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Adam Young

Since co-founding FRAY Studio in 2015, Adam has designed across diverse genres, spanning live music, theatre, exhibitions, and broadcast, both locally and internationally. Although Adam primary focuses on live music, his background in avant-garde theatre and opera, helps him to bring theatricality, scale, and unconstrained thinking to his work, continually exploring innovative uses of video technology.
 
Collaborating with some of the world’s most renowned musicians, companies and institutions, Adam works to expand the potential of what is possible with video in performance. His accomplishments at FRAY Studio include a Tony Award nomination and two Knight of Illumination Awards. Adam consistently seeks to challenge the conventional ways that technology is used within live performance.
 
Recent work includes: Mean Girls (Broadway/West End); Back to the Future (International); Frozen (International); Sarwat Watan (Cirque Du Soleil); Harry Potter & The Cursed Child (Westend); Glass Animals (2024 tour); Chase and Status (2024 Tour); Arlo Parks (2023 Tour); Declan Mckena (Reading & Leeds 2023); Lewis Capaldi (2023 Tour); Azimuth (Al Ula); Coldplay (Music of the Spheres); Fidelio, Rinaldo  (Glyndebourne); Benvenuto Cellini, Death of Klinghoffer, Damnation of Faust (ENO); Dog’s Heart (DNO, Amsterdam); La clemenza di Tito (Opera North); The Rise and Fall of Mahagony (Royal Opera House)

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Real-Time vs. Rendered Content in Live Entertainment & Broadcast

This talk offers an honest look at how live visuals are changing. We’ll look at why long rendering times are giving way to real-time systems that can adapt in the moment—responding to performers, crowds, and live data. Whether it’s a concert stage or a broadcast studio, we will look at how new tools make it possible to fine-tune and alter your visuals as the show unfolds. Instead of pretending real-time is a perfect solution, we’ll focus on what really works, what doesn’t, and why it matters as we move into a more flexible, responsive approach to visual storytelling.

Adam Young

Video Designer

fraystudio.com

Ásta Hafþórsdóttir

Asta received her bachelor in Makeup / hair and special effect design from Dramatiska Institutet in Sweden in 1997. Since then she has worked on numerous films and tv series, local and international projects.
 
Her film credits include; TOUCH, KONTIKI, THE GOOD HEART, UNDERCURRENT, THE WAVE, THE 12 TH MAN, THE QUAKE, ASHLAD – I SORIA MORIA CASTLE , THREE WISHES FOR CINDERELLA, EVERYBODY HATES JOHAN, NATT, NORTHERN COMFORT, CHRISTMAS ON COBBLER STREET, SEAGULLS LAUGHTER, FALCONS, THE LAST WINTER, ASTROPIA, 101 REYKJAVIK television credits include NORSEMEN, LAZY TOWN, THE CLIFF, DAG, POST MORTEM: INGEN DØR PÅ SKARNES, ONE NIGHT, BEFOREIGNERS, HOME FOR CHRISTMAS,, WELCOME TO UTMARK, AND DESCENDANTS.
 
Asta´s passion is always to bring the best possible result to the screen, in a creative way and to pay special attention to details. She will look for the possibility to find a unique element to the makeup & hairdesign that is new and innovative. She likes to dig deep into each character’s storyline, to see how she can support the journey visually. She has won numerous awards for both tv shows and film projects, among them the « Amanda «( Norwegian film award ) in 2022 for the film “EVERYBODY HATES JOHANN” .
 
She is now based in Iceland after 12 years living in Norway, but workes internationally. Her last project was “ KING & CONQUEROR” for BBC with director Baltasar Kormákur

Ásta Hafþórsdóttir

Hair/Makeup and CTX Designer

FB

Ásta Jónína Arnardóttir

Ásta Jónína er ljósa- og myndbandshönnuður við Þjóðleikhúsið og hefur hannað yfir 20 sýningar á undanförnum árum. Meðfram leikhúsinu starfar hún sjálfstætt við kvikmyndatöku og sem klippari.

Ásta Jónína Arnardóttir

Ljósa- og myndbandshönnuður / Lighting- and Video designer

leikhusid.is

Carolyn Downing

Carolyn Downing is an award-winning sound designer working in a variety of fields including exhibitions, fashion, theatre and live events. Creativity and collaboration are at the heart of her work from initial concept development with fellow designers through to realisation with technical and project delivery teams. Carolyn’s most recent work includes Sweet Dreams a multi-roomed processional cinema experience for Marshmallow Laser Feast; Goya And Munch: Modern Prophecies for Munchmuseet, Oslo; Never Let Me Go, a stage version of Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel; Life Of Pi productions created for London West End, Boston A.R.T, Broadway & UK & US tours, awarded a Tony in 2023 & nominated for an Olivier in 2022; The Commonwealth Games Birmingham 2022 Opening Ceremony performed at Alexander Stadium in Birmingham in July 2022; Jean Michel Basquiat: King Pleasure exhibition shown in NYC & Los Angeles; Ness a geo-located audio experience based on Robert McFarlane’s poetical work. Discover more at www.carolyndowning.co.uk

Carolyn Downing

Hljóðhönnuður / Sound designer

corlyndowning.co.uk

Dave Whitehouse

Dave’s lifelong passion for lighting design has taken him worldwide, including extensive work in South Africa on ballets, operas, and musicals. As a Resident Lighting Designer for CAPAB covering three theatre complexes and working as a freelancer, he created nearly 300 productions, earning multiple awards. He also served as Associate Designer for The Cape Town City Ballet and the South African Ballet Theatre Company.
Now a Product Development Specialist at Robe, Dave combines his stage expertise with a drive for innovation, helping shape the future of entertainment lighting products.
 
The Developer’s Dilemma
Developing products for entertainment lighting is a journey filled with unique challenges, intricate trade-offs, and moments of both triumph and learning. It’s a rollercoaster ride that makes this field one of the most fascinating, demanding, and rewarding careers imaginable. Join me as I take you behind the scenes, unravelling the journey from an initial idea to a fully realized product in your lighting rig. Discover what really happens along the way—insights, obstacles, and the spark of innovation that drives it all!

Erindi á Bransadegi 2025:

The Product Developer’s Dilemma

Developing products for entertainment lighting is a journey filled with unique challenges, intricate trade-offs, and moments of both triumph and learning. It’s a rollercoaster ride that makes this field one of the most fascinating, demanding, and rewarding careers imaginable. Join me as I take you behind the scenes, unravelling the journey from an initial idea to a fully realized product in your lighting rig. Discover what really happens along the way—insights, obstacles, and the spark of innovation that drives it all!

Dave Whitehouse

Lighting designer

Interview with Dave

Declan Randall

Declan has been a professional lighting, set and projection designer for over 25 years, his work spanning all genres of the live performing arts and entertainment spectrums as well as working in film, television and architecture. Declan joined ETC in 2018 to lead their European training efforts and can often be found in dark rooms talking about colour and light. He continues to design lighting installations in the UK and around the world.

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Colour Matters

In this session we take a look at the wide range of different LED emitters that make up the various arrays of ETC’s fixtures and explain the process behind these choices. We will also demonstrate how to ensure you get the maximum benefit of these complex arrays when using the Eos family range of consoles for colour control. We will demonstrate powerful colour tools, metamerism and how to harness this technology to ensure that your next production looks as good as it possibly can. We will also talk about the differences between the CRI and TM-30 colour rendering metrics and examine why CRI should no longer be considered.

