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* '''Peter Ramsey''' most recently directed with Bob Persichetti and Rodney Rothman Sony Pictures Animation's latest feature film, the Academy Award® winner “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.” For his work on the film, he has received an Annie Award from ASIFA-Hollywood for Outstanding Achievement for Directing in an Animated Feature Production.
* '''Dean DeBlois''' Golden Globe® winner and two-time Academy Award® nominee Dean DeBlois is best known for writing, directing, and executive producing 2010’s ''How To Train Your Dragon'' and its 2014 sequel. He currently served in those same roles on ''How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World'' (2019), the final installment of the trilogy and culmination of one of the most popular animated franchises in film history. Prior to collaborating on the original ''How to Train Your Dragon'' with Chris Sanders, the pair wrote and directed Walt Disney Animation Studios’ beloved ''Lilo & Stitch'' (2002), after first serving as co-heads of story on ''Mulan'' (1998).
* '''Jill Cultun''' is the Writer and Director of Dreamworks' latest feature film "Abominable". She is best known for directing Sony's first animated film "Open Season", the first female director of a big budget, computer-animated feature film.  She studied at CalArts in the Character Animation program, were she later returned to teach animation at the school. As a storyboard artist and animator at Pixar, she worked on "Toy Story", "Toy Story 2", and "A Bug's Life", in addition to co-writing the original treatment for "Monsters, Inc.". She went on to become the Head of Development for that film.   At Turner Features, she was the Directing Animator for the film "Cats Don't Dance". At ILM she co-developed "Curious George". She joined Sony Pictures Animation in 2003, a year after it opened its doors to begin producing animated features. During her years at Sony, Culton directied "Open Season," executive produced "Open Season 2," and developed "Hotel Transylvania".
* '''Brendan Greene''' is a BAFTA nominated Irish video game designer, and is credited as the father of the Battle Royale genre. Spending most his life as a graphic designer, photographer and DJ, he fell into video game design by way of modding in 2012. His mods for the ARMA series of games are widely seen as the beginnings of the Battle Royale game-mode. In 2014, Greene collaborated with SOE (Sony Online Entertainment) to bring his game-mode to their upcoming zombie survival title, H1Z1. They saw great success with the battle royale game-mode, and it eventually spun off as its own title “H1Z1: King of the Kill”. Then, in 2015, Greene was approached by Chang-hanKim from Korean studio Bluehole Inc. Kim had wanted to make a Battle Royale title for many years and saw what Greene had done, and asked him to come to Korea, form a team and create his vision for a battle royale game. Greene accepted, moved to Seoul, and a little over 9 months later PLAYERUNKNOWN’S BATTLEGROUNDS was released onto Steam Early Access. Since then the title has sold over 50 million copies across PC & Console, and the mobile version has been downloaded over 400 million times. Greene is now based in Amsterdam, leading a new team at PUBG Special Projects.
* '''CH Kim''' è l'amministratore delegato di PUBG Corporation, nonché sviluppatore ed editore di PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS (PUBG), videogame online che ha contribuito a trasformare il genere Battle Royale in un fenomeno mondiale. L'avventura di CH nel settore games è iniziato nel luglio 2000. Dopo 8 anni di esperienza come guida tecnica e creativa presso aziende locali tra cui Imazic e Nextplay, CH si è trasferito a Ginno Games, in seguito diventata Bluehole Ginno Games, assumendo il ruolo di Chief Technology Officer(CTO) e produttore. All'inizio del 2016, CH ha raccolto la sfida di inventare un nuovo gameplay, avviando il progetto "PUBG" insieme a una piccola squadra di 30 elementi, che ora è diventato un classico del genere Battle Royale vendendo milioni di copie in tutto il mondo. CH si è laureato presso il Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) conseguendo dottorato, master e specializzazione in Scienze Digitali.
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* '''Daniel Zajfman''' is the president of the Weizmann Institute of Science. Born in Belgium in 1959, he moved to Israel in 1979. He received a Ph.D. in 1989 from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in atomic physics. After completing postdoctoral research at the Argonne National Laboratory, he returned to Israel, joining the Weizmann Institute's Particle Physics Department. He was appointed full professor in 2003 and has been an external member of the Max Planck Institute of Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg, Germany since 2001. In 2005, he was appointed Director in that institute.
