King Willonius

Biography

Willonius “King Willonius” Hatcher is a comedian, author, futurist, and creative technologist redefining what entertainment and innovation look like in the age of artificial intelligence. Hatcher was named one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People in AI, a 2025 Ebony Power 100 honoree, and a member of Ad Age’s 2025 Power Tech List. His viral AI hit “BBL DRIZZY” became one of the most influential creative works of the decade, generating millions of remixes, a response from Drake, and igniting global conversations around AI, authorship, and Black creativity. He's shared insights at SXSW, TEDx, MIT, Harvard, Bridge Summit, and The Next Web.

Sessions

1. Live: AI Music Experience with King Willonius

   Tue, Nov 3, 4:00 PM – 4:20 PM CT

   Track Artificial Intelligence

   King Willonius turned a crowdsourced lyric into BBL DRIZZY, one of the most viral AI-generated songs of the past decade, earning a TIME 100 Most Influential in AI nod and a response from Drake. In this 15-20 minute mainstage moment, he does it again, live. He will pull sounds, prompts, and ideas directly from the audience and build a track in real time. No slides. No lecture. Just the process, unfiltered, in front of thousands.

2. AI Video Creation Demo with King Willonius

   Wed, Nov 4, 10:30 AM – 11:00 AM CT

   Track Artificial Intelligence

   King Willonius takes input from the room and builds a video live. The audience calls out words, vibes, and references, and he feeds them into his AI video workflow on screen, narrating every decision as he goes. Before he went viral, he was making an AI film every week, including King Kendrick. This demo makes the method transparent: what a good prompt actually looks like, what the tools do with it, and what King Willonius adds that the AI can't.