Mimia Arbelaez

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Creative Immersion Director

Mimia is an award-winning creative director, professor and speaker with over 15 years' experience creating visual stories, cinematography and characters at Pixar Animation Studios, Tippett Studio, and beyond. Mimia's Pixar credits include Up, Toy Story 3, Monsters University, Inside Out, Good Dinosaur, Finding Dory, Incredibles, Coco, and other films and TV. Mimia is dedicated to empowering future generations to craft and tell stories through art and technology. She is a professor to aspiring designers and animators at Academy of Art University. Her studio, CreativeCave.biz was born as an innovation and design thinking project at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. She developed a project to empower young students to become creators, inventors and provide them with a hands-on and interactive experience to develop their unique creativity power.