* '''Ralph Eggleston''' Academy Award®-winning film maker Ralph Eggleston was asked to join Pixar Animation Studios in 1992 as the art director of “Toy Story,” which earned him the International Animated Film Society’s Annie Award for Best Art Direction. Following “Toy Story,” he helped develop “Monsters, Inc.” for production. Eggleston also wrote, designed and directed the Oscar®- and Annie-Award winning short film “For the Birds,” which was his directorial debut.
* '''Rob Bredow''' Prima di passare al timone della compagnia, Bredow ha ricoperto il ruolo di Supervisore agli Effetti Visivi e co-produttore in "Solo: A Star Wars Story", lavorando a stretto contatto con i realizzatori del film  nel corso della produzione. Rob è entrato in Lucasfilm a partire dal 2014 ricoprendo ruoli direttivi nel Dipartimento di Sviluppo Avanzato, contribuendo alla formazione di ILMxLAB e svolgendo la mansione di Direttore Tecnico. In precedenza, col medesimo ruolo e come Supervisore agli Effetti Visivi aveva prestato servizio a Sony Pictures Imageworks, collaborando a blockbuster quali Indipendence Day, Godzilla, Stuart Little, Cast away, Surf's Up, Piovono polpette, e molti altri.
* '''Rob Legato''' Dopo una carriera televisiva in Paramount Pictures, Rob Legato si unisce al neonato studio Digital Domain, compagnia specializzata in effetti visivi fondata da James Cameron, Stan Winston e Scott Ross. Il suo primo incarico comprende le funzioni di Supervisore agli Effetti Visivi (VFX), Regista della Seconda Unità e Direttore della Fotografia VFX nel lungometraggio diretto da Neil Jordan “Intervista col Vampiro”. L'esperienza lo conduce poi a collaborare con Ron Howard ad “Apollo 13” nel ruolo di Supervisore agli Effetti Visivi e Direttore della Fotografia per l'Unità VFX. Grazie a questo lavoro ottiene la sua prima candidatura agli Oscar e vince il BAFTA Academy Award per i migliori effetti visivi.
* '''Maureen Fan''' è CEO e co-fondatrice di Baobab Studios, realtà specializzata in animazione interattiva e la cui missione è di ispirarvi a sognare facendo emergere il vostro senso di meraviglia. Sei tu a contare. Baobab è stato nominato Most Innovative Company per il 2018 da Fast Company e vede alla guida creativa Eric Darnell, co-autore e co-regista di "Z la formica" e di tutti i 4 capitoli di "Madagascar". Tutti i loro avveniristici progetti, tra cui "Invasion!", "Asteroids!" e "Crow: The Legend" hanno vinto un Emmy come miglior prodotto interattivo. Hanno attirato e coinvolto talenti come Oprah, John Legend, Constance Wu, Ali Wong, Diego Luna, Lupita Nyong'o ed Ethan Hawke.
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* '''Jack M. Gilson''' is Studio Art Director at Rovio.
* '''Daniele Bigi''' joined Industrial Light & Magic in January 2015 as the Computer Graphics Supervisor on Marvel’s Ant-Man. His previous films as a CG Supervisor include Guardians of the Galaxy and Red 2 amongst others, as well as Doctor Strange at ILM.
* '''Juri Stanossek''' began his career in 1994 and now looks back on more than 20 years of experience in the visual effects industry. He served as a VFX supervisor for the first time in 1998. Since 2013, he has worked as a VFX supervisor at Mackevision and, with his outstanding expertise, he is responsible for the visual effects in productions such as “Schellen Ursli” (2015), “Independence Day” (2016),  “Jim Button” (2018) and “Lost in Space” (2018). He has also created award-winning advertising spots for the industry. These include the Porsche Mission E concept study in 2017 that was recognized with the Golden Dolphin in Cannes.
* '''Heiko Burkardsmaier''' has long-standing expertise with visual effects and legal affairs. After finishing his law degree, he joined EM.TV in Munich as legal counsel where he was responsible for Merchandising contracts and International Co-Productions. He subsequently worked as General Counsel of the EuroArts-/Medici Group and came to Pixomondo in 2008 where he managed the Stuttgart branch and was responsible for legal affairs worldwide. In April 2013 he joined Mackevision as VFX Executive Producer and Head of Business & Legal Affairs where he is responsible for running the VFX Department of Mackevision. Heiko contributed to various award winning Feature and TV-projects such as Academy Award winning “Hugo” and Emmy Award winning HBO Series “Game of Thrones”. He’s an and expert in VFX contracts, international tax credits and subsidy schemes and a regular lecturer at Filmakademie Baden Württemberg    and an adviser on the audio-visual media course at the Media University in Stuttgart (HDM). Heiko is member of the board of the “section animation” of the German Producers Alliance (ProduzentenaIlianz Deutschland) and a member of the Deutsche Filmakademie. In 2014 Heiko’s team at Mackevision won an Emmy for Outstanding Special Visual Effects for Season 4 of HBO’s Game of Thrones. In 2018 his team was nominated for an Emmy for their work on “Lost in Space”.
