Shannon Tindle Director, Ultraman Rising, Netflix Animation Amy Smeed Head of Animation, Moana 2, Disney Animation Studios Rob Bredow Chief Creative Officer, Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) Jay Worth Overall VFX Supervisor, FALLOUT Megan Brain Paper Sculpture Designer, World of Color, Walt Disney Imagineering panel How it Started: How it's Going
Amy Smeed Head of Animation, Moana 2, Disney Animation Studios Amanda Strong Director & Stop-Motion Storyteller Delphine Coudray Head of Operations, Animation Ireland Carolyn Giardina Senior Entertainment Technology & Crafts Editor, Variety panel Women in Animation
Rob Bredow Chief Creative Officer, Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) Heiko Burkardsmaier VFX Executive Producer, Head of Business/Legal Affairs, Accenture Song VFX Florian Gellinger Owner & VFX Supervisor, RISEFX panel Current and Future Challenges of the VFX Industry
Jake Maymudes Founder & CEO, Wylie Co. VFX Jeff Dillinger VFX Supervisor & CEO, Megalis Jonathan Harris CEO / VFX Supervisor, Dupe Visual Effects Heiko Burkardsmaier VFX Executive Producer, Head of Business/Legal Affairs, Accenture Song VFX Juck Somsaman Founder & CEO, The Monk Studios panel Let's Talk Business: CEO & Co-Founders
Jake Maymudes Founder & CEO, Wylie Co. VFX Terrence Masson MFA Computer Arts Chair, School of Visual Arts (SVA), NYC Jan Pinkava Director of Animationsinstitut, Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg Michel Bellini Professor, U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning panel Inspiring the Next Generation: AI & Innovation Tech in Education
Dylan Sisson Artist & Designer, RenderMan, Pixar Animation Studios Terrence Masson MFA Computer Arts Chair, School of Visual Arts (SVA), NYC Anthony Giacchino Filmmaker, Colette, Oscar winner Alessandro Maschietto Senior Compositor & Compositing Mentor, Skyup Academy panel Inspiring the Next Generation: Innovative Technologies in Storytelling & Production
Rochele Gloor Assistant Director for Innovation Technologies MFA Computer Arts, School of Visual Arts John "Cip" Cipriani Art Director & Team Lead Faik Karaoglu Executive Vice President, Wacom Rob Hoffmann Worldwide Head of Industry Strategy and Media & Entertainment, Lenovo Workstations Carolyn Giardina Senior Entertainment Technology & Crafts Editor, Variety panel The New Age of Creativity and Technology Convergence!
Jeff Dillinger VFX Supervisor & CEO, Megalis Sarah Maizes Executive Producer, Cheeky Squirrel Productions Deirdre Barry Programme Director, The National Talent Academy for Animation Delphine Coudray Head of Operations, Animation Ireland Florian Gellinger Owner & VFX Supervisor, RISEFX Mara Froehlich Head of Production and VFX Producer, Alps Studios panel International Co-Productions
Kate Gabriel VFX Supervisor , No. 8 Boyan Georgiev Lighting TD, DNEG Animation, Chair, London ACM SIGGRAPH Beata Parczewska Lead Simulation Artist, Medtronic, Secretary , London ACM SIGGRAPH Brenda Ximena Roldan Romero 3D Animator, Axis Studios Agata Soncini Researcher, Head of the VR Lab, University of Torino panel Turning Passion into Reality: Personal Journeys in Computer Graphics Industry
Arissa Ackerman Film Major, SCAD Linda Demichelis Comparative Literature & Art Major, University of Turin Sophia Johnson Computer Arts Major, School of Visual Arts, NYC panel Young People in VIEW: Storytelling and Climate Change