VIEW Conference is proud to announce the first speakers at VIEW Conference 2022, a global event in English happening both in-person and online in beautiful Torino, Italy, from October 16th-21st, 2022. Last year's edition had over 290 speakers, so stay tuned for more announcements coming soon. Reserve your spot by booking now while tickets are available now.

Two highlights for VIEW Conference 2022 include a special summit on the Metaverse and a focused conference track on the groundbreaking field of virtual production.

• Henry Selick, Director, Wendell & Wild, Netflix
• Rob Minkoff, legendary director (The Lion King and Mr. Peabody and Sherman) will speak about his latest movie “Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank”, Paramount Animation
• Shannon Tindle, Emmy-winning director will present his latest creation, Lost Ollie
• Peter Ramsey, Oscar-winning director talking about the Netflix animated series Lost Ollie
• Nora Twomey, Director, My Father's Dragon, Cartoon Saloon, Netflix
• Robert Zemeckis, Director, Pinocchio (2022), Walt Disney
• Chris Williams, Director, The Sea Beast, Netflix
• Marc Petit, Vice President and General Manager of Epic Games’ Unreal Engine, visionary thinker will lead a metaverse track
• Rob Bredow, visionary senior vice president and chief creative officer of Industrial Light & Magic will lead a virtual production track
• Julien Fournié, Haute Couture Designer who investigates the metaverse, C.E.O. Julien Fournié Haute Couture
• Jean Paul Cauvin, who investigates the metaverse, C.O.O. Julien Fournié Haute Couture
• Sebastien Deguy, VP of 3D & Immersive, Adobe
• Guido Quaroni, Senior Director of Engineering, 3D & Immersive, Adobe
• Ramsey Naito, President of Nickelodeon Animation and Paramount Animation and producer of “The Boss Baby”
• Kristine Belson, President, Sony Pictures Animation
• Karen Toliver, VP of Animation Film, Netflix
• Roy Conli, Oscar-winning producer who delivers a presentation on Disney’s upcoming animated feature “Strange World”
• Ben Morris, Oscar-winning visual effects supervisor and creative director of ILM London, whose latest work includes the groundbreaking “ABBA The Concert" featuring photo-real “ABBA-tars” of the pop band performing live in a specially-built UK venue
• Kevin Baillie, Production VFX Supervisor, Pinocchio (2022), Disney Animation Studios
• Danielle Feinberg, VFX Supervisor, Turning Red, Pixar Animation Studios
• Jake Morrison, Overall VFX Supervisor, Thor: Love and Thunder, Marvel Studios
• Domee Shi, Director, Turning Red, Pixar Animation Studios
• Joel Crawford, Director, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, Dreamworks Animation
• Pierre Perifel, Director, The Bad Guys, Dreamworks Animation
• Peggy Holmes, Director, Luck, Skydance Animation
• Fran Kalal, Simulation & Tailoring Supervisor, Lightyear, Pixar Animation Studios
• Alex Schwartz, Executive Producer (Mr. Peabody and Sherman and The Addams Family) presents Paramount Pictures’ “Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank”
• He Sun, VFX Supervisor, Milk VFX
• Paul Debevec, Director of Research, Creative Algorithms and Technology at Netflix will speak about virtual production
• Steve May, Pixar’s visionary Chief of Technology
• Dylan Sisson, one of the creative pioneers behind Pixar’s RenderMan
• Eloi Champagne, interactive storytelling specialist discusses his work as technical director at the National Film Board of Canada
• Jay Worth, discusses the extraordinary imagery of HBO’s sci-fi series “Westworld”
• Jan-Bart van Beek, Bafta winner and studio director, Guerrilla Games, will be presenting “Horizon Forbidden West,” the critically acclaimed action role-playing game from Sony Interactive Entertainment
• Kevin Grow, Insomniac Games, Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart, the award-winning game developed for Sony’s PlayStation 5
• Risto Jankkila, Lead VFX Artist, Housemarque, details his work on Returnal, Bafta 2022 winner for best game
• Sharman Jagadeesan, Principal Graphics Programmer, Housemarque
• Scott Eaton, artist exploring figurative representation & abstraction by combining traditional mediums with machine learning and other digital tools
• James Knight, Global Director, Media & Entertainment / Visual Effects, AMD
• Christina Heller, CEO, Metastage
• Roslyn Aronowitz, Senior Producer for Virtual Production, Industrial Light & Magic
• Juri Stanossek, VFX Supervisor, Accenture Song VFX
• Heiko Burkardsmaier, VFX Executive Producer, Head of Business/Legal Affairs, Accenture Song VFX
• Caroline Garrett, Director of VFX for EMEA, Netflix
• Mara Froehlich, Head of Production and VFX Producer, Alps Studios
• Hal Hickel, Animation Director, Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) (Oscar, BAFTA winner)
• Nikola Damjanov, Lead Game Artist, Nordeus
• Simon Verstraete, Tech Artist & Houdini Freelancer gives a 3-hour workshop on Procedural Concepts with Houdini and Unreal Engine 5
• Nick Ladd, Animator, Studio Syro
• Dan Franke, VR Film Director, Co-Founder, Studio Syro
• Simone Fougnier, VR Film Director, Co-Founder, Studio Syro