* '''Simone Giampaolo''' is a London-based award-winning director and animator with an insatiable appetite for storytelling.  Throughout his career he's directed and animated on over ten animated short films, which have been screened at many international film festivals gaining recognition and also winning several awards.
* '''Dadi Einarsson'''’s career began in 1992 with Icelandic visual effects and animation house OZ as part of a small team pioneering the Icelandic computer graphics and visual effects industry. Five years later he moved to London where he worked at The Mill and subsequently Framestore, winning an Emmy and a VES Award along the way.
* '''Ian Palmer''' is the Director of Escape Studios. His main interests involve 3D content, including animation, computer games and intelligent VR.
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* '''Eloi Champagne''' is the Technical Director at the NFB Animation Studio in Montreal. He specializes in VR/AR, Animation, Interactivity, Filmmaking, VFX, S3D… A jack of all trades of storytelling innovation, his work is situated at the crossroad of art and technology.
* '''Hal Hickel''' joined Industrial Light & Magic in 1996 as an animator for The Lost World: Jurassic Park. His special interest in animation lies in the challenge of integrating fantastic characters and creatures into live-action films. He was promoted to Lead Animator on his second film and was responsible for animating several characters in Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace.
* '''Dylan Sisson''' is a technical artist with over 20 years of experience in animation and VFX. Dylan joined the RenderMan Products Group at Pixar Animation Studios in 1999, where he has been engaged in the development and evangelization of Pixar's RenderMan. Prior to Pixar, Dylan started his career creating animation and VFX for games and commercials. Today he is an active artist and designer. Dylan is also the creator of Pixar's RenderMan Walking Teapot.  
* '''Helge Maus''' owner of pixeltrain | 3d | vfx | animation, delivers in-house training, workshops and online training for the 3D & VFX industry. He is a MAXON Certified Lead Instructor and has been working as an industry-recognized 3D & VFX expert since 2000. Helge has worked as a trainer and consultant with a wide range of broadcast companies, advertising agencies and industry clients in Europe and abroad. He has worked with clients such as Jura, Vitra, Swarovski, Mackevision, Jung-von-Matt, Pirates ´n Paradise, redseven Entertainment, ProSiebenSat.1, SKY Deutschland, ARD, NDR, rbb, Sony DADC, Intel and many more international companies.
* '''Alex Williams''' is head of animation at Escape Studios. He has more than 30 years experience in the animation industry and has film credits on The Lion King, Robots, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Iron Giant, and the last three Harry Potter films. He has worked and taught in higher education for 25 years.
* '''Theodore Ty''' has over 27 years of experience at the feature animation level. He has animated on 20 feature films, and is presently Head of Character Animation at L' Atelier Animation in Montreal. They created their first feature length film "Ballerina"in 2015 and are currently entering production of their next feature, "Fireheart". His CG credits include "How to Train your Dragon 2 ", "Rise of the Guardians", "Kung Fu Panda" and "Puss n Boots" among others. Before arriving at DreamWorks, he spent over 10 years at Walt Disney Feature Animation Florida crafting traditional animation and worked on films such as "Mulan", "The Lion King", "John Henry" and "Lilo and Stitch" where he served as a Lead Animator.   He is a graduate of the CalArts Character Animation program where he was also the senior animation instructor for 5 consecutive years. He has taught masterclasses at places such as CalArts, CTNX Expo, DreamWorks Animation, SCAD, Pixel Quebec, NAD Center, University of Granada, RIOT Games, Effects Mtl, iAnimate.net, and is also a Master Teacher and National Panelist at YoungArts Foundation.
* '''Sébastien Hue''' is a french freelance concept artist and illustrator. He has been professional for more than 5 years, working worldwide for various companies from publishing, to video games, animation and feature films. Mostly specialized in environment design and science-fiction, he started 10 years ago when inspired by the likes of Dylan Cole and Dusso.
