Rod Bogart is an imaging science technologist in the entertainment industry. He began his career in 1992 at Pacific Data Images, followed by ten years at Industrial Light & Magic. At ILM, Rod was instrumental in the design, implementation, and deployment of the industry standard OpenEXR image format, which is at the core of ACES (Academy Color Encoding System). He then spent nine years as the lead color scientist at Pixar, pioneering file-based workflows with Pixar's Image Mastering team and contributing to the design of the system which became the SMPTE IMF (Interoperable Master Format). Rod then worked at HBO for three years, researching next generation display and distribution techniques for high dynamic range content. Rod is currently a member of the Virtual Production Tools team at Epic Games, concentrating on color pipeline. Rod is a member of the Visual Effects branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and has participated in investigations for the Science and Technical Awards Committee for the past ten years. He is ACES vice-chair, and a member of SMPTE and VES. His initials are RGB.

JP Castel is an independent producer who studied filmmaking at UCLA and started his career at Paramount Studios working under legendary producer Robert Evans. He then went on to produce several independent projects including KRISHA, which premiered at SXSW and won both the John Cassavetes Independent Spirit award and the IFP Gotham award before it was acquired by A24. JP’s recent features include INIT!ATION, which premiered at SXSW and was acquired by Saban Media in 2021, and STALKER, which won Shriekfest’s best thriller feature in 2021 and was distributed by Vertical Entertainment. In 2020, JP joined Evercast as a technical producer and now explores the challenges of remote collaborations and what the future may look like as the Vice President of Product.

With 15+ years of experience as a VFX artist and supervisor, Steve is a developer of pipeline and infrastructure solutions for creative studios. His experience spans films, commercial media, political campaigns, 3D animation, and live events for clients like Turner and Adobe, including MAX and SUMMIT. His expertise in setting up on-site workflows around server technologies comes from producing content & managing teams of remote artists around the world. Most recently, Steve deployed a virtual production stage infrastructure for NHK Japan, as well as partnering with Drexel University and Colorspace Labs for a recent virtual production showcase.

In his consulting, Steve brings this experience to overhauling the workflows, pipeline and infrastructure of creative businesses. With creative collaboration requiring high-bandwidth, low-latency connectivity on a global scale, his approach to converging studios’ operations into centralized in-house servers leverages modern technologies like containers and VMs. Tailoring these solutions specifically to creative workflow needs, he helps bring out the best in artists & creators by obfuscating powerful technology behind intuitive, user-friendly tools.

Steve is the co-founder of Catalyst, along with partner Ian Fursa. Catalyst is a turn-key platform for Virtual Production that removes the technical barrier-to-entry of getting up and running with the Unreal Engine toolset.

Vonn Christenson is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer at ZeroNox, and is primarily responsible for leading day-to-day company operations and key strategic initiatives. He is passionate about clean technology innovation across all markets, and is committed to building ongoing relationships with the Media and Entertainment sector to help it reach its sustainability goals. He is leading ZeroNox to be a key contributor to developing world-class green energy technology from renewable microgrids to electric off-road vehicles and equipment across the globe.

Vonn is also an experienced attorney and partner at the Christenson Law Firm, LLP, having been selected by Super Lawyers to be a Southern California Rising Star for 2012-2013, and he was named a Northern California Rising Star for 2015-2019. Vonn holds a B.S. in Mathematics, magna cum laude, from Brigham Young University, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.

Edward has deep hands-on experience in the CG world. He has worked for ILM, Disney, and Digital Domain on blockbuster films – Jurassic World, The Lion King, and Jungle Book. Widely recognized as a cutting-edge technologist, he has led teams of developers in architecting and enhancing VFX related software. As co-founder of CG Pro, he creates and teaches dynamic courses focused on Unreal Engine, VFX tools and the emerging world of Virtual Production.

Producers Adam Maier and Paul Fleschner enjoy working together to make impactful content. This often includes the use of innovative workflows and new technologies, such as the virtual production workflow used on Super Giant Robot Brothers! Prior to joining forces with Reel FX Originals to produce the Netflix series Super Giant Robot Brothers! Fleschner and Maier worked together at Fox VFX Lab on Call of the Wild, then began collaborating on final pixel content using Epic’s Unreal Engine. Maier’s production credits include Call of The Wild, Uncharted: The Lost Legacy, and Welcome to Marwen. Fleschner worked on the virtual production strategy team at Industrial Light and Magic following the acquisition of Fox VFX Lab by Disney. Looking forward, Fleschner and Maier plan to continue producing great content together.

