Robert Minkoff an American director, animator, and producer. He is best known for co-directing The Lion King (1994), and live-action films including Stuart Little (1999), Stuart Little 2 (2002), The Haunted Mansion (2003), and The Forbidden Kingdom (2008). In recent decades, he returned to feature animation with Mr. Peabody & Sherman (2014) and Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank (2022).

Dr. Neoh’s diverse roles, including his leadership at Global Digital Creation, showcase his significant influence in China’s creative industry. His insights into the legal, business, and academic aspects of creativity and animation make him a critical voice at the conference. 

Wayne Kennedy, based in Los Angeles, CA, USA, is currently a Senior Production Director at Blizzard Entertainment. He previously acted as the CEO of Empyreal Entertainment and a director of Digital Domain.

Kennedy's pioneering work in incorporating AI into Hollywood productions places him at the cutting edge of merging creative and technological domains. His experience at Blizzard Entertainment and Digital Domain provides him with unique insights into the future of AI in entertainment.

With a background in Communication from Shenzhen University, Effie Zhang has dedicated twenty-one years to brand strategy, internet digital technology, IP incubation, and copyright management, consistently creating cross-disciplinary value by staying at the forefront of the internet era's transformations.

Her career includes roles at GDC Technology, a leading global digital creative and cinema technology company based in Hong Kong; Shenzhen Media Group; and as Senior Vice President at Shenzhen First Wave, a subsidiary of the A-share listed company Dinglong Culture (002502). She currently serves as the CEO of Shenzhen Yuanlai Culture Development Co., Ltd., while also acting as a consu…

Fish Wu, the founder of Sichuan HongYao Culture Communication Co., Ltd.

Fish Wu is one of the earliest professionals who entered the 3D animation industry in China, and has served as the executive and professional backbone of the famous domestic animation production company, with over 20 years of experience.

Sichuan HongYao Culture Communication Co., Ltd. is committed to highly integrating the experience of high-quality animation design, production and management with the concept of animation brand operation, creating the most influential animation stars, striving to become the best original animation content provider, and creating international first-class animation brands.

• Producer/ VFX Producer, having worked for nearly ten years
• Founder of The North ART/VFX
• Founder of The Point

Graduated from the School of Art at Northeast Normal University with dual degrees in Animation and Finance.

Visual works: Film "Seven Killings", "Caught by the Tides", "Hidden Man" etc. Episodic series "In Later Years", "The Farewell Song", "Fighter of the Destiny"，Sci-Fi Short Film Anthology "Big World Gacha Machine: Tomorrow After" etc.

Prof. Jenny Kwok is a Research Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Hong Kong and a Visiting Fellow at Cambridge Digital Humanities, University of Cambridge (2024-25). As the Lab Coordinator of the Arts Tech Lab, she leads research on the application of Large Language Models (LLMs) in computational literary studies, with a strong focus on enhancing the accuracy and interpretive depth of language processing.

Prof. Kwok’s expertise extends into business applications, particularly in fine-tuning Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) models to ensure their reliability in decision-making processes. One of her key research focuses is exploring how RAG technology…

Generalist 3D artists located in Switzerland and working for Dreamscape Immersive. He has worked and has given presentations in the following countries: Switzerland, China, Netherland, Venezuela, Brazil, Russia.
He gives presentations and workshops in both English and French and has pipeline design and TD experience.

Hi It's Yiming here. I kinda dabble at everything I like, coding, drawing, hardware, writing, making curious stuff like that.

I also made the Line Art module for Blender.

Bilibili UP | I am a Chinese Blender video creator with 394,000 followers. Since 2018, I have been updating over 400 episodes of open-source Blender teaching videos in the "Black Iron Knight" series on Bilibili.

Add-ons | I have led the ACGGit team in designing and developing 34 Blender add-ons. Examples include Simple Deform Helper, Place Helper, Light Helper, Lattice Helper, Colorista, POPOTI Align Helper, Gesture Helper, and more.

AI & ComfyUI | I have designed and developed an add-on called Blender ComfyUI Node Editor, which was used for demonstration at Nvidia CES 2025.

