Addie Reiss
CPO / Studio GM — Digital Nation Entertainment llc

Short summary
I’m focused on developing a 4D Gaussian Splats production pipeline and exploring viable business opportunities, while serving the LA community through education and strategic collaborations.

Full statement
My current focus is developing a 4D Gaussian Splats production pipeline and identifying viable business opportunities around it. Based in Los Angeles, I want to serve the community through education initiatives, production experiments, and strategic collaborations centered on 4DGS.

Ajay Rai
COO — RTC – The RealTime Community

Alain Waha
CTO — Buro Happold

Short summary
Engage with the open source community and build collaborative innovation projects

Full statement
We are inventing the future of design & engineering for the built environment (buildings & infrastructure), converging RT technologies with Design & construction technologies to deliver the built environment quicker, more sustainably and more collaboratively/democratically. As part of this collaborative effort, we have open-sourced our computational design language that enables this convergence.

Alistair Thompson
Head of Innovation Lab — Epic Games

Austin Reed
Associate Vice President, Director Creative Media Studio — HNTB

Short Summary
Continue to help the community move forward

Full Statement
With the ever-changing landscape of the explosion of AI and its impending economic impacts on all industries I want to help others navigate this paradigm shift and use it for career and artistic growth opportunities rather than job replacement. Now is the time to act and make a lasting impact on others in how they adopt AI into their workflows.

Ava Oppenheimer
Founder, CEO — Tryito

Ben Kent
Director of Research — Foundry

Brett Ineson
President / CTO — Animatrik Film Design

Short summary
I want to better understand the AI disruption as we expand our business, and I’m looking for direct conversations with peers about what comes next.

Full statement
We are expanding our business and the AI disruption is of particular importance to understanding. I have been part of the Realtime conferences in the past and am aware of how valuable the experience can be. A.I. is the most important conversation of our time, and I look forward to discussing directly with the other stakeholders in our industry.

Casey Aldridge
Senior Director, Customer & Community Marketing — Bentley Systems

Christopher Hebert
Senior Director, Global Marketing — SideFX

Clemens Linder
Senior Designer, EBT Trustee Director — ZHA Architects

Danilo Papic
CEO & Co-Founder — Netfork

Short Summary
To contribute with my general AI consulting experience, understand the problems withing the indistres present, build my network

Full Statement
– I’d like to contribute with my general AI consulting experience / business process automation (via use of AI)
– I’d like to contribute with hybrid workflows (as I was a part of the working group)
– I’d like to better understand the problems withing the industries present
– I’d like to build my network

David Ayeni
Principal — Vistergy

Short Summary
RESET convenes the people building real-time workflows across industries that rarely compare notes. I bring the regulated-infrastructure perspective, where real-time only matters if it is trustworthy, and I want to learn from media, gaming and visualisation practitioners who solved latency and scale years before infrastructure did. As a RESET Champion I am co-leading the London welcome remarks with Greg Demchak, and I want the conversations that start there to become working collaborations.

Full Statement
Critical infrastructure is becoming a real-time discipline. The plants, grids and data centres being built now will be operated through live models, continuous data and AI agents, yet the sector that most needs real-time capability is the least able to adopt it, because every answer must survive an audit. That is the conversation I want to bring to RESET London 26. Vistergy builds governed intelligence for nuclear, energy and data centre infrastructure: AI grounded in published standards, evidence attached to every answer, open-source foundations underneath. We have learned that trust is an engineering discipline, not a claim. I hope to contribute that perspective, compare it honestly with how the media, gaming and visualisation communities earned real-time at scale, and help turn the welcome remarks I am co-leading with Greg Demchak into collaborations that outlast the event.. RESET is where those worlds actually meet.

David Morin
Executive Director — ASWF

Edward White
Technical Director — Infrastructure Visualization & Real-Time Simulation — Independent

Short Summary
Mostly to find out whether the problem I’ve been working on looks the same from other directions. Games, VFX and virtual production have solved fidelity and pipeline problems that infrastructure work now meets under regulatory constraint, where the image has to be defensible rather than merely convincing. I’d contribute that regulated environment perspective, and hope to leave with a clearer read on where open standards are actually heading.

