Join us on April 15, 2026, at Breda University of Applied Sciences for the Industry Day of the Virtual Production Gathering, themed “Leaders of the Craft”. This edition spotlights the professionals who set the benchmark in Virtual Production, focusing on the creative leadership, decision making, and mastery that define top-tier VP work.
The program features exclusive presentations from the teams behind recent high-profile productions, offering a clear look at how VP leaders shape their workflows, solve complex creative challenges, and elevate the craft on real productions.
Attendees will also experience a live demonstration on the university’s VP stage, where leading practitioners will showcase practical methodologies and workflow refinements developed to meet current industry demands. Alongside the demo, the VP Marketplace will again bring together key vendors and service providers who support this ecosystem, presenting their latest tools and solutions for VP professionals.
Rob is going to approach virtual production from the perspective of cinematography as a storytelling discipline on the volume. Rather than focusing exclusively on tools or workflows, he is going to explore how working on LED stages, and the increasing reliance on previs, affects creative decision-making, risk, and authorship. Drawing on his experience across physical sets and his transition into virtual environments, Rob is going to examine where traditional cinematic principles still provide clarity, and where processes designed to solve problems early can start to limit on-set creativity. Designed to provoke discussion as much as instruction, he is going to invite the audience to reconsider where boundaries are necessary, and where they can be productively broken.
Camera tracking is no longer an isolated system; it is a core component of the virtual production stage technology stack. This talk explores how tracking, lens encoders, hubs, and cameras integrate, the challenges of system compatibility, and why hybrid tracking approaches are becoming essential for modern workflows.
A talk about how we set up the virtual production for iHostage from the content and hardware side. With a full 3d scan and content creation of the busiest places in Amsterdam to a 51x6M led wall using ROE panels.
Virtual production is often associated with game-engine pipelines, but what happens when you keep the entire process inside standard DCC tools? This presentation explores a Chaos Arena–based workflow where virtual environments move directly from Blender, 3ds Max and Houdini to the LED volume, with look development and validation in Chaos Vantage. Powered by real-time ray tracing, Chaos Arena delivers physically accurate lighting, reflections and global illumination directly on the LED walls, enabling cinematographers to work with natural light behavior and predictable results on set. By eliminating the need to rebuild assets in a game engine, the same production-ready scenes are used from early concept through in-camera capture and into final VFX. The result is a highly iterative creative process. Directors, writers, DOPs and production designers collaborate closely with the CGI team using familiar tools, refining lighting, mood, composition and scale in real time, and testing decisions directly on the LED stage without breaking the pipeline.
Virtual Production challenges rarely come from the technology itself. Most risk enters the process through late decisions, unclear ownership, and creative exploration that continues without clear alignment to the project’s stage, technical requirements, or decision milestones. This session explores the full VP lifecycle – from concept through volume validation, prelight, and production – focusing on where risk actually appears and how early alignment protects schedule, budget, and creative intent. Attendees will gain a practical framework for structuring decision points, validating work before stage time, and keeping Virtual Production predictable, efficient, and creatively successful.
Live demonstrations at the VP stage give attendees a practical, behind-the-scenes look at real-time virtual production workflows on a working stage, showcasing how teams capture, light, and iterate from camera to final pixels.
The networking lunch is a dedicated, informal moment to meet speakers, partners, and fellow attendees, and to turn conversations into practical connections for future collaborations.
The VP Marketplace is a dedicated space where leading VP vendors and service providers showcase their latest tools, technologies, and workflows. It offers attendees direct access to hardware, software, and expertise shaping current and future VP pipelines.
For the first time, we are using the B2Match matchmaking platform to help attendees schedule targeted business meet-and-greets in advance and arrive with a pre-built meeting calendar.
The CHAOS sponsored Mixer Party offers an informal but high-value networking evening for speakers, industry professionals, educators, and partners attending the VP Gathering.
The entrance to the Mixer Party is included in the Industry Day ticket. Location TBC.
