Speaker Series
Join us on Zoom for our Guest Speaker Series, featuring insights from leading professionals in the themed entertainment design industry. If you’re unable to attend the live session, recordings will be available for a limited time below.
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Plan to stop by next Friday, 3/6/26 at 1:30p to here to connect with the talented concept designer Christina Hall. Christina is an IUPUI graduate who recently finished up working on James Cameron’s Avatar films and now is working with Disney Imagineering. You won’t want to miss hearing about her start designing toys in Photoshop until her work today. Learn from her experience how to break into the fields of both animation and imagineering. Find out how she got noticed and climbed the ranks as she started her journey here in Indiana!
Click below for videos of our prior speakers from Spring 2026.
Videos of our prior speakers from Fall 2025.
We were excited to have Matt Sanker, Producer from Firefly Drone Shows, and his team join us on a cold November night for a presentation about how drones shows are created, then we got to see one. Firefly Drone Shows is a team of animators, developers, producers, and builders coming together to create unforgettable experiences for their audience. By pushing boundaries of drone shows to create the brightest and most life-like displays. They create a story in the sky for everyone to experience. Leading the way for almost a decade, Firefly is a major entertainment provider.
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