Keynotes, pan­els & case studies

Over the past 20 years I have estab­lished myself as an expert in ani­me pro­duc­tion & devel­op­ment, brand devel­op­ment, mar­ket­ing and dis­tri­b­u­tion. I have brought some of the most famous ani­me and ani­me-adja­cent IP to glob­al audi­ences incl. Ghost In The Shell, AKI­RA and NARU­TO. I am the exec­u­tive pro­duc­er of LeSean Thomas’s first Net­flix Orig­i­nal Ani­me, CAN­NON BUSTERS and inter­na­tion­al man­ag­er for MAPA stu­dio’s IN THIS COR­NER OF THE WORLD, the award-win­ning fea­ture length anime.

Antony Fras­er is the founder of Wave­crest Media, a man­age­ment con­sul­tan­cy that helps media and enter­tain­ment com­pa­nies become fit for the future and max­imise share­hold­er val­ue. He brings a rare com­bi­na­tion of invest­ment bank­ing rigour, media finance exper­tise, and hands-on oper­a­tional expe­ri­ence across the full val­ue chain of the cre­ative industries.

Céline began her career in inter­na­tion­al sales in Hong Kong (All Rights Enter­tain­ment) and Van­cou­ver (Hori­zon Motion Pic­tures, The Green Chan­nel). In 2016, she joined Log­i­cal Pic­tures as Pro­duc­tion & Devel­op­ment Offi­cer, work­ing on films such as ​“Revenge” by Coralie Fargeat. She lat­er became Pro­duc­tion and Acqui­si­tions Man­ag­er, over­see­ing financ­ing for titles like ​“The Inno­cents” by Eskil Vogt and ​“Plea­sure” by Nin­ja Thy­berg. In 2021, Céline was appoint­ed Head of Invest­ments and Inter­na­tion­al Copro­duc­tions, focus­ing on bold, auteur-dri­ven films and copro­duc­ing ​“Tchaikovsky’s Wife” by Kir­ill Sere­bren­nikov (Cannes 2022). By 2023, she was VP Finance & Acqui­si­tions and worked on films such as ​“Monte Cristo” by Alexan­dre de La Patel­lière and Matthieu Dela­porte and” Emil­ia Perez” by Jacques Audi­ard. In 2025, Céline joined IPR​.VC as Con­tent Executive.

Michael Ford is the founder of Three­wise Enter­tain­ment, a Kids and Fam­i­ly Pro­duc­tion and Licens­ing com­pa­ny with ​“Fam­i­ly Fan­dom” at its heart. Three­wise seeks to build par­al­lel fran­chis­es suit­able for the whole fam­i­ly for screens of all shapes, sizes and ori­en­ta­tions, with IP that can be gift­ed from gen­er­a­tion to gen­er­a­tion. Michael began his career in Inde­pen­dent Film Pro­duc­tion and Financ­ing before mov­ing into the world of Live Action Chil­dren’s TV Devel­op­ment in 2015. In 2020 he launched the Pact Future30 indie, Three­wise, with a slate that spans Live Action and Ani­mat­ed devel­op­ment and pro­duc­tion for Nick­elodeon, CBBC and Warn­er Bros. Dis­cov­ery. Last year, Michael and Three­wise adopt­ed Britain’s ​“most mag­i­cal” sag­gy old cloth cat, ​“BAG­PUSS”, assum­ing respon­si­bil­i­ty for Glob­al Licens­ing & Mer­chan­dis­ing and Lega­cy Pro­duc­tion from top to tail.