Ian Fursa has 10+ years production experience from running his own production company to working on films and commercials as a director of photography. Now with 2+ Years of on set virtual production experience and having worked on countless productions as Vp supervisor and ICVFX Supervisor with companies such as Apple TV, Netflix, Disney, NHK Japan, Vu, and many more.

Developer and CEO of the internationally used Vp Toolkit Unreal Engine Plugin and educational workflow series, Ian is now a high profile educator in the virtual production community. He has worked with educational institutions around the world with a single goal of bringing more availability to these tools while advancing the technology.

Lauren Giannetti is the Vice President of Business Development at BrandStar Studios in Deerfield Beach, Florida. She leads the efforts to foster new growth initiatives, business opportunities and partnerships that drive revenue – working collaboratively across teams with creative, marketing, production, and finance. She focuses largely on opportunities that utilize their expertise in virtual, XR and MR production and the technology investments that enable it. She is also instrumental in expanding the company’s virtual production footprint and value proposition with the launch of their newest LED panel and service offering, STAR Volumes – seen here as the LED panel technology used for the live demo and mainstage of the Microsoft Production Summit.

Lauren spent the previous 14 years developing brand integrated programming for BrandStar Originals, most recently as EVP of Branded Entertainment & Sponsorship. In this role, she worked in stride with brand partners and sponsors to create and produce compelling content that connects people to brands to do life better. Highlights include the launch of the health and wellness TV series, Mission Makeover, “Broadway Balances America,” in partnership with Broadway Across America and Broadway.com, as well as Live Life Forward, the first national impact-based TV series and platform devoted to inspiring social good and change through purpose driven content.

As a principal and founder at Lux Machina Consulting and CTO of NEP Virtual Studios, Phil Galler strives to push the boundaries of technology and design in the entertainment industry. Focusing on in-camera visual effects, real-time mixed reality and the future of film making and live broadcast, he has been fortunate enough to find himself at the crossroads of technological innovation and creativity.

Before starting Lux Machina Consulting, Phil worked as a programmer and project manager for one of the largest entertainment technology vendors in the world, handling design and execution of some of the most preeminent shows in the entertainment industry.

Passionate about developing new tools that span high-end media servers, automated lighting, LED, and projection, Phil works across a wide variety of entertainment formats to tackle complex, large-scale entertainment projects and finds ways to empower Lux Machina’s clients with versatile design options, new technology, and unique solutions.

With 19 years of engineering experience, Nick started his career as a Storage Architect in 2004 working for Compellent Technologies. At Compellent he designed and sold block level Data Lifecycle Management SAN technology throughout Europe, Australia and Asia.

His next venture was working for channel partners, selling mainly next generation technology at VeriStor and iVision. After working in the channel, Nick helped develop and sell the Atlantis ILIO VDI solution from Atlantis Technology.

Just before joining Teradici as an Architect in 2020, Nick worked for Pivot 3 Technology which was a Hyper Converged storage company focused on Video Surveillance performance.

Christina is the CEO of Metastage. Since its founding in 2018, Metastage has completed over 200 volcap productions with major brands and award winning projects, including two Emmy nominations. Metastage is the first North American partner for the Microsoft Mixed Reality Capture tech. Prior to leading Metastage, Christina was the CEO of VR Playhouse, an immersive content company with immersive projects featured at SXSW, Sundance, and Festival de Cannes. She is a recipient of the Advanced Imaging Society’s Distinguished Leadership in Technology Award and was named in the Huffington Post as one of 5 women changing the virtual reality scene. Her writing and research on volumetric video has been published in the textbook, Handbook of Research on the Global Impacts and Roles of Immersive Media (2019), and What is Augmented Reality? Everything You Wanted to Know Featuring Exclusive Interviews with Leaders of the AR Industry (2019).

Andrea is the President of BrandStar Studios and leads the Creative and Production teams that are responsible for over 1,000 shoots a year. She plays a critical role in scaling the business and mentoring the artists that she leads. Andrea has spent the last 14 years of her career at BrandStar and has a diverse level of experience in production. She has passion for learning new forms of production and along with BrandStars Founder she has been at the forefront of testing and implementing Virtual Production into BrandStars traditional workflows. BrandStar has invested millions of dollars in the most advanced LED Technology for their own stage as well as powering multiple studios across the country including Universities and mentoring students in the gaming and film schools to teach them the future of production.

