Media and Entertainment Keynote

Description

Key Learnings

Speakers

• MP

  Marc Petit
• DC

  Diana Colella

  As executive vice president of Autodesk's Media & Entertainment (M&E) solutions group, Diana plays a key role in growing and expanding the software company's presence in film & television production, as well as video game development. She leads a 400-person team on both the strategy and execution of Autodesk's award-winning media & entertainment products, including Maya, 3ds Max, Flow Capture and Flow Production Tracking. She believes the future of the film & TV industry will be through envisioning and enabling production in the cloud and is leading her team to achieve that vision by building Autodesk Flow, the Autodesk industry cloud for M&E. In the two decades that Diana has been with Autodesk, she has occupied a wide range of leadership roles, which rapidly deepened her extensive experience in strategically transforming business models, creating new product offerings and optimizing processes on a global scale. Diana is a strong advocate for women in the company, previously leading Montreal's chapter of the Autodesk Women's Network to great acclaim. Now, as the executive sponsor of the global program, she helps empower women at all levels of Autodesk to achieve their full potential. Diana holds a Master of Business Administration from McGill – HEC University in Montreal, Canada. She earned a Bachelor of Commerce in Accounting from Concordia University in Montreal and is a Certified Public Accountant.
• SH

  Sarah Hodges

  Sarah has held various roles across the industry strategy and marketing team to help bring the Autodesk Building Information Modeling (BIM) portfolio to the marketplace across the education and commercial sectors. Over the past decade, Sarah has broadened her experiences across the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) industry by leading teams across all segments and through spending time with customers across the globe to understand their challenges and requirements. Currently Sarah is focused on the construction industry to understand and implement disruptive technological innovations that are radically changing how projects are constructed and delivered. Prior to Autodesk, Sarah spent time in the media and entertainment industry bringing to market and promoting B2B technologies to drive efficiencies in the post production process. Sarah holds a Bachelor of Science Business Administration with a focus on marketing and management from Northeastern University.
• MP

  Maurice Patel