Director, Games & Experimental Entertainment Laboratory (GEElab) at RMIT & GEElab Europe (Stuttgart, Melbourne)

Steffen is a Vice-Chancellor's Senior Research Fellow at RMIT University. He is the founder--director of RMIT's Games & Experimental Entertainment Laboratory as well as the director of RMIT's GEElab Europe in Stuttgart, Germany.    Steffen is an award winning game and interaction designer, an internationally recognized scholar and book author, a business consultant and an entrepreneur with a background in computer aided architectural design, cultural anthropology,...

Co-founder, Rubedo (London)

Rubedo are an art practice and a think tank founded in London in 2005 by Dr Vesna Petresin Robert and Laurent Paul Robert who have collaborated since 1994. Vesna trained in architectural engineering and fine art and earned her Ph.D. in 2002 for a dissertation on temporal aspects of composition in architecture, art and music. She has worked as an artist, theorist, performer and designer.  Having produced international competitions that led...

Founder and Chief Executive of informitv (London)

Dr. William Cooper is an internationally recognised consultant specialising in the conjunction of the internet and television. The founder of the consultancy informitv, William works with media and technology companies and service providers worldwide to develop business opportunities based on broadband and broadcast convergence. Clients range from start-up companies to major corporations.   As Head of New Media Operations at the BBC, William operationally managed the successful launch and delivery...

Chief Research Scientist, Autodesk (Maya Software) (Toronto)

Duncan Brinsmead is a principal scientist with Autodesk. He is the creator of Maya Paint Effects, Maya Hair, and Maya Toon, and received an academy award in 2008 for contribution to Maya Fluids. More recently he has been working on Maya’s latest nCloth and the new Nucleus Dynamics solver framework. Duncan began working at Alias in 1990 and developed the Power Animator shading user interface, digi optiFX and particle system....

President and CTO at Vortex Immersion Media LLC; President at Visual Bandwidth (Los Angeles)

Ed Lantz is an engineer, scientist, manager and entrepreneur with 24 years experience in aerospace engineering, photonics, virtual reality, immersive displays, science centers, themed entertainment, business development and P&L responsibilities. Ed is President and CTO of Vortex Immersion Media, a Las Vegas-based designer of Virtual Reality Nightclubs, and Immersive Entertainment Venues for the Casino, Corporate Events and Tradeshow markets. He is founder of Harmony Channel, co-founder of IMERSA, and...

CEO and Director, Menfond Electronic Art & Computer Design (Hong Kong)

Eddy Wong Wang Hin, CEO and Director of Menfond Electronic Art & Computer Design, founded the company with his brother in 1990. Famous for producing China’s first-ever computer animated TV commercial, Eddy has since produced visual effects for Jackie Chan’s Gorgeous and The New Policy Story; Jet Li’s Fearless; Twins Effect; Master Q:2001, A Chinese Tall Story and Initial D. Under Eddy’s leadership...

Senior Researcher, Nokia Research Centre (Finland)

Elina M.I. Koivisto is a games researcher and designer in Nokia Research Center. She is doing both practical work on evaluating mobile game playability in commercial projects and long-term research in projects that look further in the future. The long-term research concerns new emerging game styles and developing methods that can be used in the game design process. Koivisto has published several scientific articles, e.g. on playability, cross-platform...

CEO, Gate7 New Media Pty Ltd (Cape Town)

Before setting out to giving sustainable business direction to an African brand in new media for the mobile screen, Emma Kaye did much the same for African animation and entertainment. In animation, her credentials as co-founder of Triggerfish Animation (one of the top animation companies producing award winning Sesame Street globally) and AnimationSA.org (the voice of the animation industry), and as founder of the animation festival for...

Founder and President at Wild Boar Media (Los Angeles)

Eric’s new company WILD BOAR MEDIA (WBM) was established to develop and produce new animated works and original concepts. To date, WBM has worked with comic book companies, CG production studios, traditional 2D animation studios, and celebrities on the creation of new animation.  WBM’s first film was released exclusively in Japan in April of 2009.  WBM is currently working with world renowned singer Beyonce on...

President of Marvel Animation (Los Angeles)

President of Marvel Animation (Los Angeles) Eric Rollman is President of Marvel Animation.  In his current capacity as President, Eric is responsible for development, financing, production, co-productions, marketing and worldwide distribution to television and home entertainment of all animated television and film properties.  Marvel Animation has an unprecedented slate of direct to video animated films including: Ultimate Avengers, Invincible Iron Man, Hulk VS. and the soon to be...