
Michelle Grady
President, Sony Pictures Imageworks
Holly Edwards
President, Skydance Animation
Janet Lewin
Senior Vice President, General Manager, and Head, ILM
Dylan Sisson
Head of RenderMan Creative Engagement, Pixar Animation Studios
Eloi Champagne
Head, Technical Direction and Production Technology, National Film Board of Canada
Jan-Bart van Beek
Studio Director & Studio Art & Animation Director, Guerrilla Games
Emily Bland
Junior Concept Artist, Industrial Light & Magic, Founder & Co-Director, Women in Concept Art
Isobel Hine
Mid Concept Artist, INT/Night , Founder/Director of WCAA
Saint John Walker
Programme Leader, Postgraduate Media, University of Hertfordshire

Michelle Grady
President, Sony Pictures Imageworks
Holly Edwards
President, Skydance Animation
Janet Lewin
Senior Vice President, General Manager, and Head, ILMRon Frankel
Founder & CEO, Proof Inc
Shawn Walsh
COO of VFX & GM of Image Engine, Cinesite Group
Laurens Ehrmann
Founder & Creative Director, The Yard
Henrik Fett
CEO, Opsis StudioIan Failes
Editor, befores & afters
Hal Hickel
Animation Director, Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), Oscar, BAFTA winner
Eloi Champagne
Head, Technical Direction and Production Technology, National Film Board of Canada
Alexandre Poncet
Director, Composer, Film Historian
Tom Gibbons
Animation / Stop-Motion Supervisor, Tippett Studio
Delphine Coudray
Head of Operations, Animation Ireland
Eugenie Poncet
Director, Campus Artisan de l’Image, and Producer, Walking with Animators
Ed Douglas
VFX Supervisor, Backrooms
Kevin Baillie
Executive, Visual Effects Supervisor, Director, Founder, Critical Period
Christina Caspers-Roemer
General Manager, Trixter, and Executive Producer, Cinesite Group
Johnny Han
VFX Supervisor & 2nd Unit Director, The Penguin (HBO)
Christine Resch
Strategic Development Manager for Video, Adobe

Hitesh Shah
Founder and Chairman, BOT VFX
Gary Mundell
CEO & Co-Founder, LOFTAPPS
Jeff Dillinger
Creative Producer/Director
Heiko Burkardsmaier
VFX Executive Producer, Head of Business/Legal Affairs, Accenture Song VFX
Jonathan Harris
CEO / VFX Supervisor, Dupe Visual Effects
Thierry Levy
Executive Producer, Framestore

Tim McLaughlin
Dean, School of Performance, Visualization & Fine Arts, Texas A&M University
Mayet Andreassen
Instructional Associate Professor, Visualization Industry Relations, Texas A&M University, College
Junya Mochizuki
Senior Manager, Business Development, Sony Corporation, Visual Creation Division
Jaime Raffone
Senior Manager, Virtual Production, Sony Electronics Imaging
Wayne Miller
Executive Producer/Head of Production, Texas A&M University, Virtual Production Institute

Tim McLaughlin
Dean, School of Performance, Visualization & Fine Arts, Texas A&M University
Simon Davies
Talent Acquisition Leader & Founder, DAX | Digital Arts Xchange
Debra Coleman
Founder, Career and Leadership Coach, Open Frame Coaching
Saint John Walker
Programme Leader, Postgraduate Media, University of Hertfordshire
Eugenie Poncet
Director, Campus Artisan de l’Image, and Producer, Walking with Animators
Oliver Mag Gingrich
Programme Lead, BA (Hons) Animation, University of Greenwich, School of Design & Creative Industrie
Brooke Keesling
CalArts Instructor & ASIFA Hollywood Vice President Emeritus
























