Creators track
For creators
YouTube, social and regional-language creators building an audience and a business.
Thursday, 21 January 2027BengaluruEarly bird open
MAD by Animaker
Where Creators, Trainers & Marketers compare notes.
MAD begins in
85Days
03Hours
45Minutes
25Seconds
For the people who make it, and make it travel.
Make
Make the video, the course or the campaign.
Amplify
Amplify it across channels, teams and languages.
Deliver
Deliver it, measure it and prove it worked.
Three tracks. Pick yours.
Everyone shares the Main Stage. The breakouts and the labs split three ways.
Brands track
For marketers
B2B and brand marketers, content leads and demand-gen teams who need video that moves pipeline.
Your route through the day
Learning track
For trainers
L&D heads, instructional designers and trainers who keep people and courses up to date.
Your route through the day
Launching at MAD
Agent Max. The full reveal, live on stage.
At 9:45 on the Main Stage, Animaker's founder and CEO, Raghav, shows the full Agent Max: an AI agent that takes a brief and returns a finished video. Then he edits one line in the source document. Watch what the video does next.
Book your passLive on stage
Under wraps until 21 January
The speakers
We're revealing one speaker at a time. Book your pass and you'll hear first.
Manish Maheshwari
MD, Stripe India
Riddhik Kochhar
CEO, SpatialChat
Sangeetha S Abishek
Director, SODME digital Marketing
Vineeth Gandhi
Chief Scientific Advisor, Animaker
Dibish Divakaran
Founder, Pranix Foods
Keerthi R
Marketing Manager, Animaker
Eesha K
Product Manager, Steve AI
Jerry Sharmila Albin
Senior Project Manager & Content Expert, Animaker
Santa SK
Enterprise Sales Manager, Animaker
Vivek Senthil
Learning Technology Security Specialist, Nano LMS
Anisha Rathinam
Product Marketer, Salesman AI
Prathiksha Varadarajan
Growth Marketer, Nano LMS
Prarthana Banerjee
Social Media Growth Strategist, Animaker
Shreshtra Sri
Content Marketer, Animaker
Want to speak at MAD?
We're looking for creators, marketers and trainers with something practical to teach. Tell us what you'd talk about.
What's on
One Main Stage and three tracks, from 8:00 am to a rooftop dinner.
Gates open
Breakfast, filter coffee, badges and the "Make your intro video" booth, where Agent Max makes you a 10-second intro video.
Opening
Welcome to MAD 2027.
Keynote: From Tools to Agents: The 2027 Content Forecast
What 35 million creators are making, what they've stopped making, and where it goes in 2027. With Raghav.
Launch: Agent Max
The full reveal, with a live demo from brief to finished video.
Keynote: The Half of Your Job AI Can't Touch
What happens to people who create content for a living when making content costs almost nothing. Speaker revealed soon.
- Breakouts 1Creators
Beyond the Metros: Creating for Bharat
AI dubbing, localising without losing your voice, and where brand deals are moving.
BrandsVideo in the B2B Buying Journey
Where video actually moves pipeline, and where it's noise. Real funnels, real numbers.
LearningCompliance Training That Updates Itself
How regulated industries keep thousands of modules in step with SOPs that keep changing, and what auditors want.
Main StageFireside: Zero Human in the Loop
Same brief to Claude, ChatGPT and Grok running fully automated pipelines. See the outputs, vote, then hear where a human must stay, and why.
- Breakouts 2Brands
One Webinar, 40 Assets
A working system for turning one long recording into clips, posts, emails and sales snippets every week.
LearningInstructional Design Isn't Dead. Order-Taking Is.
AI agents produce the first draft. The ID's job moves from building slides to diagnosing performance problems. Which skills to build now.
LearningLabelled, Legal, Still Viral
India's IT Rules amendment (notified Feb 2026): AI-content labelling and three-hour deepfake takedowns. What to label, voice and face consent, staying compliant without losing reach.
Main StagePanel: L&D's AI Intelligence in 2027: What CLOs Will Buy, Kill and Measure
Budgets, the tools being dropped, and proving training ROI to the CFO. No vendors on stage.
Lunch with topic tables
Each table has a host and a topic: AI for frontline training, LinkedIn video, regional dubbing, building a course in a day, and AI-content labelling.
Live poll and giveaway
Prizes are annual Animaker plans.
Launch: Steve.ai storytelling app
A one-line story from the audience becomes a video, live. Then what's new across Animaker: Nano LMS, Vmaker and Picmaker.
- MAD Labs, round 1. Bring a laptop.Learning
Build a Scenario-Based Course in 45 Minutes
With Nano Composer. Everyone leaves with a working course.
- MAD Labs, Round 2Learning
Prompts That Work for IDs
An AI playbook for storyboards, scripts, assessments and SME interviews.
Keynote: Why Stories Still Win When Anyone Can Make Anything
Speaker revealed soon.
The MAD Awards
MAD Creator, MAD Trainer and MAD B2B Storyteller. Each winner gets a 30-second tribute film.
Closing remarks
And next year's date.
Rooftop dinner reception
Dinner, drinks and the conversations you came for.
First MAD. Not our first room.
MAD is new. Hosting isn't. The Animaker team has run meetups and events before, and this is what they looked like.
Partners who back the makers.
Brands and platforms that reach creators, marketers and educators. Sponsor announcements are coming soon.
Presented by
Partner with MAD
Sponsor the track your customers are in. gets made.
Three ways to show up in front of the marketers, trainers and creators in the room.
Creators track
Mic and camera brands, creator platforms, influencer marketplaces and D2C brands, in front of upcoming YouTubers and Instagrammers.
Brands track
Social and martech tools and web platforms, in front of in-house brand teams and digital agencies.
Learning track
Training networks, HR-tech, design colleges and edtech, in front of trainers, L&D heads, teachers and students.
Who you'll reach
Three tracks, six audiences.
Creators
- Upcoming YouTubers1K–100K subscribers
- Upcoming InstagrammersUnder 50K followers
Brands
- Brand content marketersIn-house social and content teams
- Digital agenciesOwners and creative leads
Learning
- Instructional designers & trainersPlus L&D and HR heads as VIPs
- Creative teachers & studentsICT teachers, design and media students
The venue
To be announced soon.
Bangalore, Thursday 21 January 2027. Book your pass and we'll email you the venue as soon as it's confirmed.
Hosted by Animaker
More than 35 million people use Animaker to make videos. MAD is our first conference, built for the people who make content for a living.
FAQ
Who is MAD for?
Anyone who makes content for a living: marketers, trainers and instructional designers, and social creators.
How much is a pass?
Early Bird is ₹999, Regular is ₹1,499 and Final ₹1,999.
What does a pass include?
The Main Stage and all three tracks, MAD Labs workshop seats, breakfast, lunch and the rooftop dinner, and a certificate of learning hours.
When and where is it?
Thursday, 21 January 2027, in Bangalore. Gates open at 8:00 am. We'll announce the venue soon.
Is this a product pitch?
No. There are two launches, both clearly marked on the agenda. About 70% of the speakers are outside practitioners.
Can I come with my team?
Yes. The Team of 5 pass covers five people and adds reserved seating on the Main Stage.
Will I get a certificate?
Yes. Every attendee gets a certificate of learning hours.
What does MAD stand for?
Make. Amplify. Deliver.
Make. Amplify. Deliver.