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Global AVGC Summit: Innovation | Accelerate | Transform
1 – 4 September 2020
Programme :-
Director General
Confederation of Indian Industry
Secretary, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting and Department of Higher Education
Ministry of Education
Government of India
Chairman, CII National Committee on Media & Entertainment and Managing Director
Star India Pvt Limited & Disney India
Co-Chairman CII National Committee on Media & Entertainment and Managing Director
Roy Kapur Films
Vice Chair, CII National Committee on Media & Entertainment and Country Head
Technicolor India
As the new technology drives artistry to unprecedented levels that go beyond the camera, we see storytelling making the abstract real – The speaker will tell us what the future holds for “films of the future”
GM – India and SEA Epic Games, Singapore
Epic Games London Innovation Lab, UK
With growing appetite for VFX among audiences, the panel will look at addressing various myths around mounting VFX Blockbusters from script to screen. What should be the do’s and don’ts that a Writer / Screenplay Writer / Director and Producer keep in mind while envisioning a VFX extravaganza on the Screens of Ttday and tomorrow?
Founder – The Story Ink (TSI)
VFX Supervisor
Firefl`y Creative Studio
Co-Founder & Creative Head
NY VFXWAALA
In 1917 won the Oscar for Outstanding VFX and MPC’s Mr Guillaume Rocheron was the proud recipient for this pioneering work with Director Sam Mendes and the legendary Roger Deakins who also got his Oscar for the same film for Best Cinematographer – this session is the story of this innovative movie.
Senior VFX Supervisor MPC Film Academy Award Winner for ‘1917’ USA MPC Film
Talent is the ultimate driver of the AVGC industry. Even with the massive technology and tools sets its ultimately human creativity and artistry that matters. The future of work is rapidly changing, and new curriculum and learnings inform the next wave of content and platforms. This panel will explore that paradigms!
Secretary ABAI – GOK Centre of Excellence in Animation Visual Effects Gaming & Comics Sector, Bengaluru
Additional Secretary
Ministry of Information and Broadcasting
President and Executive Director
Aptech Ltd
Managing Director Experience Transformation Extended Reality lead Accenture Interactive
Advanced Technology Centre, India
Founder & Director
Frameboxx
CEO
Telangana Academy of Skill & Knowledge
The session focus is on envisioning the future of AVGC from the perspective of a State Government that recognizes the huge opportunity of this sector as an employment and revenue generator.
Vice Chair CII National Committee on Media & Entertainment and Country Head
Hon’ble Minister for Large & Medium Scale Industries Government of Karnataka
The session focuses on building a National agenda – the call for a National policy and the harmonizing of the state governments who have recognized and embarked on policy initiatives to grow the AVGC opportunity.
Founder & CEO, Punnaryug Artvision
Joint Secretary (Films)
Ministry of Information & Broadcasting
Additional Chief Secretary – Electronics, IT, Biotechnology and Science & Technology
Government of Karnataka
Principal Secretary – Industries & Commerce
Government of Telangana
Game engine technologies and AVGC sciences will be deployed in conventional live action television and movies – “what’s driving this change.”.
General Manager, India and SEA
Epic Games, Singapore
Co-Chairman CII National Committee on Media & Entertainment and Founder & Managing Director
Indian Film Director, Creative Director & VFX Supervisor
Creative Director & VFX Supervisor
Limitless Studio
VFX Supervisor founder and CEO
Indian Artists Computer Graphics
Development of AVGC industry for content creation brings socio economic development. In this session, the Keynote address will be on how Punjab is seeing a new green revolution in creative technologies.
Founder & CEO Assemblage
Member of Parliament – Lok Sabha
Where does the requirement of VFX as part of storytelling stand in the Indian context as compared to other parts of the world? The session will discuss if the capabilities of Indian VFX Studios have been utilized to its fullest for local shows?
Head of Studio Technicolor Film &
Episodic VFX Mumbai
TraceVFX
CEO & Founder
Anibrain
Chief Operation Officer & VFX Producer
Redchillies VFX & Redchillies Color
Head of Creative Operations |FEV| | MPC Film | MRX|
Director Visual Effects – APAC
Netflix
Creative Director / VFX Supervisor
Redefine
Head of Unity Evangelism in India
Vice President
Whistling Woods
Head of Studio
The Mill Bangalore
Field Marketing Manager, Precision Workstations
Dell Technologies
Diversity and Inclusion are more than buzzwords – India lags the developed AVGC economies in tapping into the latent talent & bringing more women into AVGC – Solutions?
Head of Studio Film & Episodic Visual Effects (FEV) Technicolor India
Vice Chair CII National Committee on Media & Entertainment & Country Head Technicolor India
Supervising Producer – Rooster Teeth, Head of Studio – Crunchyroll and President – Women in Animation USA
Head of Creative Operations
MPC Film
Manager VFX | International Origins – India Netflix
Luke Groves is the amazing head of MrXvfx, one of the world’s leading VFX studios whose journey through creative production lead to working on The Shape of Water – the Oscar winning movie in 2018 directed by the famous Guillermo del Toro Gómez – he sets up how to make such amazing movies simplifying a complex production dynamic.
