Joanna Quinn

Award-Winning English Film Director & Animator; Known for "Affairs of the Art"

Andrew Stanton

Film Director, Screenwriter, Producer & Voice Actor Based at Pixar Animation Studios

Rodney Rothman

Award-Winning Writer, Producer & Director; Known for "22 Jump Street" and "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse"

Josh Cooley

Animator, Screenwriter, Director Known for "Toy Story 4"

Byron Howard

Animator, Character Designer, Story Artist, Director, Producer & Screenwriter; Best Known for "Zootopia" & "Encanto"

Bruce W. Smith

Oscar-Winning Director of "Hair Love;" Animator & Television Producer Known for "The Proud Family"

Bob Persichetti

Award-Winning Animator & Director; Known for "Puss in Boots" and "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse"

Jennifer Yuh Nelson

Director & Storyboard Artist; Best Known for "Kung Fu Panda 2"

Phil Lord and Chris Miller

American Film and Television Writers, Producers, Directors, Actors, and Animators, Best Known for Films "Cloud With a Chance of Meatballs," "The Lego Movie," "21 Jump Street," and "22 Jump Street"

Jonas Rivera

Oscar Winning Producer Known for "Up" & "Toy Story 4"

Stanley Nelson Jr.

Emmy Award-Winning Documentary Filmmaker Known for "Freedom Summer" and "Attica"

Matthew Luhn

Director, Storytelling Consultant, Former Pixar Animator, Story Artist, Creativity Expert & Author

Matthew Luhn of Pixar on The Power of Story

Brad Bird

Animator, Film Director, Screenwriter, Producer & Voice Actor

Mark Ronson

Award-Winning Music producer and DJ

Spike Lee

Academy Award-Winning Writer, Producer, Actor & Director; Best Known for "BlacKkKlansman" & "Malcolm X"

Davy Liu

Producer & President of Kendu Films, Former Disney Animator

Phil Lord

Film Producer, Director & Writer; Best Known for "The Lego Movie" and "21 Jump Street"

Mike Rianda

Cartoonist, Director, Writer & Voice Actor; Best Known for "The Mitchells vs. the Machines"

Clark Spencer

Academy Award-Winning Film Producer, Businessman & Studio Executive at Walt Disney Animation Studios, Best Known for Zootopia and Encanto

Jared Bush

Screenwriter, Producer & Director; Best Known for Zootopia, Moana, and Encanto

Domee Shi

Director at Pixar Animation Studios

Angie Howard

Vice President of Custom Animation at Dreamworks Animation

Karen Palmer

Futurist & Thought Leader Using Immersive AI for Participants to Experience Societal Implications of AI and AI Bias; Award-Winning XR Creator; Winner of SXSW XR Competition 2023

Karen Palmer - Tech Futurist, Expert on Machine Learning Bias, AI

Shinichirō Watanabe

Critically-Acclaimed Japanese Anime Filmmaker, Screenwriter & Producer; Best Known for "Cowboy Bebop"

Todd Phillips

Filmmaker, Actor, Known for "Road Trip" and "Joker"

David Sproxton

Co-Founder of Aardman Animations, the Company Behind "Wallace & Gromit" & "Shaun the Sheep"

Bong Joon-ho

South Korean Director & Screenwriter Known for "Parasite" and "Okja"

Charlie Wachtel

Academy Award-Winning Film Writer & Producer; Known for "BlacKkKlansman"

Nick Vallelonga

Academy Award-Winning Writer & Producer; Known for "Green Book"

Brian Hayes Currie

Award-Winning Writer, Producer & Actor; Known for "Green Book"