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John
Pagano
VP, Paramount & Nickelodeon
Paramount
John Pagano is an award-winning creative leader with nearly two decades of experience in media and entertainment. As Vice President of Digital Studios at Paramount/Nickelodeon, he oversees content strategy and production for major franchises like SpongeBob, Avatar, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. John began his career at Nickelodeon as a Production Assistant and rose to lead a team of 20+ creatives. He launched Nickelodeon's Digital Studio in 2018 and pioneered an AI-driven postproduction system. His work spans YouTube, streaming, on-air specials, and consumer products. A PGA member, John is known for blending innovation and storytelling to engage global audiences.
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29 May 2025 10:45 - 11:15
Vector search and LLM-powered editing for high-volume video creation
Producing over 1,200 videos a month across 17+ languages, Nickelodeon Digital Studios has turned high-volume content into a testbed for scalable AI. In this keynote, John Pagano shares how his team built and deployed a custom AI editing workflow using vector-embedded search, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and a bespoke Adobe Premiere extension to transform raw footage into localized content at speed. You’ll learn: → How LLMs and vector search are used to surface the right moments from massive video libraries → What it takes to build a real-time, human-in-the-loop system for editing at scale → Lessons from integrating AI into a fast-moving, global production pipeline This is a rare behind-the-scenes look at LLM Ops in action, not just as a prototype, but as a key part of a production engine delivering over 20B organic watch minutes per month.

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