CURATORS
ADVISORY
COUNSELORS
CURATORS
Specialists in specific fields who are hosting & curating sessions in our RTC programs.
FRIENDS OF RTC
NOVEMBER 2022 CURATORS
AECO – Architecture, Engineering, Construction, & Operations
Mateusz Gawad
Senior Associate, Visualization Regional Director
HOK
Austin Reed
Associate Vice President, Director Creative Media Studio HNTB
Rotimi Seriki
Visualization Manager
HOK
Digital Fashion – Dressing the Metaverse
Ashley Crowder
co-Founder/CEO
VNTANA
Matthew Drinkwater
Head of Innovation Agency
London College of Fashion
Sallyann Houghton
UE Business Development Fashion / M&E
Epic Games
Digital Twins, Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE) & Simulation
Elizabeth Baron
Enterprise Solutions Executive at Unity Technologies & Chair-Elect of SIGGRAPH
Jan Pflueger
Founder & Advisor
advisXR
Explore the Business Metaverse
Amy Peck
Founder/CEO
EndeavorXR
Jan Pflueger
Founder & Advisor
advisXR
Immersion in Broadcast – Delivering Next-Generation Viewer Experiences
Sepi Motamedi
Industry Marketing Lead, Broadcast
NVIDIA
Guillaume Polaillon
Professional Broadcast Product Manager
NVIDIA
Interactive Storytelling
Rachid El Guerrab
Haiba Labs
Jan Pinkava
Pinkava Productions LLC
Interoperability | Meeting the Challenge of Interoperability Across Real-Time Industries
Wanda Meloni
CEO/President
M2 Insights
Andrew Schmied
COO
M2 Insights
Retail & 3D Commerce
Felix Limper
Head of Operations
RapidCompact by DGG
Max Limper
CTO
RapidCompact by DGG
Tools to Develop the Future
Jan Pflueger
Founder & Advisor
advisXR
Gabriele Romagnoli
Head of Community
Tvori
Training & Education
Dan Frith
VP of 3D Platform
Avataar.me
Greg Mitchell
Cinematics Director and Developer / Real-Time Execution
Virtual Production
Paolo Tamburino
Executive Producer
Philipp Wolf
Executive-in-Charge, Corporate Strategy
DNEG
DECEMBER 2021 CURATORS
Avatars | Telepresence | Volumetric Capture
Paul Debevec
Director of Research, Creative Algorithms and Technology at Netflix
Digital Fashion – Dressing the Metaverse
Matthew Drinkwater
Head of Innovation Agency
London College of Fashion
Sallyann Houghton
UE Business Development Fashion / M&E
Epic Games
Direction of the Metaverse Infrastructure
Wanda Meloni
CEO/President
M2 Insights
Andrew Schmied
COO
M2 Insights
Live Broadcast Within the Metaverse
Sepi Motamedi
Industry Marketing Lead, Broadcast
NVIDIA
Guillaume Polaillon
Professional Broadcast Product Manager
NVIDIA
Location Based Entertainment
Brent Strong
Creative Director at Walt Disney Imagineering
NFTs
Christopher Nichols
Director of
Chaos Labs
Populating the Metaverse One Standard at a Time
Rachel Bradshaw
Vice President, Account Services
Caster Communications, Inc.
RealTime Narrative – Independent Filmmaking
Jose Luis Gomez Diaz
Lead Software Engineer, AR/VR – Walt Disney Animation Studios
Nikki Tomaino
UE | Lookdev Lead | Spire Animation Studios
Retail and 3D Commerce
Felix Limper
Head of Operations
RapidCompact by DGG
Max Limper
CTO
RapidCompact by DGG
Jan Pflueger
Founder & Advisor
advisXR
Stylizing the Metaverse
Alexandre Bléron
R&D Engineer
Left Angle
Santiago Montesdeoca
CEO and Founder
Artineering
Tools to Develop the Future
Jan Pflueger
Founder & Advisor
advisXR
Gabriele Romagnoli
Head of Community
Tvori
Training & Simulation
Elizabeth Baron
Enterprise Solutions Executive at Unity Technologies & Chair-Elect of SIGGRAPH
Jan Pflueger
Founder & Advisor
advisXR
APRIL 2021 CURATORS
Architecture, Engineering & Construction (AEC)
Kim Baumann Larsen
Architect and VR designer
Alex Coulombes
Co-Founder
Agile Lens
Automotive
Elizabeth Baron
Enterprise Solutions Executive at Unity Technologies & Chair-Elect of SIGGRAPH
Jan Pflueger
Founder & Advisor
advisXR
Design & Manufacturing
Elizabeth Baron
Enterprise Solutions Executive at Unity Technologies & Chair-Elect of SIGGRAPH
Jan Pflueger
Founder & Advisor
advisXR
Digital Fashion
Alexis Arragon
Founder & CEO
Stylé
Matthew Drinkwater
Head of Innovation Agency
London College of Fashion
Guillaume Gouraud
Co-Founder
Stylé
Digital Humans
Christophe Héry
Research Scientist
Facebook Reality Labs
Mike Seymour
Lecturer, Researcher Digital Humans & Writer : MOTUS Lab (DDGR) USYD & fxguide co-founder
Future Computing
Jon Peddie
CEO
Jon Peddie Research
Neil Schneider
Executive Director, The International Future Computing Associatio
Impact of Real-Time on the Gaming Industry
David Bowman
Studio Development Director at Creative Assembly
Greg Mitchell
Cinematics Director
The Coalition Studio – Microsoft
Rick Stringfellow
Principal Art Director EA CREATE – Vancouver
Impact of Real-Time on Health
Jan Pflueger
Founder & Advisor
advisXR
LED Walls / LED Stages
Bill Desowitz
Crafts Editor
IndieWire
Location Based Entertainment
Brent Strong
Creative Director at Walt Disney Imagineering
Real-Time in the Cloud
Evan Goldberg
Manager, Technology Innovation Research at The Walt Disney Studios
Jean-Colas Prunier
Product Architect, Founder at PocketStudio
Guillaume Polaillon
Senior Alliance Manager
NVIDIA
Real-Time @ Siggraph
Elizabeth Baron
Enterprise Solutions Executive at Unity Technologies & Chair-Elect of SIGGRAPH
Adam Finkelstein
Professor, Computer Science Department – Princeton University
Pol Jeremias-Vila
Lead Graphics Engineer – Pixar Animation Studios | SIGGRAPH 2021 Chair
USD
George ElKoura
Senior Software Engineering Lead – Pixar Animation Studios
Pol Jeremias-Vila
Lead Graphics Engineer – Pixar Animation Studios | SIGGRAPH 2021 Chair
Virtual Production
Dave Gougé
Head of Marketing & Publicity
Weta Digital
Mike Sanders
Senior Visual Director
Activision
Volumetric Capture, Light Fields & Holograms
Paul Debevec
USC Institute for Creative Technologies