For over 25 years, Michael has worked with the Film, Television and Broadcast industries and has devoted most of his career to working with manufacturers of cutting-edge technology and evangelizing their tools. He works with the American Cinema Editors and has moderated several panels with top TV and Film editors at ACE's EditFest, as well as presenting technologies at NAB, IBC, SuperMeet, SMPTE, DCS, LACPUG, HPA and other trade shows, seminars and industry events.

And he not only works with editors, but he has even played one on TV; as the editor of the late Sydney Pollack in an episode of the hit TV show, Entourage.

Cynthia Littleton is Co-Editor-in-Chief at Variety. She has covered the television beat for the past 25 years. She began her career at United Press International, followed by stints at Broadcasting & Cable magazine, Variety, and The Hollywood Reporter, where she rose to Editor before rejoining Variety in 2007. At Variety she has also served as Business Editor.

Cynthia is the author of TV on Strike: Why Hollywood Went to War Over the Internet (Syracuse University Press, 2013), the definitive account of the 2007-2008 Writers Guild of America strike and the impact of the disruptive digital advancements that fueled the labor strife. She is also the co-author with Susanne Daniels of Season Finale: The Unexpected Rise and Fall of the WB Network and UPN (HarperCollins, 2007) as well as “What I Told My Daughter: Lessons From Leaders on Raising the Next Generation of Empowered Women,” co-authored with Nina Tassler (Simon & Schuster, 2016).

Jorge Martinez leads the sales & operations at stYpe for Latin America mainly and also for some projects on the USA East Coast and Spain.

His background as an Electronics Engineer has taken him to work in the Live Events and Broadcast Industry for the last 24 years.

From Live TV stations as TV Azteca in Mexico to cable channels as HBO Latin America Group leading Engineering and Operations teams, this experience led him to join the technology side with Vizrt for 9 years, leading sales and operations for Mexico, Central America, The Caribbean and also moved to Atlanta to work with the Central and South US Regions, where he led several projects for Virtual Studios, Media Asset Management, Sports Analysis, Studio Automation and CGI graphics workflows for News and Sports.

Jorge joined stYpe in early 2021 to expand the Virtual Production world with its precise camera and object tracking systems and also with the rendering solutions developed for Unreal Engine called StypeLand, Green Killer and Stype XR, boosting the Film, Ads and TV industries to help content creators and producers to create new worlds with the precise tracking and rendering that are currently required.

Tupac Martir is an Artist and Founder of Satore Studio. He’s a multimedia artist whose work spans the fields of technology, lighting, projection and video, sound design, music, and composition, as well as choreography and costumes. Vogue has described him as ‘the visual designer and creative director behind some of the most important events in the world.

He has provided production design, visuals and lighting direction for the likes of Elton John, Beyoncé, Danny Boyle, the Coachella Music & Arts Festival and Serpentine Gallery, Wallpaper* Magazine called him “The Light Magician.

Tupac is renowned within the fashion industry and has worked on ground-breaking shows for Alexander McQueen, Moschino, Alexander Wang, and Thomas Tait, among others.

More recently, Tupac has Directed and produced the award-winning performative reality piece "Cosmos Within Us”, debuted “Unique” a multi-reality music experience, he is the Artist in Residence at the Champalimaud Foundation, as well as being appointed as a trustee for the National Dance Company Wales.

David is Director, Industry Relations at Epic Games, where he works with the industry and the Unreal Engine team to develop open standards and the use of open source software, in virtual production and everywhere Unreal Engine is used. He also serves as the Executive Director of the Academy Software Foundation, a non-profit created by the motion picture industry to develop the use of open source software in all media. David is also chairman of the Joint Technology Committee on Virtual Production, and a past co-chair of the Joint Technology Subcommittee on Previsualization. He has a degree in computer science from Laval University, and has participated in the development of motion capture and 3D software since “Jurassic Park” at companies such as Softimage, Microsoft, Avid Technology, Autodesk, and Epic Games.

Jeff Morrison brings 25 years of diversified production experience to the virtual studio environment, with a focus on the latest in augmented reality tools. Currently, Jeff is working with Unreal Engine, Mark Roberts Motion Control (Bolt and Model Movers), Virtual Motion Platforms, Camera Tracking and LED Volumes. He spends his time ensuring complex systems work together reliably in the production space.

