Mod­er­a­tors & Chairpersons

Nuria González Blan­co is a writer, direc­tor and an Acad­e­my Awards nom­i­nee pro­duc­er with over fif­teen years of expe­ri­ence in the ani­ma­tion indus­try. She stud­ied Ani­ma­tion at Edin­burgh Col­lege of Art and has worked across a vari­ety of projects, includ­ing the TV show ​“Puf­fin Rock”; the fea­ture film ​“The Bread­win­ner”; the short films ​“Vio­let”, ​“Late After­noon” and ​“Azul: La últi­ma semi­l­la”; and the Kid­screen 2025 Best New Preeschool Series ​“Sil­ly Sun­days”, a project she cre­at­ed and directed.

After study­ing film in the UK, Milo branched out into the amaz­ing world of ani­ma­tion. With a strong focus on col­lab­o­ra­tion, he helps com­pa­nies and artists like, Kalio Sto­ries, PLAS­TIEK, and Disney’s Don­ald Duck Week­blad, shape their ideas into com­pelling sto­ries. He works as a Recruiter at Sub­ma­rine, find­ing artists for 2D and 3D projects alike. As sto­ry coach he fre­quent­ly works with schools and organ­i­sa­tions such as WeAre­Play­grounds and St. Joost.

Reka is a Hun­gar­i­an-born, Munich-based strate­gic advi­sor and cre­ative devel­op­ment pro­duc­er with 35+ years of inter­na­tion­al expe­ri­ence across ani­ma­tion, VFX, games and cross-media projects. She has worked in cre­ative, tech­ni­cal, recruit­ment, pro­duc­tion and top man­age­ment roles through major indus­try and tech­nol­o­gy shifts, from tra­di­tion­al 2D ani­ma­tion and dig­i­tal pipelines to high-end CG and AI. An expert for Cre­ative Europe, she is active as a men­tor (includ­ing WIA), Women in Games ambas­sador, pan­elist, mod­er­a­tor and com­mu­ni­ty builder, and active­ly par­tic­i­pates in indus­try dia­logue, fos­ter­ing col­lab­o­ra­tion across cre­ative indus­tries, inno­va­tion, inter­na­tion­al exchange and tal­ent development.