Declan Randall

Lighting Designer

declanrandall.com

Emma Balfe

Pronouns: They/Them
Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Dún Laoghaire
 
Emma is the Dignity and Respect Officer at the Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Dún Laoghaire. Working across the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Unit and the Human Resource Dept., their role focuses on facilitating institutional culture change through both pedagogical and policy development. Their research and writing practice is concerned with social mobility within the creative and cultural industries, with particular reference to social class, race and gender. Emma holds an MA degree in Gender Studies (UCD), a BA in Visual Culture (NCAD) and Postgraduate Certificates in Consent, Sexual Violence and Harassment: Practitioner Skills and Practice (NUIG), Assessment and Evaluation (IADT) and Learning and Teaching (IADT).

Emma Balfe

Dignity and Respect Officer

Institute of Art, Design + Technology

Fabian Pointinger

Fabian Pointinger has been working with PIXERA since 2022 as the International Sales Manager. With a deep understanding of real-time media solutions, he brings valuable insights to how PIXERA can enhance creative workflows, and is passionate about helping clients find the right tools for their needs.

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Bringing Ideas to Life

Discover how PIXERA transforms creative concepts into reality. This session provides an overview of the media server’s intuitive tools, innovative features, and its role in delivering powerful visual experiences across industries.

Fabian Pointinger

International Sales Manager

pixera.one

Gísli Berg

Gísli Berg hefur víðtæka reynslu af sjónvarpsframleiðslu og hefur verið í bransanum í yfir tuttugu ár og starfar í dag sem framleiðslu- og kynningarstjóri hjá RÚV.
Gísli er menntaður viðskiptafræðingur með áherslu á markaðssamskipti.

Sýndarsvið RÚV – möguleikar UnReal í sjónvarpsframleiðslu.

Við hjá RÚV tókum í notkun Virtual Reality lausn frá Pixotope sem við köllum Sýndarsvið.
Á Bransadeginum ætlum við að útskýra hvernig framkvæmdin gekk í upphafi, hvað þarf að hafa í huga þegar þessi tækni er notuð og hvaða möguleika þessi tækni býður uppá.
Sýndarsviðið einfaldar framleiðslu og bætir nýtingu á stúdíói RÚV og hefur verið í notkun hjá okkur í eitt ár.
Á þessu ári hafa verið framleiddar 6 þáttaseríur, þar á meðal eru vinsælustu sjónvarpsviðburði ársins eins og Stofur fyrir EM í handbolta, EM í fótbolta og Ólympíuleikana.

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Sýndarsvið RÚV

Við hjá RÚV tókum í notkun Virtual Reality lausn frá Pixotope sem við köllum Sýndarsvið.

Í þessum fyrirlestri ætlum við á útskýra hvernig framkvæmdin gekk í upphafi, hvað þarf að hafa í huga þegar þessi tækni er notuð og hvaða möguleika þessi tækni býður uppá.

Sýndarsviðið einfaldar framleiðslu og bætir nýtingu á stúdíói RÚV og hefur verið í notkun hjá okkur í eitt ár.
Á þessu ári hafa verið framleiddar 6 þáttaseríur, þar á meðal eru vinsælustu sjónvarpsviðburði ársins eins og Stofur fyrir EM í handbolta, EM í fótbolta og Ólympíuleikana.

Gísli Berg

Framleiðslu og kynningarstjóri RÚV / Head Of Production at RUV Iceland

RÚV

Gunnar Árnason

  • 1986-1988 Hótel saga tæknimaður í ráðstefnusölum og hljóðmaður í Súlnasal
  • 1988-1994 Með hljóðkerfaleigu og aðeins farin að kvikmynda og klippa.
  • 1994-2006 Leikhús í söngleikjum.
  • 1996-dagsins í dag. Hljóðvinnsla á útvarpsefni, sjónvarpsefni og kvikmyndir.

Fyrirlesturinn heitir frá klippara til neytenda. Leikið efni og hvað er Dolby Atmos.

Fer í gegnum það hvernig ég tek tilbúið efni frá klippara og hvernig ég vinn það og skila af mér til dreifingaraðila.
Síðan er smá kynning á því hvað Dolby Atmos er og hvað er Dolby Certification.

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Frá klippara til neytenda. Leikið efni og hvað er Dolby Atmos.

Fer í gegnum það hvernig ég tek tilbúið efni frá klippara og hvernig ég vinn það og skila af mér til dreifingaraðila.
Síðan er smá kynning á því hvað Dolby Atmos er og hvað er Dolby Certification.

Gunnar Árnason

Hljóðmaður / Sound Designer

upptekid.is

Halli Hansen

Halli starfar hjá TrueNorth og er Stúdíó Manager hjá Foss Stúdíó. Einnig rekur hann Gló rentals, Film Security og Propshouse Iceland sem sérhæfa sig öll í þjónustu við kvikmyndageirann.
 
Í gegnum árin hefur hann unnið í flestum deildum kvikmyndagerðar fyrir utan HMU og Búningadeild en þar má helst nefna location Manager, Key grip, Art director, Producer, Actor, Horse wrangler, Ace actor assistant, 1 and 2 Assistant director, Security driver og runner svo einhvað sé til talið.

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Framtíðarsýn og Gæðastjórnun í kvikmyndagerð

 

Halli Hansen

Studio Manager

https://www.truenorth.is/

Hrannar Hafsteins

Hrannar hefur unnið í bransanum í 31 ár en verkefni sem hann hefur unnið að skipulagningu að eru meðal annars: Ed Sheeran, Justin Timberlake, Justin Bieber, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Söngvakeppni Sjónvarpsins, Eagles, Andrea Bocehelli, Sixties og svo Sniglabandið.

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Afhverju ekki?

Hvernig nálgast ég verkefnin og hverjar eru áskoranirnar þegar kemur að því að fá stór erlend verkefni til íslands?

Hrannar Hafsteinsson

Framleiðslustjóri/Production Manager

Ingvar Jónsson

Ingvar Jónsson hefur yfir langan ferill sinn unnið við óteljandi viðburði, tónleika og aðrar skemmtanir sem hljóðmaður. Hann hefur óbilandi áhuga á hljóði, hegðan þess og atferli og hefur tengt því sótt nám og námskeið því tengdu en þar má helst nefna nám á meistarastigi í hljóðverkfræði.
 
Á ferlinum hefur hann komið víða við en þar má nefna sem hljóðráðgjafi hjá Verkís og Mannvit, tæknistjóri Hörpu og Hljómahallar en nú vinnur Ingvar við tækniaðstoð notanda og pro-audio hjá Treble. Meðfram því tekur hann að sér tilfallandi stundakennslu í hljóðtækni hjá Studio Sýrlandi auk þess að hljóðblanda Sigur Rós á heimstónleikaferðum þeirra.

Erindi á Bransadegi 2025:

Tónleikaferðalag Sigur Rósar – áskoranir í hljóðstjórn

Í þessum fyrirlestri ætla ég að fara yfir tæknilegar áskoranir hljóðstjórnar á tónleikaferðalagi Sigurrósar og The Wordless Orchestra þar sem Sigurrós leikur mörg af sínum þekktari lögum ásamt 40 manna sinfóníuhljómsveit.
Hvernig gengur dagurinn fyrir sig og hvað áskoranir felast í því að viðhalda halda samræmi milli tónleika í mismunandi húsum, með mismunandi hátalarakerfi og nýja sinfóníuhljómsveit á hverjum degi.

