culture and Science. What happens when your agent talks to someone else's agent · A live look at a system that reads a therapy session in real time · Protocols, handoffs and the moment it all falls apartRead more ProgrammeAI Advertising Masterclass: Making a million dollar commercialSaturday, Aug 29, 14:15-15:00, MAIN STAGE, Teatr Szóste Piętro · Palace of Culture and Science. A million-dollar commercial taken apart shot by shot · Where the budget actually goes when AI does the shooting · The studio that produces for brands at the speed of cultureRead more ProgrammeAn interface that thinks? Live product critiqueSaturday, Aug 29, 13:40-14:00, WARSAWJS, Teatr Szóste Piętro · Palace of Culture and Science. Three AI products on screen · What works, what breaks, what misleads · What bad generative UX looks likeRead more ProgrammeBEYOND THE GREEN SCREENSaturday, Aug 29, 11:25-12:05, ACADEMY, Teatr Szóste Piętro · Palace of Culture and Science. Virtual Production, VFX and Generative AIRead more ProgrammeCAUGHT IN THE MATRIX RACESaturday, Aug 29, 12:50-13:20, WARSAWJS, Teatr Szóste Piętro · Palace of Culture and Science. USA, China and Europe’s Fight for AI Sovereignty in Cold War 2.0Read more ProgrammeConcert: WpytelsiSaturday, Aug 29, 14:00-14:40, WARSAWJS, Teatr Szóste Piętro · Palace of Culture and Science.Read more ProgrammeContent that cannot be delivered by AI: an interviewSaturday, Aug 29, 13:20-13:40, WARSAWJS, Teatr Szóste Piętro · Palace of Culture and Science. Brief → assets → versions → localisation → social · Can one person really run an agency-scale studio? · Margins and overhead of a one-person studio · The automation actually doing the workRead more ProgrammeCreators economy: the future of user-generated contentSaturday, Aug 29, 12:15-12:40, MAIN STAGE, Teatr Szóste Piętro · Palace of Culture and Science. UGC in the AI era: what actually changes · The social platform market from the inside · Lessons from building social video · Audience questionsRead more ProgrammeEVERYONE IS A STUDIO NOWSaturday, Aug 29, 10:55-11:25, ACADEMY, Teatr Szóste Piętro · Palace of Culture and Science. How AI Is Changing the Way Brands and Creators ProduceRead more ProgrammeFROM SET TO SYNTHETIC: inside the new AI advertising workflowSaturday, Aug 29, 12:05-12:35, ACADEMY, Teatr Szóste Piętro · Palace of Culture and Science. How Generative Video Is Changing Commercial ProductionRead more ProgrammeFULL PUNIC JACKETSaturday, Aug 29, 14:00-14:15, MAIN STAGE, Teatr Szóste Piętro · Palace of Culture and Science. Filming the Unfilmable: How to Recreate Historical Epics Without Giving Your Producer a Heart AttackRead more ProgrammeHOLLYWOOD, MOVE OVER?Saturday, Aug 29, 12:35-12:50, WARSAWJS, Teatr Szóste Piętro · Palace of Culture and Science. India’s Rise as a Global Entertainment PowerhouseRead more ProgrammeMaschinenraum - German AI Scene Showcase + Q&ASaturday, Aug 29, 11:25-12:05, WARSAWJS, Teatr Szóste Piętro · Palace of Culture and Science. Creator and specialist introductions · A company demo from the German scene · Audience Q&ARead more ProgrammeMorning show: a masterclass in TV productionSaturday, Aug 29, 11:00-11:30, MAIN STAGE, Teatr Szóste Piętro · Palace of Culture and Science. Two Daytime Emmys and four years of directing Milionerzy in one masterclass · How a morning show is really built, hour by hour · What television learned long ago and the internet is learning nowRead more ProgrammeNEUROPLASTIC FILMSaturday, Aug 29, 14:40-15:00, WARSAWJS, Teatr Szóste Piętro · Palace of Culture and Science. DREAMING MOVIES - The only limit is imaginationRead more ProgrammeOfficial afterparty: Behind the BlackwallSaturday, Aug 29, 23:00-03:00, PARTY, Teatr Szóste Piętro · Palace of Culture and Science.Read more ProgrammeOfficial festival closing ceremonySaturday, Aug 29, 21:30-21:45, GALA, Teatr Szóste Piętro · Palace of Culture and Science. What these three days actually produced, said out loud · The awards, the films and what happens next year · The festival's director closes it himselfRead more ProgrammeOrchestration of voice streams with JSSaturday, Aug 29, 11:15-11:25, WARSAWJS, Teatr Szóste Piętro · Palace of Culture and Science.Read more ProgrammePanel: music in film and copyrightSaturday, Aug 29, 13:05-13:30, ACADEMY, Teatr Szóste Piętro · Palace of Culture and Science. The composer of an Oscar-nominated short, a producer, a singer and a copyright lawyer · Who gets paid when the model writes the theme · What a music contract has to say in 2026Read more ProgrammeTHE LAW DOESN’T EXIST YETSaturday, Aug 29, 13:40-14:00, MAIN STAGE, Teatr Szóste Piętro · Palace of Culture and Science. How to Make Decisions When Technology Moves Faster Than Regulation Powered by CopySightRead more ProgrammeTHE MACHINE ON THE CATWALKSaturday, Aug 29, 13:30-14:00, ACADEMY, Teatr Szóste Piętro · Palace of Culture and Science. Fashion in the Age of Synthetic HumansRead more ProgrammeThe report the industry feared: AI in Advertising Production 2026Saturday, Aug 29, 11:30-12:00, MAIN STAGE, Teatr Szóste Piętro · Palace of Culture and Science. The report that changes the rules of the gameRead more ProgrammeTHIS AI’NT A MAN’S WORLDSaturday, Aug 29, 13:10-13:40, MAIN STAGE, Teatr Szóste Piętro · Palace of Culture and Science. The Revolution Is a WomanRead more ProgrammeTV & FILM PRODUCTION WILL NEVER BE THE SAMESaturday, Aug 29, 12:35-13:05, ACADEMY, Teatr Szóste Piętro · Palace of Culture and Science. What Changes When AI Enters the PipelineRead more ProgrammeVFX AND AISaturday, Aug 29, 14:00-14:30, ACADEMY, Teatr Szóste Piętro · Palace of Culture and Science. Hollywood VFX in the age of AIRead more ProgrammeWarsaw Glitch Awards 2026Saturday, Aug 29, 22:00-23:00, GALA, Teatr Szóste Piętro · Palace of Culture and Science. Twenty categories across five zones, and the Golden Glitch Grand PrixRead more ProgrammeWarsawJS Cafe Community Mixer x Vistula Valley x Machine CinemaSaturday, Aug 29, 17:00-19:00, REGISTRATION, Teatr Szóste Piętro · Palace of Culture and Science. Three communities in one room: WarsawJS, Vistula Valley and Machine Cinema · No stage, no slides, just the people you came here to meet · Two hours to turn a corridor conversation into a projectRead more ProgrammeWHAT IF YOU COULDN’T HEAR THIS?Saturday, Aug 29, 10:00-10:30, ACADEMY, Teatr Szóste Piętro · Palace of Culture and Science. AI, Sign Language & the Future of AccessibilityRead more ProgrammeWHO OWNS YOUR FACE? WHO OWNS YOUR VOICE?Saturday, Aug 29, 12:05-12:35, WARSAWJS, Teatr Szóste Piętro · Palace of Culture and Science. Digital Doubles, AI Dubbing & the Future of PerformanceRead more ProgrammeWill AI shut the studios down? A conversation with ATM StudioSaturday, Aug 29, 12:40-13:10, MAIN STAGE, Teatr Szóste Piętro · Palace of Culture and Science. Do the studios close, or refit? · How many people, what gets outsourced, what runs itself · What platforms buy in 2026 · The finished org chart at the endRead more Line-upJoanna Uniwersal: Chief strategy officer at Keino Group, where she runs strategy across Keino CreativeAppeared at Warsaw Glitch 2026 in one programme slot: “The report the industry feared: AI in Advertising Production 2026” (Saturday, Aug 29, 11:30, MAIN STAGE).Read more Line-upStuart Cripps: Visual Effects and AI Supervisor with more than 20 years at the forefront of feature film production: Harry Potter, The RevenantAppeared at Warsaw Glitch 2026 in 3 programme slots: “FULL PUNIC JACKET” (Saturday, Aug 29, 14:00, MAIN STAGE), “BEYOND THE GREEN SCREEN” (Saturday, Aug 29, 11:25, ACADEMY), “VFX AND AI” (Saturday, Aug 29, 14:00, ACADEMY).Read more Line-upKarol Żbikowski: A manager and producer, former CEO of Platige Image, Poland's leading animation studio and the maker of game trailers for Call of DutyAppeared at Warsaw Glitch 2026 in one programme slot: “Will AI shut the studios down? A conversation with ATM Studio” (Saturday, Aug 29, 12:40, MAIN STAGE).Read more Line-upRobert Moscicki: President of the board of ATM Studio, a film and television production centre in Warsaw and one of the largest in PolandAppeared at Warsaw Glitch 2026 in one programme slot: “Will AI shut the studios down? A conversation with ATM Studio” (Saturday, Aug 29, 12:40, MAIN STAGE).Read more Line-upJan Kepinski: Dutch-Polish producer and director, founder and chief executive of Jake Vision, one of Poland's leading independent production groupsAppeared at Warsaw Glitch 2026 in one programme slot: “Morning show: a masterclass in TV production” (Saturday, Aug 29, 11:00, MAIN STAGE).Read more Line-upMeggie Miao: A creative producer and content executive, twice a Daytime Emmy winner during her years at CBS News Sunday MorningAppeared at Warsaw Glitch 2026 in 2 programme slots: “Morning show: a masterclass in TV production” (Saturday, Aug 29, 11:00, MAIN STAGE), “THIS AI’NT A MAN’S WORLD” (Saturday, Aug 29, 13:10, MAIN STAGE).Read more Line-upMargarita Grubina: Vice President of Business Growth at Respeecher, the Emmy-winning AI voice technology company trusted by studios such as Disney, UniversalAppeared at Warsaw Glitch 2026 in 2 programme slots: “WHO OWNS YOUR FACE? WHO OWNS YOUR VOICE?” (Saturday, Aug 29, 12:05, WARSAWJS), “THIS AI’NT A MAN’S WORLD” (Saturday, Aug 29, 13:10, MAIN STAGE).Read more Line-upAndrzej Nejman: Film, theatre and television actor and director, born in 1974, a graduate of the Warsaw Academy of Dramatic Art.Appeared at Warsaw Glitch 2026 in one programme slot: “ACTOR VERSUS ALGORITHM” (Saturday, Aug 29, 14:30, ACADEMY).Read more Line-upBrogan Wassell: An award-winning AI film director and creator.Appeared at Warsaw Glitch 2026 in one programme slot: “FULL PUNIC JACKET” (Saturday, Aug 29, 14:00, MAIN STAGE).Read more Line-upAmit Lath: Indian entrepreneur who has spent twenty-eight years building business out of PolandAppeared at Warsaw Glitch 2026 in one programme slot: “HOLLYWOOD, MOVE OVER?” (Saturday, Aug 29, 12:35, WARSAWJS).Read more Line-upMarcin Slaczka: President of AIB S.A., a company where chemistry meets mechanics, and a futurist and artist.Appeared at Warsaw Glitch 2026 in one programme slot: “NEUROPLASTIC FILM” (Saturday, Aug 29, 14:40, WARSAWJS).Read more Line-upMaciej Krystian Szymanski: An AI and digital innovation consultant at Grant Thornton Digital (EDISONDA)Appeared at Warsaw Glitch 2026 in one programme slot: “CAUGHT IN THE MATRIX RACE” (Saturday, Aug 29, 