Janet Muswell serves on the boards and committees of VES, the Television Academy, PGA and AIS. Janet is passionate about educating the next diverse generation of visual effects professionals, she is also the proud recipient of title of VES Fellow.

Janet is a classically trained bassoonist (yes, the bassoon!) and her love of music led her to the fun world of music video editing and visual effects in the UK. She moved to the states to pursue the expanding digital world as a compositor, which quickly led to VFX supervising and producing. Janet has supervised and produced VFX, CGI and Animation for theatrical features, IMAX, series, commercials and Stereoscopic Special Venues. On the management side she has overseen and managed VFX companies both large and small.

Her curiosity for new technology has taken her around the globe working on innovative projects. She recently headed up the Global VFX group for Netflix and is now the SVP of VFX for HBO when she is able to immerse herself in the exciting and revolutionary world of Virtual Production.

Gabriel is a guest speaker and instructor at CG Pro. More than twenty years in the VFX industry, Gabriel spent the last 6 years developing workflows with open source software like Blender and Unreal Engine, integrating affordable pipelines to work and collaborate in a free yet powerful environment.

He became a Certified Unreal Engine Instructor and since then has been working with Epic in the Virtual Production Fellowship. As a Technical Artist, Teaching Assistant, Mentor and Instructor he is now fully committed to gathering and sharing everything he knows about Unreal Engine.

Jimmy Parker-Barratt is a Strategy Director working within Microsoft's worldwide M&E industry team and is the lead for Microsoft's M&E sustainability offerings.

Jimmy, originally from the UK, forged his career within the media industry in London before eventually moving to Los Angeles where he and his family now reside. His background and area of expertise are in strategy and consulting within the M&E enterprise space. Jimmy's tenure at Microsoft spans Europe and the US having joined in 2017 before which time he worked for both IBM and Accenture.

Jimmy's career has been underpinned by a passion for customer experience, and more specifically in supporting M&E organizations in understanding the needs of their customers. More recently Jimmy has led Microsoft's M&E sustainability strategy and has focused on how technology can support the industry to drive towards a sustainable and carbon natural future.

Peter Phok is an award-winning film producer with fifteen years of experience on several films, multiple being with writer/director Ti West including IN A VALLEY OF VIOLENCE, THE SACRAMENT, THE INNKEEPERS, and THE HOUSE OF THE DEVIL.

Most recently, Phok served as an executive producer on X, West's latest feature with A24 Films, and is also working on the film's upcoming prequel PEARL. He also produced DEAR ZOE, the young adult novel adaptation starring Sadie Sink, Theo Rossi, Jessica Capshaw, and Justin Bartha, which screened at this year's Cannes Film Market.

Previously, Phok executive produced David Marmor's 1BR, Ana Asensio's MOST BEAUTIFUL ISLAND, and Shudder's DEADWAX series from writer/director Graham Reznick. Phok has also produced cinematic interactive video games exclusive to Sony PlayStation 4 & PSVR, including HIDDEN AGENDA, THE INPATIENT, and UNTIL DAWN (winner of BAFTA '16 Games Awards for Best Original Property) with Supermassive Games U.K.

Phok began his career at Glass Eye Pix, Larry Fessenden's filmmaker-driven, genre-focused production company. He produced over a dozen horror thrillers, including Jim Mickle's STAKE LAND, Dan Berk & Bobby Olsen's THE STAKELANDER, and Glenn McQuaid's I SELL THE DEAD.

Phok has received the P.G.A. mark on multiple films and is a proud member of the Producers Guild of America, I.F.P., and Film Independent. Phok earned a B.F.A. in Film from School of Visual Arts in New York City. He is the President and Owner of Phok Productions, a commercial production company based in Los Angeles and New York.

Peter is currently serving as executive producer on Jenn Wexler's upcoming 1970s supernatural horror film THE SACRIFICE GAME starring Mena Massoud, Olivia Scott Welch, and Gus Kenworthy.