Long Statement
Accuracy in visual simulation has always been invisible by design — the precondition for the work, never its subject. The output gets judged as a picture, while the machinery underneath stays undocumented and firm-specific.

That was tolerable while images were expensive to make. Generation has made them nearly free.

The apparatus that does exist was built for photography. France’s CNDP appoints independent experts to audit photomontages — nodal-point rotation, 50 mm equivalence, registration to three arc-minutes. The UK’s equivalent guidance places AR and VR beyond its scope and is under review.

Nothing comparable governs a generated, captured or real-time image. Provenance standards tell you what made a file; they don’t tell you whether it faithfully represents a real place seen from a real viewpoint. That question is arriving in every industry at RESET. It arrived in infrastructure permitting first, and I spent twenty years building the answer inside one firm. I’d like to compare notes.

Elena Garces
Senior Research Scientist — Adobe

Short Summary
My diverse experience as an academic, researcher in a big tech company, and startup co-founder gives me a broad perspective on the challenges and opportunities across research, industry, and entrepreneurship. I hope to exchange perspectives, learn from others, and contribute insights on how to bridge these worlds and turn research into real-world impact

Full Statement
RESET London 26 matters to me because it brings together perspectives from research, industry, and entrepreneurship at a time when the boundaries between them are rapidly changing. Having worked across academia, a startup, technology transfer, and big-tech research, I have experienced first-hand both the potential of frontier technologies and the challenges of turning research breakthroughs into reliable, production-ready solutions.

I hope to contribute a practical perspective on how we can better connect researchers, engineers, product teams, and decision-makers—particularly around AI and emerging technologies. I’m especially interested in discussing how we can move from “what is technically possible” to “what can actually be deployed and create impact”, and how large organizations can engage more effectively with innovation emerging from smaller teams and research communities.

Elena Shilova
Research Engineer — Autodesk

Short Summary
I’m interested in how AI is moving from isolated tools and experiments into real AEC workflows, particularly where geometry, structured building data, simulation and agentic systems intersect. I’d value the opportunity to exchange perspectives with others working across research, software and practice, and to contribute experience from both computational design and generative AI for AEC

Full Statement
My work sits between computational design, AEC research and generative AI. I currently work on geometry-aware models, multimodal post-training, evaluation and agentic workflows for building design, following several years of applied computational research in architectural practice.

RESET is particularly relevant to me because it focuses on what happens after the prototype: how AI, simulation, structured data and computational workflows become useful, trustworthy and scalable within real organisations. I would be keen to contribute a perspective grounded in both research and delivery, especially around spatial reasoning, geometry, BIM/IFC, model evaluation and the integration of AI into multidisciplinary AECO workflows.

Francesco Pepe
Chief Operational Officer — EDI Effetti Digitali Italiani

Short Summary
I’m curious about new thinking regarding Ai contents, I like share information and knowledge

Full Statement
We are actively working with and exploring generative AI. I’m looking forward to hearing new ideas and learning from additional case studies. We are witnessing a revolution, and we need to share our experiences in order to gain the right perspective on it.

Glenn Goldman
Director Emeritus and Professor — School of Art + Design at New Jersey Institute of Technology

Short Summary
Figure out what sort of collaboration is possible between industry and the academy

Full Statement
I represent the educators/education community for ACM SIGGRAPH and am looking for collaboration with RTS. As an educator (and former administrator), I am interested in the disruptive issues that are occurring throughout industry.

Greg Demchak
VP of Emerging Technologies — Bentley Systems

Short Summary
I represent the educators/education community for ACM SIGGRAPH and am looking for collaboration with RTS. As an educator (and former administrator), I am interested in the disruptive issues that are occurring throughout industry.

Full Statement
We are hosting the event at our office in London and this is a great platform in which to engage in open dialog about the future of creative activities in the context of the AI revolution.