12:50, WARSAWJS).Read more Line-upMartin Kunert: American director and screenwriter, a New York University film school graduate who has worked for three decades with his producing partnerAppeared at Warsaw Glitch 2026 in one programme slot: “TV & FILM PRODUCTION WILL NEVER BE THE SAME” (Saturday, Aug 29, 12:35, ACADEMY).Read more Line-upArtur Zochniak: Software engineer rooted in the WarsawJS community, where he lectured on reverse engineering (Visual Reverse Engineering, 2022).Appeared at Warsaw Glitch 2026 in one programme slot: “An interface that thinks? Live product critique” (Saturday, Aug 29, 13:40, WARSAWJS).Read more Line-upDaniil Rabizo: Software architect and consultant in WarsawAppeared at Warsaw Glitch 2026 in 2 programme slots: “Orchestration of voice streams with JS” (Saturday, Aug 29, 11:15, WARSAWJS), “WHO OWNS YOUR FACE? WHO OWNS YOUR VOICE?” (Saturday, Aug 29, 12:05, WARSAWJS).Read more Line-upJan Ignacy Królikowski: Warsaw-based film composer who has written for screen and games for around two decades.Appeared at Warsaw Glitch 2026 in one programme slot: “Panel: music in film and copyright” (Saturday, Aug 29, 13:05, ACADEMY).Read more Line-upPola Lachnik: Top model who has worked with brands such as Giorgio Armani and Carolina Herrera, with editorials published by Vogue among others.Appeared at Warsaw Glitch 2026 in 2 programme slots: “WHO OWNS YOUR FACE? WHO OWNS YOUR VOICE?” (Saturday, Aug 29, 12:05, WARSAWJS), “THE MACHINE ON THE CATWALK” (Saturday, Aug 29, 13:30, ACADEMY).Read more Line-upPhilippe Buka: Talent and model agent who worked for years with the biggest names of world modelling: Claudia Schiffer, Eva Herzigova, Ines RiveroAppeared at Warsaw Glitch 2026 in one programme slot: “THE MACHINE ON THE CATWALK” (Saturday, Aug 29, 13:30, ACADEMY).Read more Line-upJolanta Borowiec: Director of Polsat Café, the thematic channel of Telewizja Polsat aimed mainly at women.Appeared at Warsaw Glitch 2026 in one programme slot: “Will AI shut the studios down? A conversation with ATM Studio” (Saturday, Aug 29, 12:40, MAIN STAGE).Read more Line-upPawel Pierzchlewicz: A machine-learning PhD, CEO and co-founder of Animatica.ai, previously Head of AI at TeaCodeAppeared at Warsaw Glitch 2026 in one programme slot: “BEYOND THE GREEN SCREEN” (Saturday, Aug 29, 11:25, ACADEMY).Read more Line-upWojciech "Lozo" Lozowski: A singer, songwriter, television host and actor.Appeared at Warsaw Glitch 2026 in one programme slot: “Panel: music in film and copyright” (Saturday, Aug 29, 13:05, ACADEMY).Read more Programme"BALLAD OF THE SCHIZOID MAN"Friday, Aug 28, 15:30-16:00, WARSAWJS, Warsaw Presidential Hotel. A CapCut Originals case study in agent-to-agent communication, by Adrian Daniel BotnariuRead more ProgrammeA HUMAN STORY, TYPED ON A MACHINEFriday, Aug 28, 14:30-15:00, GLITCH, Warsaw Presidential Hotel. Can technology still tell us who we are? powered by BrainerRead more ProgrammeARCHITECTS OF REALITYFriday, Aug 28, 15:00-15:30, WARSAWJS, Warsaw Presidential Hotel. From Microsoft and Google to the Cities We Haven't Built YetRead more ProgrammeBY THE END OF THIS PANEL, THE SYLLABUS WILL ALREADY BE OUTDATEDFriday, Aug 28, 17:00-17:30, GLITCH, Warsaw Presidential Hotel. How Do We Teach Filmmaking When the Tools Change Every Week?Read more ProgrammeCAN A MACHINE GO MAD?Friday, Aug 28, 16:00-16:30, GLITCH, Warsaw Presidential Hotel. The decalogue of metamodernist literature. On language, the psyche and artificial intelligenceRead more ProgrammeCan AI enter a real film without killing what's human? Live case studyFriday, Aug 28, 15:00-15:30, MAIN STAGE, Warsaw Presidential Hotel. A live case study run on a real project. A documentary director and a cinematographer sit down over one specific film and decide in public: here AI goes in, here it does not, and here it goes in on a condition. These are not opinions about technology in general but decisions taken in front of the room, with reasons and with the risk those decisions carry for a film somebody funded and gave their time to.Read more ProgrammeFestival openingFriday, Aug 28, 11:00-11:15, MAIN STAGE, Warsaw Presidential Hotel. A quarter of an hour that sets up the whole three days. Michal Owerczuk says why Warsaw Glitch exists, how to read a programme built from four parallel strands, and where to find your own place in it. This is the moment for the map: which stage is for what, what runs at the same time, what you cannot see twice, and how to move between rooms without losing the thing you came for. If this is your first time at the festival, start here.Read more ProgrammeFROM THE DIRECTOR'S CHAIR TO GENERATIVE AIFriday, Aug 28, 13:30-14:00, WARSAWJS, Warsaw Presidential Hotel. How to transform without losing the heartRead more ProgrammeHow to choose a software supplier when everyone suddenly looks good? [EN]Friday, Aug 28, 12:45-13:15, WARSAWJS, Warsaw Presidential Hotel. Every software company now has an AI slide and a demo that works. This talk is about choosing a supplier once the marketing has stopped telling anyone apart: what to ask at the first meeting, what to check in the contract, which warning signs are visible before you sign, and how to verify a team that promises to do the same thing faster and cheaper than everyone else.Read more ProgrammeHOW TO NOT INVEST IN POLAND?Friday, Aug 28, 14:00-15:00, MAIN STAGE, Warsaw Presidential Hotel. Eight rounds. One winner.Read more ProgrammeHOW TO REINVENT YOURSELFFriday, Aug 28, 12:30-13:00, GLITCH, Warsaw Presidential Hotel. My Story of Generative TransformationRead more ProgrammeHow we built an agentic gameFriday, Aug 28, 12:00-12:30, GLITCH, Warsaw Presidential Hotel. A case study from a game production where agents are not decoration in the marketing material but part of the mechanics. The speaker shows what had to be built from scratch, what could be taken off the shelf, where the model turned out unpredictable enough to need guard rails around it, and what all of it cost in team time. No slides about the future: concrete decisions from a concrete project that shipped.Read more ProgrammeI MADE THIS. DIDN’T I?Friday, Aug 28, 13:15-13:30, WARSAWJS, Warsaw Presidential Hotel. Authorship, Ownership and Creative Control in AI FilmmakingRead more ProgrammeI’M AN ACTOR. I WAS SUPPOSED TO HATE AI.Friday, Aug 28, 15:30-16:00, MAIN STAGE, Warsaw Presidential Hotel. Why I Chose to Embrace It InsteadRead more ProgrammeIn conversation with Krzysztof ZanussiFriday, Aug 28, 11:35-12:00, MAIN STAGE, Warsaw Presidential Hotel. Straight after the address, on the same stage and without a break: a conversation where the questions are answered by a man who taught generations of directors that a camera is an instrument for thinking. The questions come from the room, so the shape of this hour depends on who turns up. A good place for anyone who wants to test their own view of artificial intelligence against someone who looks at it from sixty years of work with the image rather than from the latest tool.Read more ProgrammeIntro to GenJam™ keynote (Machine Cinema)Friday, Aug 28, 13:00-13:30, ACADEMY, Warsaw Presidential Hotel. An introduction to GenJam, that is, to what will be happening in Academy for the next few hours: the rules, the format, what is expected and how the work is judged. It is led by the Machine Cinema people who run this format around the world, so they also say what usually goes wrong and what the winning teams win with. Required for participants, worth it for anyone who wants to see a hackathon from the inside.Read more ProgrammeIP MIXERFriday, Aug 28, 17:30-18:30, GLITCH, Warsaw Presidential Hotel. Got a Story? Find a Producer. Got Money? Find a Story. Sign up at the venue.Read more ProgrammeJOSEPH CAMPBELL IS DEAD. OR IS HE?Friday, Aug 28, 12:00-12:45, MAIN STAGE, Warsaw Presidential Hotel. How Generative AI Is Changing ScreenwritingRead more ProgrammeKEYNOTE: WHO OWNS WHAT YOU GENERATE?Friday, Aug 28, 16:00-16:30, MAIN STAGE, Warsaw Presidential Hotel. From Warner Bros to Higgsfield: what professionals need to know before they create, publish and sell. Powered by CopySightRead more ProgrammeMachine Cinema GenJam™ powered by Popcorn.coFriday, Aug 28, 13:30-16:00, ACADEMY, Warsaw Presidential Hotel. The GenJam working sessions: teams build on site over several hours, from an idea to a finished piece. You can walk in and watch what it really looks like when five people have one afternoon and have to agree on the idea, the split of work and which tool to fire up. For an observer this is the closest view of process the festival offers, because nobody here is showing slides, they are making something.Read more ProgrammeNordic Lights - Scandinavian AI Scene Showcase + Q&AFriday, Aug 28, 14:00-15:00, WARSAWJS, Warsaw Presidential Hotel. A showcase of the Nordic AI scene: creators and companies from the north show what they are working on and then take questions from the room. It is a chance to see a market that built its production differently from the Polish one, with different funding, a different attitude to risk and a different pace of adopting tools. Useful for anyone thinking about co-production, about going abroad, or simply curious how the same work is done elsewhere.Read more ProgrammeNouvelle Vague 2.0 - French AI Scene ShowcaseFriday, Aug 28, 16:00-17:00, ACADEMY, Warsaw Presidential Hotel. A showcase of the French AI scene: creators and specialists present their work, one company gives a demo, and then the room asks questions. The French market is building its own language and its own institutions around generative production, so this is a chance to see a different approach to the same tools, in a country where cinema holds a different position and different funding than here.Read more ProgrammePress conferenceFriday, Aug 28, 12:30-13:00, ACADEMY, Warsaw Presidential Hotel. The festival press conference. The organisers and creators answer journalists on the programme, on why this festival exists and on what will happen over three days. It is a place for media, but open to anyone who would rather hear questions answered directly than read a press release. A good entry point for people who want to understand how Warsaw Glitch differs from other AI events and why it sits where film, technology and the market meet.Read more ProgrammeScreening: the Polish team’s films from the Machine Cinema GenJam™ Director's Cup 2026Friday, Aug 28, 12:00-12:30, ACADEMY, Warsaw Presidential Hotel. A screening of the films made in the hackathons: GenJam™ and GenJam Online. These are not pieces polished over months but things built in a few dozen hours by teams that mostly met on the spot. That is why they show what finished productions hide: where generative tools genuinely speed the work up, where they fall apart, and what people do when there is no time to smooth anything over.Read more ProgrammeShowcase & premiere, powered by James Drake MediaFriday, Aug 28, 15:00-16:00, GLITCH, Warsaw Presidential Hotel. A showcase and premiere of work made in a studio built entirely on AI, with storytelling at its centre. After the screening the people who made it stay on stage, so you can ask directly about what the screen does not show: how long the production took, where they had to turn back, what went differently from the plan, and which stages no longer resemble classical film production at all.Read more ProgrammeStartUp Battle - Live Showcase - 7 minutes to sell your ideaFriday, Aug 28, 17:00-18:30, MAIN STAGE, Warsaw Presidential Hotel. Seven minutes to sell an idea, in front of a room and in front of people who actually invest. Startups come up one after another, take questions and get judged on the spot. For founders it is a test, for the audience the fastest survey of what is being built today where AI meets production. It also shows something press materials never do: which ideas hold up without slides and which end at the promise.Read more ProgrammeThe Age of TranshumanismFriday, Aug 28, 11:15-11:35, MAIN STAGE, Warsaw Presidential Hotel. The address that opens the festival. Krzysztof Zanussi, who made The Structure of Crystal, Illumination and Camouflage and took the Golden Lion in Venice, came to cinema from physics and philosophy and has spent six decades asking one question: how is a person supposed to live. Now he puts it to the machine. This is not a forecast and not a verdict on technology, but a question about the line beyond which a tool stops being a tool and we stop being the authors of what gets made.Read more ProgrammeThe Good, the Bad and the Generated (ONLINE)Friday, Aug 28, 17:00-17:30, WARSAWJS, Warsaw Presidential Hotel. A conversation about engineering culture in a world where the creator is the company and tools get built in a week. About which practices from software teams carry over to working alone, where process stops making sense and turns into overhead, and how not to turn your own toolkit into a project you can no longer maintain.Read more ProgrammeTHE LEGAL GLITCHFriday, Aug 28, 12:00-12:45, WARSAWJS, Warsaw Presidential Hotel. Two Lawyers, One AI Revolution, No Easy AnswersRead more ProgrammeVIP Presidential AfterpartyFriday, Aug 28, 20:00-22:00, PARTY, Warsaw Presidential Hotel. DJ 2MRW x community mixer: Machine Cinema / WarsawJS / Vistula Valley (invitation only)Read more ProgrammeWAR ON REALITYFriday, Aug 28, 12:45-13:30, MAIN STAGE, Warsaw Presidential Hotel. Can we still believe what we see? Deepfakes, propaganda and the end of trust in the imageRead more ProgrammeWhere does the money come from in 2026? A live financing clinicFriday, Aug 28, 16:30-17:00, MAIN STAGE, Warsaw Presidential Hotel. A live financing clinic: a real project with a real budget goes on stage, and the people who give or raise money for a living say plainly where it falls apart and what has to change to get it financed. The format is unsparing in a good way, because instead of a general conversation about the market you see how one application, one pitch and one budget actually get judged.Read more ProgrammeWho will pay for Polish AI? Data centres, factories and powerFriday, Aug 28, 13:30-14:00, MAIN STAGE, Warsaw Presidential Hotel. Who builds Polish AI?Read more ProgrammeWill AI take your job? A story about the new professions.Friday, Aug 28, 16:30-17:00, GLITCH, Warsaw Presidential Hotel. A conversation about the jobs that are appearing where AI takes others away. Instead of forecasts and percentages: what people whose roles did not exist three years ago actually do today, what skills it takes and where to learn them. For anyone asking whether their own work survives, who would rather hear the answer from people who have already been through the change than from another report.Read more Line-upAleksandra Panisko: A screenwriter, director and philosopher.Appeared at Warsaw Glitch 2026 in one programme slot: “TO HYBRID OR NOT TO HYBRID?” (Friday, Aug 28, 16:00, WARSAWJS).Read more Line-upDorota Zwierzchowska: A film and television producer, a lawyer and a specialist in content and distribution, with many years of experience in the industry.Appeared at Warsaw Glitch 2026 in one programme slot: “TO HYBRID OR NOT TO HYBRID?” (Friday, Aug 28, 16:00, WARSAWJS).Read more Line-upAdi Sideman: Pioneer of participatory media with more than two decades building consumer platforms at scale.Appeared at Warsaw Glitch 2026 in 2 programme slots: “StartUp Battle - Live Showcase - 7 minutes to sell your idea” (Friday, Aug 28, 17:00, MAIN STAGE), “Creators economy: the future of user-generated content” (Saturday, Aug 29, 12:15, MAIN STAGE).Read more Line-upMinh Do: Entrepreneur, filmmaker and educator working at the intersection of AI, storytelling and culture.Appeared at Warsaw Glitch 2026 in 4 programme slots: “Press conference” (Friday, Aug 28, 12:30, ACADEMY), “Intro to GenJam™ keynote (Machine Cinema)” (Friday, Aug 28, 13:00, ACADEMY), “BY THE END OF THIS PANEL, THE SYLLABUS WILL ALREADY BE OUTDATED” (Friday, Aug 28, 17:00, GLITCH), “CAUGHT IN THE MATRIX RACE” (Saturday, Aug 29, 12:50, WARSAWJS).Read more Line-upJames Drake: British entrepreneur and philanthropist, founder and chairman of the scientific publisher Future Science Group before its saleAppeared at Warsaw Glitch 2026 in 2 programme slots: “Showcase & premiere, powered by James Drake Media” (Friday, Aug 28, 15:00, GLITCH), “StartUp Battle - Live Showcase - 7 minutes to sell your idea” (Friday, Aug 28, 17:00, MAIN STAGE).Read more Line-upAffan Imran: Canadian entrepreneur and technologist, CEO and co-founder of Fantastic Day, an interactive innovation studio working across productionAppeared at Warsaw Glitch 2026 in 3 programme slots: “Press conference” (Friday, Aug 28, 12:30, ACADEMY), “Intro to GenJam™ keynote (Machine Cinema)” (Friday, Aug 28, 13:00, ACADEMY), “TV & FILM PRODUCTION WILL NEVER BE THE SAME” (Saturday, Aug 29, 12:35, ACADEMY).Read more Line-upArtem Petrov: Co-founder and CEO of CopySight AI, the Los Angeles platform he started in 2024 to make AI-generated content legally protectable forAppeared at Warsaw Glitch 2026 in 3 programme slots: “KEYNOTE: WHO OWNS WHAT YOU GENERATE?” (Friday, Aug 28, 16:00, MAIN STAGE), “WHO OWNS YOUR FACE? WHO OWNS YOUR VOICE?” (Saturday, Aug 29, 12:05, WARSAWJS), “THE LAW DOESN’T EXIST YET” (Saturday, Aug 29, 13:40, MAIN STAGE).Read more Line-upThomas R. Carrington: Director and co-founder of James Drake MediaAppeared at Warsaw Glitch 2026 in one programme slot: “Showcase & premiere, powered by James Drake Media” (Friday, Aug 28, 15:00, GLITCH).Read more Line-upBilguun Ariunbaatar: Mongolian-Polish television presenter, actor and musician based in Warsaw, born in Ulaanbaatar and raised in Poland from the age of nine.A guest of Warsaw Glitch 2026, the international film and AI festival held in Warsaw on August 28 to 30, 2026.Read more Line-upJaroslaw Grzywinski: The former CEO of the Warsaw Stock Exchange and Cybersecurity State Agency NASKAppeared at Warsaw Glitch 2026 in 2 programme slots: “OUR PORTFOLIO IS PEOPLE, powered by Brainer” (Friday, Aug 28, 14:00, GLITCH), “StartUp Battle - Live Showcase - 7 minutes to sell your idea” (Friday, Aug 28, 17:00, MAIN STAGE).Read more Line-upMichał "OverJK" Owerczuk: Polish film director, AI systems architect, and founder and artistic director of the Warsaw Glitch festival.Appeared at Warsaw Glitch 2026 in 6 programme slots: “Festival opening” (Friday, Aug 28, 11:00, MAIN STAGE), “Press conference” (Friday, Aug 28, 12:30, ACADEMY), “A HUMAN STORY, TYPED ON A MACHINE” (Friday, Aug 28, 14:30, GLITCH), “FULL PUNIC JACKET” (Saturday, Aug 29, 14:00, MAIN STAGE), “Will AI shut the studios down? A conversation with ATM Studio” (Saturday, Aug 29, 12:40, MAIN STAGE), “Official festival closing ceremony” (Saturday, Aug 29, 21:30, GALA).Read more Line-upMike Wolniak: CEO of TasteRay and former president of VML Poland, with two decades spent where marketing, technology and storytelling meet.Appeared at Warsaw Glitch 2026 in 2 programme slots: “StartUp Battle - Live Showcase - 7 minutes to sell your idea” (Friday, Aug 28, 17:00, MAIN STAGE), “The report the industry feared: AI in Advertising Production 2026” (Saturday, Aug 29, 11:30, MAIN STAGE).Read more Line-upLukasz Kowalski: Director, journalist and member of the Polish Film Academy, winner of the Polish Film Award, the EagleAppeared at Warsaw Glitch 2026 in one programme slot: “Can AI enter a real film without killing what's human? Live case study” (Friday, Aug 28, 15:00, MAIN STAGE).Read more Line-upMaciej Kawecki: A doctor of law, president of the Lem Institute and vice-rector for innovation at WSB Merito University in Warsaw.Appeared at Warsaw Glitch 2026 in one programme slot: “A HUMAN STORY, TYPED ON A MACHINE” (Friday, Aug 28, 14:30, GLITCH).Read more Line-upCezary Grzesiuk: A cult figure of Polish film editing, a member of the Polish Filmmakers Association and the Polish Society of Film EditorsA guest of Warsaw Glitch 2026, the international film and AI festival held in Warsaw on August 28 to 30, 2026.Read more Line-upKamil Przelecki: A producer and production manager whose credits include Andrzej Wajda's Oscar-nominated Katyń and Revenge, and Michał Kwieciński's Extras.Appeared at Warsaw Glitch 2026 in 2 programme slots: “Can AI enter a real film without killing what's human? Live case study” (Friday, Aug 28, 15:00, MAIN STAGE), “Where does the money come from in 2026? A live financing clinic” (Friday, Aug 28, 16:30, MAIN STAGE).Read more Line-upOscar Burgos: Character and creature animator with around sixteen years of experience, credited across major studio blockbusters.Appeared at Warsaw Glitch 2026 in 2 programme slots: “Showcase & premiere, powered by James Drake Media” (Friday, Aug 28, 15:00, GLITCH), “BEYOND THE GREEN SCREEN” (Saturday, Aug 