Actina

Actina is a Polish computer brand building desktops and workstations, including configurations aimed at creative work: rendering, editing and generative pipelines that need local compute rather than a queue in the cloud. For anyone working with video models that is the difference between waiting for a slot and simply starting the render, and it is a thread that runs through the whole festival. The company describes itself as a Polish manufacturer with twenty years of experience, involved in the growth of esports and gaming, with tens of thousands of computers sold and a fleet of machines supporting some of the larger events in the world. It has its own production line, and says each computer is built on a professional anti-static line and then load-tested for 36 hours before it ships. It reports testing new graphics cards, processors, memory and cooling before their official premieres, and keeps its lineup changing almost every year as components change. Actina also presents its production as more environmentally careful, with technologies meant to make computers in a less harmful way.