Scott Ross is the Co-Founder of Digital Domain with Hollywood luminaries James Cameron and Stan Winston, one of the largest digital production studios in the motion picture and advertising industries. Under Ross' direction, Digital Domain garnered multiple Academy Award nominations, receiving its first Oscar for the groundbreaking visual effects in Titanic. For well over a decade Ross oversaw the company that created imagery for movies such as Titanic, The Fifth Element, Apollo 13, Fight Club, True Lies, Interview with the Vampire, O Brother Where Art Thou, X-Men, The Lord of the Rings, The Day After Tomorrow, and I, Robot.

Currently the Chief Operating Officer at Blender, General Manager and Producer at Blender Studio. He has a professional background in industrial design and has made important contributions in 3D art and open source film projects.

Francesco Siddi is a key figure in the fields of 3D animation and open source filmmaking, best known for his work in the open source 3D creation software Blender. Over the years, he has participated in numerous Blender projects, contributing both in technical development and creative production. With a background in digital art, design, and computer graphics, Siddi's early exposure to Blender laid the foundation for his career, prompting him to deeply p…

Wayne Kennedy, based in Los Angeles, CA, USA, is currently a Senior Production Director at Blizzard Entertainment. He previously acted as the CEO of Empyreal Entertainment and a director of Digital Domain.

Kennedy's pioneering work in incorporating AI into Hollywood productions places him at the cutting edge of merging creative and technological domains. His experience at Blizzard Entertainment and Digital Domain provides him with unique insights into the future of AI in entertainment.

Léo is a French animator who trained in traditional animation techniques before specialising in 3D at ATI (Art et Technologies de l'Image) at the University of Paris 8. He began his career on the project 'Les Contes de la Nuit', by Michel Ocelot, with whom he later collaborated on all his works.

In parallel, he worked on various animated series, shorts and features, developing his expertise and taking on new responsibilities. It was on the project 'Dilili à Paris' Michel Ocelot that he discovered Blender, a software that would become central to his practice. He then expanded his skills on other productions at Mikros and Autour de Minuit and other studios…

Mārtiņš Upītis is a Co-Founder and creative director of Physical Addons (https://physicaladdons.com) where he and his team design Blender addons. Started to contribute to the Blender community in 2006 and ever since is using Blender as his main tool. He is Academic arts graduate and a Technical Artist in computer game and VR training simulation companies.

Teaching his own course in physical lighting and materials using Blender in art schools and universities in Latvia. Started using Blender Game Engine to make games.

Dad of 2. He has a passion for shading, physical lighting, and space.

Konstantins Visnevskis is a Latvian 3D artist and a lecturer at the Art Academy of Latvia, with over two decades of experience at the intersection of art and technology. His extensive career as a freelance 3D artist has spanned the fast-paced world of television commercials to the immersive realms of virtual reality and computer games.

A testament to his innovative approach is his recent work as a 3D Computer Graphics Artist on the internationally acclaimed animated feature film, "Flow" (2024). The film, created entirely with the open-source software Blender, has been lauded for its technical and artistic achievements, earning numerous accolades, including the Golden Globe for …

Emilio Coppola leads the Godot Foundation as its Executive Director, guiding the growth of the free, open-source Godot game engine. He started out making games and teaching others how to use Godot. With his background in web development and startups, Emilio now oversees the Foundation's work. He manages funding, allocates resources, and helps Godot become a top choice for game creators.

Nosipho Maketo-van den Bragt is the CEO and owner of Chocolate Tribe, a leading African studio in Animation, Visual Effects (VFX), and Content Development. An admitted attorney turned creative entrepreneur and writer, she thrives on synthesising ideas, adaptability, and storytelling, while advocating for creatives across industries.

Under her leadership, Chocolate Tribe has produced award-winning international films, episodics, and commercials, establishing itself as a powerhouse on the African continent. With a focus on building the next generation of talent, Nosipho prioritises mentorship, skills development, and youth empowerment within the animation and VFX sector.

In 2021, she fo…

Pablo is the CEO of Kaleidos, makers of Penpot. He has 20+ years of experience in software development and has been an entrepreneur since 2011. He has led major technological undertakings ranging from AI to Retail. His academic background in Physics and Computer Science is at the core of his multidisciplinary collaboration ethos. He raised $8M for the biggest Series A round for an open source product in Spain to date and helps kindred spirits that aim at positive impact of technology.

He frequently speaks about open source, design and code collaboration and lean and inclusive teams.

On a personal side, he loves archery, role-playing games, gardening and cooking.

