02-27-25-saiff-announces-two-new-advisors
Adrienne Lahens and Debra Aho Williamson have joined the Advisory Board of The Seattle AI Film Festival (SAIFF). Both women are helping SAIFF as organizational advisors and judges for SAIFF finalist films.
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SAIFF Announces Two New Advisors
Adrienne Lahens and Debra Aho Williamson bring expertise from TikTok and EMARKETER.
Adrienne Lahens and Debra Aho Williamson have joined the Advisory Board of The Seattle AI Film Festival (SAIFF). Both women are helping SAIFF as organizational advisors and judges for SAIFF finalist films.
Bettina Niederman
Adrienne Lahens is a recognized leader in the creator economy and generative AI landscape.
At TikTok, she led high-impact initiatives at the intersection of creators, brands, and AI. She built and scaled the TikTok Creator Marketplace (now TikTok One) from inception to a global platform that empowers over 2M creators and revolutionizes brand/creator collaborations across 24 markets.
She then pioneered generative AI innovations, launching TikTok Symphony, pushing the boundaries of creativity at scale from ideation, to production, and optimization.
Adrienne founded the TikTok Symphony Collective, an AI advisory board with industry leaders from major brands and agencies as well as top creators.
She also launched The Imagination Age, a newsletter exploring the future of creativity, AI, and human potential.
LinkedIn: @adriennelahens
Debra Aho Williamson is a dynamic analyst, speaker and market influencer, recognized for her visionary contributions to the digital marketing landscape.
As founder and chief analyst at Sonata Insights, Debra helps clients navigate the AI-driven evolution of marketing and consumer behavior via groundbreaking and hype-free research.
Debra's superpower is her ability to spot changes in consumer behavior that lead to tectonic shifts in marketing.
She was one of the first analysts in the world to pinpoint the social media trend, publishing her first research on the topic in 2006 while she was an analyst at EMARKETER, a forecasting and analysis firm.
Debra’s opinions and analysis have been featured in thousands of news articles, and she has made more than 45 TV appearances, including on NBC, BBC, Bloomberg Television and CNBC.
LinkedIn: @ebrawilliamson