Joaquim Dos Santos Director, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, Sony Pictures Animation, Sony Pictures Sam Fell Director, Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget, Aardman Animations, Netflix Nick Bruno Director, Nimona, Netflix Troy Quane Director, Nimona, Netflix James Knight Global Director, Media & Entertainment / Visual Effects, AMD Faik Karaoglu Executive Vice President, Wacom Dan Sarto Co-Founder & Publisher, Animation World Network panel Panel: The Future of Storytelling
Nick Bruno Director, Nimona, Netflix Troy Quane Director, Nimona, Netflix ND Stevenson Author, Illustrator and Co-Producer, Nimona Ted Ty Global Head of Character Animation, DNEG Animation panel Nimona
Peter Ramsey Director, Spiderman: Into the Spider-verse 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 panel Showcasing Africa's Future
Joe Letteri Senior Visual Effects Supervisor, Wētā FX, 5-time Oscar winner Mike Lasker VFX Supervisor, Spider-Man Across the Spider-Verse, Sony Pictures Imageworks, SPA Hal Hickel Animation Director, Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), Oscar, BAFTA winner Andreas Maaninka VFX Supervisor Trent Claus VFX Supervisor, Lola Visual Effects panel The Future of VFX
James Knight Global Director, Media & Entertainment / Visual Effects, AMD Dylan Sisson Artist & Designer, RenderMan, Pixar Animation Studios Jon Weisner Director, Global Black Belt, Microsoft Nicolas Verley Head of Business Development, Ranch Computing panel Pixels & Processors: The Relationship Between Art and Technology in Visual Storytelling
Scott Eaton Artist, Designer, Creative Technologist Dylan Sisson Artist & Designer, RenderMan, Pixar Animation Studios Daryl Anselmo Artist & Advocate for Emerging Technologies Andreas Maaninka VFX Supervisor Richard Scott CEO & Co-Founder, Axis Studios panel Panel: Art and AI
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 Jan-Bart Van Beek Studio Director & Studio Art & Animation Director, Guerrilla Games Trent Claus VFX Supervisor, Lola Visual Effects Wieke Schrakamp Researcher, Valsplat panel How to Break into a Career in Animation, VFX and Games
Alwyn Hunt Head of Education, Partnerships, Adobe, Co-Founder, The Rookies Saint John 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 panel The Future of Education: Spaghetti and Icebergs
Almu Redondo Production Designer, Cartoon Saloon Simone Giampaolo Director, Aardman Animations Brenda Ximena Roldan Romero 3D Animator, Axis Studios Federica Gasbarro Climate Activist, Author, and Presenter Nicola Sammarco Director, Storyboard Artist and Comics Author panel Filmmaking's Role in Healing Our Planet
Apollonia Hartmann VFX Producer, Accenture Song VFX Amy Ash Head of Characters, Axis Studios Carolyn Giardina Tech Editor, The Hollywood Reporter Lotte Kronborg Head of Studies for BFA Animation, The Animation Workshop, VIA University College, Denmark Osnat Shurer Co-CCO, Baobab Studios panel Women in Animation: 2023 Vision
Saint John Walker Dean & Director of Industry Engagement, Escape Studios Lotte Kronborg Head of Studies for BFA Animation, The Animation Workshop, VIA University College, Denmark Terrence Masson MFA Computer Arts Chair, School of Visual Arts (SVA), NYC Gray Marshall, MS, MFA Chair of Visual Effects, SCAD Neil Peplow Director and CEO, London Film School panel AI and Education
Filippo Robino Co-Founder, Alps Studios Enrico De Lotto Freelance Producer & Location Manager Fabrizio Nastasi Post-production Supervisor panel ToFilm Group and the Cinematic Allure of Piedmont
Brenda Ximena Roldan Romero 3D Animator, Axis Studios Kate Gabriel VFX Supervisor , No. 8 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 panel How to Stay Positive in Our Industry?
Felix Duchesneau General Manager, Amazon Web Services Thinkbox, Amazon Web Services Ben Minall UE Business Director, Media & Entertainment, Americas/EMEA, Epic Games Andy Hayes Senior Visual Computing Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services panel Real Time Animation for Feature Film