“Reflections & Prognosis – A VFX Studio Head’s Views”
Head of Studio, Toronto
As a publisher of worldwide AVGC news, a participant in most of the world’s leading market places and conferences and as the Co-Chairman of SIGGRAPH Asia 2020, Dan is going to reflect upon the major upheavals of the present times and talk about what he sees are the directions in which the different verticals of the industry are adapting and changing.
Co-Founder & Publisher, Animation World Network (AWN), USA
The session will witness insightful discussion on the Journey of Digital Humans in Films and Games through the development over the years and where we stand today to what lies in the future
Head of Studio Technicolor Film & Episodic VFX Mumbai, TraceVFX
Ph.D. Researcher Lecturer Writer – Tech Specialist Digital Humans: MOTUS Lab USYD & FXguide Co-founder, Australia
Senior Staff Scientist Google Research Adjunct Research Professor USC Computer Science & USC ICT, USA
Global Technology firms have worked hand in hand with media companies to bring worlds together across sports, entertainment and experiences – these are no longer just enterprise production tools but give rise to a social connectivity among large communities – eSports is a great case study.
Chairman & CEO
Super League Gaming, USA
Business Head – Cable Media & Entertainment – Tech Mahindra, USA
The next wave of growth will see the start-up ecosystem spawn the businesses across creativity and technology across various sectors that span and cross over outside the realm of conventional entertainment – what’s bubbling under & how to bring it to the top.
Managing Partner
Nexstage Venture Advisors
Entrepreneur & Angel Investor Founder & CEO
GOQii
Director
Software Technology Parks of India
Founder & CEO
QikPod
Founder Partner
Lumikai
What does connectivity, bandwidth explosion and low cost of data do? It provides the perfect playground for games to become interactive across geography & genres – the platforms will give rise to a groundswell in indie development – this panel foretells the story.
General Manager – Lead Games Ecosystem
Jio Platforms
Managing Director
Rockstar Games, India
Streetlamp Games
Country Manager- Unity Technologies
Co-founder & CEO
Super Gaming / June Gaming
The birth of modern retail and the way brands create activation combined with the e-Shopping becoming ubiquitous during the lockdown – means L&M is now a 2-way street – merchandise need not follow successful shows – it could happen the other way around.
Regional Director – India, SAARC & MENA Animation International, India
Founder and CEO
Planet Superheroes
My Baby Excel
Brand Expansion Advisory Independent Director Zee Learn MT Educare Kamats Vidli Rest. Strategic Advisor Garodia Edu
Vice President, Consumer Products
Viacom18 Media
Indian broadcasting has come a long way since the dedicated channels for kids came in less than 2 decades ago. The original content on these channels have also seen a great transformation and Indian creator and producers have maximized every opportunity they got to make their shows stand shoulder to shoulder against those from overseas made at much higher costs. With the advent of new technologies, platforms, production methodologies, etc the consumer can expect a lot more. Hear what the experts say is the scope for original IP to take wing.
CEO, TOONZ Media Group
Punnaryug Artvision
SVP – Revenue & Corporate Strategy
Cosmos-Maya
Director & COO
Graphiti
Green Gold Animation
COO
Reliance Animation
Outside & In: Approaches to Development
Head of Production MPC Film Bangalore
Client Services Manager Kids Insights & parents Insights
Business Head
Sony Pictures Networks India, Kids’ Genre
Founder / Director
I-C-E Studios
The session will focus on how local stories and IPs can be made for global audiences: Insights from Shuzo John Shiota of New Age Anime Powerhouse Polygon Pictures, Japan in conversation with Award winning Indian Film makers E Suresh, Studio Eeksaurus
Director & Founder Studio
EEKSAURUS Productions
President & CEO Polygon Pictures Japan
A significant revenue driver of India’s AVGC sector comes from the amazing big-ticket work done by visual effects studios for the global majors as well as for Indian blockbusters. This panel comprises of the strategists who lead the sector and will explore “what’s next” after this ‘crazy abnormal’!
Head of Studio Film & Episodic Visual Effects (FEV), Technicolor India
Head of Production
CEO & Managing Director
RotoMaker
Division Head & Chief Technical Director
Makuta VFX
Head of Business Development
Co-Founder and COO
GoPhygital
Former Managing Director
Blippar India
Imaginate
Parallalax
Founder
Augtraveler
Gamitronics
The session will discuss, in given new normal situation, what’s the outlook for the Kids Programmes viewership and how do the leading broadcasters think it will change in the near future.
