Speakers
Max Minor
Green Street Pictures
Max Minor is the Supervising Producer at Green Street Pictures.
He joined the GSP team in 2023 to produce “Common Side Effects” for Adult Swim. Previously, he served as a Producer on “Saturday Morning All-Star Hits”, “Mulligan”, and “Hoops” for Bento Box and Netfl ix.
He’s currently working on season 2 of “Common Side Effects”, as well as several other exciting projects (not yet announced).
He lives in Santa Monica with his wife, Maggie and their mischievous pug, Waffles. He likes to surf, ride his bike and use old typewriters.
Genevieve Dexter
Serious Kids
Serious Kids, est. 2011, is a content distribution company based in London focused on the worldwide exploitation of animated and live action content, formats, music and merchandising rights to a select portfolio of high-quality children’s and family programming from all around the globe.
Serious Kids represents a wide portfolio from Oscar, BAFTA and Emmy Award winning producers as well as upcoming studios. The company’s latest titles include ‘’Happy Town’ for Sky Kids, ‘The Sound Collector’ from Eagle vs Bat for CiTV and RAI, ‘Flix by Tomi Ungerer’ from Pictor Productions/Eye Present for RTE, ‘The Ghastly Ghoul’ from Dream Logic/Lupus films for Sky/Kika and ‘Team Nuggets’ from Sparrre Productions. These new titles join a select stable of high profile IP including the double BAFTA winner and Emmy nominee, Operation Ouch!, now in its 13th season for CBBC and the Emmy Award winning ‘Ronja, the Robber’s Daughter’ (Studio Ghibli/Astrid Lindgren Company) directed by Goro Miyazaki.
Jo Redfern
Furtherhood Media
Jo Redfern is a Senior Exec in content and platform strategy and founder of Futrhood Media, working with both IP owners and sports rights holders to create strategies to engage young fans across the platforms where they live their digital lives - Social Gaming (Roblox, Fortnite), YouTube, TikTok and streaming.
She was Exec Producer of Cozmo & Friends, a YouTube-first animated series and Roblox experience both of which launched in 2022 and has worked on brands including Peppa Pig, Disney Junior, WWE and spent several years at BBC Children’s.
Her experience spans brand positioning, world-building & strategic opportunities for IP to scale in the transmedia age - leveraging different platforms, narrative design, communities, and emerging tech. She is also a co-host of the Kids Media Club podcast where she shares insights on trends in youth media and supports the kids media industry in navigating how younger generations will interact with content in the future.
Mark Mullery
Cartoon Saloon
Mark Mullery is an Irish animation professional and CTO of Cartoon Saloon for which he has worked since 2013.
He has served as assistant director of My Father’s Dragon and the Oscar®-nominated feature Wolfwalkers, as the technical director of the Oscar®-nominated The Breadwinner and the Emmy® Award-nominated Puffin Rock, and as co-director of the upcoming feature Julián.
Tom Box
Blue Zoo Animation
Tom Box is co-founder and joint managing director of Blue Zoo Animation.
Over the last 25 years, he has helped steer the studio to become one of the leading animation studios in the UK, picking up multiple Emmys and BAFTAs along the way.
Tom sits on the creative fence between the creative and technology side of the studio and oversees the company's technical and cultural advancements, including overseeing the studio’s B Corp status, ensuring the studio has maximum positive impact.
Dr. Steven Davy
TU Dublin
Dr. Steven Davy is an experienced researcher and leader in the field of sustainable digital technologies. He currently serves as the Director of the Centre for Sustainable Digital Technologies at TU Dublin. With a Ph.D. from Waterford Institute of Technology and a B.A. Mod (HONS) in Computer Science from Trinity College Dublin, Dr. Davy has over two decades of experience in academia and industry.
His research focuses on artificial intelligence, edge computing, and autonomous systems. Dr. Davy has made significant contributions to the field, including developing energy efficient and low powered generative AI models.
He has led multiple high-profile European research projects and has a strong track record in securing research funding. Throughout his career, Dr. Davy has demonstrated a commitment to bridging the gap between academic research and industry applications. He has been instrumental in developing innovative services for businesses and has successfully commercialized research outcomes, including the creation of a spin-out company.
As a leader, Dr. Davy has played a crucial role in developing research teams and mentoring early-career researchers. He actively contributes to the broader research community through his roles as a reviewer for funding agencies and academic journals.
Mamobo Ogoro
GORM
Mamobo Ogoro is a Social Psychologist and multi-award winning social entrepreneur. As the first Sanctuary PhD Fellow at the University of Limerick, Mamobo’s research investigates migrant identity construction in Ireland and how systems of inclusion and exclusion affect migrant communities in Ireland. Mamobo is on a personal mission to unify the world. She is the Founder and CEO of GORM, an award winning social enterprise on a mission to unify across differences and advance belonging for marginalised communities.
Mamobo has been heralded for her work with GORM on countless occasions, and most recently won the 2023 Tech and Digital award in the eir Power of Women awards, and listed in the Irish Independent 30 under 30. Mamobo spends most of her time working with organisations around the world, helping them develop intercultural leaders.
She lives in Dublin, Ireland, and considers herself as your friendly bisexual plant loving neighbour, who loves to read and take care of her home forest. She loves music, singing jazz and r&b, and spending time with family & friends.
Jhonie Aelbrecht
Pixel Nexus
Jhonie Aelbrecht is the CEO of Pixel-Nexus, a Belgium based company specialized in CGI pipelines. He started his journey in the world of computer graphics at the University of Applied Sciences in Kortrijk, where he graduated in Digital Arts and Entertainment.
When working at Grid VFX in Belgium as a lighter/rigger, later as a pipeline TD, he noticed that a pipeline and workflows are at the core of every production process.
With this experience in his back pocket, and his skills and expertise in software development, Jhonie embarked on a mission to provide pipelines and workflows for the rest of the entertainment industry. So he launched his company and provided productions across the globe with tools, workflows, guidance and the occasional bad jokes.
He also leverages his creativity and knowledge from the animation and VFX industry, in the gaming industry. Because of this enormous passion for animation and optimizing workflows, he grew Pixel-Nexus to the hub of knowledge it is today.
Wendy Willis
Sixpoint Harness
Wendy Willis joined Six Point in January 2016 as their Head of Development. She has worked as a creative producer in both features and television for many many years (20+!!!!), selling both comedies and dramas alike. Wendy and her team produced the animation for the 2020 Oscar-winning short animated film, Hair Love. She’s currently executive producing The Last Xmas, an R-rated, animated feature with Sony and Mosaic as well as OMG, Yes, a series for Adult Swim created by Adele Supreme Williams. In addition to the projects she’s currently in production on, she’s developing many others pitches with various studios and talent. Prior to Six Point, she was a development executive at Mosaic where she oversaw a slate of projects under their first-look deal at HBO and she also spearheaded the company’s first theater project with Crescendo Productions. Even further back, Wendy worked for Lorne Michaels at Saturday Night Live and at Mopo Productions where she was a producer on the Oscar-winning, short documentary,Twin Towers. She spends her time between Los Angeles and the Oregon Coast with her husband and dog.