Ingvar Jónsson

Hljóðmaður / Acoustic Engineer

treble.tech

Linnea Ljungmark

Entertainment Ambassador With a long history of working in the entertainment industry, having spent a major part of her work life in Pro Audio & Lighting Sales and distribution Linnea has more than 20 years’ experience in the field. In 2019 she joined the Paris based lighting manufacturer Ayrton. In 2020 she took the initiative to form the entertainment branch of Women In Lighting – WIL Entertainment. In 2023 she founded Swedish distribution company Topstage. Name of presentation: My journey – making change My path from back office support to entrepreneur as a woman in entertainment technology, the industry we love. The Women In Lighting project, how we can we work together to make positive change and how a workplace can benefit from a diverse workforce.

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My journey – making change

The path from back office support to entrepreneur as a women in the entertainment technology, not always smooth and easy but inspiring and fun in an industry we love that most find hard to leave. How we can we work together to make positive change in big and in small, how a workplace can benefit from a versatile workforce and some ideas on how to manage it.

Linnea Ljungmark

Framleiðslustjóri/Production Manager

https://www.topstage.se/

Luke Chikkala

Luke Chikkala is based in Germany. He was living in Singapore for 7 years working from the MA Ligthing Asia Pacific office, providing support and training for Asia-Pacific markets. Besides Technical Support, he also takes care of building the Training Material for grandMA3 hands-on courses. Along side with Technical Support and Training, he programs Lua plugins for internal use as well potential prototype features. 

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grandMA3 in Large Scale Systems

This session will delve into the utilization of grandMA3 devices in large-scale productions, offering insights into their role in creating spectacular live events. By examining high-profile examples such as the Eurovision Song Contest and Rock in Rio, the lecture will highlight how grandMA3 contributes to the seamless execution of intricate designs. Attendees will gain a deeper understanding of the technical capabilities that make grandMA3 a preferred choice for global events of this magnitude.

Luke Chikkala

lukechikkala.com

Martin Foan

Martin has a demonstrated history of working in the Media and Entertainment industry, selling, designing, demonstrating and providing solutions in Live Production, Post Production, and Playout. Employed in various pre-sales and account management roles over the last 12-Years, working with vendors such as Quantel, SAM, GV, Avid, LiveU and now back again in GV as the Key Account Manager for the Nordic region.

Erindi á Bransadegi 2025:

The Future Of Media

The industry is going through a massive transformation. How do we navigate the new Digital reality, whilst producing more content, for less?

Martin Foan

grassvalley.com

Ola Melzig

A great communicator, organizer and multi-tasker with positive lateral thinking abilities and a grounded overall technical knowledge, the zany and outlandish Ola Melzig is not someone you forget in a hurry.

Looks can be deceptive. At first sight, as an imposing six-foot five frame with long hair, a penchant for elegant punky clothing and a strong metaphorical “No Messing” written loudly across the face, they could fuel a specific myth! However, Melzig is a polite, peace-loving egalitarian that does assertion not aggression… and has it down to a fine art.

His well-documented extravagant and infectious sense of humor is always a great icebreaker, although Melzig takes the ethics of ‘work hard/play hard’ very seriously to their logical conclusions.

Ola Melzig

Framleiðslustjóri/Production Manager

m-m-pr.com Ola Melzig BIO Ola Melzig CV

Sam Hunter

Backstage at the Olympics

Drawing on Sam’s wealth of experience as Production Stage Manager on the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of every Olympics and Paralympics from Athens 2004 to Sochi 2014, this presentation takes you behind the scenes on some of the biggest shows on the planet.  Using exclusive videos to illustrate the talk, Sam will explain how to meet the challenges of working at this scale, and discuss the importance of communication and collaboration to ensure a safe and smooth delivery of an event that is watched by an audience of over 900 million!  A Q&A will follow at the end of the session.

Erindi á Bransadegi 2025:

Backstage at the Olympics

Drawing on Sam’s wealth of experience as Production Stage Manager on the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of every Olympics and Paralympics from Athens 2004 to Sochi 2014, this presentation takes you behind the scenes on some of the biggest shows on the planet. Using exclusive videos to illustrate the talk, Sam will explain how to meet the challenges of working at this scale, and discuss the importance of communication and collaboration to ensure a safe and smooth delivery of an event that is watched by an audience of over 900 million! A Q&A will follow at the end of the session.

Sam Hunter

Framleiðslustjóri / Productions Stage Manager

Sam Hunter - CV orangejackets.uk

Sigga Sunna Reynisdóttir

Sigríður Sunna Reynisdóttir útskrifaðist vorið 2012 með BATP gráðu frá Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, þar sem hún lærði leikbrúðulist og sviðslistir. Áður nam hún almennar bókmenntir og leikhúsfræði við Háskóla Íslands og Universitá Karlová (BA) og textílhönnun og myndlist við Skals School of Arts and Crafts.
 
Síðustu ár hefur Sunna aðallega starfað við hönnun á leikmyndum, búningum og leikbrúðum fyrir ýmis leikhús og leikhópa. Af verkefnum í Borgarleikhúsinu má nefna X, Tvískinnung, 1984, Vísindasýningu Villa, Lóaboratoríum og Hamlet litla. Hún hefur einnig hannað fyrir Leikfélag Akureyrar (Litla Hryllingsbúðin og Lísa í Undralandi), Íslenska Dansflokkinn (Óður og Flexa: Rafmagnað ævintýri) og í Tjarnarbíó (Íó, Manndýr). Á meðal verkefna í Þjóðleikhúsinu eru ÖR, Kópavogskrónika og Meistarinn og Margaríta.
 
Sigríður er listrænn stjórnandi hönnunarteymisins ÞYKJÓ sem hefur verið tilnefnt til Hönnunarverðlauna Íslands í þrígang sem og alþjóðlegu YAM verðlaunanna. Hún er önnur stofnenda VaVaVoom leikhópsins sem hafa fengið verðlaun og viðurkenningar fyrir sýningar sínar frá Tallinn Treff Festival og Music Theater Now.

Sigga Sunna Reynisdóttir

https://www.thykjo.com/

Sooner Rae Routhier

Sooner Rae Routhier is a 2X Parnelli, Live Design Achievement, Live Production Summit Pinnacle, and multi Top Dog award winning Designer. Her work has been viewed by millions all around the world and has appeared on major screens such as Jimmy Fallon, The AMA’s, The Ellen Show, The Voice and The Billboard Music Awards. She has developed, produced and helped create some of entertainment’s most recognizable performance moments for some of today’s most celebrated headlining artists including, Coldplay, Green Day, Noah Kahan, Paramore, The Weeknd, KISS, Imagine Dragons, The Lumineers, Rhianna, Megan Thee Stallion, Jay-Z, Halsey, Motley Crue, G-Eazy, Muse, Alessia Cara and Depeche Mode.

Sooner’s story began in 1999 where she worked as a lighting technician and lighting director for Rainbow Concert Productions while attending Emerson College in Boston. She launched her career as a Lighting Designer for the rock band Chevelle and In 2007 Sooner teamed up with legendary production manager Robert Long to form SRae Productions. While growing SRae Productions, Sooner was also able to cultivate new creative talent that emulated the team’s strong creative visions. Sooner and the SRae team joined forces with World-Renowned Composer Ramin Djawadi and together in a Live Nation / HBO partnership brought the world of Westeros to life and launched the „Game of Thrones – Live Concert Experience.“

Routhier’s newest venture, The Playground, launched in 2022 and her work has continued with projects including Lighting Design for Coldplay’s Music Of The Spheres World Tour, Muse’s Will Of The People World Tour and Wang Feng’s Unfollow Tour. She has also created full show design for Green Day’s Saviors Tour, Noah Kahan, Megan Thee Stallion, Maren Morris, Daddy Yankee, Paramore, and The Lumineers and art direction for the band Ghost.