Yuichiro Katsumoto is an artist and a professor at Tokyo Denki University. His work focuses on exploring the interplay between letters and images by experimenting with linear objects such as strings, ribbons, and springs.

Artistic expression has long been intertwined with the acts of writing and drawing—processes through which humanity has mastered the compression of the three-dimensional world into two-dimensional lines. Katsumoto seeks to reverse this compression, liberating these lines back into physical space to create kinetic typography and motion graphics.

Katsumoto earned his Ph.D. in 2010 from Keio University, specializing in video production, physical computing, and des…

Mr. Tada started his Art and VFX career at Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE) in Tokyo, working on games. He then moved to Los Angeles, USA to work on VFX shows with Digital Domain as a 3D Generalist/TD. Afterwards, he moved to New Zealand to work with Weta Digital as Lead and Senior Lighting TD for VFX films such as Avatar, The Hobbit, and Planet of the Apes. In 2018, he worked as Senior TD at Industrial Light & Magic in Canada. Mr. Tada currently runs an online art school as a Founder.

Mr. Tada enjoys creating stylized 3D illustrations, animation. He created the Deep Paint tool, a user friendly tool to create 3D stylized illustrations in Blender. Deep Paint extends Blender's Gre…

Closing Ceremony of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics

• Core Member of the Director Group and Creative Design of the Main Production Team

Cultural and Tourism Brand Planning & Operations

• Planned "Home, the Story of Chinese People" for OCT Group, which won China's first world-class award in the cultural tourism sector - the Clio Awards (USA)

• Over 20 years of collaboration with Chimelong Group, covering brand planning, creative theme park content, and direction/production of visual promotional films

Film Industry

• Art Director and Visual Effects Supervisor for the film "The Only Green"

• Visual Director and A…

MAJA is the Manager of Beijing Xiangxin Culture and Art Co., Ltd., the Art Director of The North ART/VFX, and a CG consultant at Dot Dot News AIGC Lab.

Since 2008, he has been engaged in film art and visual effects concept design, accumulating over ten years of professional experience in visual CG for film, television, and games. His main responsibilities include visual effects and concept design, storyboarding, on-set visual design planning, as well as roles such as visual effects supervisor and CG director.

In 2014, he served as a senior lecturer for the Film Concept major at Mars Era Education. In 2015, he became the art director at Digital Ocean. From 2020 to 2023, he worked as th…

Bilibili UP | I am a Chinese Blender video creator with 394,000 followers. Since 2018, I have been updating over 400 episodes of open-source Blender teaching videos in the "Black Iron Knight" series on Bilibili.

Add-ons | I have led the ACGGit team in designing and developing 34 Blender add-ons. Examples include Simple Deform Helper, Place Helper, Light Helper, Lattice Helper, Colorista, POPOTI Align Helper, Gesture Helper, and more.

AI & ComfyUI | I have designed and developed an add-on called Blender ComfyUI Node Editor, which was used for demonstration at Nvidia CES 2025.

Interests | I am extremely fond of Blender, animation, and the mobile game League of Legends: …

A graduate of the School of Animation at the Beijing Film Academy, Director Jiang Qinghua currently works at Nice Boat Animation. He directs the science fiction animated series "Deep Dive - Forced Rewind," a co-production by Tencent Video and Nice Boat Animation. Spanning from 1972 to 2080, the series tells the story of humanity unlocking the gates of consciousness through technology against the backdrop of a civilization reboot. The plot revolves around the shifting definition of civilization as the boundary between conscious entities and humans blurs, exploring the new era and potential crises that the future may hold.

Robert Chao, founder of Polaris Studio, former Industrial Design Lead at Shenzhen KUPA (under the Dawn Venture Capital umbrella).

Polaris Studio is a technology team specializing in the 3D digital domain and one of China's most influential Blender technical teams today. Adhering to an open-source 3D and AI technology approach, the team has successfully developed China's first "Blender + AI Full Pipeline" training system and cultivated a benchmark KOL in the Blender field - "HulkFatZerg". Focused on "character creation and Blender 3D software tutorials," this IP has surpassed 10 million views across platforms, with over 200,000 dedicated followers, an…

Wang Long, "HulkFatZerg", Co-founder of Polaris Studio, renowned Bilibili content creator, seasoned 3D designer, former guest lecturer at Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts, and ex-Art Director at Fenteng Interactive.

Polaris Studio is a technology team specializing in the 3D digital domain and one of China's most influential Blender technical teams today. Adhering to an open-source 3D and AI technology approach, the team has successfully developed China's first "Blender + AI Full Pipeline" training system and cultivated a benchmark KOL in the Blender field—"HulkFatZerg." Focused on "character creation and Blender 3D software tutorials," …

Founder of DillonGoo Studios and the DillonGoo brand on YT and Bilibili, creating online animated content for the past 12 years.

