Luiz Velho: Senior PQ Researcher at CNPq, full professor at IMPA and lead scientist of the VISGRAF Laboratory. His academic background includes: Systems Analysis from PUC-Rio, BE in Industrial Design from ESDI - UERJ, MS in Computer Graphics from MIT / Media Lab, and PhD in Computer Science from the University of Toronto. He directed the first computer-animated film in Latin America. He was a visiting artist at the National Film Board of Canada, a systems developer at Fantastic Animation Machine in New York, a principal engineer at Rede Globo, and a visiting professor at NYU's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. He has also been a visiting researcher at HP Laboratories and Microsoft Research China.

Matteo Moriconi: technologist and director, co-founder of VFXRio, an ACM Siggraph-affiliated festival dedicated to fostering discussions about the ecosystem of transformative emerging visual technologies with socio-economic relevance in Brazil. With a degree in Chemistry from PUC-Rio, Matteo founded the Virtual Museum of Brazilian Art in 1997, a pioneering project that used the web for creative initiatives, working together with various Latin American artists to create virtual works. Matteo has over 20 years' experience in developing creative projects, including years of training in the technology groups of the Walt Disney Company and Discovery Channel Europe.