Joanna Popper is an award-winning Hollywood and Silicon Valley media executive with a track record of launching cutting edge content and technology to drive revenue, audience engagement and brand love. She recently ran HP’s XR initiatives for Go-To-Market. Prior she was EVP of Media & Marketing at Singularity University and VP Marketing at NBCUniversal. Joanna is Executive Producer on the award-winning “Breonna’s Garden” and “Finding Pandora X” XR content experiences. Joanna was selected as “50 Women Can Change the World in Media and Entertainment”, “Top 50 Original Thinkers in VR”, “Top Women in Media: Game Changers”, “Top Women in Media: Industry Leaders”, “Digital It List”, “101 Women Leading the VR Industry” and is on the Coalition for the Women in XR Fund.

Steve Read has been in the film, TV and the Visual Effects industry since 1997. He has an intimate and deep understanding of both the creative and technical workflows required to produce projects for a modern film and TV market.

In 2020 Read headed the opening of the Vancouver-based headquarters for Versatile Media Ltd. with the core focus of adopting and driving a fully integrated virtual production pipeline. Steve is also heading the development of IP and co-produced projects under the Versatile Media banner along with developing the service objectives with the Versatile Performance, Visualization and LED stages.

In 2008 he co-founded One Animation, which became one of Singapore's leading animation studios developing fully CGI TV series for the kids market. Before that, Steve worked on various live-action and fully animated feature films including Happy Feet with Animal Logic in Australia where he led the rigging team on one of its first projects incorporating motion capture for animation. Earlier in his career, Steve spent several years with Softimage, the Montreal-based software company that developed 2D and 3D animation software.

Redniss is an Emmy Nominated Media, Data & Technology executive with 20+ years of Multi Screen brand building, innovative product development, marketing, data strategy and privacy expertise with both prominent and startup companies. Fostering a collaborative approach to redefining the future of entertainment and direct to consumer engagement, Redniss has a keen ability to traverse various enterprise divisions and fuse teams and cultures together to work toward common goals and outcomes. He is the current CEO and Founder of QONSENT, a Consumer first platform for enabling dynamic user consent in the first party data world.

From 2016 until February of 2021 while at WarnerMedia, Redniss had executive oversight to a variety of essential functions including innovation and data strategy. A core part of his role had been the development of WarnerMedia’s Innovation Lab, a future-forward incubator that melds core competencies in areas spanning the “Internet of Things,” data strategy, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and virtual and mixed reality. To support ongoing growth of the innovation operation, Redniss also oversaw the WarnerMedia Investments portfolio, leading the company’s asset allocation within the startup community.

A key component of WarnerMedia’s long term strategy focused on consumer data and the governance of the company’s first party data and new data partnerships. Redniss lead the enterprise wide data strategy and data privacy strategy working alongside company-wide brands and partners to optimize user experience, privacy best practices and strategic utilization of company and consumer data. Prior to joining WarnerMedia, Redniss was at BRAVE Ventures, a strategic advisory and investment firm he co-founded. Following his time working at BRAVE where he consulted for several years with media and tech companies, Turner acquired the company in 2016 and he joined TBS and TNT as chief innovation officer. Redniss and his former business partner have since re-started BRAVE Ventures and are currently seeking new investment and incubation opportunities while also managing it’s portfolio of investments.

Earlier in his career, Redniss was the chief strategy officer at Spredfast (acquired by Vista Equity Partners.) He also spent much of his career at NBCUniversal’s USA Network as SVP of Digital managing technology innovations, monetization strategies and digital content development. Redniss is a three-time Creative Arts Emmy Award-nominee, Multichannel News “Forty Under 40” (2009), TV of Tomorrow “Individual Leadership” award recipient (2013).

Spencer joined the Microsoft Mixed Reality Capture team in 2013 and supervises the flagship Microsoft stage in San Francisco. He and team are passionate about highest-quality volumetric video solutions for all content creators and collaborating closely with our partner stages globally. Prior to joining Microsoft, Spencer worked at Industrial Light + Magic for almost 8 years developing VFX, virtual production, and performance-capture technologies workflows for feature film and games.

David Ethan Sanders is a cinematographer and producer based out of Los Angeles. After growing up in the mountains of northern New Mexico, David pursued his film degree at UCSC followed shortly by an MFA from Art Center College of Design where he received early recognition for his thesis film "Microgravity" from VFX luminary Douglas Trumbull. As cinematographer, David has lensed narrative features and commercials throughout the world in markets that include China, Thailand, Taiwan, Dubai, Israel, Mexico, Holland, and Sweden. Most recently, he was recognized for his work on the Palestinian / Israeli short film "Tzeva Adom The Color Red" when the film received a Telly Gold Award. As a producer, David has overseen a wide range of broadcast commercial and digital marketing advertisements including nationally televised commercials for AT&T, Alpine Electronics, Toyota, and State Farm Insurance. David also served as a producer for the Effie award-winning original film series "Away We Happened" for AT&T.