Interests | I am extremely fond of Blender, animation, and the mobile game League of Legends: …

就职于天津幻之境科技有限公司，主攻 Blender add-on 开发，曾主导开发万物有灵、无限圣杯、Colorista、UAV 无人机路径规划等插件。专注于研究 Stable Diffusion 和 Blender 融合的 AI 生成技术。

毕业于中国传媒大学动画专业（三维动画与特效艺术方向）。在校期间曾执导动画短片《象群挽歌》《海心冒险》，其中《象群挽歌》获得2023年德国斯图加特国际动画节最佳儿童作品、第十五届厦门动漫节“金海豚奖”最佳学生动画银奖、Aniwow 中国（北京）国际大学生动画“白杨奖”最佳中国动画短片奖等多项国内外奖项。

I have always been passionate about animation and Blender. It was animation that introduced me to Blender, and it was also Blender that set me on the path of animation.

I have been using Blender since 2016 and create small animations in my spare time. In 2022, I collaborated with my classmates to produce our graduation animation project Elegy of Elephant using Blender, which later won a number of international awards. Since graduating in 2022, I have been working on the project Deep Dive at NiceBoat Animation as a technical artist, mainly responsible for VFX related tasks.

With over 15 years of deep experience in the CG industry, he has participated in providing rendering support for numerous acclaimed projects. These include the films The Wandering Earth and The Wandering Earth 2, Deep Sea, The Battle at Lake Changjin and The Battle at Lake Changjin II, I Am What I Am, Ne Zha, the Boonie Bears series, and L.O.R.D. 1 & 2, as well as the TV series 3 Body Problem.

顾城，离谱力 LeapLead 动画创始人、上海云视科技 AI 内容总监。

美国芝加哥艺术学院数字艺术 BFA。他致力推行融合科技、艺术、生活，创造时代感的作品。在内容上跨学科，在衍生上跨产业。

顾城目前正在制作 Blender 原创动画剧集随想曲 Capriccio。他的工作涵盖开发与整合对独立创作者、中小工作室适用的流程工具，以及发展以 Blender 和 AI 为中心的创意行业信息内容共享社区。

Zhihao Yao, Media Designer/ Developer, currently a Ph.D. student at Tsinghua University. Mr. Yao published and presented multiple first-author papers at top conferences such as CHI, SIGGRAPH ASIA, and the Blender Developer Conference. His research primarily focuses on creative tools and cross-media creation. Proficient in Blender for cutting-edge design in both software and hardware, he has launched multiple tools worldwide, drawing the attention of tens of thousands of creators.

After completing his Master's degree in System Design and Marketing (Product Design) at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Mike founded Mike Creative Design Studio, undertaking numerous interior design projects for offices, luxury residences, and major shopping malls. While working, he continued to enhance his professional skills by obtaining multiple international certifications in Autodesk and 3ds Max Design, and by participating in many international interior design competitions — repeatedly earning prestigious awards.

Mike has since established a furniture brand called CHOME in mainland China, which has gained wide popularity both domestically and overseas…

Pan Liu is a Research Scientist at Intel Corporation. His primary research areas are deep learning and 3D character animation. He focuses on developing atheletic and cognitive intelligence for virtual characters. To achieve this, he trains multimodal LLMs that understand the world through language, vision and physics. These models can perform complex tasks in virtual environments, and are seamlessly integrated into popular 3D animation softwares such as Blender.

多年广告监制及制片经验，服务汽车品牌50家+，车型车款100+。涵盖传统KV、视频物料、及AR、XR等新兴视觉技术解决方案领域。

担任院线电影、动画电影的视效制片，包括《流浪地球》《时间之子》等。

并担任原创动漫IP《疾风竞速》执行制片人。

Scott Ross is the Co-Founder of Digital Domain with Hollywood luminaries James Cameron and Stan Winston, one of the largest digital production studios in the motion picture and advertising industries. Under Ross' direction, Digital Domain garnered multiple Academy Award nominations, receiving its first Oscar for the groundbreaking visual effects in Titanic. For well over a decade Ross oversaw the company that created imagery for movies such as Titanic, The Fifth Element, Apollo 13, Fight Club, True Lies, Interview with the Vampire, O Brother Where Art Thou, X-Men, The Lord of the Rings, The Day After Tomorrow, and I, Robot.