Focus on developing custom technology and pipelines for stylized 3D anime in Blender while telling engaging stories for people around the world.

Personal:

• 8-year program in clinical medicine; transferred from medicine to visual art
• Co-founder of Immed.co
• Founder of OmooLab
• Practitioner in life science visualization

Studio: A digital creative team specializing in life sciences, providing high-quality digital media content for the field. The studio has collaborated with multinational pharmaceutical corporations, top-tier domestic academic institutions, and renowned healthcare technology brands.

Xiang Ao's research focuses on Computer Graphics and 3D Computer Vision.

ZRO2: A group of CG creators' anti-industrial utopian experiment — Lightweight Miracle Creation

Heixuan is the person in-charge and director of UoU Studio.

UoU Studio is an animation advertising studio that explores diverse and engaging forms of animated expression. Through experimentation, the team continuously refines ideas and brings creative concepts to life.

Jiang Xinzheng (Mark) - Founder and Visual Effects Director of MindX.

Established in 2021, MindX is a dynamic digital studio with over 20 team members, integrating creative content and visual production. The studio specializes in commercial projects including TV commercials and immersive exhibitions, having collaborated with brands such as Tencent, Bilibili Games, miHoYo, and TCL across industries like gaming, 3C electronics, and cosmetics. Currently, the team is developing its first original full-length CG series and transitioning into a digital film production studio focused on creating and globally promoting content rooted in Chinese culture.

Head of VAST Ecosystem, Head of Tripo Gamehub, and an independent game developer, Mogu focuses on reconstructing 3D content production pipelines with artificial intelligence. He is dedicated to leveraging AI technology to enable the real-time generation of 3D models and animations from creative ideas, empowering innovation and an efficiency revolution in industries such as gaming, film, and digital twins.

With over 15 years of deep experience in the CG industry, he has participated in providing rendering support for numerous acclaimed projects. These include the films The Wandering Earth and The Wandering Earth 2, Deep Sea, The Battle at Lake Changjin and The Battle at Lake Changjin II, I Am What I Am, Ne Zha, the Boonie Bears series, and L.O.R.D. 1 & 2, as well as the TV series 3 Body Problem.

Kaicho founded Late Studio in his sophomore year of college (2019). Starting as a solo freelancer, he has grown the studio into a small team of eight. With Blender as its core 3D production tool, Late Studio has had the privilege of participating in several exciting projects, such as remaking the opening sequence for Broadway Circuit cinemas and creating special effects for the music video "Game of Life" by Anson Kong, a member of the Hong Kong idol group Mirror.

In addition to production work, Kaicho has been a guest lecturer at The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts for three consecutive years, teaching Blender. He also shares his Blender learning experiences through his p…

Generalist 3D artists located in Switzerland and working for Dreamscape Immersive. He has worked and has given presentations in the following countries: Switzerland, China, Netherland, Venezuela, Brazil, Russia.
He gives presentations and workshops in both English and French and has pipeline design and TD experience.

Hi It's Yiming here. I kinda dabble at everything I like, coding, drawing, hardware, writing, making curious stuff like that.

I also made the Line Art module for Blender.

With over 20 years in high-impact visual storytelling, Dom Fred is a force in martial arts choreography, digital filmmaking, and real-time production.

As the founder of DOM ANIMATION STUDIO and creator of the Space Agents Extended Universe, he’s now producing Africa’s first Unreal Engine-powered feature film – a real-time, sci-fi action epic built entirely in Unreal Engine, CC4, iCLONE 8 and BLENDER.

Producing the First Unreal Engine Feature Film with Iclone 8 and CC4. I will also be presenting the tools of Character Creator 5 (CC5) and their effective integration into productions using Maya or Blender.

Heir to the West Indies storytellers, Alick share his passion through surprising, breathtaking and modern stories. However, readers discretion is advised. Writer registered to the SACD, he wrote many short movies, five books, collaborate on several movies and has a cop show for French television in development, inspired by his decade in law enforcement. He is also the co-creator of the Space Agents Extended Universe and the screenwriter of the saga's first movie Space Agents: The Mysterious Ax.

Ilena Yeru Pegan is the Project Manager within the Godot Foundation, overseeing the team and ensuring the development of an open-source game engine accessible to everyone. Ilena is a game developer, previously managing interactive projects and indie teams. Their background is in grant writing and program management within non-profit and tribal government, where they grew passionate for the development of free, community-driven resources. Now, Ilena works with the Godot team to enhance development workflows, coordinate contractors, and ensure milestone alignment.