29, 11:25, ACADEMY).Read more Line-upJakub Szymczuk: Polish photojournalist, a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and the official photographer of the President of Poland from 2017A guest of Warsaw Glitch 2026, the international film and AI festival held in Warsaw on August 28 to 30, 2026.Read more Line-upMarc Horgues: Co-founder and creative director of OKCC, a creative and innovation agency in Paris.Appeared at Warsaw Glitch 2026 in 2 programme slots: “Nouvelle Vague 2.0 - French AI Scene Showcase” (Friday, Aug 28, 16:00, ACADEMY), “FROM SET TO SYNTHETIC: inside the new AI advertising workflow” (Saturday, Aug 29, 12:05, ACADEMY).Read more Line-upArtur Kurasinski: An entrepreneur and investor with over twenty-three years in the technology business.Appeared at Warsaw Glitch 2026 in one programme slot: “How we built an agentic game” (Friday, Aug 28, 12:00, GLITCH).Read more Line-upMarcin Grabarczyk: A doctor of engineering from Warsaw University of Technology and director of AI deployment at NASKAppeared at Warsaw Glitch 2026 in 2 programme slots: “WAR ON REALITY” (Friday, Aug 28, 12:45, MAIN STAGE), “OUR PORTFOLIO IS PEOPLE, powered by Brainer” (Friday, Aug 28, 14:00, GLITCH).Read more Line-upEdi Pyrek: Futurist, author and psychologist, co-founder of the Global Artificial Intelligence Alliance and the Academy of FutureAppeared at Warsaw Glitch 2026 in 3 programme slots: “HOW TO NOT INVEST IN POLAND?” (Friday, Aug 28, 14:00, MAIN STAGE), “Will AI take your job? A story about the new professions.” (Friday, Aug 28, 16:30, GLITCH), “StartUp Battle - Live Showcase - 7 minutes to sell your idea” (Friday, Aug 28, 17:00, MAIN STAGE).Read more Line-upJustin Trevor Winters: Screenwriter, producer and development executive with nearly two decades of experienceAppeared at Warsaw Glitch 2026 in 2 programme slots: “JOSEPH CAMPBELL IS DEAD. OR IS HE?” (Friday, Aug 28, 12:00, MAIN STAGE), “BY THE END OF THIS PANEL, THE SYLLABUS WILL ALREADY BE OUTDATED” (Friday, Aug 28, 17:00, GLITCH).Read more Line-upAdrien Bodson: Internationally recognized producer, screenwriter and AI-cinema expert, co-founder of AIStudios.ca, Canada's leading cinematic AI studio.Appeared at Warsaw Glitch 2026 in 2 programme slots: “JOSEPH CAMPBELL IS DEAD. OR IS HE?” (Friday, Aug 28, 12:00, MAIN STAGE), “TV & FILM PRODUCTION WILL NEVER BE THE SAME” (Saturday, Aug 29, 12:35, ACADEMY).Read more Line-upMatthew Szewczyk: Los Angeles-based, genre-agnostic filmmaker and creative director now directing AI work with The Dor BrothersAppeared at Warsaw Glitch 2026 in 3 programme slots: “Press conference” (Friday, Aug 28, 12:30, ACADEMY), “FROM THE DIRECTOR'S CHAIR TO GENERATIVE AI” (Friday, Aug 28, 13:30, WARSAWJS), “FROM SET TO SYNTHETIC: inside the new AI advertising workflow” (Saturday, Aug 29, 12:05, ACADEMY).Read more Line-upBen Chimoy: Berlin-based director, writer and AI-powered producer with over twenty years of traditional filmmaking behind himAppeared at Warsaw Glitch 2026 in 2 programme slots: “I MADE THIS. DIDN’T I?” (Friday, Aug 28, 13:15, WARSAWJS), “Maschinenraum - German AI Scene Showcase + Q&A” (Saturday, Aug 29, 11:25, WARSAWJS).Read more Line-upMarcus Grip: Swedish-born, London-based filmmaker and creative entrepreneur, Education & Content Lead at Wonder Studios.Appeared at Warsaw Glitch 2026 in 2 programme slots: “Nordic Lights - Scandinavian AI Scene Showcase + Q&A” (Friday, Aug 28, 14:00, WARSAWJS), “EVERYONE IS A STUDIO NOW” (Saturday, Aug 29, 10:55, ACADEMY).Read more Line-upMeg Button: Toronto-based creative director and brand strategist who leads marketing and creative at Fantastic Day, the interactive innovation studioAppeared at Warsaw Glitch 2026 in 2 programme slots: “Intro to GenJam™ keynote (Machine Cinema)” (Friday, Aug 28, 13:00, ACADEMY), “THIS AI’NT A MAN’S WORLD” (Saturday, Aug 29, 13:10, MAIN STAGE).Read more Line-upFilip Konopczynski: Lawyer and cultural studies scholar, an expert on AI regulation and public policy.Appeared at Warsaw Glitch 2026 in 3 programme slots: “WAR ON REALITY” (Friday, Aug 28, 12:45, MAIN STAGE), “CAUGHT IN THE MATRIX RACE” (Saturday, Aug 29, 12:50, WARSAWJS), “THE LAW DOESN’T EXIST YET” (Saturday, Aug 29, 13:40, MAIN STAGE).Read more Line-upMariusz Busilo: Lawyer specialising in telecommunications, IT, media and copyright lawAppeared at Warsaw Glitch 2026 in 2 programme slots: “THE LEGAL GLITCH” (Friday, Aug 28, 12:00, WARSAWJS), “Panel: music in film and copyright” (Saturday, Aug 29, 13:05, ACADEMY).Read more Line-upPiotr Senkus: Habilitated doctor of engineering and a professor at the University of Warsaw and the University of SiedlceAppeared at Warsaw Glitch 2026 in 2 programme slots: “HOW TO NOT INVEST IN POLAND?” (Friday, Aug 28, 14:00, MAIN STAGE), “StartUp Battle - Live Showcase - 7 minutes to sell your idea” (Friday, Aug 28, 17:00, MAIN STAGE).Read more Line-upSylvain Perret: A creative technologist and brand architect with over twenty-five years across the US, Europe, Asia and the Middle East.Appeared at Warsaw Glitch 2026 in one programme slot: “Nouvelle Vague 2.0 - French AI Scene Showcase” (Friday, Aug 28, 16:00, ACADEMY).Read more Line-upLaura Tornga: Los Angeles writer, director and AI filmmaker who now works across hybrid and AI-native production after a decade as a photographer andAppeared at Warsaw Glitch 2026 in 3 programme slots: “Press conference” (Friday, Aug 28, 12:30, ACADEMY), “BY THE END OF THIS PANEL, THE SYLLABUS WILL ALREADY BE OUTDATED” (Friday, Aug 28, 17:00, GLITCH), “THIS AI’NT A MAN’S WORLD” (Saturday, Aug 29, 13:10, MAIN STAGE).Read more Line-upCaroline Thireau: Creative technologist and workflow designer who builds creative processes end to end: video pipelines and content factories on node-basedAppeared at Warsaw Glitch 2026 in 2 programme slots: “Nouvelle Vague 2.0 - French AI Scene Showcase” (Friday, Aug 28, 16:00, ACADEMY), “THIS AI’NT A MAN’S WORLD” (Saturday, Aug 29, 13:10, MAIN STAGE).Read more Line-upMonsieur Moyen: Film director based in Paris.Appeared at Warsaw Glitch 2026 in one programme slot: “Nouvelle Vague 2.0 - French AI Scene Showcase” (Friday, Aug 28, 16:00, ACADEMY).Read more Line-upAdrian Daniel Botnariu: Berlin-based filmmaker with an engineering background and over a decade in the film industryAppeared at Warsaw Glitch 2026 in 2 programme slots: “"BALLAD OF THE SCHIZOID MAN"” (Friday, Aug 28, 15:30, WARSAWJS), “Maschinenraum - German AI Scene Showcase + Q&A” (Saturday, Aug 29, 11:25, WARSAWJS).Read more Line-upBilly Boman: Founder of Billy Boman AI Productions, a boutique studio built around AI-driven filmmakingAppeared at Warsaw Glitch 2026 in 2 programme slots: “Nordic Lights - Scandinavian AI Scene Showcase + Q&A” (Friday, Aug 28, 14:00, WARSAWJS), “AI Advertising Masterclass: Making a million dollar commercial” (Saturday, Aug 29, 14:15, MAIN STAGE).Read more Line-upThemo "themojn" Melikidze: Georgian-born, theatre-trained actor and creative director in Los Angeles.Appeared at Warsaw Glitch 2026 in 2 programme slots: “I’M AN ACTOR. I WAS SUPPOSED TO HATE AI.” (Friday, Aug 28, 15:30, MAIN STAGE), “VIP Presidential Afterparty” (Friday, Aug 28, 20:00, PARTY).Read more Line-upMarkus & Tanja Laukkanen: Emerging AI artists and co-founders of Unmöglich.AI, a Finnish-German duo who create whimsical micro-series set in Impossible WorldsAppeared at Warsaw Glitch 2026 in one programme slot: “Nordic Lights - Scandinavian AI Scene Showcase + Q&A” (Friday, Aug 28, 14:00, WARSAWJS).Read more Line-upPiotr Zientara: Warsaw entrepreneur and engineer who bridges the tech community and business: CEO of the software house XfaangAppeared at Warsaw Glitch 2026 in 3 programme slots: “HOW TO NOT INVEST IN POLAND?” (Friday, Aug 28, 14:00, MAIN STAGE), “StartUp Battle - Live Showcase - 7 minutes to sell your idea” (Friday, Aug 28, 17:00, MAIN STAGE), “Content that cannot be delivered by AI: an interview” (Saturday, Aug 29, 13:20, WARSAWJS).Read more Line-upRadoslaw Jarecki: A film producer and entrepreneur whose executive experience is matched by hands-on command of the entire production chain: raising the moneyAppeared at Warsaw Glitch 2026 in one programme slot: “Where does the money come from in 2026? A live financing clinic” (Friday, Aug 28, 16:30, MAIN STAGE).Read more Line-upMichal Ratajczak: CEO and co-founder of Gridaly, a startup building software that streamlines event management and elevates the attendee experience.A guest of Warsaw Glitch 2026, the international film and AI festival held in Warsaw on August 28 to 30, 2026.Read more Line-upMariusz Polec: CEO and founder of casting.studio, a next-generation app for the creative industry that pairs agents' work with AI and gathers a communityAppeared at Warsaw Glitch 2026 in 3 programme slots: “Showcase & premiere, powered by James Drake Media” (Friday, Aug 28, 15:00, GLITCH), “The report the industry feared: AI in Advertising Production 2026” (Saturday, Aug 29, 11:30, MAIN STAGE), “THE MACHINE ON THE CATWALK” (Saturday, Aug 29, 13:30, ACADEMY).Read more Line-upCezary Broda: CEO and Managing Director of the Brainer brand.Appeared at Warsaw Glitch 2026 in one programme slot: “OUR PORTFOLIO IS PEOPLE, powered by Brainer” (Friday, Aug 28, 14:00, GLITCH).Read more Line-upEric Manes: American producer and screenwriter, a New York University film school graduate who has worked for three decades with director Martin Kunert.A guest of Warsaw Glitch 2026, the international film and AI festival held in Warsaw on August 28 to 30, 2026.Read more Line-upMax Salamonowicz: CEO of AImmersive and the maker of Omea, a narrative gaming platform where the player speaks or types freely and the story genuinely answersAppeared at Warsaw Glitch 2026 in one programme slot: “How we built an agentic game” (Friday, Aug 28, 12:00, GLITCH).Read more Line-upBartlomiej Glowacki: Founder and Chief AI Officer of aiTherapy.Support, an AI platform for cognitive behavioural and schema therapists.Appeared at Warsaw Glitch 2026 in 2 programme slots: “CAN A MACHINE GO MAD?” (Friday, Aug 28, 16:00, GLITCH), “Agent to Agent communication” (Saturday, Aug 29, 11:00, WARSAWJS).Read more Line-upKacper Wikiel: Founder of Slayer Labs, the Warsaw lab behind Fabryka AIAppeared at Warsaw Glitch 2026 in 2 programme slots: “Who will pay for Polish AI? Data centres, factories and power” (Friday, Aug 28, 13:30, MAIN STAGE), “Will AI