OLD LUIZ
Senior Researcher PQ at CNPQ and Titular Researcher at IMPA and leader scientist at VISGRAF Laboratory. His academic background includes: BE in Industrial Design by ESDI / UERJ in 1979, MS in Computer Graphics by MIT / Media Lab in 1985, and Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1994 by the University of Toronto. During 1982, he was a visiting director at the National Film Board of Canada. From 1985 to 1987 he was a Systems Engineer at Fantastic Animation Machine in New York, where he developed the company's 3D visualization system. From 1987 to 1991 he was Principal Engineer at Rede Globo in Brazil, where he created special effects and visual simulation systems. In 1994, he was a visiting professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University. He was also a visiting researcher at HP Laboratories in 1995 and at Microsoft Research China in 2002.

MATTEO MORICONI
Director of VFXRio, an ACM Siggraph-affiliated festival dedicated to fostering dialog about transformative emerging technologies with socio-economic relevance. With over twenty years of international experience in creating collective immersive narratives through emerging digital technologies, Moriconi has a rich background, including formative years in the technology groups of the Walt Disney Company and Discovery Channel Europe. He has been dedicated to promoting new technologies and disseminating knowledge for years. He is President of the Brazilian Association of Visual Technology and Director of VFXRio.

BERNARDO ALEVATO
He has a degree in Industrial Design from Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (1997) and a Master in Design from Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (2020). He is currently a design and computer graphics advisor at Oi Kabum! Lab and works as a freelance designer in the areas of graphic design, motion design and interface design. He was a collaborating professor at Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro from 2009 to 2021. He has experience in the field of Industrial Design, with emphasis on Visual Communication and digital media.