Jason Schugardt is a multi-disciplined veteran of Visual Effects with over 25 years in the industry.

Jason’s experience as a VFX Supervisor includes such films as the Academy Award winning The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Disney’s The Sorcerer’s Apprentice. Jason’s film credits also include contributing VFX roles on Jon Turtletaub’s National Treasure: Book of Secrets, Peter Jackson’s King Kong, The Polar Express for Robert Zemeckis, Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 2, as well as Minority Report for Steven Spielberg, among others.

The hunger for exploring cutting edge technology led him supervise 360 and real-time VR projects that include Justin Timberlake’s Immersive Montana Experience at MoPOP in Seattle, WA, VES Award nominated Goosebumps VR experience, and Shoah Foundation’s multiple award-winning The Last Goodbye.

LORI H. SCHWARTZ is a true technology catalyst (‘Tech Cat’). As a leading advisor and speaker in marketing and tech innovation, Lori collaborates with executives of multiple brands, tech, and content companies to ensure their understanding of emerging content models.

Los Angeles-based, Lori is a CNN Technology contributor.

Lori’s StoryTech initiative facilitates communication between storytellers and technology companies. Their trends, briefings, curation, and tour products have become well known globally through the work @CES, @NAB, @NATPE, and @IBC. She is proud to be the Chief Curator behind LA’s newest event celebrating Storytelling and Technology, The Infinity Festival.

Previously Lori was a Governor for the Television Academy’s Interactive Media Peer Group, driving thought leadership for the future of interactive media. She was Chief Technology Catalyst for McCann Worldgroup, North America where she drove tech and content innovation and was the key principle to launching the highly regarded IPGLAB where she facilitated emerging media upfronts for Microsoft, Intel, General Motors, Nestlé, and Sony.

An active spokesperson, Lori launched Digital Hollywood’s ‘Women’s Entertainment and Technology Mentor Program’ and is a recipient of the Lucy Hood Digerati Award for her contributions to the Television Academy.

Website: Story Tech

Joel Sloss is the Sr. Program Manager for Media Security at Microsoft Azure.

Occasionally speaking at events or writing articles and whitepapers, Joel works in the Microsoft Azure industry team and typically focuses on security for content production workflows. This has included working with artists, producers, studios, standards groups, vendors, and others to help protect creative assets when doing post-production in the cloud.

He has been on the CDSA Board of Directors since 2017, holds a couple of certifications, advised on cloud infrastructure for Bobbleheads: The Movie, serves on the Infinity Festival executive committee, and is sometimes known as “that guy playing triangle in the 2020 Disney Holiday Singalong” on ABC.

Damien Stolarz is a technology executive, inventor, and author. He has led the development of numerous cutting-edge, award-winning technologies in mobile apps, video streaming, smartphone accessories, peer-to-peer networking, and in-vehicle systems. As an IP professional, Damien has created successful 8- and 9- figure licensing campaigns and performed due diligence on over half a billion dollars of patent transactions. Damien has authored numerous technical books and articles on digital video and emerging technology. He holds a dozen patents in the areas of security, AR/VR, interactive television, mobile device integration, and artificial intelligence. Damien received a BS in Computer Science/Engineering from UCLA and is a registered patent agent (USPTO #67646).

Chris Taylor is the head of security for Skydance Media, a multi-media studio producing live-action features and tv shows, animated features, and video games.

He is also the founder and head of the Media and Entertainment industry’s Information Sharing and Analysis Center (ME-ISAC)(https://www.meisac.org), an intelligence fusion center that enables collaboration and information sharing between media and entertainment companies in order to help those companies raise their security posture and better defend against risks and threats facing the entire industry.

Jason is an award-winning creative director who has been at Microsoft for over twenty years. He spent the first half of his career as the Studio Art Director for the Microsoft Games Studios group responsible for multiple PC and Xbox titles including the Flight Simulator franchise.

In the second half of his career, Jason has spent his time focused on the innovation and incubation of emerging technologies focused on presence, ranging from puppeteering avatars, to volumetric capture, and now Holoportation. He has worked in Mixed Reality for Microsoft since the development of HoloLens 1.0.

