Here’s the agenda of Summit FX 2020

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

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 

Technicolor India

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

Roy Kapur Films

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| 

Technicolor India

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

Secretary ABAI – GOK Centre of Excellence in Animation Visual Effects Gaming & Comics Sector, Bengaluru

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

CEO & Founder 

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

Director 

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

Founder & CEO 

Punnaryug Artvision

SVP – Revenue & Corporate Strategy

Cosmos-Maya

Director & COO 

Graphiti

Founder & CEO

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

Redefine

CEO & Managing Director 

RotoMaker

Division Head & Chief Technical Director 

Makuta VFX

Head of Business Development

Anibrain

Co-Founder and COO 

GoPhygital    

Former Managing Director 

Blippar India

Founder & CEO

Imaginate

Parallalax

Founder 

Augtraveler 

Founder & CEO 

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 

Green Gold Animation 

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

CEO & Founder 

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, Punnaryug Artvision 

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 Studio Film & Episodic Visual Effects (FEV), Technicolor India 

Head of HR & Talent Acquisition- DNEG 

Head HR, Technicolor

Senior Director, Industry Strategy & Marketing – M&E

Autodesk

Head of Business Development 

Anibrain

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

Director General 

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 

Star India Pvt Limited & Disney India

Mr Biren Ghose 

Vice Chair CII National Committee on Media & Entertainment and Country Head – Technicolor India