Marcelo Conto is a systems engineer and digital business strategist from Ecuador with over 20 years of experience in tech entrepreneurship and public innovation. He holds a Master's in Digital Business and is currently completing a Master's in Artificial Intelligence and Data Science. Marcelo has led innovation projects for the National Assembly of Ecuador, mentored over 100 entreprenur through programs Google for Startups and IMPAQTO, and is the founder of Puntocom and Traby.app, a platform that connects verified professionals using Tech. Recognized among Ecuador's Top 50 Innovators by InnovUp Israel, he is passionate about democratizing AI and empowering entrepreneurs in the G…

Velco Dar is an author, strategic futurist, and keynote speaker exploring the intersection of neurotechnology, AI and human communication. For his upcoming book, Neuraleap: How Brain-Computer Interfaces Will Redefine Communication, Business, and Governance, he has interviewed leading founders, researchers, ethicists and artists shaping the future of BCI. 

With over two decades advising FMCG and luxury brands on neuromarketing, consumer behavior and experiential strategy, Velco now helps global leaders navigate how advancements in BCI and AI will transform commerce, society and governance. 

Velco shares regular insights on X and YouTube while traveling more than 200 days each…

Mr. Cao is a partner resident at the firm's Beijing office. Mr. Cao's practice focuses on entertainment and media industry matters. He is extensively involved in transactions including development of film and television projects, Sino-foreign co-productions, production financing (including debt financing and slate financing matters), establishment of production and financing vehicles, large theme park projects, music industry contracts, personal management, as well as advertising and new media. Mr. Cao is also richly experienced in general corporate and finance transactions, such as IPO and M&A matters, which helps him structure complicated transactions in the entertainment and …

Kam-fai Wong is the Associate Dean (External Affairs) of the Faculty of Engineering, Professor in the Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, Director of Centre for Innovation and Technology, and Associate Director of Centre for Entrepreneurship, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Prof. Wong’s research interest focuses on Chinese computing, database and information retrieval. He’s an ACL Fellow and is very active in professional activities and social services. He serves as Member of the 13th & 14th National Committee of the CPPCC, Member of the 7th Legislative Council of HKSAR, Vice Chairman & Secretary General of Hong Kong Alliance of Technolo…

Dr Ray Li is an Adjunct Professor at the Institute for China Business of the University of Hong Kong (HKU), leveraging three decades of global corporate finance and strategy advisory expertise. He has held numerous board director positions at public and start-up companies, contributing to governance and innovation in financial, technology, and health sectors.

Dr Li’s distinguished career includes serving as Group Finance Director and Executive Committee Member at PingAn Group, where he oversaw finance strategies for the conglomerate’s insurance, banking, asset management, and technology divisions. He was the Board Director at PingAn Securities, PingAn Trust, PingAn Financial …

Dr. Neoh’s diverse roles, including his leadership at Global Digital Creation, showcase his significant influence in China’s creative industry. His insights into the legal, business, and academic aspects of creativity and animation make him a critical voice at the conference. 

Raymond Dennis Neoh is widely recognized as the "Father of the Chinese CG Industry." He has been instrumental in pioneering the computer graphics sector in China. Neoh founded the Institute of Digital Media Technology (IDMT), Global Digital Creation (GDC), and GDC Technology, which significantly contributed to the development of digital cinema in China. He also established the Institute of Digital Game Technology (IDGT) for game development and training in Singapore, and CG Global Entertainment (CGGE) for the International AI and Creativity Conference. Additionally, he founded the Krystal Institute and Krystal Technology, focusing on bridging the global digital divide and advancin…

With 23 years of experience in the digital animation and visual field, I have participated in over 50 domestic and international animated films, artistic short films, and interactive entertainment film projects. I was responsible for process management in China's first full 3D digital animated film Gordian, and served as the producer of the ocean-themed animated film Happy Little Submarine, which won the "Outstanding Animated Film" award at the China Film Huabiao Awards. The military-themed animated film Soldier Shunliu received the Guangdong Provincial "Five-One Project" Award and the Ministry of Culture's "Chinese Culture and Art Government Award for Best …

Catina Yiu works as a Curriculum Designer in Hong Kong, combining her background in product design with a passion for education.

She specializes in creating innovative teaching materials, managing educational projects, and enhancing student learning experiences. Catina is known for her creative approach and event planning skills, which bring a creative flair to teaching primary and secondary students.