Currently the Chief Operating Officer at Blender, General Manager and Producer at Blender Studio. He has a professional background in industrial design and has made important contributions in 3D art and open source film projects.

Francesco Siddi is a key figure in the fields of 3D animation and open source filmmaking, best known for his work in the open source 3D creation software Blender. Over the years, he has participated in numerous Blender projects, contributing both in technical development and creative production. With a background in digital art, design, and computer graphics, Siddi's early exposure to Blender laid the foundation for his career, prompting him to deeply p…

Jun Zhu is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Director of the Basic Research Center of the Institute of Artificial Intelligence at Tsinghua University. He is mainly engaged in machine learning research and has published more than 100 papers in major international journals and conferences. He has led the team to develop the “Beads” deep probabilistic programming library, the “Heavenly Grant” reinforcement learning library, and the RealSafe adversarial attack ­and defense platform, and won all three tasks of the first “Adversarial Sample Attack and Defense Competition”, and won the “ViZ” and “ViBeat” competitio…

Helen Meng is Patrick Huen Wing Ming Professor of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). Her research interests include speech and language technologies to support multilingual and multimodal human-computer interactions, eLearning and assistive technologies, as well as big data decision analytics using AI. She leads the interdisciplinary research team that received the first Theme-based Research Scheme Project in Artificial Intelligence in 2019 from the HKSAR Government’s Research Grants Council.

MAJA is the Manager of Beijing Xiangxin Culture and Art Co., Ltd., the Art Director of The North ART/VFX.

Since 2008, he has been engaged in film art and visual effects concept design, accumulating over ten years of professional experience in visual CG for film, television, and games. His main responsibilities include visual effects and concept design, storyboarding, on-set visual design planning, as well as roles such as visual effects supervisor and CG director.

In 2014, he served as a senior lecturer for the Film Concept major at Mars Era Education. In 2015, he became the art director at Digital Ocean. From 2020 to 2023, he worked as the visual effects art director at Mandrill Pict…

Dr. Sun is the founder & CEO of DailyLive. He obtained his Ph.D. in AI from The Chinese University of Hong Kong & B.S. from University of Science and Technology of China. He is a high-level overseas talent in Shenzhen and one of the initiators of Shenzhen AI Society, He was awarded the Best Paper Award at ICME, Shenzhen AI Technical Invention Award, Cloud Sail Award at World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC).

He previously worked at Apple Siri in Silicon Valley and was a co-founder of SpeechX Ltd. DailyLive which was established in 2022, specializes in AI virtual humans to help e-commerce businesses reduce costs and increase efficiency. To date, it has assisted merchants …

Wilson Chow is the global technology, media and entertainment and telecommunications (TMT) industry leader of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and Artificial Intelligence leader of PwC in China.

Wilson has been leading and supporting the PwC global network across all lines of service, including Assurance, Taxation and Advisory, to provide one-stop professional solutions and services to both well-established global companies and emerging start-ups in the TMT industry, especially in areas of digital transformation and business model reinvention.

Wilson has also dedicated his keen efforts in in providing assurance and advisory services to companies in China, ranging from start-ups to global …

Ms. Zhou Jian is a qualified attorney of New York and a partner resident in Haiwen's Hong Kong office.

Ms. Zhou has deep expertise and experience in the areas of entertainment and media, intellectual property, M&A and general corporate, and she serves a wide range of TMT clients from China and US, including major studios from Hollywood and the most valuable private tech companies headquartered in China.

Adam’s professional experience spans film, digital media, GenAI and investment banking. He relaunched Goldcrest Films as a major UK movie producer and financier, served as CFO of one of Europe’s leading multi-channel networks and worked on Wall Street as a Managing Director at Merrill Lynch. His film credits include The Iron Lady and Twilight, and he was recently a judge at the AI Film Festival at the Venice Biennale. He holds a BA with Honors from Brown University, an MBA from the Wharton School and a Sloan fellowship from Stanford University.

