Confirmed Speakers VIEW 2023

Henry Selick

Director, Coraline, Wendell & Wild

Joaquim Dos Santos

Director, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, Sony Pictures Animation, Sony Pictures

Doug Chiang

Senior Vice President and Executive Design Director, Lucasfilm

Peter Sohn

Vice-President, Creative & Director, Elemental, Pixar Animation Studios

Sam Fell

Director, Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget, Aardman Animations, Netflix

Nick Bruno

Director, Nimona, Netflix

Troy Quane

Director, Nimona, Netflix

ND Stevenson

Author, Illustrator and Co-Producer, Nimona

Benjamin Renner

Director, Migration, Illumination

Jeff Rowe

Director, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, Paramount Animation

Ted Ty

Global Head of Character Animation, DNEG Animation

Peter Ramsey

Director, Spiderman: Into the Spider-verse

Andrew Jackson

Overall VFX Supervisor, Oppenheimer, DNEG VFX

Joe Letteri

Senior Visual Effects Supervisor, Wētā FX, 5-time Oscar winner

Kyle Odermatt

VFX Supervisor, WISH, Disney Animation Studios

Mike Lasker

VFX Supervisor, Spider-Man Across the Spider-Verse, Sony Pictures Imageworks, SPA

Marc Scott

Visual Effects Supervisor, Trolls Band Together, Dreamworks

Stephane Ceretti

Overall VFX Supervisor, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.3

James Knight

Global Director, Media & Entertainment / Visual Effects, AMD

John Gaeta

Chief Creative Officer, Inworld AI, Academy Award winner

Andreas Deja

Creator & Director, MUSHKA

Rafael Grassetti

Digital Artist

Mark Ulano

Sound Engineer, CAS, AMPS, Oscar winner

Paul Debevec

Chief Research Officer, Eyeline Studios

Scott Eaton

Artist, Designer, Creative Technologist

Hal Hickel

Animation Director, Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), Oscar, BAFTA winner

Dylan Sisson

Artist & Designer, RenderMan, Pixar Animation Studios

Eloi Champagne

Production Technology Strategist, National Film Board of Canada

Nikola Damjanov

Lead Game Artist, Nordeus

Jan-Bart Van Beek

Studio Director & Studio Art & Animation Director, Guerrilla Games

Richard Oud

Studio Animation Director, Guerrilla Games

Faik Karaoglu

Executive Vice President, Wacom

Daryl Anselmo

Artist & Advocate for Emerging Technologies

Martin Nebelong

Freelance Artist and VR Pioneer

Antony Passemard

Director and General Manager of Creative Tools, Amazon Web Services

Heiko Burkardsmaier

VFX Executive Producer, Head of Business/Legal Affairs, Accenture Song VFX

Jake Morrison

Overall VFX Supervisor, Thor: Love and Thunder, Marvel Studios

Peter Nofz

CTO, VFX Supervisor, Rodeo FX

Mike Jelinek

ArtD. Researcher, MX Lab, Inst of Design Faculty of Arch/Design, Slovak U. of Tech, Bratislava

Daniele Angelozzi

Freelance 3D Sculptor & Certified Instructor

Michael Coldewey

Professor of Concept Art, Drawing & Design, Media Design University of Applied Sciences in Munich

Andreas Maaninka

VFX Supervisor

Alwyn Hunt

Head of Education, Partnerships, Adobe, Co-Founder, The Rookies

Almu Redondo

Production Designer, Cartoon Saloon

Richard Kerris

VP Omniverse Platform, GM of Media & Entertainment, NVIDIA

Juri Stanossek

VFX Supervisor, Accenture Song VFX

Apollonia Hartmann

VFX Producer, Accenture Song VFX

Craig Caldwell, PhD

USTAR Professor, Department of Film & Media Arts

Matthias Buehler

Founder & CTO | MSc Arch ETH Zurich

Helge Maus

Senior 3D & VFX Trainer, Blender for Production, Godot & Unity Artist, Compositor, pixeltrain

Trent Claus

VFX Supervisor, Lola Visual Effects

Saint John Walker

Dean & Director of Industry Engagement, Escape Studios

Simon Devereux

Founder/Director of ACCESS: VFX and Director, Global Talent Development, Framestore

Ben Lumsden

Business Development Manager, Epic Games

Tim McLaughlin

Interim Dean, School of Performance, Visualization & Fine Arts, Texas A&M University

