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

Vice President and Executive Creative Director, Lucasfilm

Peter Sohn

Vice-President, Creative & Director, Elemental, 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

Rafael Grassetti

Digital Artist

Bruno Coulais

Award-Winning Composer and Musician, Coraline, Wendell & Wild

Andreas Deja

Creator & Director, MUSHKA

Mark Ulano

Sound Engineer, CAS, AMPS, Oscar winner

Paul Debevec

Chief Research Officer, Eyeline Studios

Scott Eaton

Artist, Designer, Creative Technologist

Giacomo Mineo

Visual Effects Supervisor, Oppenheimer, DNEG

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

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

Ben Lumsden

Business Development Manager, Epic Games

Saint John Walker

Deputy Dean, Escape Studios

Hugo Guerra

Director & VFX Supervisor

Simon Devereux

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

Tim McLaughlin

Texas A&M University

Mauro Baldisera

Founder, Skyup Academy

Amy Ash

Head of Characters, Axis Studios

Heidi Wang

Senior VP, Wacom

Gretchen Libby

Director, Visual Computing, AWS

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

Alessio Bertotti

Co-Founder, Alps Studios

Ian Failes

Editor, befores & afters

Carolyn Giardina

Tech Editor, The Hollywood Reporter

Arvind Arumbakkam

Director Business Alliance and Partnership, Wacom

Agustin Cossa

Virtual Production Supervisor

Claudio Meireles

Head of Communities & Influencer Marketing, Chaos Group