* '''David Misch''' is an author (“Funny: The Book,” “A Beginner’s Guide To Corruption”), screenwriter (“Mork & Mindy,” “Saturday Night Live,” “The Muppets Take Manhattan”), teacher (his own courses on comedy at the University of Southern California and the University of California Los Angeles) and lecturer (Yale, the Smithsonian, Oxford University, University of Sydney, Raindance Film Festival London, American Film Institute, Austin Film Festival, Second City, Actors Studio). His play “Occupied” is in development at the Skylight Theatre in Los Angeles. More at davidmisch.com.
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* '''Stefano Faraoni''' is a lawyer, contract professor at the University of Turin and trainer. He attended the Faculty of Law at the University of Turin, where he graduated with honors. He trained in important Turin law Firms in civil and criminal matters. He then dedicated himself to international contracts and business advocacy. He is a founding member of Athena S.r.l. S.t.a., a legal, commercial and tax consultancy company. He spent his life between law, theater and singing. In 1997 he enrolled in the first acting course. Since 1999 he has taught acting andphonetics. In parallel, he has been studying singing. In this way, he has expanded his knowledge on the use of sounds and sound boxes. He currently sings as a tenor in a gospel choir. He teaches Italian and English law, legal English at the University of Turin, public speaking, communication, phonetics and use of the voice. He collaborates with the University of Turin and the University of Eastern Piedmont in the Moot Courts project. He deals with learning and speed reading techniques applied to professional and corporate organization. He is the author of the book "Public Speaking. The art of attracting attention", published by Hoepli, 2019.
* '''Wieke Schrakamp''' is Communication manager at IJsfontein, a studio based in Amsterdam that specializes in Playful Learning. After earning a bachelor’s degree in General Health Sciences and a Master Degree in Communication, she saw the potential in using play for educational and behavior design purposes and started working at IJsfontein. She produced and marketed different projects in Healthcare, children’s education and corporate training.
* '''Gianni Cuozzo''' was born in Germany in 1990 into an Italian family originating from Valva (SA) in southern Italy. He specialized early on in the issues concerning the development of advanced technologies and Forecasting models for geopolitical events, coordinating the development of different plug-in for the "R" language. In 2012 he founded Macro Aerospace, in 2013 a company engaged in the development of a CubeSat satellite constellation for the satellite security storage, in 2013 MacroAerospace raised 4.5 Mln Euros and was sold in 2015. In 2014 he founded in Malmö Prism Warfare, a company working in the development of cyber weapons and intelligence training. In that period Cuozzo was active in major contemporary symmetrical conflict areas (Afghanistan,Sirya,Iraq,Libya and many more). In May 2016 he founded in Italy Aspisec, a specialized company in the field of cyber security consulting with a strong specialization in the firmware security. Cuozzo has collaborated with several NATO countries in the writing of military doctrines about the use of cyber weapons and for the use of new doctrines of military intelligence.He  He was a speaker at the United Nations in Geneva on some issues relating to firmware security and he is the author of scientific papers published by NATO & IEEE. In 2018 he founded Exein S.p.A, a cybersecurity start-up focused on the development of a firmware security solution that aimed to the embedded world and for the IoT , Exein raised a 2 Milion Euros series A, making Italy Largest investment in a cybersecurity start-up ever.
* '''Angie Wojak i'''s the Director of Career Development at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. She specializes in creating collaborations and cultivating relationships with industry creatives, talent recruiters, and inspiring cultural figures in animation, art, design, and film. She has over 20 years of experience in higher education where she has directed career services for colleges including Columbia University and Parsons School of Design. She is also the author of two books on art and design careers and has lectured at universities and conferences including the Annecy International Animated Film Festival, Cannes Lions, Comic-con International, Harvard University, and Kyoto University of Art and Design. Her most recent presentations included moderating a conversation between Gloria Steinem and artist Barbara Nessim at the SVA Theatre and hosting a panel on costume design at the New York Film Festival.
