Explore the cutting-edge advancements in VFX technology, including real-time rendering, AI-driven VFX, virtual production, and more.

Discover how VFX is transforming storytelling across film, television, gaming, advertising, and other creative industries, pushing the boundaries of visual narratives.

Delve into sustainable practices within the VFX industry, addressing challenges such as reducing carbon footprints, ethical practices in content creation, and eco-friendly production techniques.

Investigate the convergence of VFX with immersive technologies like AR, VR, and MR, and their potential to reshape audience engagement and interaction.

Highlighting the importance of upskilling, this theme will focus on nurturing the next generation of VFX artists through training programs, mentorship, and industry-academia partnerships.

Understand how Indian VFX houses are collaborating with global studios, and the opportunities for co-productions that are elevating Indian content on the world stage.

Prasad is the head of studio for DNEG India, one of the world's leading visual effects, animation and stereo conversion companies for feature film and television. He collaborated extensively with DNEG's management, leadership, and core teams to lead and mentor it's crews across India by sharing his wealth of experience, knowledge, and ideas.

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. Over the years, he has played a crucial role in establishing and collaboratively developing DNEG’s VFX and Animation pipelines in India, while also overseeing the delivery of India teams on all of its most successful VFX projects, including our Oscar-winners ‘Blade Runner 2049,’ ‘First Man,’ ‘Tenet,’ and ‘Dune.’

Prior to DNEG, Prasad worked with Rhythm & Hues and Dreamworks Animation.

CV Rao, currently the Chief Technology Officer at one of the Leading studios of India, Annapurna Studios, is Post-Graduate in Economics from SV University, Tirupati, India. Before taking up the prestigious position of a Post-Production General Manager, CV Rao had started his career as a Graphic Designer in an advertising agency and his interest towards new-age technology made him a Master of complete Post-Production Services and recently added brain child of his at the Annapurna Studios is the Virtual Production Stage. He not only manages but also knows the work of each and every department.

To his credit, CV Rao has an international award for editing for one of the short films and is one of the backbones in delivering blockbuster Indian movies Baahubali sequels & RRR and also behind some 500+ movies for post-production works.

Starting with a small team and growing to several hundred artists across Toronto, Mumbai, Bengaluru and Hyderabad, Milind D. Shinde founded 88 Pictures in 2016 after spending years at DreamWorks Animation India and China unit. A doyen in the animation industry, he spent most of his animation career with DreamWorks. He was part of the core team instrumental in setting up and development of the production infrastructure at the India DreamWorks and Oriental DreamWorks in Shanghai, China.

In his robust body of experience, Milind has been a part of few Oscar-nominated feature films at DreamWorks and played an important role in the production of most of its successful movie franchises such as ‘Madagascar,’ ‘Kung Fu Panda,’ ‘How to Train Your Dragon’ among others.

Through his astute management skills, unflinching vision and a zeal for quality and creativity, he has successfully established 88 Pictures as a key player in the arena of animation.