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Suzanne Guèvremont

Executive director

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Suzanne Guèvremont has served as executive director of SYNTHÈSE—the organization mandated by Québec’s Ministère de l’Éducation et de l’Enseignement supérieur to stimulate the digital creation ecosystem by ensuring better alignment between academia and industry needs—since August 2018.

In 1995, she became director of business development of École NAD and assumed the executive directorship in 1999, contributing significantly to the economic development of Québec’s creative industries (3D animation, visual effects, video games, virtual reality, etc.), culture, and education over the course of 23 years. With a law degree and a graduate diploma in management, she has extensive experience sitting on boards of crown corporations and NPOs, including as board chair and vice chair or as the chair of governing, human-resource, technology, and infrastructure committees. She current sits on the boards of CBC/Radio-Canada, SODEC, and Collège Notre-Dame. From 2008 to 2018, she sat on the boards of the Bell Foundation, the ADESAM, and the Alliance numérique.
Albane Français

Liaison officer | Partnerships

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Albane serves as a liaison between the industry’s research needs and researchers in order to create synergies among the parties and develop applied R&D projects. Albane has worked in the digital creation field for 14 years.

She began with École NAD and then held various positions with the production studios URBANIA MEDIA and CREO. She also sits on the board of iScola, an organisation that promotes education in the digital age.

Her range of experiences has given her an excellent understanding of future issues and challenges facing the digital creation sector.
Anne Le Bouyonnec

Project manager | Skills and careers

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Anne is a special-effects, video game, and digital art producer.

With SYNTHÈSE, she works as a skills and careers project manager. Her role is to contribute to know-how in the sector through consultation and in-depth surveys of professional practices in video games, visual effects, and immersive experiences. Anne has worked in the field of visual and digital art for over 25 years. Her understanding of digital production technology and the three professional sectors makes her an excellent leader of 2D and 3D artists and programming teams. She has experience in the field of visual effects, 3D technology, and video games, and she has worked on numerous films, video games, and digital exhibitions.

Anne has been a lecturer in digital production management at UQAC and Université Laval since 2012. She studied political science and journalism at Université de Montréal and 3D animation, film, and television at École NAD.
Isabelle Lefebvre

Research assistant | Skills and careers

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Isabelle is a research assistant in SYNTHÈSE’s skills and careers project. She ensures that all aspects of a survey run smoothly, from before the interviews through the analysis of the collected data.

In addition to her work at SYNTHÈSE, Isabelle is a doctoral candidate in film studies and a lecturer at Université de Montréal. Through her studies, she has worked on many university research projects on video games. She is currently writing her thesis on “modding” (gamers’ modification of pre-existing video games). Digital creativity issues have thus been among her chief interests for many years.