ANNOUNCED SPEAKERS
Rod Roddenberry
Executive Producer, Star Trek TV & Films (Paramount+)
Francesco Siddi
CEO & Chairman
at Blender Foundation
Ariel Emanuel
Executive Chairman, WME Group
Alex Ross
World-Renowned Comic Book Artist
(DC & Marvel Comics)
Peter Diamandis
Founder and Executive Chairman of the XPRIZE Foundation
Richard Kerris
VP | GM Media & Entertainment at NVIDIA
Trevor-Harries Jones
Board Member at Render Network Foundation
Andrey Lebrov
Head of CG & VFX Production
+ Founder of LMI
Daniel Berkovitz
Chief Product Officer at LTX
Carlos Baena
Director
Eric Bravick
CEO & Founder - The Lifted Initiative
Riki Kim
Executive Creative Director
at Artechouse
David Ariew
Digital Fine Artist
MHX
Motion Designer, Generative Artist
Alex Pearce
Chief Executive Officer
at Sim-Plates
Kyle Gordon
Artist & Creative Technologist
Jonathan Winbush
Multi-award-winning Motion Graphics Artist and Educator
Paul Litvack
Founder & Executive Director at
The Robyn Dawes Institute
Spenser Dickerson
3D Artist & Motion Designer at OTOY
Barton Damer
Founder & Creative Director at Already Been Chewed
Jules Urbach
CEO of OTOY / Render Network Founder
Refik Anadol
Internationally Renowned Media Artist & Director
Mariana Acuna Acosta
VP of Product at Promise AI
Tristan Relly
Head of Operations at Render Network Foundation
At RenderCon 2026, we are bringing together the absolute forefront of digital artists, studio executives, developers, and infrastructure leaders and AI innovators to Nya Studios in Hollywood this April 16–17.
This isn't a conference about speculative hype, these are the visionaries building, using, and scaling advanced compute and rendering systems under real deadlines. defining the last mile of real-world production, cinematic workflows, and decentralized infrastructure.
We are dropping new speakers every single week. Get to know the artists, technologists, and infrastructure leaders joining us to explore the real-world intersection of AI, graphics, and compute.
Zheru Liu
Global Partnerships & Communications
at Kling AI
Deren Ney
Writer / Director of Beggar's Canyon
Josh Pierce
Visual Artist & Art Director
Woosung Kang
Motion Designer & Art Director
Blake Kathryn
Visual Artist
EJ Hassenfratz
Emmy Award-winning 3D Artist &
Motion Designer
Wes Cockx
Creative Director at CREAM3D
Matt Milstead
Motion Designer, Creative Director, and Founder of Mograph.com