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Touch the Workflow: Cameras, Cloud & Creative Technology in Action
What truly defines a modern workflow? Join us for the next NET Roundtables as we deep dive into that question, bringing industry leaders together around capture-to-screen technology and the evolving landscapes of review and post production.
This interactive NET experience is built around hands-on discovery, with guided stations featuring cameras, color, cloud infrastructure, and the latest tools driving media pipelines. Explore real-world workflows, connect directly with the technology, and touch and feel the outcomes firsthand.
Networking Education Technology
- Tuesday, July 14, 2026
- 4:30 pm – 7:00 pm
This is a pre-paid event
- HPA Members – $60
- Non-Members – $90
- Not a member? Join Now!
Sheraton Universal
- Starview Room
- 333 Universal Hollywood Dr, Universal City, CA 91608
Moderators
Fred Beahm
Editor
Topic: Improving the Review Process
Shawn McDaniel
Adobe
Topic: Improving the Review Process
Shawn’s passion for filmmaking started early, making movies for his family, which inspired him to move to LA and pursue a career in the film industry. His journey began as a video editor for Buzzfeed, MGM, and Riot Games. He also worked as a trainer at Apple for five years before moving to Frame.io. There, he started in customer support, addressing workflow issues, and later joined the Frame.io marketing team. He created a series of training videos called “Tip of the Week” and “Short Cuts developed the virtual event program Frame.ioLive. Now at Adobe, Shawn serves as a Video Evangelist, focusing on content creation to engage and inspire the creative community.
Daniel Lay
Box
Topic: The Workflow Toolbox – Open the Box, Touch the Tools, and See How Modern Production Gets Built
10 years experience in VFX postproduction at companies like Sony Pictures Imageworks, DreamWorks Animation, and Digital Domain with credits on films like I Am Legend, Tron legacy Shrek Forever After, X-Men First Class, and GI Joe Retaliation.
Elijah Jaso
Box
Topic: The Workflow Toolbox – Open the Box, Touch the Tools, and See How Modern Production Gets Built
Solutions Engineer at Box, where he’s spent the last three and a half years working closely with the entertainment industry, partnering with studios, talent agencies, and production companies to help them manage content and adopt AI in their workflows.
Murad Mordukhay
Qencode
Topic: Does the Pipeline Make the Cut?
Murad Mordukhay is the CEO and co-founder of Qencode, a cloud-based, video-first infrastructure platform that helps teams build amazing video experiences. Through professional-grade tools for video encoding, processing, localization, streaming, storage, delivery, and playback, Qencode makes advanced video technology simple, scalable, and accessible. Built for the needs of modern video platforms, Qencode helps teams move from upload to polished viewing experience through an integrated workflow, with a mission to democratize state-of-the-art video infrastructure and put it within everyone’s reach.
Ron Eli Cohen
Producer
Topic: From Idea to Lineup – Build the Creative Pitch Before the Cameras Roll
Ron Eli Cohen started his career at TWC Films, a prestigious global commercial production company founded by Mark Thomas and studio producer Ralph Winter.
Throughout his work, Ron has collaborated with companies like Alcon Entertainment, Netflix, Snapchat, E-One, and Amazon, contributing his expertise to diverse projects ranging from independent features to streaming series.
Among his recent highlights , Ron helped craft the opening musical oner for Leos Carax’s Annette, Executive Produced Harmony Korine’s Aggro Dr1ft, and Produced the twelve-episode Netflix series On the Verge, starring Julie Delpy, Elisabeth Shue, and Giovanni Ribisi.
Currently, Ron is in post on the groundbreaking Saudi-Turkish Comedy My Treat, for Alamaiya Filmed Entertainment and Front Row Productions. Additionally, he’s in prep on The High Line, a contained thriller from writer Tony Basgallop (Servant, The Consultant, Berlin Station) and Director Alexis Ostrander (Interview with a Vampire, The Consultant, Cruel Summer).
Ray Gaeta
PHONT
Topic: Vertical Content with Emphasis, TikTok Me Today
Kenta Honjo
RED Digital Cinema
Topic: From Camera to Screen – Record, Stream, Monitor, and Manage the Image Like a DIT Dream
Dane Brehm
Cintegral
Topic: From Camera to Screen – Record, Stream, Monitor, and Manage the Image Like a DIT Dream
Dane Brehm is an entrepreneur, production technologist, and Digital Imaging Technician (DIT) specializing in the intersection of creative technology, innovation, and media sustainability. His direct approach, collaborative personality, and consideration for creatives bring meaningful
execution to the needs of studios, broadcasters, and production crews.
Dane’s passion is growing Cintegral.tech, a workflow service company focused on providing Value Add services, specializing in high-performance enterprise NVMe/SSD and connectivity solutions for Producers.
For the last 12 years, Cintegral has operated under the creed “Fast Drives, Save Lives,” supporting over 180 productions annually which includes feature films, episodic television shows, broadcast, motorsports, and music festivals. Dane’s connective personality has forged deep partnerships with OEMs, Telcos, and Suppliers to develop tools, operations, and platforms for crews across the US, Pacific, Europe,
North America and the Caribbean.
Dane is an ASC Technical Instructor, a Television Academy Member, and a Local 600 Guild member. His most recent contributions include Research for the Entertainment Technology Center @USC, the ASC-MITC committee developing the ASC MHL and FDL standards, and he is an active participant in the Movie Labs OnSet Ontology working group.
On a community level, he is a founding member of the DIT collective “DIT-WIT,” which comprises over 360 global members. When he’s not working, he enjoys traveling with his wife and family, attending LAFC matches, and is an active Los Angeles community volunteer.
Brandon Heaslip
Colorfront
Topic: Detection to Delivery — No Lost Frames in Between
Brandon Heaslip is Director of Solutions Engineering at Colorfront, where he designs and supports end-to-end film and digital workflows—from on-set capture through immersive post-production, cloud finishing, and archive—for clients including Netflix, Amazon Studios, Apple, and Company 3. He led the design and deployment of Apple Immersive workflows for Apple Vision Pro, working directly with Apple’s internal production teams. With more than 20 years in the industry, Brandon has held senior engineering roles at Apple, Codex Digital, and Technicolor. His expertise spans SDR/HDR color pipelines, high-performance media systems, and spatial video across macOS, Linux, and Windows.
Jason Fotter
BIND Studio
Topic: From Prep to Post: Hands-On with a Complete Toolset for VFX Production
Jason Fotter is a technology leader working at the intersection of creative production and scalable infrastructure for media and entertainment. His career has focused on designing systems that enable artists and studios to work faster, smarter, and at global scale.
In 2008, Jason co-founded FuseFX, where he served as CTO and led the design and implementation of the studio’s technology platform, including the proprietary Nucleus system. Under his technical leadership, FuseFX grew from a small startup into an award-winning visual effects studio delivering work across film, television, and streaming. Following a private-equity partnership with EagleTree Capital in 2018 and a series of acquisitions, the company rebranded as Pitch Black and now operates worldwide.
Jason’s expertise spans visual effects workflows, cloud and hybrid infrastructure, application development, automation, and team leadership. In 2024, he founded BIND Studio, a technology platform that allows productions to assemble distributed creative teams while leveraging a complete, production-ready VFX pipeline from ingest through delivery.
Jason is passionate about building practical, production-tested technology that removes friction from creative work.