Hypertec at SIGGRAPH 2021 Virtual

Director of Software, Performance Engineering - AMD

Chris Hall

Chris works closely with all major software vendors and customer in-house software teams to deliver maximum performance on AMD platforms. Chris was involved with VFX Software when Softimage|3D was first developed for Windows in the ’90s. More recently, he has delivered substantial performance improvements for the rendering and simulation applications used in recent feature films and game development.

Canadian Channel Manager, Components - AMD

Eddie Camara

Eddie has been working it in the Canadian IT channel for over 20 years, currently as Canadian Component Channel Manager for AMD.  In his current role, Eddie has responsibility for all aspects of the AMD component business including relationships with AMD channel partners.

Global Director, Media and Entertainment - AMD

James Knight

James has a background in feature film and game production. He is a full voting member of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Oscars), BAFTA (British Academy of Film Television Arts), and the Visual Effects Society. James manages relationships globally between AMD and major studios, VFX and post houses.

Global Director, Media & Entertainment Industry

David Bitton

I started my career as technical help and support at a software reseller for visual effects productions. I was mainly helping with software issues on Power Animator, Maya, Shake, Boujou, Shotgun, Rendering Software, Nuke, etc.

I worked on a few productions as a consultant throughout those years. I love finding solutions to all those technical challenges and through those years I have developed a tight relationship with many development teams from a lot of Software Vendors. I was also a teacher for Maya for many years at Concordia University. In the past 25 years I co-founded 3 companies all related to the media and entertainment industry.

I am always searching for trends and new technology that could help our customers’ production. This industry has been my true passion for over 25 years and still is!

David was one of the founders of the biggest Autodesk M&E partner in Canada, 3vis, and helped them get acquired by Scalar where he played a pivotal role in growing their M&E portfolio offering, as well as gaining industry credibility. He has now taken on a new challenge of building an M&E strategic business for Hypertec, an IT Solutions company that specializes in custom-built/optimized servers, storage and workstations.