An avid painter, Jason spends his off hours in front of an easel both in and out-of-doors, mired in oil paint.

Katie Wells brings over 25 years of experience managing every aspect of physical and digital film projects to her work in the emerging virtual production market.

She has been a producer or Executive Producer for many noteworthy commercial production companies, for directors including Ridley Scott, Joe Pytka, and Michael Bay.

On the digital side, she served as Head of Commercial Production for Digital Domain, Executive Producer of VFX/Post Facility 525 STUDIOS, Managing Director of CREO VFX, and Executive Producer of Montreal-based VFX boutique The FX CARTEL. She was the Executive Producer of visualization studio PROOF and Global Executive Producer for BUF Paris/Montreal.

Along the way, Katie has been a studio-side VFX producer and consultant for most of the major studios and a Producer on independent films such as RIDDICK with Vin Diesel and JESUS HENRY Christ with Julia Roberts.

Katie Wells currently brings that cross-disciplinary experience to her role as Executive Producer for Versatile Media, serving the company's Virtual Production clients and managing the development of television and feature productions and co-productions.

Stephen Wilcox is currently an in camera VFX director based in Tokyo, Japan. He has been working with Unreal Engine now for 4 years with a focus in LED virtual production for the largest Japanese TV and film productions, live events for international DJs and real-time motion capture and character design. Previous to doing virtual events he worked in the music industry creating video and photo content for artists. This year he will be launching a virtual fashion collection and is looking forward to seeing new developments in Unreal Engine 5.

Wolfie is a cinematographer who specializes in Beauty lighting, commercials, features, and Unreal Engine virtual lighting.

Wolfie’s latest projects as cinematographer include:

“Mr Spam gets a new Hat” produced by David Prescott (DNEG), directed by academy award winning William Joyce. All lighting done in Unreal engine. Redbull’s Plane Swap - cinematographer for the LED Volume with host portion- including lighting the virtual sets in Unreal and lighting and shooting the practical sets. Riot Games: “Porter Robinson” - Cinematographer for the lighting of the Unreal Engine sets and lighting and shooting the live action portion, on a LED Volume set. Miley Cyrus Music video- Cinematographer.

Wolfie came up through the lighting department ranks in the 1990’s, lighting features, music videos and commercials with such legendary directors like Spike Jonze, Michel Gaundry, Francis Lawrence, Mc G, and even several rap videos for the infamous Death Row Records. Wolfie has spent time in the lighting department on big budget features such as Shane Black’s Iron Man 3, JJ Abrams Star Trek: Into Darkness, and Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar (Wolfie was brought in to do specialized miniature set lighting).

Veronica Yip is part of the NVIDIA enterprise XR team, focusing specifically on product management for CloudXR, and driving marketing strategy for the XR team.

Dean Zimmerman is the Award-winning editor of over 50 feature films and television episodes.

Currently, Dean is currently editing a Netflix limited mini series “All the light We Can Not See” following the 4th Season of STRANGER THINGS, for which he was nominated for his 3rd Emmy after being nominated for Season 3 and winning the Emmy Award for the pilot episode in 2014, multiple HPA Awards, and for which he has also been nominated for an American Cinema Editors “Eddie” award.

Dean's most recent feature collaborations include the time travel action-drama THE ADAM PROJECT starring Ryan Reynolds, who also starred in Zimmerman’s work on the action comedy FREE GUY for Disney/20th, starring Reynolds, alongside Jodie Comer, Taika Waititi, Joe Keery and Lil Rel Howery.

Zimmerman’s collaboration with Producer/Director Shawn Levy dates back nearly 20 years and a dozen films, films that have cumulatively grossed several Billion dollars at the worldwide box-office. These collaborations include the:

NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM franchise, DATE NIGHT, REAL STEEL, THE INTERNSHIP and THIS IS WHERE I LEAVE YOU. Other Zimmerman credits include RUSH HOUR 3, JUMPER, GULLIVER”S TRAVELS, as well as additional editing on WHY HIM? and the upcoming 2021 Netflix series SHADOW and BONE, based on the bestselling YA fantasy book series.

Dean grew up in the entertainment industry, having apprenticed and worked alongside his father, the legendary editor Don Zimmerman. Dean became a member of the American Cinema Editors, A.C.E, in 2016 and is a member of the Television Academy.