Habib Zargarpour
Co-head of the Virtual Production Program — USC School of Cinematic Arts

Short Summary
Present my point of view and experiences and see what others are thinking about where we are headed.

Full Statement
As we are moving fast towards rapid change, it’s important to foresee where to focus our efforts to be best prepared for what comes next.

Harry Spraiter
Associate — ZHA Architects

Jöel Maguet
Managing Director — The Third Floor

Johannes Renner
Solution Architect & Digital integration Consultant — Bentley Systems

John Canning
Director of Strategic Partnerships: M&E — AMD / CTO — Escape Technology

Lee Danskin
Chief Technology Officer — Escape Technology

San Román Marshall
Owner — Adelfas Capital Partners, s.l.

Judith Crow
VP Strategic Partnerships — SideFX

Short summary
I’m focused on ethical AI integration into procedural workflows and collaborative working groups.

Full statement
Reimagining mature procedural workflows and integrating AI solutions ethically is central to my focus. I want to share SideFX roadmap thinking, continue ethics and ROI conversations from RESET 2025, and help form working groups around shared goals.

Karoly Markos
Senior Associate

Kerenza Harris
Executive Leader | Design Technology & Practice Innovation (AECO) | Faculty — SCI-Arc

Short summary
I want to bring a practical adoption lens—how we move from pilots to repeatable operating models—and frame sustainability and resilience as core drivers of integration.

Full statement
RESET LA 26 matters to me because we’re at a turning point: real-time systems and AI are accelerating change faster than most practices can absorb it. I’ve spent my career in the gap between design ambition and delivery reality, building ways for teams to protect intent, reduce friction, and make performance measurable under real constraints.
What I hope to contribute is a practical lens on adoption. Tools are not the bottleneck. Coherence is. I want to help the group define operating models that move from pilots to repeatable practice, and that stay flexible as new technology arrives. I also want to bring sustainability and resilience into that same frame, not as a separate topic, but as the forcing function that makes integration non-optional and elevates the value of consistent, traceable outcomes.

Kim Lee Loo Blottiere
Producer — RTC – The RealTime Community

Krzysztof Jedrzejewski
Founder — Independent Consultancy

Short Summary
I wish to exchange ideas on the AECO cross-vendors systems orchiestrated by AI, what should and shouldn’t be built “In-house” and how AECO business model changes throughout these aspects.

Full Statement
As I have worked both with leaderships of AEC offices and owned product strategy for Autodesk AEC platform, perspective I want to bring to the table is dual:
1) Perspective on how ecosystem of start-ups and large software vendors converge in thinking about software architecture and value capture.
2) Different level or AI and Software adoption across AEC practices (Architecture offices and Construction)

Seeing the participant list I see RESET as a fantastic opportunity to expand my horizons by learning about parallels in other industries and share my AECO experience.

Apologies for extremely late registration – Received the invitation last minute.
If accepted – Could you walk me through the cost structure? Is there any way of reducing the fee for “independent” participant?

Lee Danskin
CTO — Escape Technology

Short Summary
Bouncing ideas and Brain storming can lead to numerous outcomes which could contribute and gain in ways that i cannot quantify

Full Statement
Currently it is an unknown interesting proposition and was honoured to be invited and to see what comes from it, my first forays in the RTC and reset communities, how I might contribute in the future etc

Lincoln Wallen
CTO — Framestore

Lisa Schulteis
Founder & Consultant — ElectraLime Marketing

Short Summary
What drew me to RESET was how closely the questions being explored align with the work I am doing around adoption and behavior change. Organizations increasingly have access to technologies that are capable of producing results, yet implementation often stalls because the human and organizational systems surrounding the technology have not changed with it. I would value the opportunity to contribute a neuroscience and behavioral psychology perspective to those conversations, while learning from leaders who are confronting these challenges from technology, production, operational and business perspectives. I am particularly interested in the gap between successful experimentation and sustained adoption at scale.

