Biren Ghose has been the Country Head for Technicolor India for over 11 years. He has taken the India studio to a strength of 6000 employees. This includes marquee brands MPC, The Mill, Mikros Animation and Technicolor Games. Biren is a thought leader and industry evangelist for the past 20 years. Technicolor has won over 8 Emmy Awards for TV animation; 4 Academy Awards for VFX Films, the Cannes Lion Golds, VES, BAFTA, The British Arrows, etc. Biren is the Vice Chairman for the CII National Media & Entertainment Committee and President of ABAI. This year Biren has received the National Order of Merit - a knighthood conferred on him by the President of France. Biren is multi-faceted and has a passion for art, music, Formula 1, tennis, photography, wines and spirits.

Kaveree Bamzai is an independent journalist. She was the first, and so far, only woman editor of India Today, where she was employed till January 2019. She is the author of The Three Khans and the Emergence of New India, No Regrets: The Guilt-Free Woman's Guide to a Good Life, Bollywood Today, and two monographs in the Zubaan series on Women in Indian Film. She is on several committees, among them the Women Exemplar Committee of CII, and is recognised as a changemaker by Save The Children charity.

Consistent theme of Gupta’s Career has been simplifying workflows, production systems and building innovative solutions for CGI and VFX productions. With over 2.5 decades of experience, Gupta was instrumental in designing pipelines, production systems for various productions worldwide. As a thought leader in CG Technology and strategic innovation, he introduced and managed production engineering and technical direction practice in various animation studios in Asia, Europe and Australia. He was instrumental in delivery of feature films, animated features, TV series and commercials and short films for clients including Pentafour, Disney, Wild Brain, Warner Brothers, Deluxe Entertainment, M2 Animation etc. He had the privilege of migrating major complex productions to simple workflows that resulted in enhancing artist’s production experience, product quality, operational transparency and efficiency.

Prasad is the Head of Production in India for Dneg, one of the world's leading visual effects, animation and stereo conversion companies for feature film and television. Prasad has been at the forefront of producing VFX and animation for over two decades. He has played key roles in establishing and growing artist friendly studios across Asia. Prior to Dneg, Prasad has worked with Rhythm & Hues and Dreamworks Animation. As a part of his role in the studio Management he has overseen the execution of over 200 movies including Academy award winning films for Best VFX like The Golden Compass, Life of Pi, Blade Runner 2049. First Man and most recently for Tenet.

Sreyans is the co-founder of BOT and heads its India operations, where all of the BOT’s production activity happens with more than 500 team members across Chennai, Coimbatore & Pune. His understanding of the creative process, strong operational discipline, and exceptional interpersonal skills make him uniquely qualified to lead the operation. Prior to co-founding BOT VFX, Sreyans worked at Sony Pictures Imageworks India as a Project Head, where he oversaw the construction of a new state-of-the-art production facility for the studio, in addition to managing several other production projects. Sreyans holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Visual Communication from the University of Madras and is also a University Rank holder.

With over 20 years in the M&E industry, Suchit Mukherjee, a top creative leader in the world of VFX/CGI, has managed mega projects across the world with Bioware (US), Square Enix (Japan), DICE (Belgium), Meraas (UAE) and Movie Park Germany. Instrumental in setting up production studios in US, Japan and India, he has personally delivered Final Fantasy XV (Theatrical feature), PK, Wazir, ABCD2, several Japanese titles and productions from the Pasadena office in the US, alongside industry stalwarts, Danny Hartigan and Cliff Warner. He has been the Executive Producer for the first console gaming Theme Park ‘Hub Zero’ in Dubai and the Creative Head for Bollywood Park, Motiongate, Legoland and Lapita (UAE), involved from inception to final delivery of both the theme parks. Famulus projects under his leadership: The MisFits, Mission Mangal, Occupation Rainfall and others.

Experienced Professional with a demonstrated history of working in the IT and services industry for over 21 years. As the Datacenter evolved since 2007, Jollydeep has played an instrumental role in advising the industry on their infrastructure planning, sizing & migration strategies. She has successfully led Datacenter business nationally on-boarding large accounts like PrimeFocus, HDFC Bank, Dubai Aerospace, Godrej, Mahindra Group, BookMyShow and Reliance Entertainment. Besides business development and deep domain expertise in datacenter & cloud, she also led as customer experience officer to bring customer-led sensitivity to the operations team. In addition, she has the accolade of successfully launching a social collaboration app for making the citizens, businesses and government interact on a single system. Contributed to roll-out the app from concept to launch, matching the business expectations within the expected timeline.

Hitesh is a seasoned serial entrepreneur who founded BOT in 2008 along with Sreyans and Deepak. He has successfully parlayed domain knowledge in visual effects, tech space, and marketing into numerous successful ventures over the last 20 years. He has developed strong executive management skills through his experience in management consulting, corporate roles in strategy and marketing, and numerous start-ups he has launched. Hitesh’s passions lie at the intersection of creativity, technology, and business, where he actively applies his leadership skills. He is particularly adept at understanding and leveraging technology. Some of his accomplishments include: VFX producer credits on numerous films, founder of 3 companies, management consultant to Fortune 500 clients in technology and telecom, co-author of a patent on speech recognition applications, and more.

Zameer Hussain is a ‘compositor extraordinaire’ whose career in VFX spans two decades and 300+ feature films. Hussain joined BOT VFX in 2017 as Creative Head, where his secure command of the craft of VFX has brought unique strengths to his leadership role. Zameer’s creative depth has arisen from personally delivering thousands of shots, and his nuanced leadership has emerged from managing ever-growing legions of artists on the perpetual march towards show deliveries and deadlines. He redefines his role on the team as much more than a left-brain-dominated activity: his methodical dissection of problems and his bias towards structure and process bring a symphonic balance to the challenges of creative leadership.

Part of Indian Television Group Anil Wanvari, is the founder, CEO and editor-in-chief of the Indiantelevision.com group. He has spent more than 37 years in the media industry and is considered India's foremost analyst, consultant and catalyst for the media sector. It achieves this through its various B2B and B2C portals: indiantelevision.com (for the cable, satellite, OTT, production, advertising, marketing, media industries), tellychakkar.com (TV show and actor news for TV fans), AnimationXpress.com (for the VFX, comics, gaming, and animation segments) and radionandmusic.com (for the FM radio, digital music and music industry). He is also a well known Television/Digital Producer known for producing The Indian Telly Awards for the last 16 years and oodles of digital content. It engages with industry by organizing thought leadership forums under its various verticals: Video and Broadband Summit, VidNET - The largest OTT summit, RadioConnex Awards, News Television Awards ,BrandVid,The Content Hub, Kids Animation & More and Ann Awards

Ashish Kulkarni embarked on his journey in the field of arts and media in 1995, and is the founder of Punnaryug Artvision. Ashish is also the Chairman of the AVGC forum at FICCI and MCCIA, and has been persistently engaged with AVGC policy makers in India at central and state levels. In the last two decades, Ashish's push for state level policies inclusive of AVGC skill development and creation has allowed for their successful implementation under IT ITES policies or independent AVGC policies in the states of Maharashtra, Karnataka, AP, Telangana, Goa, MP, Chattisgarh, West Bengal and Kerala. Moreover, states like UP, Haryana, Rajasthan and Gujarat are actively considering the formation of AVGC policies to promote creative skill development and job creation.