Sooner has not only made her mark in the entertainment industry, but she has also become a respected leader in her field and along with her colleagues helped pave the modern landscape of entertainment lighting, design, and production.

In 2020, the live entertainment industry came to a very abrupt halt due to the onslaught of the COVID 19 pandemic. Sooner teamed up with several industry peers to form EVEN – an organization that seeks to create a more diverse and inclusive live events industry through outreach, training, mentorship, networking and job placement.

In 2023, she founded the creative collective The Playground, a design co-op focused on creating iconic experiences. The foundation of the company is to design and produce unforgetable moments through the magic of collaborative creativity, with joy and without ego. With The Playground, Sooner’s vision is to remain in motion by challenging convention, innovating, and mentoring young talent.

Sooner Rae Routhier

Sýningarhönnuður - Listrænn framleiðandi / Show Designer - Creative Producer

https://soonerrae.com/

USE SEE

Frumkvöðlafyrirtækið USE SEE ehf. var stofnað í mars 2024 og stendur fyrir: Umhverfi, samfélag, efnahagur – Social, economic, environment. Stofnendur eru Heather Millard, Karólína Stefánsdóttir og Sigríður Rósa Bjarnadóttir sem hafa ISO 14001 vottun  í umhverfisstjórnun fyrir skapandi greinar með sérhæfingu í kvikmyndagerð.
 
Fyrirtækið USE SEE er sprottið upp úr námskeiði sem norrænir kvikmyndasjóðir stóðu að í sameiningu til þess að skapa sameiginlega staðla og verklag (e. best practice) þegar kemur að sjálfbærum starfsháttum fyrir greinina á Norðurlöndunum.
 
Helsta verksvið USE SEE er gerð sjálfbærni áætlana og ráðgjöf í sjálfbærni, ásamt því að vera umboðsaðili fyrir Green Producers Club sem er norræn kolefnisreiknivél sem er aðlöguð að íslenskum aðstæðum og orkusamsetningu. Fyrirtækið hefur einnig þróað námsefni um sjálfbæra starfshætti og framleiðslu fyrir kvikmyndagerð og hefst kennsla í vetur.
 
USE SEE ehf., is a new start-up business founded in March 2024 by Heather Millard, Karólina Stefánsdóttir and Sigríður Rósa Bjarnadóttir. The new business USE SEE ehf., stands for Umhverfi Samfélag Efnahagur – Social Economic Environment, and our plan is develop a new business that will offer our expertise as sustainability managers for the creative industries through consultancy services, hosting and teaching workshops, as well as providing an E-learning course on sustainability for the creative industries in Iceland (beginning with the film and television industry), as well as the exclusive distribution rights to license the Green Producers Tool, a Norwegian emissions calculator, that is working within all the Nordic in the creative industries and adapted to Iceland.

USE SEE ehf

Umhverfisstjórnun og sjálfbærni í kvikmyndaiðnaði / Social Economic Environment in film

USE SEE

Vigdís Ásgeirsdóttir

Vigdís sinnir sálfræðiþjónustu fyrir fullorðið fólk með hvers kyns vanda á öllum aldri. Má þar nefna kvíða-, þunglyndis- og sjálfsmatsvanda. Vigdís sinnir einnig málefnum tengdum sálfélagslegu öryggi á vinnustöðum og sinnir vinnustaðagreiningum, eineltismálum og öðru sem lýtur að líðan fólks í starfsumhverfi þess. Hún hefur einnig sérstakan áhuga á meðferð fólks í hinsegin samfélaginu hvort sem um ræðir kynami, sálrænn vandi tengdur kynhneigð eða kynvitund og býður fólki innan hinsegin samfélagsins sem og aðra sérstaklega velkomna. Vigdís beitir hugrænni atferlismeðferð.

Vigdís hefur lokið BS gráðu og Cand. psych. gráðu í sálfræði frá Háskóla Íslands. Hún hlaut starfsþjálfun í transteymi Landspítalans þar sem hún sinnti m.a. einstaklingum með kynama auk annars konar vanda. Vigdís hlaut einnig þjálfun í sálfræðiráðgjöf Háskóla Íslands það sem hún hlaut þjálfun við margs konar lífs- og geðrænum vanda.

Rannsókn Vigdísar í Cand.psych náminu var hluti af áfallasögu kvenna rannsókn Háskóla Íslands. Markmið þeirrar rannsóknar var fyrst og fremst að auka þekkingu á tíðni áfalla og áhrifum þeirra á heilsufar kvenna. Hluti Vigdísar í rannsókninni sneri að sambandi seiglu og áfallastreitueinkenna út frá ýmsum þáttum svo sem aldri kvenna, fyrri áföllum, tegundum áfalla o.fl.

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Leiðir að vellíðan í krefjandi starfi – höldum jafnvægi

Vigdís Ásgeirsdóttir sálfræðingur mun fjalla um nauðsyn þess að halda góðu jafnvægi milli ólíkra sviða lífsins. Á fyrirlestrinum verður m.a. fjallað um streitu í lífi og starfi, gagnlegar leiðir til að ná betri tökum á streitu og farið yfir þá þætti lífsins sem að stuðla að vellíðan okkar.

Vigdís Ásgeirsdóttir

lifogsal.is

Adam Young

Since co-founding FRAY Studio in 2015, Adam has designed across diverse genres, spanning live music, theatre, exhibitions, and broadcast, both locally and internationally. Although Adam primary focuses on live music, his background in avant-garde theatre and opera, helps him to bring theatricality, scale, and unconstrained thinking to his work, continually exploring innovative uses of video technology.
 
Collaborating with some of the world’s most renowned musicians, companies and institutions, Adam works to expand the potential of what is possible with video in performance. His accomplishments at FRAY Studio include a Tony Award nomination and two Knight of Illumination Awards. Adam consistently seeks to challenge the conventional ways that technology is used within live performance.
 
Recent work includes: Mean Girls (Broadway/West End); Back to the Future (International); Frozen (International); Sarwat Watan (Cirque Du Soleil); Harry Potter & The Cursed Child (Westend); Glass Animals (2024 tour); Chase and Status (2024 Tour); Arlo Parks (2023 Tour); Declan Mckena (Reading & Leeds 2023); Lewis Capaldi (2023 Tour); Azimuth (Al Ula); Coldplay (Music of the Spheres); Fidelio, Rinaldo  (Glyndebourne); Benvenuto Cellini, Death of Klinghoffer, Damnation of Faust (ENO); Dog’s Heart (DNO, Amsterdam); La clemenza di Tito (Opera North); The Rise and Fall of Mahagony (Royal Opera House)

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Real-Time vs. Rendered Content in Live Entertainment & Broadcast

This talk offers an honest look at how live visuals are changing. We’ll look at why long rendering times are giving way to real-time systems that can adapt in the moment—responding to performers, crowds, and live data. Whether it’s a concert stage or a broadcast studio, we will look at how new tools make it possible to fine-tune and alter your visuals as the show unfolds. Instead of pretending real-time is a perfect solution, we’ll focus on what really works, what doesn’t, and why it matters as we move into a more flexible, responsive approach to visual storytelling.

