JALI Research (JALI), developers of advanced procedural audio and script driven facial animation and pipeline solutions, is excited to participate at the 2026 HPA Tech Retreat, taking place February 15–19, 2026, in Rancho Mirage, Calif. The professional entertainment industry event brings together world-class leaders in engineering, technology, creativity, and business to examine, discuss, and experience “…the most compelling topics in content creation, management, and dissemination…” shaping the future of the industry. Sarah Watling, JALI Research Co-Founder and CEO, will be among this year’s thought leaders moderating a coveted HPA Tech Retreat Breakfast Roundtable, a space encouraging peer-based conversation. JALI technology solutions will also be featured in a groundbreaking interactive broadcast with industry partner Immersive Enterprise Laboratories (IEL), a leading independent animation studio, taking place at the HPA Retreat ‘Innovation Zone’ in the HP/AMD booth. For over eight years, JALI has been developing artist-centric, automated facial animation tools that allow artists and studios to thrive creatively while helping them scale their development and production. By automating many complex facial animation tasks and optimizing computational functions, JALI generated animation output is fast and lightweight, iterative and non-destructive, keeping pipelines streamlined and delivering customers solutions that lower and control production costs without compromising their vision. JALI Breakfast Roundtable at HPA Tech Retreat

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