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Sarah WatlingCEOJALI Inc.

Over the past 5 years Sarah has spearheaded JALI from a University of Toronto tech startup responsible for developing the JALI suite of automated 3D facial animation tools now used by over 50 video game studios that includes the critically acclaimed teams behind the massive open world narrative games Cyberpunk 2077, and Call of Duty, Modern Warfare II, into a multi-million dollar company, with global outreach, committed to developing best in class creator tools for future generations of digital storytellers. As CEO of JALI, Sarah Watling is a formidable and compassionate team leader, an ideas generator, relationship builder, and the guiding force behind the incredible work produced by her award-winning team at JALI Research. With over 15 years in leadership and arts production, coupled with the rare talent for harnessing chaotic genius, Watling fosters a culture of humanity and cooperative innovation at JALI to create best in class animation tools that power narrative driven character performances in games, animation and interactive stories. As a regular presenter and guest on industry panels and discussions, Sarah comes to the field of 3D character animation and the commercial industries of video game production, digital human creation and animation by way of an unorthodox route through film and large scale concert production, executive leadership in festival production and not for profit arts administration.

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Connecting the Global Game Development Community

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