Talks

Creating an Interactive Narrative

Women in Animation Panel

Making YOU Matter with Baobab Studios Baba Yaga

Women in the Animation Industry

Hand-Painting 'Namoo' with Erick Oh & Baobab Studios

Storytelling Across Mediums: The Future of Entertainment

Maureen Fan is CEO & Co-Founder of 9-time Emmy-award winning and leading independent interactive animation studio Baobab Studios, whose mission is to "Bring out your sense of wonder. Inspire you to dream. Make YOU matter.” Named Fast Company's 2018 Most Innovative Company, Baobab has released Invasion!, Asteroids!,  Jack, Crow: The Legend, Bonfire, Baba Yaga and Namoo all to commercial and critical acclaim.

Baobab’s most recent release, Oscar®-nominated Namoo, was acquired by Warner 150 and is now streaming exclusively on HBO Max. Namoo won the 2022 Annie Award for Best Special Production and was named Best Animated Short from the 2022 Gold List Awards.

Recently the studio announced a deal with Disney+ to develop an animated anthology series called THE WITCHVERSE, based on the Emmy-winning VR short film, BABA YAGA.

Maureen has held leadership roles in film, gaming and the consumer web. She was most recently vice president of games at Zynga, where she oversaw three game studios including the FarmVille's, which contributed 40 percent of the company’s revenues. Maureen was also named one of ‘The Most Creative People of the Year’ by Ad Age and more recently Variety crowned her as one the execs to watch.