* '''Terrence Masson''' Currently Chair of the MFA Computer Arts department at the School of Visual Arts in NYC, Terrence is an animation and visual effects artist and producer with 30 years of production and education leadership experience. He came up through the ranks on more than 20 feature films including Hook, True Lies, Interview with the Vampire and three Star Wars movies; his work also includes short animated film, broadcast, video games and interactive media. He developed the original CG animation method for SouthPark in 1996 and his short film Bunkie & Booboo won first place in the World Animation Celebration.A past ACM Distinguished Lecturer, Terrence has delivered over 100 presentations, panels and keynotes world-wide including for the Boston Museum of Science, Lawrence Livermore National Labs, Annecy, Microsoft New England Research & Development Center, VIEW Conference, FMX, MIT Lincoln Labs, University of California Berkeley, The Director Guild of America, Purdue University and ISEA, just to name a few.An active volunteer with SIGGRAPH since 1988, Terrence served as 2006 Computer Animation Festival Chair, SIGGRAPH 2010 Conference Chair and is currently the ACM SIGGRAPH Outstanding Service Awards Chair. He is a member of the Producers Guild of America and the Visual Effects Society.His book CG101: A Computer Graphics Industry Reference is a standard text worldwide for both studio execs and students.
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* '''Amedeo Berretta''' is currently teaching animation at Pearson College's Escape Studios. Amedeo started off his career as a 2D/ 3D Generalist, developing skills in 3D character animation, modeling, texturing, shading and rendering, as well as compositing, and has over 14 years CG experience on full CG features, VFX feature films, TV series, TV ADs, and Video games. His film credits include Paul, John Carter, and Planet 51. He has worked with award-winning companies companies including Double Negative Visual Effects, Scanline VFX, and Ilion Animation Studios.
* '''David de Rooij''' David de Rooij is a storyboard artist, director, animation filmmaker and animator from the Netherlands. His storyboarding credits include TV-shows like Disney Jr’s “Vampirina”, Cartoon Network’s “Elliot from Earth” and “Tig ‘n Seek”, Nickelodeon’s “LEGO City Adventures” and BBC’s “Dennis & Gnasher Unleashed”. For the Dutch animated feature film “Trippel Trappel” he was part of the storyboard team, as well as the layout and animation team. In 2014 he created the animated webseries “Tales of Stuff”, which he wrote, directed and animated himself. This led him to make several animated segments on Comedy Central’s “TripTank”. He was co-director, storyboard artist and animator on his first independent short film “Bird of Prey” (2015). He is currently working as a storyboard artist on Cartoon Network’s “Tig ‘n Seek”, as well as writer/director of a new independent animated short film.
* '''Michael Ralla''' is a VFX Supervisor for Framestore in Los Angeles.  Over the span of his 15-year career, he has worked on more than 50 feature films, including some of the most successful and Oscar-winning blockbusters of all times.  An engineering graduate of the renowned Audiovisual Media Program in Stuttgart/Germany, his career has seen him traverse the globe, gaining invaluable experience from studios including Animal Logic in Sydney, MPC in Vancouver, Digital Domain in Los Angeles and Industrial Light & Magic in San Francisco - learning from the best in the industry.
* '''Deborah Nadoolman Landis''' costume designer and historian, received an MFA in Costume Design from UCLA and a PhD in the History of Design from the Royal College of Art, London. Her distinguished career includes the classic ''Animal House'' (1978), ''The Blues Brothers'' (1980), ''An American Werewolf in London'' (1981), ''Raiders of the Lost Ark'' (1981), ''Trading Places'' (1983), ''The Three Amigos'' (1987) ''Coming to America'' (1988), for which she was nominated for an Academy Award, and the groundbreaking music video ''Michael Jackson’s Thriller'' (1983). A two-term past president of the Costume Designers Guild, and past Governor of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, Professor Landis is the author of six books including ''Dressed: A Century of Hollywood Costume Design'' (2007), ''FilmCraft: Costume Design'' (2012), ''Hollywood Sketchbook: A Century of Costume Illustration'' (2012) and the catalogue for her landmark exhibition, ''Hollywood Costume'', which she curated at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. She is the editor-in-chief of the upcoming three-volume ''Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Film and Television Costume Design'' (2020) and is currently curating an exhibition on science and science fiction opening in 2020 at the Science Museum, London. Landis is a Distinguished Professor, Chair and Founding Director of the David C. Copley Center for Costume Design at UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television.
* '''Moritz Schwind''' Be it pixels, hardware, code or cameras – if it’s interesting, Moritz is gonna take it apart. And sometimes even reassemble it. In his spare time he likes to dabble with code and create generative artwork. He claims his early exposure to QBasic is no help at all when working in Houdini, Cinema 4D, Processing or Arduino. But it might have been what started his fascination for the boundaries of code and art. When not wreaking havoc to any intriguing devices around him, he works as an Art Director at Entagma, where he is a co-founder.