Adam Young

Video Designer

fraystudio.com

Ásta Hafþórsdóttir

Asta received her bachelor in Makeup / hair and special effect design from Dramatiska Institutet in Sweden in 1997. Since then she has worked on numerous films and tv series, local and international projects.
 
Her film credits include; TOUCH, KONTIKI, THE GOOD HEART, UNDERCURRENT, THE WAVE, THE 12 TH MAN, THE QUAKE, ASHLAD – I SORIA MORIA CASTLE , THREE WISHES FOR CINDERELLA, EVERYBODY HATES JOHAN, NATT, NORTHERN COMFORT, CHRISTMAS ON COBBLER STREET, SEAGULLS LAUGHTER, FALCONS, THE LAST WINTER, ASTROPIA, 101 REYKJAVIK television credits include NORSEMEN, LAZY TOWN, THE CLIFF, DAG, POST MORTEM: INGEN DØR PÅ SKARNES, ONE NIGHT, BEFOREIGNERS, HOME FOR CHRISTMAS,, WELCOME TO UTMARK, AND DESCENDANTS.
 
Asta´s passion is always to bring the best possible result to the screen, in a creative way and to pay special attention to details. She will look for the possibility to find a unique element to the makeup & hairdesign that is new and innovative. She likes to dig deep into each character’s storyline, to see how she can support the journey visually. She has won numerous awards for both tv shows and film projects, among them the « Amanda «( Norwegian film award ) in 2022 for the film “EVERYBODY HATES JOHANN” .
 
She is now based in Iceland after 12 years living in Norway, but workes internationally. Her last project was “ KING & CONQUEROR” for BBC with director Baltasar Kormákur

Ásta Hafþórsdóttir

Hair/Makeup and CTX Designer

FB

Ásta Jónína Arnardóttir

Ásta Jónína er ljósa- og myndbandshönnuður við Þjóðleikhúsið og hefur hannað yfir 20 sýningar á undanförnum árum. Meðfram leikhúsinu starfar hún sjálfstætt við kvikmyndatöku og sem klippari.

Ásta Jónína Arnardóttir

Ljósa- og myndbandshönnuður / Lighting- and Video designer

leikhusid.is

Carolyn Downing

Carolyn Downing is an award-winning sound designer working in a variety of fields including exhibitions, fashion, theatre and live events. Creativity and collaboration are at the heart of her work from initial concept development with fellow designers through to realisation with technical and project delivery teams. Carolyn’s most recent work includes Sweet Dreams a multi-roomed processional cinema experience for Marshmallow Laser Feast; Goya And Munch: Modern Prophecies for Munchmuseet, Oslo; Never Let Me Go, a stage version of Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel; Life Of Pi productions created for London West End, Boston A.R.T, Broadway & UK & US tours, awarded a Tony in 2023 & nominated for an Olivier in 2022; The Commonwealth Games Birmingham 2022 Opening Ceremony performed at Alexander Stadium in Birmingham in July 2022; Jean Michel Basquiat: King Pleasure exhibition shown in NYC & Los Angeles; Ness a geo-located audio experience based on Robert McFarlane’s poetical work. Discover more at www.carolyndowning.co.uk

Carolyn Downing

Hljóðhönnuður / Sound designer

corlyndowning.co.uk

Dave Whitehouse

Dave’s lifelong passion for lighting design has taken him worldwide, including extensive work in South Africa on ballets, operas, and musicals. As a Resident Lighting Designer for CAPAB covering three theatre complexes and working as a freelancer, he created nearly 300 productions, earning multiple awards. He also served as Associate Designer for The Cape Town City Ballet and the South African Ballet Theatre Company.
Now a Product Development Specialist at Robe, Dave combines his stage expertise with a drive for innovation, helping shape the future of entertainment lighting products.
 
The Developer’s Dilemma
Developing products for entertainment lighting is a journey filled with unique challenges, intricate trade-offs, and moments of both triumph and learning. It’s a rollercoaster ride that makes this field one of the most fascinating, demanding, and rewarding careers imaginable. Join me as I take you behind the scenes, unravelling the journey from an initial idea to a fully realized product in your lighting rig. Discover what really happens along the way—insights, obstacles, and the spark of innovation that drives it all!

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The Product Developer’s Dilemma

Developing products for entertainment lighting is a journey filled with unique challenges, intricate trade-offs, and moments of both triumph and learning. It’s a rollercoaster ride that makes this field one of the most fascinating, demanding, and rewarding careers imaginable. Join me as I take you behind the scenes, unravelling the journey from an initial idea to a fully realized product in your lighting rig. Discover what really happens along the way—insights, obstacles, and the spark of innovation that drives it all!

Dave Whitehouse

Lighting designer

Interview with Dave

Declan Randall

Declan has been a professional lighting, set and projection designer for over 25 years, his work spanning all genres of the live performing arts and entertainment spectrums as well as working in film, television and architecture. Declan joined ETC in 2018 to lead their European training efforts and can often be found in dark rooms talking about colour and light. He continues to design lighting installations in the UK and around the world.

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Colour Matters

In this session we take a look at the wide range of different LED emitters that make up the various arrays of ETC’s fixtures and explain the process behind these choices. We will also demonstrate how to ensure you get the maximum benefit of these complex arrays when using the Eos family range of consoles for colour control. We will demonstrate powerful colour tools, metamerism and how to harness this technology to ensure that your next production looks as good as it possibly can. We will also talk about the differences between the CRI and TM-30 colour rendering metrics and examine why CRI should no longer be considered.

Declan Randall

Lighting Designer

declanrandall.com

Emma Balfe

Pronouns: They/Them
Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Dún Laoghaire
 
Emma is the Dignity and Respect Officer at the Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Dún Laoghaire. Working across the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Unit and the Human Resource Dept., their role focuses on facilitating institutional culture change through both pedagogical and policy development. Their research and writing practice is concerned with social mobility within the creative and cultural industries, with particular reference to social class, race and gender. Emma holds an MA degree in Gender Studies (UCD), a BA in Visual Culture (NCAD) and Postgraduate Certificates in Consent, Sexual Violence and Harassment: Practitioner Skills and Practice (NUIG), Assessment and Evaluation (IADT) and Learning and Teaching (IADT).

Emma Balfe

Dignity and Respect Officer

Institute of Art, Design + Technology

Fabian Pointinger

Fabian Pointinger has been working with PIXERA since 2022 as the International Sales Manager. With a deep understanding of real-time media solutions, he brings valuable insights to how PIXERA can enhance creative workflows, and is passionate about helping clients find the right tools for their needs.

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Bringing Ideas to Life

Discover how PIXERA transforms creative concepts into reality. This session provides an overview of the media server’s intuitive tools, innovative features, and its role in delivering powerful visual experiences across industries.

Fabian Pointinger

International Sales Manager

pixera.one

Gísli Berg

Gísli Berg hefur víðtæka reynslu af sjónvarpsframleiðslu og hefur verið í bransanum í yfir tuttugu ár og starfar í dag sem framleiðslu- og kynningarstjóri hjá RÚV.
Gísli er menntaður viðskiptafræðingur með áherslu á markaðssamskipti.

Sýndarsvið RÚV – möguleikar UnReal í sjónvarpsframleiðslu.

