Domee Shi Director & VP of Creative, Elio, Pixar Animation Studios Madeline Sharafian Director, Elio, Pixar Animation Studios Elio
Ian Hunter Creative Director, VFX Supervisor, Co-Founder, New Deal Studios, VES winner Making It (Look) Big in Movies
Alessandro Carloni Writer & Director, Cat in the Hat (2026), Warner Bros. Animation The Cat in the Hat (2026)
Dean DeBlois Writer/Director, How to Train Your Dragon, (Remote Presenter) Christian Manz VFX Supervisor & Creative Director, How to Train Your Dragon, Framestore Glen McIntosh Overall Animation Supervisor, 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 Nicola 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 In Your Dreams
Pablo Helman VFX Supervisor, Wicked: For Good, ILM Dale Newton Animation Supervisor, Wicked: For Good, Framestore Wicked: For Good Premiere Talk
Jeff Kember Senior Director of Product Management, AI for Media2, 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
