Schedule
Sunday, July 23
10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. | TOWN HALL
MaterialX Virtual Town Hall
Academy Software Foundation
Adobe, Autodesk, Chaos, Lucasfilm, NVIDIA, Pixar
Sunday, July 28
9:30 a.m. – 5:20 p.m. | SESSION
Open Source Days Main Program
Academy Software Foundation
6:30 p.m – 8:30 p.m. | BIRDS OF A FEATHER
Beers of a Feather Evening Reception
Academy Software Foundation
Monday, July 29
10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. & 12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. | LAB
How to Build an OpenUSD Configurator Experience for Apple Vision Pro NVIDIA
12:00 p.m. – 12:50 p.m. | BIRDS OF A FEATHER
Alliance for OpenUSD + Academy Software Foundation USD Working Group
Academy Software Foundation
Apple, NVIDIA, Pixar
1:00 p.m. – 1:50 p.m. | BIRDS OF A FEATHER
Seamless Rendering Interchange in OpenUSD
Academy Software Foundation
Adobe, Autodesk, ILM, NVIDIA
2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. | KEYNOTE SPEAKER
SIGGRAPH 2024 Keynote Speaker: Jensen Huang, NVIDIA CEO Fireside Chat: AI and Graphics for the New Computing Revolution
NVIDIA
4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. | KEYNOTE SPEAKER
AI and the Next Computing Platforms With Jensen Huang and Mark Zuckerberg
NVIDIA, Meta
Tuesday, July 30
8:30 a.m. – 9:20 a.m. | BIRDS OF A FEATHER
NVIDIA Research Presents AI and the Next Frontier of Graphics
NVIDIA
9:30 a.m. – 10:20 a.m. | SESSION
Advancing OpenUSD for the Era of Industrial Digitalization and Physical AI
OpenUSD Day by NVIDIA
10:30 a.m. – 10:50 a.m. | SESSION
Scaling Avatars to Billions: Leveraging OpenUSD for Dynamic Character Assembly and Personalization
OpenUSD Day by NVIDIA
Meta Reality Labs
11:00 a.m. – 11:20 a.m. | SESSION
Bringing RTX to OpenUSD: Ultra-Realistic Spatial Experiences From the Cloud
OpenUSD Day by NVIDIA
Apple
11:07 a.m. – 11:29 a.m. | SESSION
Sony Imageworks Animation Layout Workflow With Unreal Engine and OpenUSD
Sony Pictures Imageworks
1:00 p.m. – 1:50 p.m. | SESSION
Beyond Hollywood: Expanding 3D Skills Into New Frontiers in AI and Digital Twins
OpenUSD Day by NVIDIA
2:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. | LAB
Learn OpenUSD: Foundations With ChatUSD (Self-Paced)
NVIDIA
2:00 p.m. – 2:20 p.m. | SESSION
Accelerating Autonomous Vehicle Development With OpenUSD Virtual Worlds
OpenUSD Day by NVIDIA
2:30 p.m. – 3:20 p.m. | SESSION
Robotics, Generative AI, and OpenUSD: How WPP is Building the Future of Creativity
OpenUSD Day by NVIDIA
WPP
3:30 p.m. – 3:50 p.m. | SESSION
Remastering Classic Games With OpenUSD
OpenUSD Day by NVIDIA
4:00 p.m. – 4:45 p.m. | SESSION
Autodesk Vision Series: Harnessing OpenUSD and Virtual Production for Efficiency
Autodesk Vision Series
4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. | SESSION
Breathing Life Into Disney’s Robotic Characters With Deep Reinforcement Learning
OpenUSD Day by NVIDIA
Disney Research Studios
8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. | BIRDS OF A FEATHER
glTF: Innovations in 3D Content Delivery and Us
Cesium, DGG, The Khronos Group
12:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. | BIRDS OF A FEATHER
Metaverse Standards Forum: The Road to an Open Metaverse
Cesium, Metaverse Standards Forum, NVIDIA
12:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. | SESSION
Narrowing the Gap Between Simulation and Reality With OpenUSD
OpenUSD Day by NVIDIA
Ansys
Wednesday, July 31
9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. | LAB
Learn OpenUSD: Creating Composition Arcs
NVIDIA
9:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. | COURSE
USD in Production
Animal Logic, Autodesk, Pixar, SideFX, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Weta FX
11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Learn OpenUSD: Asset Structuring and Content Aggregation
NVIDIA
1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Learn OpenUSD: Foundations with ChatUSD
NVIDIA
2:00 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.
Autodesk Vision Series: Open Standard in Action: VFX Workflow Behind ‘The Creator’
Autodesk Vision Series, Fin Design + Effects
2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. | BIRDS OF A FEATHER
USD, Hydra and OpenSubdiv: Pixar’s Open Source Meetup
Pixar Animation Studios
Adobe, AOUSD, Autodesk, Epic, Foundry, ILM, Meta, NVIDIA, Remedy, SideFX, Ubisoft, WDAS, Wētā
3:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. | LAB
Learn OpenUSD: Developing Data Exchange Pipelines
NVIDIA
