SIGGRAPH Asia 2023 will take place from 12 – 15 December 2023 in ICC Sydney, Australia. The annual event, which rotates around the Asian region, attracts the most respected technical and creative people from all over the world who are excited by research, science, art, animation, gaming, interactivity, education, and emerging technologies.

Conference 12 – 15 December 2023
Exhibition 13 – 15 December 2023

Talks covering OpenUSD

Demystifying OpenUSD: End-to-end Data Pipelines and Workflows

Date/Time: Wednesday, 13 December 20232:00pm – 6:00 pm AEDT

Event Type: Courses

Speaker:
Corresponding Author and Coordinator: Aloys Baillet, NVIDIA
Lecturers:

• Jens Jepens, NVIDIA
• Steve Agland, Animal Logic
• Pal Mezei, NVIDIA
• Jerran Schmidt, NVIDIA

Description: DescriptionUniversal Scene Description (OpenUSD) is an open-source software library and ecosystem that provides a scalable and robust solution for interchange and collaboration between digital content creation tools and other runtimes. This course will provide an introduction to some best practices in handling OpenUSD data, examples of how proceduralism can enable new workflows, some intermediate subjects such as Materials, the expanded capabilities of Hydra 2.0, and present how we use NVIDIA Omniverse Fabric to enable runtime optimizations including GPU interoperability.

Class link: here.

Location: Meeting Room C4.7, Level 4 (Convention Centre)

NVIDIA Lectures

Date/Time: Thursday, 14 December 202310:00am – 12:30pm GMT+11

Event Type: Exhibitor Talks

Presenters:

• Will Ramey, Senior Director of Developer Program and Deep Learning Institute, NVIDIA
• Tomasz Bednarz, Director, Strategic Researcher Engagement, NVIDIA
• Johan Barthelemy, Senior Developer Relations Manager – Strategic Researcher Engagement, APAC, NVIDIA
• Aloys Baillet, Senior Manager of Omniverse, NVIDIA

Description:

○ Generative AI and Omniverse for Collaborative 3D Workflows
○ OpenUSD and NVIDIA Omniverse Ecosystem
○ Happy hour and networking

Link: here.

Location: Meeting Room C4.5, Level 4 (Convention Centre)

Developer Meetup | Meet the Experts

Date/Time: Thursday, 14 December 20233:00pm – 4:30pm GMT+11

Event Type: Exhibitor Talks

Description:

○ Generative AI and Omniverse for Collaborative 3D Workflows
○ OpenUSD and NVIDIA Omniverse Ecosystem
○ Happy hour and networking

Presenters:

• Will Ramey, Senior Director of Developer Program and Deep Learning Institute, NVIDIA
• Tomasz Bednarz, Director, Strategic Researcher Engagement, NVIDIA
• Johan Barthelemy, Senior Developer Relations Manager – Strategic Researcher Engagement, APAC, NVIDIA
• Aloys Baillet, Senior Manager of Omniverse, NVIDIA

link: here.

Location: Meeting Room C4.5, Level 4 (Convention Centre)