VIEW Conference is delighted to announce the participation of the following initial list of speakers at VIEW Conference 2023

VIEW Conference 2023, an English-speaking event, takes place 15-20 October, 2023, in the beautiful baroque city of Turin, Italy. Tickets are now available from the official VIEW Conference website.

Confirmed Speakers Include

• 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 J. 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" and Legendary Disney Animator
• Mark Ulano, Sound Engineer, CAS, AMPS (Oscar winner)
• Paul Debevec, Chief Research Officer, Eyeline Studios
• Scott Eaton, artist exploring figurative representation & abstraction by combining traditional mediums with machine learning and other digital tools
• Hal Hickel, Animation Director, Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) (Oscar, BAFTA winner)
• 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
• 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 Walker, Dean & Director of Industry Engagement, Escape Studios
• Simon Devereux, Founder/Director of ACCESS: VFX and Director, Global Talent Development, Framestore
• 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
• Rachael 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 M. Soccini, 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
• Alexandre Poncet, Director, Composer, Film Historian
• Sam Reid, Head of Technology, Untold Studios
• Sara Damiani, Producer, ARTIFEX, IED Rome
• Sofia Porcù, Director & Director of Photography, MIRA, IED Rome
• Fabiano Palmisano, Artistic Director & Concept Artist, MIRA, IED Rome
• Dario Facchini, Composer of Score and Soundtrack, ARTIFEX, IED Rome
• Nicolas Verley, Head of Business Development, Ranch Computing
• Jon Weisner, Director, Global Black Belt, Microsoft
• Gabriela Kylišová, HR Generalist, Universal Production Partners UPP
• Martina Šrámková, HR Generalist, Universal Production Partners UPP
• Clint McLean, Senior Character/Conversation Designer at Inworld, Inworld AI
• Andy Hayes, https://s3.amazonaws.com/view-conference-www/assets/author/2023/10/13/andyhayes_512x512.jpg
• Ian Comley, VFX Supervisor, ILM London
• Charmaine Chan, Associate Visual Effects Supervisor, ILM London
• Damné Jesús, Animation Producer, Educator, Journalist
• Kirill Tokarev, Chief Editor & CEO, 80.lv