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Real-Time enthusiast, Alexandre Menard has more than 20+ year experience in the vfx industry from previs to final pixel. He is currently the HOD of visualization at rodeofx, a department he built from the ground up tapping from his previous previs experience. He also occupied the role of cg supervisor and worked on many high-profile project such as Strangers Things, Fantastic Beast and Dumbo.

Teddy Wong is the Chief Technology Officer of Squeeze Studio. He oversees the operations and delivery of technology at Squeeze. For the last 15 years, he has built high performance technology teams for companies such as RodeoFX, SSENSE and Intelcom Express in the greater Montreal region. Scaling their reach into international markets. His goal is to continue enabling companies through technology, while focusing on culture and the people who represent it.

Shahin Rabbani is an R&D Scientist at Ubisoft. He joined La Forge R&D in 2016 after earning his Ph.D. at McGill in computer animation and control of physically-based humanoids. His current fields of interest are fluids simulation for real-time applications and rigid body destruction.

During his 11-year career, Samuel Guiraudou had the opportunity to work with different media, from TV to feature film, VFX and Animation, and within various departments such as surfacing, matte painting, lighting and compositing.
Since he joined Mikros Animation in 2014, he’s built his experience as an artist and a supervisor on very different projects. Today he leverages his technical and artistic experience to work with producers, supervisors, TD’s and artists to build the environments in which the stories are told. He also ensures data and information seamlessly flow across departments to help shaping creatives’ vision.