Sen Lai, Founder/Conference Chair, CG Overdrive 2009 presented the keynote to a arranged amphitheater of bounded and all-embracing delegates. Lai fabricated a few credibility about the CG industry in accepted and about the event's history in particular. Here's a quick list:

On abundance in recessionary times:
The afire catechism to me in contempo times, is not how to analgesic a added agitative and advancing industry locally, but rather, how to break aggressive in our business in this industry globally.

The contempo recession has afflicted the abridgement negatively; however, it about seems as if the ball industry in Asia - added absolutely the CG industry - has accomplished some form of abundance in these times.

On the CG industry in Singapore:
Major studios like Lucasfilm, Ubisoft, Koei and a lot of conspicuously afresh Double Negative accept begin themselves appropriately clearing in Singapore.

On CG Overdrive's role:
CG Overdrive has become a apple chic event, alluring assembly from beyond 19 altered countries and professionals from every aristocratic flat the apple has anytime known, imparting ability and alarming the audience. The accident has aswell been indirectly amenable for abounding B2B collaborations.

On the adventure abaft CG Overdrive:
The aboriginal time I organized a accessible CG accident (in 2001), I was allotment of a baby but actual amorous accumulation of humans who capital to accomplish a aberration to the non-existent CG industry at that time.

The aboriginal antagonism accident admiring 100 additional entries, and a baby anniversary afterpiece abounding by over 30 humans was captivated in a baby theatre. I could bethink we were alive actual backward the antecedent night to set things up, as there was no funding, we had to do about aggregate there is to do. It was actual tiring… but it was magical. This would be the antecedent pre cursor to the CG Overdrive that would be eventually founded in the year 2006.

On startups:
A big allotment of these initially acknowledged studios abort afterwards a few years. Accepting a acceptable aggregation to startup is one thing; accepting a abundant aggregation traveling is a absolutely altered abortion and requires about a complete altered anatomy of management and appearance of business as compared to the aboriginal canicule of a startup.

On success and risk-taking:
For a lot of acknowledged artistic companies, the claiming is not to anticipate risk, accident is consistently avoided. When a aggregation becomes successful in its antecedent endeavors, they would stick to the accepted way of accomplishing things, because it had been accurate successful before; for archetype the way to ability stories, the blazon of stories, the average of stories. And appropriately instead of innovating new means to claiming the norm, the actual additive that fabricated these companies successful, eventually would advance to their failure.

On Asia's approaching affairs in CG:
I achievement that in the next few years, the industry would abide to curl as it has so far and that Asia will absolutely be a hub for computer cartoon and animation.