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.

After study­ing busi­ness man­age­ment, Pierre Baus­saron joined the Danone Group in 2004, work­ing in orga­ni­za­tion­al man­age­ment and lat­er in mar­ket­ing. In 2010, he decid­ed to apply his exper­tise to sup­port com­pa­nies by found­ing his own firm, ​“À Boire et à Manger,” spe­cial­iz­ing in man­age­ment, strat­e­gy, and com­mu­ni­ca­tion con­sult­ing. He lat­er became a part­ner in a com­pa­ny focused on the spir­its indus­try, Liq­uid Liq­uid. In 2011, Pierre Baus­saron co-found­ed Blast Pro­duc­tion with three oth­er part­ners, focus­ing on the pro­duc­tion of cor­po­rate films. His involve­ment in audio­vi­su­al pro­duc­tion quick­ly expand­ed, and by 2012, he had devel­oped sev­er­al short films as well as a series of short tele­vi­sion pro­grams. Dri­ven by a desire to pro­duce ani­mat­ed projects more aligned with his artis­tic sen­si­bil­i­ties and to con­tribute to a more dynam­ic pro­duc­tion struc­ture, Pierre Baus­saron joined Miyu Pro­duc­tions in March 2015 as a pro­duc­er & part­ner. In this role, he pri­mar­i­ly focus­es on the company’s admin­is­tra­tive and finan­cial man­age­ment, the oper­a­tional exe­cu­tion of projects, and exec­u­tive pro­duc­tion. He is respon­si­ble for pro­duc­tion strat­e­gy and project devel­op­ment, togeth­er with Emmanuel-Alain Ray­nal. In 2019, he received the Trophée de l’An­i­ma­tion du Film Français, in 2022 the French Ani­ma­tion Pro­duc­er of the Year Award from Pro­cirep, the French pro­duc­ers’ soci­ety, and in 2023, he was named Per­son­al­i­ty of the Year by the pro­fes­sion­al mag­a­zine Ecran Total. In 2023, he won the Palme d’Or for the short film ​“27”, by Flo­ra Ana Buda and in 2024, the César Award for Best Ani­mat­ed Fea­ture for ​“Chick­en for Lin­da!” by Chiara Mal­ta and Sébastien Laudenbach.

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.

With over 30 years’ expe­ri­ence in kids and fam­i­ly brands, Julien Bor­de is Pres­i­dent of Medi­awan Kids & Fam­i­ly. Until 2018, he was Head of Kids and Gen­er­al Enter­tain­ment Chan­nels at Warn­er­Me­dia for France, French-speak­ing ter­ri­to­ries and Africa. Between 2005 and 2015, he cre­at­ed France Télévi­sions Kids depart­ment and estab­lished it as the leader of the Euro­pean ani­ma­tion indus­try. He was appoint­ed Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al of France 3 in 2012, then Head of Dig­i­tal Pro­gram­ming with respon­si­bil­i­ty for AVOD/TVOD/SVOD. He start­ed his career at Dis­ney in 1997, where he remained until 2005, as Deputy Direc­tor then Exec­u­tive Direc­tor for Pro­grammes and Pro­duc­tion at Dis­ney Chan­nels France.

Patri­cia Hidal­go is Direc­tor of Children’s & Edu­ca­tion at the BBC. She is respon­si­ble for devel­op­ing and imple­ment­ing cre­ative and edi­to­r­i­al strate­gies for BBC Children’s and BBC Edu­ca­tion ser­vices across all plat­forms includ­ing BBC’s iPlay­er, CBee­bies and CBBC, with a focus on the strate­gic future direc­tion of media con­sump­tion and busi­ness mod­els, over­see­ing all the division’s con­tent out­put includ­ing in-house pro­duc­tions, co-pro­duc­tions and acqui­si­tions. Patri­cia has a strong indus­try track record and is behind some of the most suc­cess­ful shows in kids’ TV. Dur­ing her last six years at Turn­er she was respon­si­ble for the pro­duc­tion of the mul­ti­ple award-win­ning series ​“The Amaz­ing World Of Gum­ball”, as well as the Emile-award­ed and Baf­ta-nom­i­nat­ed ​“The Hero­ic Adven­tures Of The Valiant Prince Ivan­doe”. In 2017 Hidal­go was award­ed World Screen’s Glob­al Kids Trend­set­ter award for her out­stand­ing con­tri­bu­tion to the kids’ media indus­try. Pri­or to her role at Turn­er, Patri­cia spent 15 years at Dis­ney where she held a num­ber of senior roles in Spain, Italy and the UK.