This Year’s Panelists and Speakers
Among the distinguished animation and VFX professionals appearing on the panels this year are:
Kim Adams, Co-founder, Adventure Lab Chris Applehans, Director, Wish Dragon
Liz Bartels, Manager Global Content Planning, LEGO Group
Kristine Belson, President, Sony Pictures Animation
Anna Berthold, Agent, UTA
Kelli Bixler, Owner, Bix Pix Elaine Bogan, Director, Spirit Untamed Špela Čadež, Director, Steakhouse
Eric Calderon, Exec VP, Falcon’s Beyond Global
Beth Cannon, VP TV, DreamWorks Animation Enrico Casarosa, Director, Luca
Marc Ceccarelli, Co-Exec Producer, The Patrick Star
Show
Dan Clark, Writer/Producer/Director, Dan Clark Company
Melissa Cobb, VP of Kids and Family, Netflix
Margie Cohn, President, DreamWorks Animation Aphton Corbin, Director, Twenty Something Kirk DeMicco, Director, Vivo
John Derevlany, Writer/Producer, Squish, The Muscleteers
Megan Nicole Dong, Creator & Exec Producer, Centaurworld
Camille Eden, VP, Animation Recruitment, Nickelodeon
Michael Favelle, CEO/Founder, Odin’s Eye Entertainment
Kelley Gardner, VP of Current Series Animation, Nickelodeon Louis Gonzales, Director, Nona Jinko Gotoh, Producer, Klaus, Escape from Hat Jorge R. Gutierrez, Director/Creator, Maya and the Three Jonathan Hagard, VR Director, Replacements
Chris Hamilton, President/Creative Director, Oddbot Studio
Emily Hart, Senior VP of Development, Disney TV Animation
John Harvatine IV, Co-Owner, Stoopid Buddy Stoodios
Chris Henderson, Founder, AstroNomical
Jasmine Johnson, Head of Studio, Stoopid Buddy Stoodios
Ben Kalina, COO, Titmouse
Shyam Kannapurakkaran, VR Production Tech Artist, Stargate Studios
Christopher Keenan, Senior VP, Mattel Inc.
Brooke Keesling, Head of Animation Talent Development, Bento Box
Heather Kenyon, Head of Production & Development - Citizen Kids, Citizen Skull
Kari Kim, VP of Animation Development, Nickelodeon Cort Lane, Exec Producer, My Little Pony: A New Generation
Jennifer Lee, CCO, Walt Disney Animation Studios
Hillary Levi, Literary Manager, The Gotham Group
Gregory Little, Senior VP, Content, Mainframe Studio Steve Loter, Exec Producer, The Ghost and Molly McGee Joe Mateo, Director, Blush
Tom McGrath, Director, The Boss Baby: Family Business
Paul Mezier, Exec Producer, Novelab
David Michel, Founder/President, Cottonwood Media
Connor Murphy, Virtual Production Manager, The Third Floor
Ramsey Naito, President, Nickelodeon/Paramount
Animation
Vladimir Nikolaev, Co-Founder, Wizart
Motoki Nishii, Environmental Art Director, The Third Floor
Erick Oh, Director, Namoo
Dan Ojari, Director, Robin Robin
Silvia Olivas, Writer/Exec Producer, Maya and the Three
Brooke Patterson, Senior VP - Brand Experiences, Great Wolf Resorts
Mikey Please, Director, Robin Robin
Bill Plympton, Director, Demi’s Panic
Jonas Poher Rasmussen, Director, Flee
Mike Rianda, Writer/Director, The Mitchells vs. the Machines
Teddy Riley, Exec Producer/Co-Creator, Fairfax Octavio Rodriguez, Co-Director, Ron’s Gone Wrong
Khoby Rowe, Exec Director Animation, Fox Entertainment
Sander Schwartz, Exec Producer, Skylander Academy,
Alien Xmas
Dane Smith, VP, The Third Floor
Clark Spencer, President, Walt Disney Animation Studios
Aliki Theofilopoulos, Exec Producer, Doug Unplugs
Troy Underwood, Content Exec and Producer
Kevin Walker, Exec Creative Director, BUCK
Vincent Waller, Co-Exec Producer, The Patrick Star Show
Josh Wassung, Founder, The Third Floor
Michelle Wong, Producer, Vivo
Mark Zavadskiy, CEO, Riki Group
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