Global Asian Entertainment Summit Bridges Entertainment, Business, and Asian Leadership
Los Angeles, CA, May 2026 — The Global Asian Entertainment Summit successfully wrapped in Los Angeles on May 9, bringing together industry leaders, creators, founders, investors, and business operators for a curated forum at the intersection of entertainment and global commerce.
Designed with substance beyond traditional networking, GAES centered meaningful conversations around personal branding, Asian creatives in the global market, global IP, innovation, e-commerce growth, and creator-investor deal flow. The summit reflected a larger industry shift: the future of entertainment will be shaped not only by storytellers, but also by the business leaders, investors, platforms, and operators who help scale those stories worldwide.
The summit’s speaker lineup added significant credibility to GAES, bringing together leaders with measurable achievements across entertainment, business, media, and global culture. Speakers included creators who have built audiences of more than 50 million, executives who have led creative marketing and strategy for major titles, studios, and platforms spanning Marvel and DC films, Oscar-winning projects, and globally recognized anime IPs, entertainment pioneers who helped usher in the era of K-pop touring through world tours for artists such as BIGBANG, BLACKPINK, BTS, G-Dragon, and more, operators who have helped drive over $100 million in creator-marketing revenue, and founders who have scaled companies across e-commerce, media, and consumer brands. The lineup also featured leaders behind international touring, artist marketing, and global brand campaigns, collectively representing the business engine behind modern entertainment: audience growth, revenue, brand building, content strategy, touring, distribution, and global expansion.
For Asian and minority leaders, GAES represented more than visibility. It created a space where creatives, executives, entrepreneurs, and capital could come together as equal forces in shaping the next generation of global culture. The event’s vision was both timely and ambitious, connecting entertainment and business leaders in a way that encouraged real partnerships, shared opportunity, and long-term impact.
With its successful Los Angeles debut, the Global Asian Entertainment Summit signals a powerful new model for the industry: one where entertainment and business move together, and where Asian-led leadership is not simply participating in the future, but helping define it.