Kenny Mitchell is senior at Walt Disney Animation Studios and professor of video games technology with Edinburgh Napier University. He is an outstanding scientist and practitioner in the creative industries with a career spanning 4 decades of games, graphics, robotics and computer vision.Recently for Roblox, he led the visual Metaverse to a ~$40Bn valuation with >70m DAUs as lead of the rendering features team developing real-time photorealism at a massive scale as a strategic company investment. As a Disney Imagineer, he historically founded Disney Research in the UK and assisted Star Wars digital acting research with Industrial Light and Magic London, and prior to that lead video game engine developments for Electronic Arts with game franchises including Harry Potter, Monopoly and Steven Spielberg's BAFTA award winning Boom Blox.He is co-founder of 3Finery Ltd as part-time CTO, post spinout phase of Edinburgh Napier University, delivering a new way to help people be together and play through Intermediated Reality, eXtended reality games, conversational AI avatars, and applications including MagiPeeps and LisNav. Further, he is part-time CTO of Cobra Simulation Ltd, an immersive display hardware company disrupting immersive simulation and video games content, including a new optimized representation of generative AI graphics called VoxSpars in CobraWorld digital twins (beyond NERFs, Gaussian Splatting, etc).He is consortium research lead for the prestigious European funded future emerging technology proactive pathfinder project on low-latency online dance interaction called, CAROUSEL.For the Association of Computing Machinery, launched ACM GAMES: Research and Practice journal and magazine as editor-in-chief, he is associate editor of the ACM Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques journal (PACMCGIT). He is an ACM Distinguished Speaker and a frequent advisor to ACM SIGGRAPH. Also, he is associate editor of Elsevier Computers and Graphics journal and serves on many program committees. He has a wealth of recognized excellence in globally high income commercial delivery across the highest levels of technology for video games, movie visual effects, consumer products and Themepark attractions. Kenny holds around 50 patents and has published over 100 technical papers. He graduated with an honors degree in CS & AI from Edinburgh University. Email drkennymitchell at yahoo dot com.Specialties: AI, 3D graphics, vision, visualization, real-time, rendering, video games, movie production, immersive technology, entrepreneur, and research management.