Full StatementM
My work sits at the intersection of strategy, technology and human behavior. Throughout my career, I have seen organizations invest in strong ideas and capable technologies that generate initial engagement but never translate into sustained adoption.

I developed The Neuroscience of Adoption to explore that gap, combining principles from neuroscience and behavioral psychology with practical experience implementing technology and leading change.

At RESET, I hope to contribute that human lens alongside participants approaching these challenges from technical, production and organizational perspectives. I am especially interested in the question of what happens after we know a technology works: what creates trust, reduces resistance and helps new ways of working become actual operating practice?

Mark Kauffman
Asst. VP/Technical Lead — WSP USA

Short Summary
Gain insights on what other people are experiencing in their production workflows. I find the face-to-face conversations very illuminating.

Full Statement
Gain insights on what other people are experiencing in their production workflows. I find the face-to-face conversations very illuminating.

Martha Tsigkari
Senior Partner – Head of Applied Research + Development — Foster + Partners

Nandhini Giri
Assistant Professor/Director — Purdue University

Short summary
I want firsthand insight into industry trends shaping real-time and AI workflows, and I hope to contribute an education and workforce-development lens to the conversation.

Full statement
My current focus is in identifying next-gen tools, workflows, and industry-ready competencies for integration in computer graphics education and workforce development across programs
As an education and researcher in this field, I’m interested in participating in RESET LA 26 to receive first hand information about the current trends, technologies, and strategies that drive the industry. I’m hoping to contribute to the conversation around education and training futures. The topic is very much aligned to a panel I moderated in ACM SIGGRAPH 2025 titled ‘Education Disrupted’!

Nathaniel Busschaert
RealTime 3D Artist — CERN

Short Summary
I hope to gain some insight on realtime simulation and virtual production, but also share how CERN has used Unreal to develop Immersive content for the Future Circular Collider.

Full Statement

As a 3D artist, I am currently working on the Future Circular Collider as part of the audio-visual team at CERN.
I would hope to contribute by sharing workflows and techniques as to how Unreal and other DCC programs have been essential in developing 3D media and immersive content for the FCC.

In addition, I would very much be interested in getting more insight as to how Unreal and AI could be implemented in our office to help optimize our current workflow.

Nils Fisher
Director — ZHA Architects

Patrik Schumacher
Associate — ZHA Architects / Principal — ZHA

Short summary
Patrik Schumacher is Principal of ZHA and was instrumental in developing the practice into a 500-strong global architecture and design brand. In 1996 he founded the Design Research Laboratory at the Architectural Association in London, where he continues to teach. Since 2007 he has promoted Parametricism as the new epochal style for the 21st century. His books include The Autopoiesis of Architecture (2010/12) and Tectonism: Architecture for the 21st Century (2023). His current research focuses on the metaverse as an opportunity for architecture.

Pawl Fulker
Co-Owner — Proof London

Peter Nofz
VFX Super — RodeoFX

Short summary
I want to understand where everyone stands and how we can manage change responsibly for artists as workflows evolve.

Full statement
It’s important to see where everybody is and how to manage change for all our artists

Priam Givord
Design Director — Priam Givord Studio

Short Summary
My interest in the UX potential of real-time technologies across immersive computing, simulation, design and engineering comes directly from my studio practice, where we continuously try to improve our methods and tools. This has increasingly led me to explore what comes after the conventional engineering GUI: more direct, embodied real-time interfaces connecting simulation, design, sensing and physical production. At RESET, I hope to contribute this design and UX perspective while exchanging with people working on simulation, digital twins, robotics and engineering platforms. I am particularly interested in the technical and adoption challenges involved in turning these emerging interfaces into practical, intuitive real-world workflows.

Full Statement

My interest in the UX potential of real-time technologies across immersive computing, simulation, design and engineering comes directly from my studio practice, where we continuously try to optimize our methods and tools. This has increasingly led us to question the conventional engineering GUI and explore more direct, embodied real-time interfaces connecting simulation, design, and physical production. David Schwartz at RIT (https://www.rit.edu/directory/disvks-david-schwartz), with whom I have been discussing these ideas, recommended I connect with the RealTime Community.