Við hjá RÚV tókum í notkun Virtual Reality lausn frá Pixotope sem við köllum Sýndarsvið.
Á Bransadeginum ætlum við að útskýra hvernig framkvæmdin gekk í upphafi, hvað þarf að hafa í huga þegar þessi tækni er notuð og hvaða möguleika þessi tækni býður uppá.
Sýndarsviðið einfaldar framleiðslu og bætir nýtingu á stúdíói RÚV og hefur verið í notkun hjá okkur í eitt ár.
Á þessu ári hafa verið framleiddar 6 þáttaseríur, þar á meðal eru vinsælustu sjónvarpsviðburði ársins eins og Stofur fyrir EM í handbolta, EM í fótbolta og Ólympíuleikana.

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Sýndarsvið RÚV

Við hjá RÚV tókum í notkun Virtual Reality lausn frá Pixotope sem við köllum Sýndarsvið.

Í þessum fyrirlestri ætlum við á útskýra hvernig framkvæmdin gekk í upphafi, hvað þarf að hafa í huga þegar þessi tækni er notuð og hvaða möguleika þessi tækni býður uppá.

Sýndarsviðið einfaldar framleiðslu og bætir nýtingu á stúdíói RÚV og hefur verið í notkun hjá okkur í eitt ár.
Á þessu ári hafa verið framleiddar 6 þáttaseríur, þar á meðal eru vinsælustu sjónvarpsviðburði ársins eins og Stofur fyrir EM í handbolta, EM í fótbolta og Ólympíuleikana.

Gísli Berg

Framleiðslu og kynningarstjóri RÚV / Head Of Production at RUV Iceland

RÚV

Gunnar Árnason

  • 1986-1988 Hótel saga tæknimaður í ráðstefnusölum og hljóðmaður í Súlnasal
  • 1988-1994 Með hljóðkerfaleigu og aðeins farin að kvikmynda og klippa.
  • 1994-2006 Leikhús í söngleikjum.
  • 1996-dagsins í dag. Hljóðvinnsla á útvarpsefni, sjónvarpsefni og kvikmyndir.

Fyrirlesturinn heitir frá klippara til neytenda. Leikið efni og hvað er Dolby Atmos.

Fer í gegnum það hvernig ég tek tilbúið efni frá klippara og hvernig ég vinn það og skila af mér til dreifingaraðila.
Síðan er smá kynning á því hvað Dolby Atmos er og hvað er Dolby Certification.

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Frá klippara til neytenda. Leikið efni og hvað er Dolby Atmos.

Fer í gegnum það hvernig ég tek tilbúið efni frá klippara og hvernig ég vinn það og skila af mér til dreifingaraðila.
Síðan er smá kynning á því hvað Dolby Atmos er og hvað er Dolby Certification.

Gunnar Árnason

Hljóðmaður / Sound Designer

upptekid.is

Halli Hansen

Halli starfar hjá TrueNorth og er Stúdíó Manager hjá Foss Stúdíó. Einnig rekur hann Gló rentals, Film Security og Propshouse Iceland sem sérhæfa sig öll í þjónustu við kvikmyndageirann.
 
Í gegnum árin hefur hann unnið í flestum deildum kvikmyndagerðar fyrir utan HMU og Búningadeild en þar má helst nefna location Manager, Key grip, Art director, Producer, Actor, Horse wrangler, Ace actor assistant, 1 and 2 Assistant director, Security driver og runner svo einhvað sé til talið.

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Framtíðarsýn og Gæðastjórnun í kvikmyndagerð

 

Halli Hansen

Studio Manager

https://www.truenorth.is/

Hrannar Hafsteins

Hrannar hefur unnið í bransanum í 31 ár en verkefni sem hann hefur unnið að skipulagningu að eru meðal annars: Ed Sheeran, Justin Timberlake, Justin Bieber, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Söngvakeppni Sjónvarpsins, Eagles, Andrea Bocehelli, Sixties og svo Sniglabandið.

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Afhverju ekki?

Hvernig nálgast ég verkefnin og hverjar eru áskoranirnar þegar kemur að því að fá stór erlend verkefni til íslands?

Hrannar Hafsteinsson

Framleiðslustjóri/Production Manager

Ingvar Jónsson

Ingvar Jónsson hefur yfir langan ferill sinn unnið við óteljandi viðburði, tónleika og aðrar skemmtanir sem hljóðmaður. Hann hefur óbilandi áhuga á hljóði, hegðan þess og atferli og hefur tengt því sótt nám og námskeið því tengdu en þar má helst nefna nám á meistarastigi í hljóðverkfræði.
 
Á ferlinum hefur hann komið víða við en þar má nefna sem hljóðráðgjafi hjá Verkís og Mannvit, tæknistjóri Hörpu og Hljómahallar en nú vinnur Ingvar við tækniaðstoð notanda og pro-audio hjá Treble. Meðfram því tekur hann að sér tilfallandi stundakennslu í hljóðtækni hjá Studio Sýrlandi auk þess að hljóðblanda Sigur Rós á heimstónleikaferðum þeirra.

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Tónleikaferðalag Sigur Rósar – áskoranir í hljóðstjórn

Í þessum fyrirlestri ætla ég að fara yfir tæknilegar áskoranir hljóðstjórnar á tónleikaferðalagi Sigurrósar og The Wordless Orchestra þar sem Sigurrós leikur mörg af sínum þekktari lögum ásamt 40 manna sinfóníuhljómsveit.
Hvernig gengur dagurinn fyrir sig og hvað áskoranir felast í því að viðhalda halda samræmi milli tónleika í mismunandi húsum, með mismunandi hátalarakerfi og nýja sinfóníuhljómsveit á hverjum degi.

Ingvar Jónsson

Hljóðmaður / Acoustic Engineer

treble.tech

Linnea Ljungmark

Entertainment Ambassador With a long history of working in the entertainment industry, having spent a major part of her work life in Pro Audio & Lighting Sales and distribution Linnea has more than 20 years’ experience in the field. In 2019 she joined the Paris based lighting manufacturer Ayrton. In 2020 she took the initiative to form the entertainment branch of Women In Lighting – WIL Entertainment. In 2023 she founded Swedish distribution company Topstage. Name of presentation: My journey – making change My path from back office support to entrepreneur as a woman in entertainment technology, the industry we love. The Women In Lighting project, how we can we work together to make positive change and how a workplace can benefit from a diverse workforce.

Erindi á Bransadegi 2025:

My journey – making change

The path from back office support to entrepreneur as a women in the entertainment technology, not always smooth and easy but inspiring and fun in an industry we love that most find hard to leave. How we can we work together to make positive change in big and in small, how a workplace can benefit from a versatile workforce and some ideas on how to manage it.

Linnea Ljungmark

Framleiðslustjóri/Production Manager

https://www.topstage.se/

Luke Chikkala

Luke Chikkala is based in Germany. He was living in Singapore for 7 years working from the MA Ligthing Asia Pacific office, providing support and training for Asia-Pacific markets. Besides Technical Support, he also takes care of building the Training Material for grandMA3 hands-on courses. Along side with Technical Support and Training, he programs Lua plugins for internal use as well potential prototype features. 

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grandMA3 in Large Scale Systems

This session will delve into the utilization of grandMA3 devices in large-scale productions, offering insights into their role in creating spectacular live events. By examining high-profile examples such as the Eurovision Song Contest and Rock in Rio, the lecture will highlight how grandMA3 contributes to the seamless execution of intricate designs. Attendees will gain a deeper understanding of the technical capabilities that make grandMA3 a preferred choice for global events of this magnitude.

