Aaron Daly
Virtual Production & Realtime,
FuseFX

Aaron Thibault
VP of Strategic Operations,
Gearbox

Andrew Titcomb
Principal Technical Director,
Paramount Animation

Beau Casey
Software Developer,
Paramount Animation

Bert Van Brande
Founder/Studio Head,
Stellar Creative Lab

Brad Blackboun
Head of Virtual Production,
The Third Floor (UK)

Brett Schlank
Tech Lead,
DreamWorks Animation

Doug Sherman
VP Engineering,
DreamWorks Animation

Emily Olin
Dir. Marketing Communications, ASWF

Erik Weaver
Head of Virtual & Adaptive Production,
Entertainment Technology Center

Francesco Siddi
General Manager, Blender Studios

Jerry Chen
Senior Digital Artist,
Neoscape

Jonathan Gagnon
Director of R&D,
FOLKS VFX

Josh Kerekes
Head of Virtual Production,
Pixomondo

Karyn Buczek Monschein
VP of Animation Technology,
Paramount Animation

Kimball Thurston
Technical Advisory Council Chair, Academy Software Foundation (ASWF)

Laurence Cymet
Head of Technology,
WeFX

Michael Ferguson
Sr. Software Engineer, DreamWorks Animation

Nils Norgren
Founder / Chief Technology Officer, Neoscape

Patrick Kueking
Central Coordinator,
Paramount Animation

Paul Golter
Pipeline TD, Blender Studios

Richard Chuang

Tiffany Yen
Technical Director,
Paramount Animation

Vijoy Gaddipati
Technical Director,
Paramount Animation

Previous year’s speakers

2022 Keynote: Richard Chuang

Wednesday, Jul 13, 2022

Richard Chuang, a co-founder of PDI has been involved with different types of pipelines; live action, animation, AR, VR, etc., for a long time, and brings a level of experience and oversight that comes with that. He will talk about the early days from building the first pipeline to where it’s at now. Then look at developments in the industry in terms of where we would like to be vs. where we actually are. Finally closing with ideas on what we might expect in the future such as when A.I. becomes integrated into the pipeline