take your job? A story about the new professions.” (Friday, Aug 28, 16:30, GLITCH).Read more Line-upYonatan Kra: Principal Architect at Quicklizard and previously a software architect at Vonage for nearly six yearsA guest of Warsaw Glitch 2026, the international film and AI festival held in Warsaw on August 28 to 30, 2026.Read more Line-upIllarion Koperski: Chief Technology Officer of Vaan, a design and technology agency building e-commerce for brandsAppeared at Warsaw Glitch 2026 in one programme slot: “How to choose a software supplier when everyone suddenly looks good? [EN]” (Friday, Aug 28, 12:45, WARSAWJS).Read more Line-upMikhail Korolev: Senior developer experience engineer based in Warsaw, with a decade spent building and improving front-end foundations: monoreposA guest of Warsaw Glitch 2026, the international film and AI festival held in Warsaw on August 28 to 30, 2026.Read more Line-upMassimo Benvegnù: Italian film critic, writer and documentary producer, artistic director of the Biografilm Festival in Bologna since 2022.A guest of Warsaw Glitch 2026, the international film and AI festival held in Warsaw on August 28 to 30, 2026.Read more Line-upAndre Danek: Music producer, composer and songwriter, a vocal graduate of the City University of New York with years of Broadway theatre behind him.Appeared at Warsaw Glitch 2026 in 2 programme slots: “StartUp Battle - Live Showcase - 7 minutes to sell your idea” (Friday, Aug 28, 17:00, MAIN STAGE), “Panel: music in film and copyright” (Saturday, Aug 29, 13:05, ACADEMY).Read more Line-upJedrzej Jezierski: Film and television actor, born in 1994.Appeared at Warsaw Glitch 2026 in one programme slot: “Can AI enter a real film without killing what's human? Live case study” (Friday, Aug 28, 15:00, MAIN STAGE).Read more Line-upEmilia Dudzinska: A doctoral candidate at the Faculty of Architecture of the Warsaw University of Technology, working on BIM, building information modellingAppeared at Warsaw Glitch 2026 in one programme slot: “ARCHITECTS OF REALITY” (Friday, Aug 28, 15:00, WARSAWJS).Read more Line-upKrzysztof Solek: A film producer and line producer specialising in international productions shot in PolandAppeared at Warsaw Glitch 2026 in one programme slot: “Where does the money come from in 2026? A live financing clinic” (Friday, Aug 28, 16:30, MAIN STAGE).Read more Line-upBoguslaw Lesnodorski: A lawyer, co-founder and partner of the LSW law firm.A guest of Warsaw Glitch 2026, the international film and AI festival held in Warsaw on August 28 to 30, 2026.Read more Line-upMichal Pronobis-Pronski: Business Lead at cAIsting.ai.Appeared at Warsaw Glitch 2026 in one programme slot: “THE HUMAN FACE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, SPONSORED BY CAISTING AI” (Friday, Aug 28, 13:00, GLITCH).Read more Line-upLukasz Klimkiewicz: Tech Lead & Software Architect at Taifun.Appeared at Warsaw Glitch 2026 in one programme slot: “THE HUMAN FACE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, SPONSORED BY CAISTING AI” (Friday, Aug 28, 13:00, GLITCH).Read more Line-upTomek Okulicz: AI Creative Director at AIVisioLab, a commercial director and producer who has spent years combining traditional filmmaking with newAppeared at Warsaw Glitch 2026 in one programme slot: “THE HUMAN FACE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, SPONSORED BY CAISTING AI” (Friday, Aug 28, 13:00, GLITCH).Read more Line-upLudwik Sobolewski: President of the management board of Better Europe EuSEF ASIAppeared at Warsaw Glitch 2026 in one programme slot: “OUR PORTFOLIO IS PEOPLE, powered by Brainer” (Friday, Aug 28, 14:00, GLITCH).Read more Line-upRobert Kroplewski: An expert on new technology and the information society.Appeared at Warsaw Glitch 2026 in one programme slot: “Will AI take your job? A story about the new professions.” (Friday, Aug 28, 16:30, GLITCH).Read more Line-upArtur Paprocki: Chief executive of Veles Productions, the Warsaw virtual production and XR studio that also keeps offices in New York and Montpellier.Appeared at Warsaw Glitch 2026 in one programme slot: “TO HYBRID OR NOT TO HYBRID?” (Friday, Aug 28, 16:00, WARSAWJS).Read more Line-upKate Molchanova: An animator and AI artist at Veles Productions, on the team that builds the studio's visual content.Appeared at Warsaw Glitch 2026 in one programme slot: “TO HYBRID OR NOT TO HYBRID?” (Friday, Aug 28, 16:00, WARSAWJS).Read more PartnersEICC: official partner of Warsaw Glitch 2026The Europe India Chamber of Commerce works between European and Indian business, bringing companies from the two markets together. By its own description it connects businesses, policy leaders and investors across Europe and India through trade advocacy, events, publications and membership.Read more PartnersInstytut Filmowy: official partner of Warsaw Glitch 2026A Polish production house run as a joint-stock company, built out of film people and finance people, which takes a film from the idea through financing to distribution and promotion abroad. It works with established names and with newcomers alike.Read more PartnersExtract: architecture and real estate partner of Warsaw Glitch 2026Extract Associated Designers and Architects has worked out of Berlin and Warsaw since 2001, where corporate identity meets building: logotypes and catalogues, interiors, and what they call branded architecture, designed, built and rolled out worldwide. Their portfolio runs through cinema chains, hotels and restaurants, banks and public institutions, among them Regal Cinemas, Helios, Cinema City and the tourism branding of São Tomé e Príncipe.Read more PartnersTrzop Architekci: architecture and real estate partner of Warsaw Glitch 2026A Warsaw practice working across architecture and interiors: offices, buildings, homes and industrial space, with sustainable solutions and daily comfort as the brief rather than the decoration. Their built work includes offices for McKinsey, Microsoft, CMS, OLX Group and L'Oréal House Warsaw, plus workspaces for Mindspace and Brain Embassy.Read more PartnersArtintell: creative partner of Warsaw Glitch 2026Artintell (written 4RTINT3LL) calls itself a living system of art and artificial intelligence: a platform where art, AI and human imagination merge into new cultural realities. Its site carries the line Where Art Meets Algorithm and describes the project as living and evolving.Read more PartnersSURE Unity: creative partner of Warsaw Glitch 2026A Polish production company that calls itself a creative company delivering full-service production: cultural, entertainment and sports events, television programmes and concerts, corporate experiences and special projects, alongside video content for digital platforms. It takes a project end to end, from the first idea through production and delivery to the final settlement, with its own production managers on the floor.Read more PartnersXfaang: technology partner of Warsaw Glitch 2026Xfaang is a Warsaw software house that builds digital products end to end, from architecture to delivery, for companies that need engineering they can lean on rather than a one-off contractor. Its founder and CEO, Piotr Zientara, also runs the WarsawJS community and speaks at the festival.Read more PartnersActina: technology partner of Warsaw Glitch 2026Actina is a Polish computer brand building desktops and workstations, including configurations aimed at creative work: rendering, editing and generative pipelines that need local compute rather than a queue in the cloud. For anyone working with video models that is the difference between waiting for a slot and simply starting the render, and it is a thread that runs through the whole festival.Read more PartnersFloyo: technology partner of Warsaw Glitch 2026Floyo is a browser-based production layer for ComfyUI, running workflows on cloud GPUs: 2,500+ nodes, open-source models, custom LoRAs and closed commercial APIs in one pipeline, nothing to install. Building and iterating are free; you pay only for GPU inference.Read more PartnersDropbox: technology partner of Warsaw Glitch 2026Cloud storage that film crews use as the place where the material lives: dailies, cuts and graphics go up once and everyone works from the same file instead of a folder full of versions. Its review tools let a producer or a client leave a comment on a frame rather than in an e-mail, which is most of what post-production correspondence actually is.Read more PartnersAnimatica.ai: technology partner of Warsaw Glitch 2026A plugin for Blender and MotionBuilder that does one thing: it fills the motion between the keyframes an animator has already set. The key poses are hard constraints, so the model never overrides the intent, it only fills what lies between them, and it can hand back ten different takes on the same move.Read more PartnersElevenLabs: technology partner of Warsaw Glitch 2026ElevenLabs builds the AI audio layer the industry actually ships on: speech in over 90 languages, thousands of voices, voice cloning, dubbing and localisation, plus music and sound effects. Its customers include Epic Games, Stripe and Square, and its models run behind voice agents that answer in real time.Read more PartnersVistula Valley: community partner of Warsaw Glitch 2026Vistula Valley is a global network of the brightest minds of Poland, its diaspora and international partners: a community of leaders, founders, scientists, engineers, investors, artists, designers and entrepreneurs, connected by Polish culture and ambition. Its vision is to empower Polish culture and talent to shape world-leading impact through coordinated soft-power networks, and its long-term ambition is to position Poland, the Polish diaspora and their partners as a leading cultural force and one of the world's top economic ecosystems.Read more PartnersMachine Cinema: community partner of Warsaw Glitch 2026Machine Cinema is a global AI creative ecosystem with over 20,000 members, built in three layers. Community and Hub form the core platform, where creators build profiles, find jobs and talent, and stream the best AI-made work through its own streaming service; the flagship GenJam events have run more than 200 times across 30+ countries, in partnership with the TV Academy, Pixar, Stanford University, Google, OpenAI and ByteDance, among others.Read more PartnersWarsawJS: community partner of Warsaw Glitch 