2022 Event Speakers

Listen, Learn, Get inspired.

Spot
Agile Mobile Robot
WPP

Elijah Allan-Blitz
Director


Pam Allison
Head of Consumer Strategy and Partnerships
5G Labs
Dani Bellar Pilukas
Creativity &
Production Logistics

Nathalie Bergeron
Industry Marketing Manager
of Media & Entertainment
Epic Games
Daniel H. Birman
Director and Producer
Daniel H. Birman Productions

Rod Bogart
Virtual Production Tools Team
Epic Games

Will Cannady
Technical Product Manager
Extended Reality
NVIDIA
JP Castel
Vice President of Product
Evercast

Rick Champagne
Global Media & Entertainment Industry Strategy and Marketing, NVIDIA
Stephen Chandler
Infrastructure Architect
Co-Founder
Catalyst VP
Vonn Christenson
Co-founder
Chief Executive Officer
ZeroNox
Jacqueline Cooper
Co-Founder of CG Pro
& Head of Community
and Placement
Edward Dawson-Taylor
CG Pro Co-Founder
Head of School

Karen Dufilho
Executive Producer
Content Partnerships
Epic Games
Paul Fleschner
Producer


Barbara Ford Grant
President
NEP Prysm Stages

Ian Fursa
Virtual Production Supervisor
Founder of VP Toolkit
Co-founder of Catalyst
Lauren Giannetti
Vice President of Business Development
BrandStar Studios
Phil Galler
Principal and Founder
Lux Machina

Erick Geisler
Director / Producer
Creative Director
To Whom It May Concern...
Rick Grandy
Principal Solutions Architect
MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT
NVIDIA
Nick Greer
Senior Solutions Architect at HP
HP Teradici

Christina Heller
CEO
Metastage

Joseph Incandela
Professor of Physics and Vice Chancellor
UC Santa Barbara
Greg Jones
Director of Global Business Development, XR and CloudXR Product Manager
NVIDIA
Connie Kennedy
Los Angeles
Lab Director
Epic Games

Josh Kerekes
Head of Virtual Production
Pixomondo


Michael Koperwas
Supervisor, Creative
Development & Visual Design
ILMxLAB

Andrea Kott
President
BrandStar Studios


Michael Krulik
Product Marketing
and Video Product Evangelist
Avid

Daisy Leak
Executive Producer
Magnopus


Rob Legato
VFX Supervisor, Director
President
KTM Productions

Cynthia Littleton
Co-Editor-in-Chief
Variety


Jess Loren
Chief Executive Officer
To Whom It May Concern...


Ian Main
Distinguished Technologist
HP

Barbara Marshall
Global M&E Industry Strategy
Z by HP - HP Inc.

Jorge Martinez
Sales & Operations Director Latin America
stYpe
Tupac Martir
Founder
Satore Studio

John McVay
Head of Teradici
Strategic Alliances
HP
David Morin
Industry Relations, Epic Games
Executive Director, Academy Software Foundation
Jeff Morrison
Engineer and Technologist
BrandStar Studios

Janet Muswell
SVP of Visual Effects
HBO

Perry Nightingale
SVP for Creative AI
WPP

Sheri Nimtz
Enterprise XR Global
Partnership Manager
NVIDIA
Gabriel Paiva
Speaker and Instructor
CG Pro

Jimmy Parker-Barratt
Strategy Director
Microsoft's Worldwide
Media & Entertainment
Peter Phok
Executive Producer


Joanna Popper
Metaverse
Executive

Jerome Prescod
Senior Program Manager
Content Security
Disney
Steve Read
Vice President
& Head of Studio
Versatile Media Ltd.
Jesse Redniss
CEO & Co-Founder
Qonsent

Spencer Reynolds
Stage Supervisor
Microsoft Mixed Reality Capture Studios
David Ethan Sanders
Director, Cinematographer and Producer
DSP LLC
Jason Schugardt
VFX Supervisor
NVIDIA

Lori H. Schwartz
CEO and Founder
StoryTech

Sally Slade
Co-Founder and CTO
Voltaku

Joel Sloss
Sr. Program Manager
for Media Security
Microsoft
Damien Stolarz
CPO
Evercast

Kat Sullivan
Senior Director
of Interaction Design
WPP
Chris Taylor
Director for ME-ISAC
Director of Security
Skydance Media
Corey Tedrow
Film and Television
Production

Ray Thompson
Senior Director of Partner
and Industry Marketing
Avid Technology
Nikola Todorovic
Co-founder and CEO
Wonder Dynamics

Onyi Udeh
Co-Founder & CEO
Pipeline

Jason Waskey
Principal Creative Director
Mixed Reality Capture Studios

A.J. Wedding
Co-Founder
Orbital Studios

Katie Wells
Physical and
Digital Film

Stephen Wilcox
Camera VFX
director

Erik “Wolfie” Wolford
Cinematographer


Veronica Yip
Product Manager & Product Marketing Extended Reality
NVIDIA
Dean Zimmerman
Award-Winning Editor