6 SEPT 2017 9:30-10:00 OPENING CEREMONY 10:00-11:00 OPENING KEYNOTE: Changing Tools and Technology by Kevin Baillie - Atomic Fiction Room 510A, C 11:00-11:30 COFFEE BREAK (30 MINUTES) sponsored by Business Lounge Room 512D, C, H / Expo Zone ROOM 510A, C ROOM 510B ROOM 510D ROOM 512A, E ROOM 512B, F 11:30-12:30 War of the Planet of the Apes The Goal and the Obstacle: How PANEL: The Future of VFX PANEL: VFX Producers Have a Date with Clarisse Dan Lemmon - Weta Digital the Human Struggle Resonates in Moderator: Wayne Brinton - BCTQ Eric Smith - Isotropix Animation Atomic Fiction, Marc Sadeghi - Sponsored Session by Scalar Chris Kirshbaum - Cinesite Atomic Fiction, Glenn Derry - Fox VFX Lab, Jordan Sole - Rodeo FX 12:30-13:30 LUNCH (1 HOUR) sponsored by Business Lounge Room 512D, C, H 13:30-14:30 Ballerina, the Creative Process Enabling Storytelling with Modern PANEL: All the Recruiter’s Secrets The Blood Brothers Building Dynamics Systems in Laurence Vacher, Benoit Blouin Tools in VFX Jean-François Ferland and Houdini and Ted Ty - L’Atelier Animation Glenn Derry - Fox VFX Lab Moderator: Pierre-Luc Labbée - Maxime Lapointe - Alchemy 24, Je Wagner - SideFX rhum, ressources et humains, Carlo Harrietha and Jean-Mathieu Sponsored Session by SideFX Christina Zervos - MPC, Bérubé - The Blood Brothers Carl Walters - Atomic Fiction, 14:00 - Moving Animation around Amy Smith - Framestore, Houdini Jennifer Elena - Rodeo FX, Guillaume Laferrière - SideFX Caroline Boucher - Double Sponsored Session by SideFX Negative 14:30-15:00 COFFEE BREAK (30 MINUTES) Business Lounge Room 512D, C, H 14:30 - Houdini Use in Valerian TBC - Rodeo FX Managing the Hologram of Ghost The Mummy: Lighting in FX PANEL: All the Recruiter’s Secrets The Interactive Audio Workstation 15:00-16:00 Sponsored Session by SideFX in the Shell Driven Show in Animation Martin Dufour - Audiokinetic Damien Fagnou - MPC Albert Szostkiewicz - Double Moderator: Pierre-Luc Labbée - Negative rhum, ressources et humains, Barbara Pieuchot - L'Atelier 15:30 - Creating Procedural Animation, Talia Vitaniotis - On Geometry And Procedural Assets Animation, Amélie Brouillard - Je Wagner Squeeze, Marta Marks - Reel FX Sponsored Session by SideFX 16:00-16:30 BOOTH CRAWL (16:00 to 18:00) sponsored by 16:30-17:30 Beauty and the Beast: the Magic Pirates of the Caribbean Color Management in VFX: Unity for Filmmaking and Foundry Presents Nuke 11.0 and of the Household Sta Rudy Grossman - Atomic Fiction Understanding the Color Spaces Storytelling. See the Power of a Post Production in the Cloud Adrien Saint-Girons - Framestore François Lord - Rodeo FX Parallel Creative Pipeline Terry Riyasat - Foundry Adam Myhill - Unity Sponsored Session by Foundry 18:00-22:00 VIP COCKTAIL sponsored by 7 SEPT 2017 9:30-11:00 KEYNOTE: Rodeo FX & Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets by Quentin Marmier- ILM, Jean-Sébastien Guillemette, Olivier Martin, Alexandre Ménard - Rodeo FX, Joseph Kasparian - Hybride Room 510A, C ROOM 510A, C ROOM 510B ROOM 510D ROOM 512A, E ROOM 512B, F 10:00-11:00 Double Negative’s Surfacing Virtual Production - Realizing the Pipeline: a Matter of Substance? World of Warcraft Zoe Cranley - Double Negative, Brett Ineson - Animatrik Wes McDermott - Allegorithmic 11:00-11:30 COFFEE BREAK (30 MINUTES) sponsored by Business Lounge Room 512D, C, H / Expo Zone 11:30-12:30 Explosive Races and Car Chases Dynamic Figures - Drawing from From Big Picture to Small Keys Rigging Approach at Squeeze: Making Zafari, the First Animated Pixomondo on the Fate of The Bodies in Motion Guillaume Charrin - Ludia Overcome Production Challenges TV Show Made with Unreal Furious Scott Eaton Renaud Lessard Larouche - Engine Mahmoud Rahnama - Pixomondo Squeeze Peter Skovsbo and Pierre Blaizeau - Digital Dimension 12:30-13:30 LUNCH (1 HOUR) sponsored by Business Lounge Room 512D, C, H 13:30-14:30 Creating Arrival's Alien Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero PANEL: Women in VFX Technical Innovation, an Indie Scalar Decisions Presents: Philippe Théroux - Hybride Emmanuel Laurent, Laurent Moderator: Natasia Schumacher - Studio, and Two Animated Shorts Advance Planning for Studio Rodon, Crystal W. Trawick, Atomic Fiction, Emily Paige - E.D. Films Production - Compute, Security & Philippe Zerounian, Marc-André Zoe Cranley - Double Negative, Vulnerability Must Haves Baron - Mikros Gaelle Bossis - MPC, Evelyne Neil Bunn - Scalar Leblond - Rodeo FX Sponsored Session by Scalar Lucy Killick - Framestore 14:30-15:00 COFFEE BREAK (30 MINUTES) Business Lounge Room 512D, C, H 15:00-16:00 Cinesite's Visual Eects for Starz The VFX in Game of Thrones Innovation in VFX Immersive Narrativity for VR and Sketch-2-Screen Bringing Modern Classic, "American Gods" Thomas Montminy Brodeur - Laurent Taillefer and Wayne Fulldome Stranger Things & Mist to Life Aymeric Perceval - Cinesite Rodeo FX Brinton - Atomic Fiction Yan Breuleux - NAD-UQAC Michael Pecchia and Matt Millard - Aaron Simms Creative Sponsored Session by Chaos Group 16:00-16:30 BOOTH CRAWL (16:00 to 18:00) sponsored by 16:30-18:00 CLOSING KEYNOTE: Alien Invades Montreal!! by Todd Isroelit - Fox, Ferran Domenech - MPC, Christian Kaestner - Framestore and Rudy Grossman - Atomic Fiction Room 510A, C 20:00-22:00 WRAP-UP / OFFICIAL PARTY sponsored by .