I am currently developing two concrete Virtual Reality experiments in this direction: one combining immersive CAD design with real-time physical simulation, and another connecting VR CAD design and sensing with robotic-arm (cobot) real-time fabrication.

At RESET, I would like to contribute this design perspective while learning from people working on the technical and adoption challenges required to turn these emerging interfaces into real-world engineering tools.

Reeti Gupta
Executive Director of Technology — Newcomb & Boyd

Rich Welsh
President — SMPTE

Rick Stringfellow
Head of Content, Fellow — Electronic Arts

Rochele Gloor
Co-Founder — Natural Realities

Short Summary
Learn and share with innovator and leaders what is the present and future of real time technologies during the AI-driven transition in every area of industry.

Full Statement
RESET London 2026 matters to me because it is focused on actual execution and it seems that will be a continuation of work started on the 2 previous symposiums in LA and London. I hope to contribute on the Talent and Expertise panel, sharing constructive advise on self-development, education and the blending of hands-on, foundational skills, and current technology learning while leveraging AI.

Sam Richards
Co-Chair Technology Committee — Visual Effects Society

Short Summary
Share some of the projects that the VES Technology Committee is working on, specifically the Da-M-I-C-US classification project.

Full Statement
As real-time tools and AI reshape modern production, closing the gap between isolated experimentation and production-grade infrastructure is critical. RESET London matters to me as a vital venue to address the practical economics, governance, and architectural realities of this transition.

In my role as Co-Chair of the Visual Effects Society (VES) Technology Committee, my focus is on driving open standards, color management, and pipeline interoperability across the industry. I hope to contribute candid, high-level strategic insights on integrating agentic and real-time workflows into robust production pipelines, ensuring emerging tech aligns with open frameworks, scalability, and long-term ecosystem health.

Setareh Samandari
VFX/AI Supervisor — Interdimansional VFX

Short Summary
Contribute my experience and direct involvement in projects using real-time and AI, and learn how others are overcoming issues.

Full Statement
How can crosspollination of tools help us tackle the new challenges of budgets and expectations.

Shajay Bhooshan
Associate Director — ZHA

Sol Rogers
Global Director of Innovation — Magnopus

Tatiana Panzeri
Senior Director, Value Delivery — Bentley Systems

Terrence Masson
Co-Founder — Natural Realities

Thibaut Delahaye
Senior lead Animator & mentor — misc

Toby Hyder
CEO — XO Link

Short Summary
Connections and working tests with collaborators. lets push the tech forward!

Full Statement
The VFX industry is moving slow and AI is moving fast. That said there are still so many valuable things that arn’t being explored in the space.
I want to push the limits of what identity transfer into the AI space can do and create a new standard and opportunity for volumetric practitioners

Tony Prosser
CEO  — RealTime

Short Summary
Learn about new AI based technologies and how studios changing and adapting to use them

Full Statement
My own studio has been negatively impacted by a number of external factors, generative AI is one of a number. I’d like to share some of our own experiences and better understand what others are doing to reimagine their studios in the future. I’m beginning to so see ‘glimmers’ of a route back to profitability but I’m keen to discuss this ideas with others in a similar situation.

Vishu Bhooshan
Senior Associate — ZHA Architects

Short summary
Vishu is a Senior Associate at Zaha Hadid Architects, where he co-leads the Computation and Design group (ZHA CODE). He leads the development of proprietary computational frameworks for the synthesis of high-performance architectural geometries, enabling structural optimisation, parametric modelling, and interdisciplinary coordination. His work integrates research in early-stage design optioneering, robotic construction, and the digital reinterpretation of historical timber and masonry systems. Since joining ZHA, he has contributed to a wide range of projects, including research prototypes, galleries, stadiums, transport infrastructure, residential developments, masterplans, and emerging digital environments such as the metaverse and gaming.