• AI数字人在认知症领域的开创者
• 认知症友好使者
• 曾任央企养老院长
• 3年AI产品规划及商业化经验

Dr. Kun LI is the co-founder and CEO of SpeechX Limited, as well as an Honorary Research Associate at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK).

Dr. LI Received his B.E. degree from Zhejiang University in 2006, M.E. degree from Tsinghua University in 2009, and Ph.D. degree from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) in 2015. He joined the CUHK as a research assistant in 2009, a Ph.D. candidate in 2011, and a post-doctoral fellow in 2016. His research interests include AI speech and AI empowering language learning. He has more than 5 patents and published over 25 international papers, including the best paper of IEEE ICME 2016, as well as three journal papers on IEEE/ACM transactions…

Lu Liu entered the animation industry in 2001, and has worked in many domestic and international film and television special effects and animation companies as a Technical Director (Crystal Digital Technology Co., Ltd, Pixar Animation Studio, Rhythm & Hues Studios, StarZ Animation Studios, BaseFx), and joined Light Chaser Animation Studios as a Process Director for a number of animated films in 2013. In 2020, he joined Octmedia as the Technical Director of animated film "Deep Sea", and in 2023, he joined Pearl Studio as the VP of Production.

Dr Ray Li is an Adjunct Professor at the Institute for China Business of the University of Hong Kong (HKU), leveraging three decades of global corporate finance and strategy advisory expertise. He has held numerous board director positions at public and start-up companies, contributing to governance and innovation in financial, technology, and health sectors.

Dr Li’s distinguished career includes serving as Group Finance Director and Executive Committee Member at PingAn Group, where he oversaw finance strategies for the conglomerate’s insurance, banking, asset management, and technology divisions. He was the Board Director at PingAn Securities, PingAn Trust, PingAn Financial …

Director of the animated feature film "TOFU", director of the animated series "DODO", "BLACK BEAN", and “LOONEY BEAN”. Graduate of IDMT, China’s first premier 3D animation studio located in Shenzhen.

AWARDS:

• Best Animation @ Asian New Media Film Festival  
• 1st Shenzhen Original Cartoon Character Design: Golden Medal   
• 5st Shenzhen Original Cartoon Character Design: Golden Medal   
• 6th Xiamen International Animation Festival: Silver Medal  
• 9th Xiamen International Animation Festival: Silver Medal  
• 11th China International Cartoon & Animation Festival: Project with the most Potential

蓝弧文化、枫火动漫公司创始人。执导了超过50,000分钟动画片，包括：全国首部AI古装动画电影《卧龙之潜龙勿用》，首部三维长篇动画系列《猪猪侠》（1-4部）《超兽武装之仁者无敌》、《超兽武装之勇者无惧》（超兽系列豆瓣评分9.6）、全国首部变形机器人系列《百变机兽》、Q版果冻与合体变形机器人系列《果宝特攻》、《果宝特攻2》、《果宝特攻3》 （果宝系列豆瓣评分8.9） 等，影响中国一代人的成长。

唐家渝，生数科技联合创始人兼CEO，人工智能副高级职称，CCF大模型论坛常务委员。曾任北京瑞莱智慧科技有限公司副总裁、腾讯优图实验室高级产品经理、TP-LINK手机事业部主管等职。本科和硕士就读于清华计算机系，师从孙茂松教授，研究方向为自然语言处理和信息可视化。获得发明专利授权20余项及中国专利优秀奖，出版普通高等教育国家级规划教材1本。主导研发的“安全可靠可控的新一代人工智能平台”于2021年世界互联网大会获评世界互联网领先科技成果。

Hao Zheng, a Chinese director and artist, hails from a nomadic background spanning the autonomous muslim region in the Gobi Desert to the humid Cantonese coast, and later to Beijing, New York, Boston, and LA. As collaged as these landscapes that shaped him, his works explore cross-genre and cross-cultural narratives centered on identity and belonging, and challenge the toxic masculine and eco-destructive world we currently live in.

Hao's short films have traveled to over 100 festivals worldwide, including Sitges Film Festival, AFI Fest, Shanghai International Film Festival, and have earned acclaim including a Student Academy Award.

