Laura Livingstone, a seasoned VFX Executive from Ireland, brings her valuable experience and expertise to Netflix's visual effects team and is currently based in Los Angeles. Laura's journey began with a VFX support role on Marvel's blockbuster 'Iron Man 2' at Industrial Light and Magic in San Francisco. Since then Laura has collaborated on films with renowned directors such as David Nutter, Jon Favreau, Michael Bay, Robert Zemeckis, Rian Johnson, and JJ Abrams, and television shows for networks and studios like Cinemax, 20th Century Fox, Warner Bros.

Television, and Disney. Within Netflix's Series realm, Laura collaborates closely with colleagues, creatives, showrunners, producers, and directors. Her contributions to past hits like 'Bodkin,' 'Vikings Valhalla,' and 'Wednesday Season 1' highlight her dedication to help shape compelling visual narratives. Currently, Laura is instrumental in the production of upcoming shows including 'The Perfect Couple,' 'American Primeval,' 'The Residence,' 'Black Rabbit,' and 'The Madness.'

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With her keen eye for detail and commitment to storytelling, Laura continues to push the boundaries of visual effects in entertainment.

Lisa Maher is a Visual Effects Producer based in Los Angeles but born and raised in Dublin. Lisa has worked in film production for over twenty years. She began her career along with the Sullivan Bluth Animation team that moved from Dublin to set up Fox Animation in Phoenix, Arizona. When that studio closed its doors, she relocated to Los Angeles to work in live action, working her way up from coordinating to producing.

Her roles have mainly been as VFX Producer and Executive at vendor facilities in the US such as Shade VFX, Rhythm & Hues, CIS-Hollywood and Zoic Studios. Having completed production on over 25 feature films she moved into the area of business development working for non-US companies such as Dr. D. Studios and Fuel VFX. She then returned to VFX producing, mostly for episodic productions.

Most recently her role has been production side VFX Producer on two original series for Netflix - ‘God’s Favorite Idiot’ and ‘Bodkin’. Her credits include ‘Joker’, ‘Westworld’, ‘I Am Legend’ and 'Ocean's Twelve'.

Deborah Doherty is currently part of the leadership team at Windmill Lane, one of Ireland's leading post-production and VFX companies. She has over 25 years of experience in the media industry. Starting in Audio production in London in the 2000s, she joined Windmill Lane in 2005 and oversaw significant growth and expansion in the company’s audio division, before taking on a fuller management role in recent years.

Her role is part leadership, part business development, and part executive producer, building strong and collaborative relationships with clients, overseeing all aspects of VFX and post-production across a busy domestic and international film, TV and advertising client base. Recent work has included Netflix' s Bodkin , Doctor Who for BBC/Disney, The Tourist for BBC, AMC/Netflix's Kin and animations Grimsberg for Fox and Disney's Kazazi moto among many others. Deborah recently represented Windmill at SXSW's Ireland House this year in Austin.

Nicky Gogan has had a highly prolific career across many roles in the creative industries and cultural innovation over the past 25 years. In 1999 she founded the Darklight Film festival and in 2008 she established Still Films where she has produced and directed a large slate of award-winning documentaries, animations and artist films. Nicky is currently Executive Producer and Head of Development at Piranha Bar across a slate of animation and hybrid series, where she combines her ongoing passion for storytelling and innovation in creative technology.

In this regard Nicky has overseen the development of a bespoke real-time animation pipeline AniMotion using Epic Games Unreal Engine technology and performance capture. As well as developing the content slate at Piranha Bar, Nicky has produced 156 episodes for Piranha Bar’s animated preschool series Mya Go and most recently was the executive VFX producer on the Netflix series, Bodkin as well as a number of films and series yet to be released.

At the age of fourteen, writer, producer/director and consultant, Sheila de Courcy, tied a canvas rucksack onto her no-gear bike and hit the road. In the decades since, her search for unusual stories, told through words, photography, video and audio recordings, has taken her to five continents.

Sheila’s work has appeared on BBC and RTÉ TV and radio as well as in The Irish Times, Sunday Independent, Paper Visual Art and Accidental amongst other outlets. A former Group Head of Young People’s programmes in RTÉ and conservation assistant in the National Museum of Ireland, she has been a member of boards including the IFI, Mary Raftery Journalism Fund, Pan Pan Theatre, DICMF and The Ark, where she was chair from 2010-2015.

A British film producer, educator and environmentalist, Lord David Puttnam is Chair of Atticus Education, an online education company that delivers audio-visual seminars all over the world. David spent thirty years as an independent producer of award-winning films including The Mission, The Killing Fields, Chariots of Fire, Midnight Express, Bugsy Malone and Local Hero. Together these films have won ten Oscars, thirteen Golden Globes, nine Emmys, thirty-one BAFTAs, four David di Donatellos, and the Palme D'Or at Cannes. In 1997, he was appointed to the House of Lords and during his time as a parliamentarian, he agitated unrelentingly in public policy for education, climate change, and the creative industries.

In 2019, he was appointed Chair of the House of Lords Select Committee on Democracy & Digital Technologies, which was established to investigate the impact of technologies on democracy. David was awarded a CBE in 1982 and a knighthood in 1995. He is a Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters in France, and has more than 50 honorary degrees from universities worldwide. He was Ireland’s ‘Digital Champion’ from 2012 – 2017 and was granted Irish citizenship in 2022. He retired from the House of Lords in 2021 and now focuses on his work in education.

Emily Horgan is an independent media consultant and former Disney exec.  She has an extensive background in managing the intersection of content distribution and consumer products for household franchises including Star Wars, Marvel, Disney Princess, and Mickey Mouse.

She has written a great deal about the kids’ media space on Netflix and YouTube, as well as how to manage kids franchises in the new streaming world.  Her articles are published through her newsletter, The Kids StreamerSphere, in addition to many other outlets.  She is also co-host on The Kids Media Club podcast.  Work with current clients includes YouTube strategy, IP development, landscape analysis, and franchise consultancy.

Mark Little is a media entrepreneur and journalist with a lifelong interest in the impact of technology on human creativity. Mark is the co-founder of Kinzen and founder of Storyful, both acquired by global media corporations. He has worked on trust and safety issues at Spotify, and developed media partnerships for Twitter. Mark is a former TV presenter and foreign correspondent for RTE, and was a member of the Future of Media Commission, tasked with mapping the future of public media in Ireland.

Kim Bartley is a multi award winning Irish director who shoots and directs most of her documentaries, all of which have focused on human interest stories, social justice and current affairs. She has recently broadened her work to include drama as both a writer and director. Kim is also involved in offering training and mentorship to young people from under-represented communities in collaboration with IADT, Oberstown, Pathways and other organisations with a view to fostering more inclusivity within the industry. Kim is a board member of the Screen Director’s Guild of Ireland.

Aoife Barry is a Dublin-based freelance journalist and broadcaster. She is the author of the bestselling non-fiction book Social Capital (HarperCollins Ireland), which was nominated for an Irish Book Award. She is a Sunday Times arts columnist and her bylines also include the Irish Times, the Irish Independent, the Business Post, The Journal and the Examiner. She features regularly on RTÉ Radio One and Today FM. Her essays and fiction have been published by Banshee, ThiWurd, and Visual Verse, and broadcast on Sunday Miscellany. Aoife has received Agility Award Funding from the Arts Council for a novel in progress, and was selected by the Irish Writers Centre for its Evolution Programme 2023.