Domee Shi Director & VP of Creative, Elio, Pixar Animation Studios Madeline Sharafian Director, Elio, Pixar Animation Studios Elio
Alessandro Carloni Writer & Director, Cat in the Hat (2026), Warner Bros. Animation The Cat in the Hat (2026) (Premiere Talk)
Dean DeBlois Writer/Director, How to Train Your Dragon, (Remote Presenter via video recording) Christian Manz VFX Supervisor & Creative Director, How to Train Your Dragon, Framestore Glen McIntosh Animation Director, How to Train Your Dragon How to Train Your Dragon
Pierre Perifel Director, The Bad Guys 2, Dreamworks Animation Matt Baer VFX Supervisor, The Bad Guys 2, Dreamworks Animation The Bad Guys 2
Maggie Kang Director, KPop Demon Hunters, Netflix Chris Appelhans Director, KPop Demon Hunters, Netflix Animation KPop Demon Hunters
Alex Woo Director, In Your Dreams, Kuku Studios Nicky Lavender Director, CG Supervision and Visual Effects Supervisor, In Your Dreams, Sony Pictures Imageworks Sacha Kapijimpanga Head of Character Animation, In Your Dreams, Sony Pictures Imageworks Ian Failes Editor, befores & afters In Your Dreams (Premiere Talk)
Pablo Helman VFX Supervisor, Wicked: For Good, ILM Dale Newton Animation Supervisor, Wicked: For Good, Framestore Wicked: For Good (Premiere Talk)
Janet Lewin Senior Vice President, General Manager, and Head, ILM Ian Failes Editor, befores & afters Beyond the Frame: 50 Years of ILM and the Next Era of Visual Storytelling
Rick Champagne Director of Global Media2 Strategy and Marketing, NVIDIA Beyond Prompts: Unlocking Creative Collaboration with AI Agents
Rick Champagne Director of Global Media2 Strategy and Marketing, NVIDIA The Artist in Command: Taking Creative Control with Generative AI
David Seager Production Overall VFX Supervisor, TRON: Ares, Industrial Light & Magic When Worlds Collide: Bridging the Grid and Reality in TRON: Ares
David Vickery Overall VFX Supervisor, Jurassic World: Rebirth, ILM, Bafta, VES winner Jurassic World: Rebirth
Craig Hammack Overall VFX Supervisor, Lilo & Stitch, Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) Stitching It Together: Embracing Chaos in Crafting VFX for Live-Action Lilo & Stitch
Ian Hunter Creative Director, VFX Supervisor, Co-Founder, New Deal Studios, Two-time Oscar & VES winner Making It (Look) Big in Movies
