Chief Executive Officer, Crest Animation Studios (Mumbai)

A K Madhavan, the Chief Executive Officer of Crest Animation Studios Limited is credited with opening the doors for Indian Animation in the intensely competitive and demanding CGI products and services global market. Madhavan, joined the organization in the year 1999, when the Animation Industry was an unrecognized entity in India and India’s animation competence unacknowledged in the global CGI space. He joined in the capacity of Vice President...

Trend Forecaster and Creative Director Slam X Hype (Auckland)

Adam Bryce graduated from Central St. Martins (London) with Honours in Fashion Marketing and Communication, before completing his resulting internship at the prestigious 'Chanel' under Karl Lagerfeld in Paris. Adam then went on to work as a stylist for some of the worlds most high profile and well respected fashion media, in the UK for I-D Magazine, Dazed and Confused, The Face and Vogue UK, in Paris for Purple, and...

Creator of EveryBlock and Co-Creator of Django (Chicago)

Creator of EveryBlock and Co-Creator of Django (Chicago) Adrian Holovaty is a Web developer and journalist in Chicago who has made a number of diverse contributions to the Web. He created chicagocrime.org, one of the original (pre-API) Google Maps mashups, and co-created the Django Web framework, used by thousands of developers around the world. His latest project is EveryBlock, a neighborhood news site offering daily updates at the street-address...

CEO, New Medici (Former Digital Head, Lionsgate and Participant Media)

Adrian Sexton is Co-Founder & CEO of New Medici LLC, a media strategy + lifestyle innovation network. As former digital head of two media companies, Lionsgate and Participant Media, and co-founding partner of TAG Strategic consultancy, Sexton brings a hybrid background in operational digital strategy, product development, social and viral marketing and distribution. Sexton and his team’s passion is building audiences and platforms in untapped areas across digital and...

Director of Golden Bridge Animation Studio (Beijing)

CCIX: Mumbai Agnes Li is a Director of Golden Bridge Animation Studio where she is in charge of international marketing. With more than 15 years of marketing experience in multinational companies, Agnes is now a Director of ASIFA China and supports a multitude of international animation forums and exhibitions in China. Agnes has successfully introduced local Chinese animation productions and studios to the worldwide market. She has built good partnerships...

Chinas Leading Brand Expert (Beijing)

International Speaker at China's International Cultural and Creative Industry Expo (ICCIE).

Multiple Academy Award winning VFX Director (Los Angeles)

Alan Chan's most recent visual effects assignment was as a Senior Technical Director and Stereoscopic Lead at Sony Pictures Imageworks, where he has served on projects such as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone and Peter Jackson's Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers. Prior to Imageworks, Alan was co-founder of Station X Studios<...

CEO, Vue DC Group (Perth)

Alan is a writer, director, producer and managing director. He entered television production 35 years ago after a career in photography. He has been head of a broadcast documentary unit, director of television for a major advertising agency, he has consulted on new business development for broadcasters and media companies, he has made over 110 hours of quality television and he is on the board of Western Australian film agency ScreenWest. The...

Engineering Site Director, Google Australia & New Zealand (Sydney)

Alan manages Google's R &D centre in Sydney, contributing to the development of Google products and services in Australia/NZ and around the world, including the popular Google Maps. Prior to his appointment at Google in February 2007, Alan was Chief Executive Officer and Chief Technology Officer for Netpriva, a company he founded.  A serial entrepreneur, Alan founded his first company, Netmind, in California in 1996.  Netmind was...

Multi-award winning Writer (Parramatta Girls, Run Rabbit Run) (Sydney)

Alana Valentine's writing has been nominated for a NSW Premier's Literary Award and a prestigious three Helpmann Awards, including best New Australian Work and Best Play, for Parramatta Girls. She is the recipient of the 2004 QLD Premier’s Award for best Drama Script, 2003 NSW Writer’s Fellowship, the 2002 Rodney Seaborn Playwrights’ Award, and a International Writing Fellowship at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London....