Mauro Baldissera

Founder, Skyup Academy

Amy Ash

Head of Characters, Axis Studios

Heidi Wang

Senior VP, Wacom

Gretchen Libby

Director, Visual Computing, Amazon Web Services

Giacomo Mineo

Visual Effects Supervisor, DNEG

Glen Pratt

Production VFX Supervisor, Barbie, Framestore

Jeff Dillinger

VFX Supervisor & CEO, Megalis

Claudia Marvisi

Pixomondo

Jon Beeston

Head of Art, Axis Studios

Christian Illingworth

Creative Producer, Axis Studios

Diego Viezzoli

Supervising TD & Pipeline Supervisor, Rainbow CGI

Leonardo Dell'Agli

CG Supervisor, Rainbow CGI

Filippo Robino

Co-Founder, Alps Studios

Ian Failes

Editor, befores & afters

Carolyn Giardina

Tech Editor, The Hollywood Reporter

Arvind Arumbakkam

Director Business Alliance and Partnership, Wacom

Daniel Roizman

Co-Founder & CEO, UME.Studio

Agustin Cossa

Virtual Production Supervisor

Chris Nichols

Director, Chaos Labs, Host of CG Garage Podcast

Claudio Meireles

Head of Communities & Influencer Marketing, Chaos Group

Michael Lim

Festival Director, Animation Nation

Lotte Kronborg

Head of Studies for BFA Animation, The Animation Workshop, VIA University College, Denmark

Osnat Shurer

Co-CCO, Baobab Studios

Terrence Masson

MFA Computer Arts Chair, School of Visual Arts (SVA), NYC

Rachel Pruitt

Microsoft

Connor Doyle

Microsoft

Simone Giampaolo

Director, Aardman Animations

Dan Sarto

Co-Founder & Publisher, Animation World Network

Richard Scott

CEO & Co-Founder, Axis Studios

Brenda Ximena Roldan Romero

3D Animator, Axis Studios

Kate Gabriel

VFX Supervisor , No. 8

Gray Marshall, MS, MFA

Chair of Visual Effects, SCAD

Fabio Cerrito

Head of VFX Department / VFX Supervisor, Frame by Frame

Lisa Sepp-Wilson

Head of Production, VFX, Frame by Frame

Neil Peplow

Director and CEO, London Film School

Felix Duchesneau

General Manager, Amazon Web Services Thinkbox, Amazon Web Services

Enrico De Lotto

Freelance Producer & Location Manager

Fabrizio Nastasi

Post-production Supervisor

Beata Parczewska

Lead Simulation Artist, Medtronic, Secretary , London ACM SIGGRAPH

Boyan Georgiev

Lighting TD, DNEG Animation, Chair, London ACM SIGGRAPH

Agata Soncini

Researcher, Head of the VR Lab, University of Torino

Anthony Silverston

Creative Director, Kizazi Moto: Generation Fire, Triggerfish

Tendayi Nyeke

Executive Producer, Kizazi Moto: Generation Fire

Tshepo Moche

Director, First Totem Problems, Kizazi Moto: Generation Fire

Ng'endo Mukii

Director, Enkai, Kizazi Moto: Generation Fire

Barbara Robertson

Journalist

Maria Elena Gutierrez

CEO & Executive Director, VIEW Conference

Ben Minall

UE Business Director, Media & Entertainment, Americas/EMEA, Epic Games

Cris Valenzuela

CEO, Runway

Federica Gasbarro

Climate Activist, Author, and Presenter

Nicola Sammarco

Director, Storyboard Artist and Comics Author

Wieke Schrakamp

Researcher, Valsplat

Jon Weisner

Director, Global Black Belt, Microsoft

Ian Comley

VFX Supervisor, ILM London

Sofia Porcu

Director & Director of Photography, MIRA, IED Rome

Damne Jesus

Animation Producer, Educator, Journalist

Nicolas Verley

Head of Business Development, Ranch Computing

Gabriela Kylisova

HR Generalist, Universal Production Partners UPP

Martina Sramkova

HR Generalist, Universal Production Partners UPP

Charmaine Chan

Associate Visual Effects Supervisor, ILM London

Andy Hayes

Senior Visual Computing Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services

Kirill Tokarev

Chief Editor & CEO, 80.lv

Sara Damiani

Producer, ARTIFEX, IED Rome

Clint McLean

Senior Character/Conversation Designer at Inworld, Inworld AI

Alexandre Poncet

Director, Composer, Film Historian

Samuel Reid

Head of Technology, Untold Studios

Dario Facchini

Composer of Score and Soundtrack, ARTIFEX, IED Rome

Fabiano Palmisano

Artistic Director & Concept Artist, MIRA, IED Rome