2026WarsawJS is Warsaw's JavaScript community: a monthly meetup running since 2014, past its 140th edition, built by volunteers as a place to level up and give something back. Evenings mix technical talks, panels and networking, with speakers from companies like Netflix and Dropbox, free entry and a stream for anyone watching remotely.Read more PartnersChroma Awards: community partner of Warsaw Glitch 2026The Chroma Awards is the largest competition in the world for film, music and games made with AI, started in 2023 as Project Odyssey and now in its fourth edition. Its site counts more than 6,500 submissions, over 5,500 participants and more than 300 winners and finalists, and says that across all seasons it has given away over $2M in free trials and credits and over $300K in cash.Read more PartnersWarsaw Maxxing: community partner of Warsaw Glitch 2026Warsaw Maxxing is an independent English-language publication about Warsaw, written for people who want the city explained rather than listed. It stands on four pillars: After Dark for nightlife and the culture of the small hours, Eating and Drinking for places that have a reason to exist, Building for the architecture and development reshaping the city, and The Mindset for essays on what Warsaw is becoming.Read more PartnersFilmArena: technology partner of Warsaw Glitch 2026FilmArena ranks generative image and video models by blind pairwise voting instead of marketing claims. Viewers compare two outputs from the same prompt without knowing which model made them, and a Bradley-Terry model turns those votes into Elo ratings, over a million votes so far.Read more PartnersKoyal: technology partner of Warsaw Glitch 2026Koyal turns a script or a piece of audio into a finished film, reading the emotional tone of the track and holding characters, locations and props consistent from scene to scene. Founded by Mehul Agarwal and Gauri Agarwal and backed by Y Combinator, it has made music videos for A.R.Read more Partnersiiyama: technology partner of Warsaw Glitch 2026iiyama has been making monitors since the early 1970s, when it started out in the Japanese town whose name it carries. The ProLite line covers professional and business displays, including large-format screens, while G-Master handles gaming across three families: Red Eagle, Black Hawk and Gold Phoenix.Read more PartnersMSI: technology partner of Warsaw Glitch 2026MSI is a Taiwanese hardware maker founded in 1986, known for motherboards and graphics cards and for the Creator and CreatorPro laptops built for people who produce rather than consume. Those machines pair NVIDIA RTX graphics with factory-calibrated, colour-accurate screens, and the CreatorPro line carries NVIDIA Studio validation for heavy 3D, rendering and video work.Read more PartnersIntel: technology partner of Warsaw Glitch 2026Intel makes the processors most of this industry quietly runs on, and its Core Ultra line puts a dedicated NPU next to the processor and the integrated graphics, so a machine can run smaller AI models locally instead of sending everything off to a data centre. Add the Arc graphics line and you get a workstation that generates, upscales and transcribes without a subscription meter ticking in the background.Read more PartnersAIVisioLab: technology partner of Warsaw Glitch 2026A Polish AI video studio. It was credited with the effects made using artificial intelligence in the music video for Dawid Podsiadło's "na błysk".Read more PartnersVeles Productions: technology partner of Warsaw Glitch 2026Veles Productions is a virtual production and XR studio with offices in Warsaw, New York and Montpellier. It works on Unreal Engine: camera tracking for broadcast, augmented reality on air, 3D scanning and custom virtual sets, plus Nomad Stage, a mobile LED wall that travels to the shoot.Read more PartnersK MAG: media partner of Warsaw Glitch 2026K MAG is a Polish magazine covering style, culture, art and fashion: film and streaming, music, design and the phenomena around them. It appears in print and as a daily updated online portal, with social media, a radio programme and podcasts, alongside its own shop and formats for readers' work.Read more PartnersLHC: media partner of Warsaw Glitch 2026LHC is an independent AI media outlet and magazine covering news, analysis and creative work from across the AI landscape, from language-model breakthroughs to the tools reshaping creative industries. It runs without a corporate parent, and that independence is its calling card in a field full of vendor-owned media.Read more PartnersAI.MAG: media partner of Warsaw Glitch 2026AI.MAG is a German-language magazine covering artificial intelligence for the creative industries: generative image, video and audio tools, the studios adopting them and the people behind the work. It reports from the craft side rather than the product-launch side, closer to a conversation about how the work is actually made than to conference coverage.Read more PartnersAbout Marketing: media partner of Warsaw Glitch 2026About Marketing is a Polish trade portal for marketers: digital campaigns and SEO, artificial intelligence in commerce, social media, influencer marketing and e-commerce, served as news, interviews, reports and commentary. It writes for people who plan strategy rather than chase tricks, closer to a trade magazine than a news wire.Read more PartnersFilm & TV Kamera: media partner of Warsaw Glitch 2026Film&TV Kamera is a magazine about pre-production, production and post in film, television and advertising: the set, the gear, editing, virtual production and AI. Written for the people who make video productions.Read more PartnersThe Creator's Magazine: media partner of Warsaw Glitch 2026The Creator's Magazine is a title run by Vidu, the generative video platform built by Shengshu: text, images and reference shots turned into film, with multi-reference consistency across scenes, used by independent creators, animation studios and filmmakers. The magazine gathers the work and stories of the creator community shooting with these tools.Read more PartnersPopcorn: Gold partner of Warsaw Glitch 2026Popcorn is an AI showrunner: one agent takes a brief and returns finished short-form video, script, voiceover, captions and edit included, on brand every time. Publishers, e-learning platforms, game studios and podcast producers use it to keep whole channels fed without adding a production team, and every episode goes through human review before it publishes.Read more PartnersJames Drake Media: Gold partner of Warsaw Glitch 2026James Drake Media is a London studio built entirely on AI and grounded in storytelling, working across art, science, history and film. It makes cultural films and commercial commissions, and its short animation The Little Prince won Best Short Animation at SIAFF, the Korean International AI Film Festival in Seoul.Read more PartnersiPro.One: Gold partner of Warsaw Glitch 2026iPro.One is a film direction and AI production studio working where the classic craft meets generative tools: script and storyboard, camera and animation, edit and sound, across commissioned and authored work. It also runs the digital side of Warsaw Glitch, including the site you are reading this on.Read more PartnersPratum Apartamenty: Gold partner of Warsaw Glitch 2026Pratum builds intimate developments of low-rise apartment buildings in Masuria: in Mikolajki, above the clear water of Lake Talty, and in Mragowo, some 220 km from Warsaw. Modern architecture with natural finishes, glass, wood, ceramics and stone.Read more PartnerscAIsting.ai: Gold partner of Warsaw Glitch 2026cAIsting.ai is a Polish platform for licensed digital likenesses for advertising. Beyond digital twins, the faces of specific real people, it builds synthetic characters: new likenesses composed of traits from several people, unlike any one of them.Read more PartnersCasting Studio: Gold partner of Warsaw Glitch 2026A marketplace where people license their own likeness to creators: you upload photos, verify your identity, and get paid every time someone licenses your face. Every profile is checked before it goes live and every licence is a binding contract, so a face used in production has a documented owner and a paper trail behind it.Read more PartnersBeyondflix: official partner of Warsaw Glitch 2026Beyondflix Productions is Adrian Daniel Botnariu's Berlin studio, where an engineer's approach to pipeline design meets emotional storytelling. Its vertical short Happiness passed 12 million organic views, Vampire Economy took the AI Film Award in Venice, and the studio worked as lead AI artist on season 14 of The Masked Singer for Fox Entertainment.Read more PartnersEmpik: official partner of Warsaw Glitch 2026Poland's largest network of stores and an e-commerce platform for books, music, film and culture. Its shelves and online shop cover everything from new releases and bestsellers to music, games and gifts, and through Empik Bilety it also sells tickets to concerts, festivals, theatre and other live events.Read more PartnersGoing.: official partner of Warsaw Glitch 2026A Polish ticketing platform for concerts, festivals and other events, with a mobile app. Organisers sell tickets through it and buyers keep them in the app on their phone, so the ticket is always at hand at the door.Read more Line-upEtienne Dejong joins the line-up, a television format man with sixteen years at Endemol and twelve at Talpa behind him.He has been in the trade since 1989: executive producer and then creative director at Endemol, global productions at Talpa out of Hilversum, and from 2017 content, production and licensing for China, run from Shanghai. Later head of content and productions for South-East Asia at ITV Studios in Singapore, and today a creative partner at The C-Collective. On Saturday at 12:20 in Academy he takes part in TV & FILM PRODUCTION WILL NEVER BE THE SAME.Read more Line-upMarcin Schmidt joins the line-up: a priest and secretary general of the 5P Global Movement, working where cinema meets education.He co-founded the movement, which grew out of the G20 Religious Forum in Bali and now runs chapters in Indonesia and Poland, and it was 5P Global that staged the opening of the first World Children's Day in Rome. He comes to Warsaw with Aldeas, the film initiative of Scholas Occurrentes founded by Pope Francis, in