CULVER CITY, Calif. — During Los Angeles Tech Week on Monday, October 12, creator and beauty entrepreneur Michelle Phan is listed as a co-host of an AI Creator Salon focused on a question that now reaches far beyond Hollywood studios: what can individual creators actually make with the latest generative tools?
Organized by Vibe Code Mama and produced with Machine Cinema Women, the Culver City gathering is listed as a featured LA Tech Week event. Its published program combines a discussion about creative reinvention with demonstrations and hands-on experiments involving ElevenLabs audio tools and PixVerse AI video. The official Tech Week event listing describes sessions for creators, founders and people curious about AI-powered storytelling.
From AI demos to hands-on creation
The organizers advertised opportunities to test voice, audio and video workflows, rather than only attend panels about generative AI. Organizers say the planned program includes an ElevenLabs workshop, a PixVerse experimentation area, a discussion of creativity and entrepreneurship, and time for participants to share their results. Those activities are scheduled, not independently verified as completed. The organizer’s RSVP page lists the event for October 12 and describes the same program.
The event was scheduled to begin at 3 p.m. Pacific on October 12 in Culver City, according to the official calendar. HMW has not independently verified that the event took place as advertised. Public listings do not identify a specific venue address, and their descriptions differ on the end time; the organizer’s RSVP details were the recommended source for attendees. An independent LA Tech Week creator-events guide also lists the salon among Monday’s events.
Why Michelle Phan’s involvement matters
Phan built her reputation when online video was changing who could become a beauty personality and business founder. Her path from YouTube tutorials to beauty entrepreneurship was documented by Forbes years before today’s generative-AI boom. Her participation gives this event a clear creator-economy angle: the new tools promise to lower some production barriers, while raising questions about authorship, likeness, licensing and the value of human work.
For Hollywood Most Wanted, the revealing shift is the format. AI is no longer being discussed only as a threat or a futuristic studio experiment; at this salon, organizers are pitching it as a toolkit that working creators can try for themselves. Whether those experiments develop into sustainable, rights-respecting creative businesses remains an open question.