• Megan Brain, Paper Sculpture Designer, World of Color, Walt Disney Imagineering
• Richard Kerris, VP Omniverse Platform, GM of Media & Entertainment, NVIDIA
• Michael Coldewey, Professor of Concept Art, Drawing & Design, Media Design University of Applied Sciences in Munich
• Georgina Hayns, Puppet Supervisor, Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
• Alessandro Jacomini, Director of Cinematography, Lighting, Encanto, Disney Animation Studios
• Matt Baer, VFX Supervisor, The Bad Guys, Dreamworks Animation
• Mark Edwards, VFX Supervisor, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, Dreamworks Animation
• Mila Useche, Animation Director, Character Designer and Visual Development Artist
• Trent Claus, VFX Supervisor, Lola Visual Effects
• Scot Stafford, Composer, Lost Ollie, Netflix
• Andy Lyon, Creative Director, BUCK
• Robert Bisi, Creative Director, BUCK
• Wayne Brinton, Director of Business Development, Rodeo FX
• Hugo Guerra, Director & VFX Supervisor
• Helge Maus, Senior VFX Trainer, Blender & Houdini FX Generalist, Compositor, Owner, pixeltrain
• Jan Maroske, Associate VFX Supervisor, ILM
• Karen Dufilho, Executive Producer, Epic Games
• Raphaël Letertre, CG Supervisor, The Sandman, Rodeo FX
• Jordan Soles, Global Executive VP and CTO, Rodeo FX
• Terrence Masson, MFA Computer Arts Chair, School of Visual Arts (SVA), NYC
• Angie Wojak, Director of Career Development, School of Visual Arts (SVA), NYC
• Antony Passemard, Director and General Manager of Creative Tools, Amazon Web Services
• Jason Schleifer, Creative Director, FuzzyPixel, Amazon Web Services
• Liberty Worth, Artist, Quilter, Designer, Teacher and Poet
• Peggy Dollaghan, Senior Recruiter, Pixar Animation Studios
• David Brain, Director, Animator, Professor, and Author
• Greyson Davis, Consultant
• Steve Griffith, Executive Producer, DNEG Virtual Production
• Faik Karaoglu, Executive VP, Branded Business, Wacom
• Ian Comley, VFX Supervisor, ILM London
• Eshaan Mani, Student & Critic, KIDS FIRST!
• Allison Bredow, Student & Film Enthusiast
• Alessio Bertotti, Co-Founder, Alps Studios
• Filippo Robino, Co-Founder, Alps Studios
• Christian Manz, VFX Supervisor & Creative Director, Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, Framestore
• Jinko Gotoh, Producer, Consultant, VP, Women in Animation (WIA)
• David Prescott, SVP Creative Production, DNEG Animation
• Archie Donato, VFX Supervisor, DNEG Animation
• Kapil Sharma, Animation Director, DNEG Animation
• Tom Wujec, Tech pioneer, Writer, Entrepreneur
• Maureen Fan, CEO, Co-Founder, Baobab Studios
• Matteo Pessione, Chief Operating Officer, OGR Torino
• Alessandro Cioffi, VFX Supervisor, Trixter
• Emanuele Lomello, Creative Technologist, Virtual Production Specialist, NABA
• Giacomo Trevisio, VFX Producer, Trixter
• Robert Hranitzky, Designer & Creative Director
• Oliver Bowyer, Head of Sales, Escape Studios
• Cathal Loughnane, Head of Non-Automotive Design & Partnerships, Aston Martin Lagonda
• Joshua Beveridge, Animation Supervisor, Netflix Animation
• Rick Champagne, Global Industry Strategy and Marketing, Media & Entertainment, NVIDIA
• Zach Parrish, Animation Director, Netflix Animation
• Matthias Lechner, Production Designer, Netflix Animation
• Mark Ulano, Sound Engineer, CAS, AMPS (Oscar winner)
• Andreas Maaninka, VFX Supervisor
• Terril Calder, Director, Meneath
• Vincent Aupetit, Creative Director, Pre-Production, Framestore
• Jean Pierre Navarro, Global Account Manager, Creator Developer Relationship Group, Intel
• Krishnan Ramachandran, Sr. Application Engineer, Ray Tracing, Intel
• Fabio Sciedlarczyk, Lighter & Look Dev Artist, Netflix
• Ashleigh Tamia Clyde, Student, Entertainment Reporter, and Film Critic
• Ian Kim, Student, Filmmaker, Photographer, and Visual artist
• Alexander Coleman, Student & Storyteller
• Sean Treacy, Student & Storyteller
• Arianna Grace Goarley, Student & Filmmaker
• Helena Packer, Visual Effects Supervisor
• Brenda Ximena Roldan Romero, 3D Animator, Blue Zoo Animation Studios
• Paul Fratesi, Account Executive, SideFX
• Pablo Lobato, Illustrator & Character Designer, Wendell & Wild, Netflix Animation
• Suzanne Twining, Lead Animator, Wendell & Wild, Netflix Animation
• Judith Crow, VP Strategic Partnerships, SideFX
• Jason Yang, Co-Founder & CTO, DGene
• Richard Scott, CEO & Co-Founder, Axis Studios
• Stu Aitken, Director & Co-Founder, Axis Studios
• Ron Edwards, Global Head of Commercial Development, L&D, Technicolor Creative
• Jonathan McFall, Texturing Trainer, Technicolor Creative
• Ed Ware, Executive Talent Specialist, Technicolor Creative
• David Townsend, Head of Business Development for Film and Television, Axis Studios
• Christos Obretenov, Founder & Shading Architect, Lollipop Shaders
• Mark Simon Hewis, Head of Aardman Academy, Aardman Animations
• PH Dallaire, Director, Canary, Rodeo FX Animation
• Ben Therriault, Director, Canary, Rodeo FX Animation
• Ernst Janssen Groesbeek, Stylized Rendering Look Development Artist, 9to3animation
• Bram Sels, Art Director, Axis Studios
• Ian Failes, Editor, befores & afters
• Barbara Robertson, Journalist
• Dan Sarto, Co-Founder & Publisher, Animation World Network