Luke Chikkala

lukechikkala.com

Martin Foan

Martin has a demonstrated history of working in the Media and Entertainment industry, selling, designing, demonstrating and providing solutions in Live Production, Post Production, and Playout. Employed in various pre-sales and account management roles over the last 12-Years, working with vendors such as Quantel, SAM, GV, Avid, LiveU and now back again in GV as the Key Account Manager for the Nordic region.

Erindi á Bransadegi 2025:

The Future Of Media

The industry is going through a massive transformation. How do we navigate the new Digital reality, whilst producing more content, for less?

Martin Foan

grassvalley.com

Ingvar Jónsson

Ingvar Jónsson hefur yfir langan ferill sinn unnið við óteljandi viðburði, tónleika og aðrar skemmtanir sem hljóðmaður. Hann hefur óbilandi áhuga á hljóði, hegðan þess og atferli og hefur tengt því sótt nám og námskeið því tengdu en þar má helst nefna nám á meistarastigi í hljóðverkfræði.
 
Á ferlinum hefur hann komið víða við en þar má nefna sem hljóðráðgjafi hjá Verkís og Mannvit, tæknistjóri Hörpu og Hljómahallar en nú vinnur Ingvar við tækniaðstoð notanda og pro-audio hjá Treble. Meðfram því tekur hann að sér tilfallandi stundakennslu í hljóðtækni hjá Studio Sýrlandi auk þess að hljóðblanda Sigur Rós á heimstónleikaferðum þeirra.

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Tónleikaferðalag Sigur Rósar – áskoranir í hljóðstjórn

Í þessum fyrirlestri ætla ég að fara yfir tæknilegar áskoranir hljóðstjórnar á tónleikaferðalagi Sigurrósar og The Wordless Orchestra þar sem Sigurrós leikur mörg af sínum þekktari lögum ásamt 40 manna sinfóníuhljómsveit.
Hvernig gengur dagurinn fyrir sig og hvað áskoranir felast í því að viðhalda halda samræmi milli tónleika í mismunandi húsum, með mismunandi hátalarakerfi og nýja sinfóníuhljómsveit á hverjum degi.

Ingvar Jónsson

Hljóðmaður / Acoustic Engineer

treble.tech

Linnea Ljungmark

Entertainment Ambassador With a long history of working in the entertainment industry, having spent a major part of her work life in Pro Audio & Lighting Sales and distribution Linnea has more than 20 years’ experience in the field. In 2019 she joined the Paris based lighting manufacturer Ayrton. In 2020 she took the initiative to form the entertainment branch of Women In Lighting – WIL Entertainment. In 2023 she founded Swedish distribution company Topstage. Name of presentation: My journey – making change My path from back office support to entrepreneur as a woman in entertainment technology, the industry we love. The Women In Lighting project, how we can we work together to make positive change and how a workplace can benefit from a diverse workforce.

Erindi á Bransadegi 2025:

My journey – making change

The path from back office support to entrepreneur as a women in the entertainment technology, not always smooth and easy but inspiring and fun in an industry we love that most find hard to leave. How we can we work together to make positive change in big and in small, how a workplace can benefit from a versatile workforce and some ideas on how to manage it.

Linnea Ljungmark

Framleiðslustjóri/Production Manager

https://www.topstage.se/

Luke Chikkala

Luke Chikkala is based in Germany. He was living in Singapore for 7 years working from the MA Ligthing Asia Pacific office, providing support and training for Asia-Pacific markets. Besides Technical Support, he also takes care of building the Training Material for grandMA3 hands-on courses. Along side with Technical Support and Training, he programs Lua plugins for internal use as well potential prototype features. 

Erindi á Bransadegi 2025:

grandMA3 in Large Scale Systems

This session will delve into the utilization of grandMA3 devices in large-scale productions, offering insights into their role in creating spectacular live events. By examining high-profile examples such as the Eurovision Song Contest and Rock in Rio, the lecture will highlight how grandMA3 contributes to the seamless execution of intricate designs. Attendees will gain a deeper understanding of the technical capabilities that make grandMA3 a preferred choice for global events of this magnitude.

Luke Chikkala

lukechikkala.com

Martin Foan

Martin has a demonstrated history of working in the Media and Entertainment industry, selling, designing, demonstrating and providing solutions in Live Production, Post Production, and Playout. Employed in various pre-sales and account management roles over the last 12-Years, working with vendors such as Quantel, SAM, GV, Avid, LiveU and now back again in GV as the Key Account Manager for the Nordic region.

Erindi á Bransadegi 2025:

The Future Of Media

The industry is going through a massive transformation. How do we navigate the new Digital reality, whilst producing more content, for less?

Martin Foan

grassvalley.com

Ola Melzig

A great communicator, organizer and multi-tasker with positive lateral thinking abilities and a grounded overall technical knowledge, the zany and outlandish Ola Melzig is not someone you forget in a hurry.

Looks can be deceptive. At first sight, as an imposing six-foot five frame with long hair, a penchant for elegant punky clothing and a strong metaphorical “No Messing” written loudly across the face, they could fuel a specific myth! However, Melzig is a polite, peace-loving egalitarian that does assertion not aggression… and has it down to a fine art.

His well-documented extravagant and infectious sense of humor is always a great icebreaker, although Melzig takes the ethics of ‘work hard/play hard’ very seriously to their logical conclusions.

Ola Melzig

Framleiðslustjóri/Production Manager

m-m-pr.com Ola Melzig BIO Ola Melzig CV

Sam Hunter

Backstage at the Olympics

Drawing on Sam’s wealth of experience as Production Stage Manager on the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of every Olympics and Paralympics from Athens 2004 to Sochi 2014, this presentation takes you behind the scenes on some of the biggest shows on the planet.  Using exclusive videos to illustrate the talk, Sam will explain how to meet the challenges of working at this scale, and discuss the importance of communication and collaboration to ensure a safe and smooth delivery of an event that is watched by an audience of over 900 million!  A Q&A will follow at the end of the session.

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Backstage at the Olympics

Drawing on Sam’s wealth of experience as Production Stage Manager on the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of every Olympics and Paralympics from Athens 2004 to Sochi 2014, this presentation takes you behind the scenes on some of the biggest shows on the planet. Using exclusive videos to illustrate the talk, Sam will explain how to meet the challenges of working at this scale, and discuss the importance of communication and collaboration to ensure a safe and smooth delivery of an event that is watched by an audience of over 900 million! A Q&A will follow at the end of the session.

Sam Hunter

Framleiðslustjóri / Productions Stage Manager

Sam Hunter - CV orangejackets.uk

Sigga Sunna Reynisdóttir

Sigríður Sunna Reynisdóttir útskrifaðist vorið 2012 með BATP gráðu frá Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, þar sem hún lærði leikbrúðulist og sviðslistir. Áður nam hún almennar bókmenntir og leikhúsfræði við Háskóla Íslands og Universitá Karlová (BA) og textílhönnun og myndlist við Skals School of Arts and Crafts.
 
Síðustu ár hefur Sunna aðallega starfað við hönnun á leikmyndum, búningum og leikbrúðum fyrir ýmis leikhús og leikhópa. Af verkefnum í Borgarleikhúsinu má nefna X, Tvískinnung, 1984, Vísindasýningu Villa, Lóaboratoríum og Hamlet litla. Hún hefur einnig hannað fyrir Leikfélag Akureyrar (Litla Hryllingsbúðin og Lísa í Undralandi), Íslenska Dansflokkinn (Óður og Flexa: Rafmagnað ævintýri) og í Tjarnarbíó (Íó, Manndýr). Á meðal verkefna í Þjóðleikhúsinu eru ÖR, Kópavogskrónika og Meistarinn og Margaríta.
 
