GTSE 2026
GTSE GEAR I STORE

Meet The Speakers of GTSE 2026
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Andre Champagne
CEO
Hollywood Trucks
Andre Champagne is an entrepreneur and inventor pioneering the convergence of autonomous mobile energy, transportation, and compute. Champagne founded Hollywood Trucks in 2008 and grew the company from seven vehicles into a major clean-energy entertainment transportation platform serving thousands of productions. In 2014, he introduced the multi-patented Ecoluxe solar off-grid trailer, establishing an early commercial model for vehicles capable of generating, storing, and independently managing their own energy. That technology became the foundation for Autonomous Mobile Power, Inc. (AMP), which now owns Hollywood Trucks and is expanding the platform far beyond entertainment. AMP is developing a new generation of autonomous mobile microgrids for entertainment, mobile data centers and compute, military and defense applications, commercial RVs, emergency response, electric transportation, and distributed energy. Hollywood Trucks has also established a multi-year, global partnership with NBC-Universal, providing a major commercial platform for deploying its clean-energy transportation technology and vehicle-to-grid (V2G) applications. Champagne's long-term thesis is that the future of energy will increasingly be mobile, distributed, intelligent, and bidirectional. Rather than simply consuming power, the next generation of vehicles and trailers can become energy assets themselves—generating, storing and distributing electricity while supporting everything from film productions and disaster zones to data centers, military operations and electric transportation. Champagne earned his B.S. from Louisiana State University and delivered LSU's commencement address in 2012.

Mike Levine
Founder & CEO
FilmSpark.AI
Mike Levine is a pioneering digital artist, technologist, entrepreneur, and AI filmmaker whose career has spanned more than 25 years at the intersection of storytelling, visual effects, interactive entertainment, immersive media, and emerging technology. From his early work at LucasArts and Industrial Light & Magic to today's rapidly evolving world of generative AI, Levine has consistently worked at the forefront of technologies transforming how stories are created and experienced. A veteran of LucasArts Entertainment and Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), Levine created and led the Cinematics and Visual Effects group at LucasArts and served on the Technology Council at Skywalker Ranch. During this period, he helped develop breakthrough digital art and production techniques that contributed to some of the most recognized titles of the era. His credits include work on Star Wars: Rebel Assault, Star Wars: Dark Forces, Star Wars: Jedi Knight – Dark Forces II, Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire, The Dig, Full Throttle, The Curse of Monkey Island, Sam & Max Hit the Road, and Herc's Adventures. The longevity of that work continues today, with Levine receiving credits on modern remasters of Full Throttle and Dark Forces, as well as contemporary Star Wars: Battlefront titles. Following LucasArts, Levine co-founded Puffin Designs with veterans of ILM. The company developed Commotion, technology originating from ILM that became a widely used rotoscoping and visual-effects tool throughout the film and television post-production industry. Puffin Designs was subsequently acquired by Pinnacle Systems. During this period, Levine also worked on visual effects for the feature film Spawn and contributed to the opening sequence of the 1999 Academy Awards. His career continued to evolve alongside the entertainment industry's emerging technologies. Levine co-created Insecticide at Crackpot Entertainment with fellow LucasArts veteran Larry Ahern and later founded HappyGiant, which became a recognized developer in augmented and virtual reality. At HappyGiant, Levine and his teams worked extensively with major entertainment companies and global brands including Disney, Hasbro, Spin Master, Amazon, and others. The company collaborated with legendary visual-effects artist Phil Tippett, achieved recognition as Apple's Game of the Day for an augmented-reality title, and produced the AR experience for Pepsi's Super Bowl Halftime Show featuring The Weeknd. Levine also executive produced Sam & Max: This Time It's Virtual!, bringing the iconic LucasArts characters into virtual reality for a new generation. His work in AR, VR, games, and immersive entertainment has also led to appearances and presentations at major technology gatherings, including AWE and ARIA at MIT. Today, Levine is the Founder and CEO of FilmSpark.AI, where he is once again working at the leading edge of a major transformation in media production. FilmSpark.AI is developing a professional AI production console designed for studios, agencies, filmmakers, and professional storytellers. The platform takes a project through an integrated workflow from script to storyboard, character-consistent video, and final export, orchestrating more than 50 AI models within a unified production environment. Together with a core team of veterans from LucasArts, Electronic Arts, and Activision, Levine is focused on solving one of the central challenges facing professional AI filmmaking: bringing the workflow, consistency, creative control, and production discipline of traditional studio pipelines into generative AI production. Across his career, Mike Levine has been credited on more than 20 games, along with film, television, visual-effects, AR, VR, and immersive-media projects. His career provides a rare perspective on several generations of technological disruption—from the emergence of digital visual effects and interactive storytelling to augmented and virtual reality and now artificial intelligence. Rather than simply observing those transformations, Levine has spent his career building the tools, production techniques, companies, and creative experiences that helped make them possible.