Senior Vice President
Network Head
Cartoon Network & Pogo South Asia Turner Plenary & Warner Media
Head of Marketing and OAP Promotions, Sony YAY
Head
Discovery Kids Discovery Communications
Chairman CII India@75 Council and Vice Chairman & Managing Director
JetLine Group of Companies
Nazara Technologies
Head of Technology, Mpc Film, Mrx, MPC Episodic
EMEA Regional Director, Teradici
Head of Production Technicolor Animation &Games
Technical Solutions Manager Autodesk M&E
Creative Director / VFX Supervisor, Redifine
Director & Founder Studio EEKSAURUS Productions
Independent Film Maker
Animation Film Designer
Managing Director Pocket films
Co-Founder Ghost Animation Studios
This session will cover advancements in “in-camera visual effects” and how this technique is changing the film and TV industry. With software developments in real-time game engines combined with hardware developments in GPUs and on-set video equipment filmmakers can now capture final pixel visual effects while still on set – enabling new levels of creative collaboration and efficiency during principal photography. These new developments allow changes to digital scenes even those at final pixel quality to be seen instantly on high-resolution LED walls – an exponential degree of time savings over a traditional CG rendering workflow. This is crucial as there is a huge demand for more original film and TV content and studios must find a way to efficiently scale production and post-production while maintaining high quality and creative intent
Epic Games Industry Manager M&E & Executive Director
Academy Software Foundation USA
Apart from the quest of Indian studios to tell the great stories from India through animation, this session is bound to delight creators of original content. Wild Canary, The Walt Disney Company and Technicolor A&G have partnered to produce a wonderful series with an Indian character “MIRA” Hear how this creative combine has demonstrated the power of teamwork in bringing about such a wonderful show first-hand from the creators in all three companies!
Executive Producer
Wild Canary, USA
Line Producer, Wild Canary, USA
Vice President, Current Series / Original Programming Disney Junior, USA
Art Director, Wild Canary, USA
Animation Director,
Technicolor Animation & Games
Art Director, Technicolor Animation & Games
Supervising Director, Wild Canary, USA
AVGC has hitherto been considered a content creator for specific genres that creates either cartoons, comic books and games or movies as one or the other means of storytelling. CII Media and Entertainment’s new committee of industry leaders are invited to participate in a round table discussion on how the AVGC technologies have great import and opportunity across all segments of media and entertainment which are being affected by and providing impetus across the board to all forms of visual imagery.
Vice Chair CII National Committee on Media & Entertainment and Country Head – Technicolor India
President – The Indian Music Industry
Director & Country General Manager
Amazon Prime Video
CEO,
MX player
President Communications Media & Entertainment Business & The CEO Network Services
Tech Mahindra Technology
CEO- Domestic Broadcast
Zee Entertainment Enterprises
Chairman Executive Committee
Bennett Coleman
Managing Director, Accenture Interactive
This is the who’s who of this industry – executives and leaders who have soldiered to take the Indian industry to global eminence over the past two decades. This panel will leverage their experience & [provide fresh perspectives about what they see as the next triggers for growth and opportunity.
Founder & Director, Frameboxx
Founder & CEO, Assemblage
Vice Chair CII National Committee on Media & Entertainment and Country Head, Technicolor India
Founder, Cosmos Maya
Indian Filmmaker Storyteller & Ad-film Director & Founder Director, Climb Media (I) Pvt Limited
Creative Director & General Manager
DNEG | Co-founder, Prime Focus
Director & COO, Graphiti
CEO & Founder, Nazara Technologies
CEO TOONZ, Media Group
Founder & Managing Director, Green Gold Animation
CEO, Lakshya Digital
Given the disruption in the AVGC industry, talent has been challenged to continue AVGC production in the most unusual circumstances. A highly interactive and iterative industry that needs a collaborative space has been scattered into 100’s of homes and have AHD to continue business as usual. The industry’s top people managers talent managers reflect on this paradigm and the consequences and emerging trends in future talent hiring, training and engagement.
Head of HR & Talent Acquisition- DNEG
Head HR, Technicolor
Senior Director, Industry Strategy & Marketing – M&E
Autodesk
AVGC industries embrace new technologies and computing power which changes annually & have gone beyond conventional media and entertainment boundaries to become ubiquitous as communications methodologies and platforms for education, health care, aerospace and a variety of other industries that increasingly need simulation and imagery. STPI has a plethora of centers of excellence fueled through Government patronage and which will fuse convergence between new smart tech IOT, AI, AR, VR, XR, etc. & the traditional media industries leading to new outcomes.
Director Software Technology Park of India, Meity and Managing Director & CEO AIC STPI-NEXT Initiatives
Joint Secretary
Ministry of Electronics, Information and Technology
Software Technology Park of India
Director General Confederation of Indian Industry
Hon’ble Minister for Commerce & Industry and Railways
Chairman CII National Committee on Media & Entertainment and Managing Director
Mr Biren Ghose