Sigríður er listrænn stjórnandi hönnunarteymisins ÞYKJÓ sem hefur verið tilnefnt til Hönnunarverðlauna Íslands í þrígang sem og alþjóðlegu YAM verðlaunanna. Hún er önnur stofnenda VaVaVoom leikhópsins sem hafa fengið verðlaun og viðurkenningar fyrir sýningar sínar frá Tallinn Treff Festival og Music Theater Now.

Sigga Sunna Reynisdóttir

https://www.thykjo.com/

Sooner Rae Routhier

Sooner Rae Routhier is a 2X Parnelli, Live Design Achievement, Live Production Summit Pinnacle, and multi Top Dog award winning Designer. Her work has been viewed by millions all around the world and has appeared on major screens such as Jimmy Fallon, The AMA’s, The Ellen Show, The Voice and The Billboard Music Awards. She has developed, produced and helped create some of entertainment’s most recognizable performance moments for some of today’s most celebrated headlining artists including, Coldplay, Green Day, Noah Kahan, Paramore, The Weeknd, KISS, Imagine Dragons, The Lumineers, Rhianna, Megan Thee Stallion, Jay-Z, Halsey, Motley Crue, G-Eazy, Muse, Alessia Cara and Depeche Mode.

Sooner’s story began in 1999 where she worked as a lighting technician and lighting director for Rainbow Concert Productions while attending Emerson College in Boston. She launched her career as a Lighting Designer for the rock band Chevelle and In 2007 Sooner teamed up with legendary production manager Robert Long to form SRae Productions. While growing SRae Productions, Sooner was also able to cultivate new creative talent that emulated the team’s strong creative visions. Sooner and the SRae team joined forces with World-Renowned Composer Ramin Djawadi and together in a Live Nation / HBO partnership brought the world of Westeros to life and launched the „Game of Thrones – Live Concert Experience.“

Routhier’s newest venture, The Playground, launched in 2022 and her work has continued with projects including Lighting Design for Coldplay’s Music Of The Spheres World Tour, Muse’s Will Of The People World Tour and Wang Feng’s Unfollow Tour. She has also created full show design for Green Day’s Saviors Tour, Noah Kahan, Megan Thee Stallion, Maren Morris, Daddy Yankee, Paramore, and The Lumineers and art direction for the band Ghost.

Sooner has not only made her mark in the entertainment industry, but she has also become a respected leader in her field and along with her colleagues helped pave the modern landscape of entertainment lighting, design, and production.

In 2020, the live entertainment industry came to a very abrupt halt due to the onslaught of the COVID 19 pandemic. Sooner teamed up with several industry peers to form EVEN – an organization that seeks to create a more diverse and inclusive live events industry through outreach, training, mentorship, networking and job placement.

In 2023, she founded the creative collective The Playground, a design co-op focused on creating iconic experiences. The foundation of the company is to design and produce unforgetable moments through the magic of collaborative creativity, with joy and without ego. With The Playground, Sooner’s vision is to remain in motion by challenging convention, innovating, and mentoring young talent.

Sooner Rae Routhier

Sýningarhönnuður - Listrænn framleiðandi / Show Designer - Creative Producer

https://soonerrae.com/

USE SEE

Frumkvöðlafyrirtækið USE SEE ehf. var stofnað í mars 2024 og stendur fyrir: Umhverfi, samfélag, efnahagur – Social, economic, environment. Stofnendur eru Heather Millard, Karólína Stefánsdóttir og Sigríður Rósa Bjarnadóttir sem hafa ISO 14001 vottun  í umhverfisstjórnun fyrir skapandi greinar með sérhæfingu í kvikmyndagerð.
 
Fyrirtækið USE SEE er sprottið upp úr námskeiði sem norrænir kvikmyndasjóðir stóðu að í sameiningu til þess að skapa sameiginlega staðla og verklag (e. best practice) þegar kemur að sjálfbærum starfsháttum fyrir greinina á Norðurlöndunum.
 
Helsta verksvið USE SEE er gerð sjálfbærni áætlana og ráðgjöf í sjálfbærni, ásamt því að vera umboðsaðili fyrir Green Producers Club sem er norræn kolefnisreiknivél sem er aðlöguð að íslenskum aðstæðum og orkusamsetningu. Fyrirtækið hefur einnig þróað námsefni um sjálfbæra starfshætti og framleiðslu fyrir kvikmyndagerð og hefst kennsla í vetur.
 
USE SEE ehf., is a new start-up business founded in March 2024 by Heather Millard, Karólina Stefánsdóttir and Sigríður Rósa Bjarnadóttir. The new business USE SEE ehf., stands for Umhverfi Samfélag Efnahagur – Social Economic Environment, and our plan is develop a new business that will offer our expertise as sustainability managers for the creative industries through consultancy services, hosting and teaching workshops, as well as providing an E-learning course on sustainability for the creative industries in Iceland (beginning with the film and television industry), as well as the exclusive distribution rights to license the Green Producers Tool, a Norwegian emissions calculator, that is working within all the Nordic in the creative industries and adapted to Iceland.

USE SEE ehf

Umhverfisstjórnun og sjálfbærni í kvikmyndaiðnaði / Social Economic Environment in film

USE SEE

Vigdís Ásgeirsdóttir

Vigdís sinnir sálfræðiþjónustu fyrir fullorðið fólk með hvers kyns vanda á öllum aldri. Má þar nefna kvíða-, þunglyndis- og sjálfsmatsvanda. Vigdís sinnir einnig málefnum tengdum sálfélagslegu öryggi á vinnustöðum og sinnir vinnustaðagreiningum, eineltismálum og öðru sem lýtur að líðan fólks í starfsumhverfi þess. Hún hefur einnig sérstakan áhuga á meðferð fólks í hinsegin samfélaginu hvort sem um ræðir kynami, sálrænn vandi tengdur kynhneigð eða kynvitund og býður fólki innan hinsegin samfélagsins sem og aðra sérstaklega velkomna. Vigdís beitir hugrænni atferlismeðferð.

Vigdís hefur lokið BS gráðu og Cand. psych. gráðu í sálfræði frá Háskóla Íslands. Hún hlaut starfsþjálfun í transteymi Landspítalans þar sem hún sinnti m.a. einstaklingum með kynama auk annars konar vanda. Vigdís hlaut einnig þjálfun í sálfræðiráðgjöf Háskóla Íslands það sem hún hlaut þjálfun við margs konar lífs- og geðrænum vanda.

Rannsókn Vigdísar í Cand.psych náminu var hluti af áfallasögu kvenna rannsókn Háskóla Íslands. Markmið þeirrar rannsóknar var fyrst og fremst að auka þekkingu á tíðni áfalla og áhrifum þeirra á heilsufar kvenna. Hluti Vigdísar í rannsókninni sneri að sambandi seiglu og áfallastreitueinkenna út frá ýmsum þáttum svo sem aldri kvenna, fyrri áföllum, tegundum áfalla o.fl.

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Vigdís Ásgeirsdóttir sálfræðingur mun fjalla um nauðsyn þess að halda góðu jafnvægi milli ólíkra sviða lífsins. Á fyrirlestrinum verður m.a. fjallað um streitu í lífi og starfi, gagnlegar leiðir til að ná betri tökum á streitu og farið yfir þá þætti lífsins sem að stuðla að vellíðan okkar.

Vigdís Ásgeirsdóttir

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