Professional Meetings 2022: Inspirational Annecy

Annecy’s Professional Meetings are one of the major pillars of the world’s largest gathering dedicated to animation. Over 50 events are being held this year in this context, which is more important than ever for this 2022 edition as it revives the professionals’ return in full force.

The Conferences: a real hub of ideas

From pre-production to distribution, from production processes to funding works, the Annecy Conferences are a real hub of ideas.

The aim is to benefit from privileged discussions concerning current and upcoming challenges, four Conferences are organised this year under three themes: XR, Creation and Business.

XR

Back to the Future of XR

Tuesday 14th June, 9:00 am

Reviewing 4 challenges for the XR industry’s future: funding, traditional animation, real-time, training courses.

CREATION

Unleashing Talents and Creation: A Key Issue for Animation

Thursday 16th June, 9:00 am

In an extremely competitive industry, producers, platforms and studios vie with ingenuity to attract and keep hold of the best talent. As creative freedom is more than ever the core focus, how is the animation industry adapting and anticipating the future?

The morning will be introduced by a Keynote by Jennifer Lee, Creative Director at Walt Disney Animation Studios, Screenwriter and Director of Frozen, who this year will receive an Honorary Cristal.

BUSINESS

Animation’s New Growth Influences

Friday 17th June 9:00 am

For the last several years, the animation sector has been experiencing an exceptional impetus, accelerated by the platforms incessant hunger. In this favourable context, how do we structure ourselves and create new alliances to sustainably support this growth and better respond to future challenges? Where it will be a question of intellectual property, NFT, etc.