In 2020, Hao was selected for the Disney Launchpa…

Mr. Raymond Neoh is a veteran entrepreneur and a pioneer in the digital media and education sectors, widely recognized as the "Father of China's CG Industry." He was the Producer of Thru the Moebius Strip (2005), China's first feature-length CG-animated film.

In 2000, Mr. Neoh co-founded Global Digital Creations Holdings Limited (8271.HK), establishing the Neoh brothers as pioneers in China's CG animation industry. Over two decades ago, when only a handful of companies worldwide possessed the capability for full-process CG film production, Global Digital Creations was one such trailblazing company. Known as the "Whampoa Military Academy" of China's ani…

Stanley Yuen is a veteran production artist and instructor and has more than 24 years of experience in the Hong Kong film production industry. Mr. Yuen commands deep knowledge in animation, CG production, and film post-production, and is proficient in professional software such as Maya, Softimage, Alias, and Wavefront Explore.

Mr. Yuen has participated in the production of many international movies and TV series, including China's first CG movie "Thru the Moebius Strip", "Dearest Anima", "Return of the Cuckoo", "Heaven in the Dark", "The Menu", "A Simple Life", "Conspirators", "Curse of the Golden Flower"…

Catina Yiu works as a Curriculum Designer in Hong Kong, combining her background in product design with a passion for education.

She specializes in creating innovative teaching materials, managing educational projects, and enhancing student learning experiences. Catina is known for her creative approach and event planning skills, which bring a creative flair to teaching primary and secondary students.

深圳大学教师、点维文化联合创始人、金铅笔奖获得者、中国当代创意百人

• 中国传媒大学广播电视新闻专业（北京广播学院1992-1996）
• 北京大学汇丰商学院EDP / 中影集团影视文化总裁班EDP 中央电视台纪录片创作（1995-1996）
• 曾就职于深圳大学影视制作基地，后升任主管（1996-2018）
• 点维文化联合创始人（2018-今 ）
• 广东省市场监督管理局广告产业发展专家库专家（2023-2026）

二十五年内容创作与运营经验，带领团队生产打动人心的创意内容，立志做时代的盐。近年来带领团队赢得10金38银共近百项国内外奖项，包括 OneShow奖、艾菲奖、伦敦LIA国际奖、龙玺奖、IAI传鉴国际广告奖、金狮国际广告奖、金瞳奖、金投赏等。同时担任法国 YOUNG DIRECTOR AWARD 奖、伦敦LIA国际华文创意奖、IAI国际广告节、金瞳国际广告节、大广赛等终审评委。自1998年创立点维以来，点维已经成功跻身国际创意制作公司百强，全球排名并列第58名，在最核心的游戏营销领域，全球排名并列第1。

从创意到导演及制作人，拥有丰富积累，多年来帮助众多顶尖客户在市场营销领域取得成功。主导广告作品过千部，其中大量作品具有广泛影响力，例如华为2021校招片《打开边界》、深圳人才局宣传片《深圳脚步》、《王者荣耀盛世开局》、2023杭州亚运会 开幕式宣传片《相约杭州》等。

长期服务品牌：腾讯、华为、宝洁、大疆、阿里巴巴、VIVO、奔驰、顺丰、网易、比亚迪、美的、荣耀等头部品牌客户。

主要从事PCG资产的研究和赋能，程序化生成美术和PCG资产落地与UE5引擎，相关的制作流程与制作规范。前腾讯科技AI Lab人工智能美术设计组负责人，负责AI数字人方向的研发支持。

With 23 years of experience in the digital animation and visual field, I have participated in over 50 domestic and international animated films, artistic short films, and interactive entertainment film projects. I was responsible for process management in China's first full 3D digital animated film Gordian, and served as the producer of the ocean-themed animated film Happy Little Submarine, which won the "Outstanding Animated Film" award at the China Film Huabiao Awards. The military-themed animated film Soldier Shunliu received the Guangdong Provincial "Five-One Project" Award and the Ministry of Culture's "Chinese Culture and Art Government Award for Best …