which young people around the world make short fiction films; Martin Scorsese produced the documentary about that work.Read more Line-upJoanna Koc will host Saturday: an actress and doctor of arts from the Jaracz Theatre in Lodz.She takes the chair on two panels on the main stage: at 11:30 the premiere of the SPR report on AI in advertising production, and at 14:10 ACTOR VERSUS ALGORITHM, where the question is whether an algorithm can act an emotion. She has over twenty stage roles behind her and three critics' awards for best actress, she teaches at the Lodz Film School and at the Music Academy there, and she runs Shakespeare and management workshops for managers.Read more ProgrammeBrainer's panel is now OUR PORTFOLIO IS PEOPLE, with Ludwik Sobolewski, who ran the Warsaw and Bucharest stock exchanges.Friday, 13:30, main stage. Everyone is putting money into AI, so the panel turns the question around: what is a single person worth in a business that has just learned to generate the work they used to do. Sobolewski runs the investment company Better Europe EuSEF ASI and is a doctor of law. Beside him are Cezary Broda of Brainer, Jaroslaw Grzywinski and Marcin Grabarczyk, who works in cybersecurity.Read more Line-upIzabela Polec joins the line-up, an artistic agent who has represented creators for fifteen years.More than twenty years in the film and advertising industry, at home and abroad. On Friday at 14:10 on the main stage she joins ACTOR VERSUS ALGORITHM, where three working actors ask whether an algorithm can act an emotion. She sits on the other side of that table: the side that casts them and signs the contracts.Read more Line-upThe Final Call has its cast: Michal Pronobis-Pronski of cAIsting.ai, Lukasz Klimkiewicz of Taifun and Tomek Okulicz of AIVisioLab.On Friday at 13:00 on the GLITCH stage a casting runs live, from the first scan to a signed licence. Pronobis-Pronski spent more than a quarter of a century on the client side at IKEA Poland and now leads the business side of cAIsting.ai. Klimkiewicz builds the backend and the generative pipelines behind the platform, with forensic watermarking and AI Act-compliant provenance labelling. Okulicz is a commercial director and producer who has made AI-driven work for NASK, Orange, Auchan and McDonald's.Read more Line-upMichal Kornacki joins the line-up: co-founder and CEO of Closer Music, which licenses music to creators, brands and agencies.Closer Music runs studios in Poland and in Las Vegas, and its catalogue of tracks and sound effects goes into television commercials, branded content, films and social media, curated by the Grammy-winning producer Luca Pretolesi. Its search runs on AI, with a tool that matches music to video. Kornacki is an EY Entrepreneur of the Year innovation award winner; between 1994 and 1999 he was a sales manager for Mars Inc. in central Poland, and he is a certified track and field coach.Read more Line-upThe legendary director is Krzysztof Zanussi: he opens Warsaw Glitch with the keynote The Age of Transhumanism.One of the central names of the Polish cinema of moral anxiety, the director of The Structure of Crystal, Illumination, Camouflage and The Constant Factor, and the winner of the Golden Lion in Venice for A Year of the Quiet Sun. He came to cinema from physics and philosophy, and has been a professor of film arts since 1992. On Friday he takes the main stage at 11:15, stays for a conversation at 11:35 and joins the 14:30 panel on a human story typed on a machine.Read more Line-upRobert Kaminski has a profile now: advisor to the board of Business Centre Club, the largest employers' organisation in Poland.He is responsible for the organisation's strategic areas, and works as an expert in building business partnerships, in creating brands and raising their value, as a facilitator and an investment negotiator. Twenty years in B2B and B2C services behind him: he has run business development for the Accor Orbis group, Benefit Systems and the Polish Development Fund. A graduate of the University of Warsaw, the Warsaw School of Commerce, HEC Paris and ICAN Institute Harvard Business.Read more ProgrammeThe Friday panel on Nexa has its line-up: Aleksandra Panisko and Dorota Zwierzchowska on a series made half with a film crew, half with AI.To hybrid or not to hybrid? An hour on the GLITCH stage, Friday at 16:00: where the crew works and where the machine does, about ten minutes of footage from the production on screen, and an open discussion with the audience about making things in the age of AI. A journalist from Radio ESKA leads the conversation.Read more Line-upMira Marcinow joins the line-up: a writer and philosopher from the Polish Academy of Sciences, and the author of Bezmatek.She holds a doctorate in the humanities in the field of psychology, works in the Department of Logic and Cognitive Science at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, and heads the Centre for Psychoanalytic Thought she co-founded there. Her subject is the philosophy of psychiatry and the theory of madness. She wrote A History of Polish Madness and Bezmatek, and took a Polityka Passport for literature in 2020 and a Nike Literary Award nomination a year later.Read more Line-upMarcin Cecko joins the line-up: a poet and dramaturg who wrote the texts behind Krzysztof Garbaczewski's productions.He started out in poetry, as one of the neolinguists and a co-author of their manifesto, with three volumes of his own, and in the theatre as an actor at Studium Teatralne in Warsaw. Then came the writing for the stage: Solaris. Raport at TR Warszawa and a long run of work with Krzysztof Garbaczewski, from the award-winning Odyssey through The Sexual Life of Savages at Nowy Teatr to Ivona, Princess of Burgundia, which took the Grand Prix of the Opole Theatre Confrontations.Read more PartnersLoyola Marymount University joins the partners: the Los Angeles film school where two of our speakers teach.Its School of Film and Television teaches the whole craft in one place: animation, film and television production, screenwriting, recording arts and media studies, with graduate programmes in writing and producing. Roughly 1,160 students, nine of them to a lecturer, and more than 400 companies taking its people on internships; by its own account, TheWrap ranks it the fifth film school in the country. Meggie Miao has taught there since 2024, and Justin Trevor Winters lectures on screenwriting, directs the Innovators Film Festival and chairs the LMU AI Alliance.Read more PartnersTime S.A. joins the media partners: the radio company behind Radio ESKA.The radio arm of ZPR Media and the company behind the Time radio group, whose stations reach listeners across the country on dozens of frequencies and through their own streams and services. The festival's radio agreement is signed with Time; Radio ESKA, its best-known station and the largest radio network in Poland, has been on the partner wall since 13 August.Read more Line-upPeter Chulmin Krell joins the line-up: the publisher behind AI.MAG, our media partner.A German-Korean publisher who has been writing about technology since games were the new medium: Game Face in the 2000s, then Bytro Labs and the Pan European Online Game Association, today Krell Enterprises and AI.MAG. He is also an artist: in the early nineties he squatted a railway yard in Berlin Friedrichshain and founded the art group Syntax Error there.Read more ProgrammeFriday duel: How not to invest in Poland. Maciej Zientara against Edi Pyrek.Eight rounds, hosted by professor Piotr Senkus. Friday, 12:00, the International Producers Forum at the Warsaw Presidential Hotel.Read more PartnersDGTL becomes the official legal and policy partner of the festival.A law firm out of Warsaw and Kraków built around four areas: digitalisation, investment, people and creation. It advises IT, media, telecoms and sport companies on compliance, tax, disputes and data protection, and says of its own work that it translates a company’s strategy into the language of law. Its lawyers join the panels on the law of technology companies and on the use of AI.Read more ProgrammeFriday opens with a keynote by a legendary film director: The Age of Transhumanism. Who Are We Becoming?Six decades of cinema, dozens of films, and a career that began in the exact sciences: he takes the stage at 11:15, stays for a conversation at 11:35 and for the panel on creativity as a commodity at 14:00. His profile is already on the guest wall, in gold and without a name; we say who he is before the festival. The same afternoon brings the Polish premiere of URSULA, dir. Michał „OverJK” Owerczuk, winner of the GenJam™ Director’s Cup, with a conversation on the art of film right after the screening.Read more Line-upJunho Her joins the line-up: twenty years in fashion, then a debut generated end to end that won the Grand Prize in Seoul.Make Us a School also took three awards at the Oniros Film Awards in New York and the President’s Award from KACES; over twenty festival awards so far, among them a top-eleven finalist place at the Chroma Awards, our partner. He runs GRAB AI Studio in Seoul, teaches AI cinema at FastCampus and directs for POSCO and Hyundai.Read more PartnersBrainer becomes a main sponsor and the official drink of the festival: a functional drink from Polish scientists, no caffeine, no taurine.Made on fruit juice with no added sugar, with B vitamins, B6, B12 and niacin, and an amino acid complex: acetyl-L-carnitine, L-glutamine, beta-alanine and L-carnosine. Brainer already has its own hour in the programme: on Friday at 14:00 on the main stage, creativity as a commodity, powered by Brainer.Read more Line-upNik Preston Kujavec joins the line-up: creative producer at Floyo AI, taking shots from concept to final cut.He works between design, filmmaking and a wide arsenal of AI tools: script, storyboard, image generation, video and VFX. His subject is the production-ready workflow, where the flexibility of open-source tools like ComfyUI meets the latest closed models. With the Floyo team he has worked on productions for Amazon MGM Studios, Netflix and Dentsu.Read more PartnersMaspex joins as an official partner: the largest private food company in Poland, close to 90 brands in over 70 countries.Thirty-five years in, it leads juices, nectars and soft drinks in Poland, Czechia, Slovakia and