John Canning

Director Developer Relations - M&E, AEC, D&M, AMD

Darren Frankel

Head of Film & Television, Adobe

Rob Konuch

Digital Supervisor, One Piece, Netflix

Sean Wallitsch

Sr. Specialist Solutions Architect, Visual Compute, Amazon Web Services

VFX teams are being asked to deliver more with less — more shots, higher complexity, shorter schedules. This panel brings together a VFX supervisor currently in production on a large-scale Netflix series, a post-production technology leader at Adobe, a hardware partnerships director at AMD, and cloud infrastructure specialists at AWS to share what's working right now. 

The conversation focuses on specific workflows where AI and new tooling are measurably reducing time and cost: machine-learning-assisted roto and keying, elastic cloud rendering that scales to deadline without capital investment, GPU architectures enabling real-time look-dev, and pipeline integrations that remove manual handoffs between departments. Panelists will share what they've seen succeed in production, what's still maturing, and where they're investing next. 

Panelists: 

• Rob Konuch — Digital Supervisor, One Piece (Netflix) 
• Darren Frankel — Head of Film & Television, Adobe 
• John Canning — Director, Strategic Partnerships – M&E, AMD 
• Sean Wallitsch — Sr. Specialist Solutions Architect, Visual Compute, AWS