Romania, pasta, jams and sauces in Poland, and since 2022 the Polish market for vodka and imported spirits. Its environmental and social goals run under the Hummingbird Effect strategy, built on five pillars, and alongside it the company runs the biggest educational programmes for children in the country.Read more Line-upRobert Gulaczyk joins the line-up: the actor from Loving Vincent, now chairing the Polish Actors' Union.He took the title role in the first feature painted frame by frame, and since April 2025 he has chaired ZZAP for the 2025 to 2029 term. He speaks from where the terms of the profession are decided: rates, consent, performers' rights and what generative tools do to a craft built on a face and a voice.Read more ProgrammeSaturday afternoon on the main stage: three panels on the actor, the model and trust.At 15:00, artificial intelligence and artificial emotion, with the Polish Actors' Union: Paweł Deląg, Robert Gulaczyk and Jędrzej Jezierski. At 16:00, the machine on the catwalk: fashion in the age of synthetic humans. At 16:30, trust as the new metric, with Deląg. Three sittings, one question: what is left of a person once the image can be generated.Read more Line-upBartosz Trzop joins the line-up: the architect behind offices for Microsoft, Google and McKinsey.He founded Trzop Architekci in 2007 and runs it today with a team of twenty-five. Beyond the offices, he co-authored two buildings and the exhibition centre at Centrum Praskie Koneser, and took an award for the house Dom Kurtyna. His line on the job: exceptional architecture comes from artistic vision and engineering precision meeting.Read more PartnersArchitecture and Real Estate: a new band of partners, with Extract, Pratum and Trzop Architekci.Extract has worked out of Berlin and Warsaw since 2001, where corporate identity meets building. Pratum builds low-rise developments in Masuria. Trzop Architekci is a Warsaw practice of twenty-five, with offices for Microsoft, Google and L'Oréal behind it. Three practices for whom a space is a product, which is exactly the conversation this festival keeps having about images.Read more Line-upAureliusz Górski joins the line-up: founder of CampusAI and the man behind Poland's innovation districts.Serial entrepreneur with close to two decades in venture building, the person behind AIP Business Link, the CIC innovation centre in Warsaw and Venture Cafe Warsaw. In 2023 he founded CampusAI, the world's first virtual AI-native school, and DistrictORG, which uses game engines to build digital replicas of innovation ecosystems. CampusAI raised ten million dollars pre-seed.Read more Line-upEdmond Yang joins the line-up: AI artist from Oslo, creative partner to Runway, Luma and Pika.Visual artist from Oslo and an award-winning AI artist who works on the other side of the tools: he is a creative partner to the generative platforms themselves, among them Runway, Luma AI, Pika and Kling AI. Before that, twenty-five years in advertising and television, with campaigns for Nike, SAS, Telenor and Helly Hansen.Read more Line-upJoshua Kappel joins the line-up: the American lawyer who wrote the rules for a market that did not exist.The American lawyer who wrote the rules for an industry that did not exist yet. Founding partner of Vicente LLP, he helped draft Colorado's Amendment 64 and co-authored the Natural Medicine Health Act, two laws that built a regulated market from zero. Law Week Colorado named him a Lawyer of the Year for 2025.Read more ProgrammeThe programme now runs on four tracks: film, technology, brand and investment.Each part of the festival stands behind one of them: Warsaw Glitch behind film, Glitch Academy behind technology, Pixel Zone behind brand and the International Producers Forum behind investment. Open a track and the agenda shows only what belongs to it, so you no longer have to know the names of the venues to find your day.Read more PartnersAI25.Studio joins the official partners.A Warsaw studio making cinematic commercials, brand films and original IP, combining AI with live action, 3D and visual effects, from generative video and CGI through to post-production finishing. It reports over 600 delivered projects for brands including Meta, Google, Microsoft, Adobe and Porsche, alongside five AI-animated short films of its own.Read more PartnersDGTL becomes the festival's Legal & Policy Partner.A law firm from Warsaw and Kraków working with IT, media and telecoms, and its senior partner runs three festival sessions on creators' rights: contracts, likeness and protecting your own files.Read more Line-upMichał Kibil joins the line-up, senior partner at the DGTL law firm.He runs its new technologies practice: contracts, data and what automation actually does to work. At the festival he leads three sessions: on contracts and licences, on the first 24 hours after someone uses your likeness, and on protecting your files before they leave your drive.Read more Line-upKatarzyna Starosławska joins the line-up, from the business board of the SpeakLeash Foundation and the Bielik.ai model.For two decades she has worked where data, technology and public policy meet, advising boards, state institutions and EU bodies. On Saturday at 13:00 she explains what to do with your own files before they go online: metadata, standards and proving you were first.Read more HackathonsSign-ups are open for both GenJams: the four-hour one live on site, and the online edition hosted by Warsaw Presidential Hotel.Four hours on the clock in Warsaw, or the online edition from anywhere in the world, with a stay in the Presidential Suite as the prize. Each edition takes sign-ups on its own Luma page.Read more EveningsFriday 28 August: the opening afterparty runs at the Warsaw Presidential Hotel. Doors at 22:00, DJ 2MRW behind the decks.The first night of the festival ends at the Warsaw Presidential Hotel, a short walk from the Palace. Your festival pass gets you in.Read more EveningsSaturday 29 August: after the gala the official afterparty carries on. Behind the Blackwall plays until dawn.The gala ends around 21:30 and the party starts in the same building. This is the night nobody should miss.Read more Line-upDominika Aurelia Korycka joins the line-up. A visual artist working with AI, and a world champion in AI video with the Polish national team at the GenJam Director's Cup.Director and generative artist, part of the Polish national team that took the AI video world title at the GenJam Director's Cup 2026.Read more Line-upMarta Mary Sołtysiak of Platige Image joins the line-up. She runs motion capture sessions and works in visual effects, and is a world champion in AI video with the Polish national team.Motion capture and animation at Platige Image, and part of the Polish national team that took the AI video world title at the GenJam Director's Cup 2026.Read more Line-upAlbert Bozesan joins the line-up. A filmmaker and writer who teaches other creators how to actually use AI, from a TEDx stage to film schools.Filmmaker working with generative tools, on the practical side of AI-native production.Read more Line-upMarta Solik joins the line-up. CEO and founder of Stereochromatic Solutions, she runs creative direction on projects made entirely with generative AI.Creative director, founder and curator, working across brand film and new formats.Read more Line-upMatt Tokarz of Platige Image joins the line-up. He heads CG in the animation and VFX department, with close to two decades in the craft.Animation and VFX from one of the studios that put Polish work on the international map.Read more Line-upMaciej Zientara joins the line-up. An entrepreneur and business angel, twenty-five years on the capital market, the man behind the biggest pre-seed round Polish startups have seen.Twenty-five years on the Polish capital market and the biggest pre-seed round Polish startups have seen.Read more Line-upCaroline Koziol joins the line-up. A Polish-British comedian and actress who built her audience online before the stage.Comedian, actress and internet creator, bringing the audience side of the room into the programme.Read more PartnersRadio ESKA joins as a media partner. Poland's largest radio network: 43 stations and third place in the country by listenership.Poland's largest radio network: 43 local stations and the third most listened-to station in the country, speaking to exactly the young audience that already watches generative film.Read more PartnersIMS Sensory Media joins as a main media partner. It builds sensory branding: in-store music and radio, digital signage and video walls.Sensory branding for retail and public space: in-store music and radio, scent marketing, digital signage, video walls and the systems that run the content on them.Read more PartnersCanon joins as a technology partner. Cameras, lenses and print, the kit half this industry learned the craft on.From stills to cinema glass to large-format print: the tools sit at both ends of the festival, the shot and the print.Read more PartnersYUMISU joins as a technology partner. It designs ergonomic chairs for work and gaming, the furniture the hackathon crews will sit in for forty-eight hours.Ergonomic chairs for work and for gaming, which is the furniture the hackathon crews will sit in for forty-eight hours.Read more PartnersTopaz Labs joins as a technology partner. Its tools upscale footage to 4K and beyond, remove noise and grain, and interpolate frames for slow motion.The finishing tools a lot of this work quietly ends on: upscaling to 4K and beyond, removing noise and grain, and interpolating frames for slow motion.Read more CommunityThe Warsaw Glitch Discord is openThe festival community server is live, with channels for the competition sections, the hackathons and the crews forming before August.Read more CompetitionsThe live formats are up on the hackathons pageMachine Cinema GenJam runs four hours on site and there is a second GenJam online, alongside the Director's Cup.Read more PrizesWarsaw Presidential Hotel puts up a suiteA stay voucher for the Presidential Suite, with access to the Presidential Lounge, issued and fulfilled directly by the hotel, joins the prize table.Read more PrizesThe prize pool reaches 200 000 PLNCash and in-kind prizes across every competition section, with the main statuettes carrying a qualifier place on the path to the Chroma Awards.Read more