The Alliance for OpenUSD (AOUSD)

HPA Tech Retreat 2024
2024-02-18 - 2024-02-22
February 18-22, 2024
Rancho Mirage, CA
Join leaders in engineering, technology, creativity and business to explore the most compelling topics around the creation, management, and dissemination of content.
Find Autodesk in the Innovation Zone or join a Breakfast Roundtable to learn about how the company is harnessing the power of an open ecosystem and open standards like OpenUSD, to unify workflows and data across the production lifecycle with Autodesk Flow.

Innovation Zone – February 19-21, 2024
Autodesk “Industry collaboration for unconstrained reviews” Breakfast Roundtables – February 20 & 21, 2024

SIGGRAPH Asia 2023 Sydney
2023-12-12 - 2023-12-15 | Darling Harbour Theatre + Level 2 and Level 4 Conference Rooms, Australia
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)

AU 2023 The Design & Make Conference
2023-11-13 - 2023-11-15 | The Venetian Convention & Expo Center, Las Vegas
AU brings together innovators in architecture, engineering, construction, product design, manufacturing, media and entertainment, to share ideas, advance industry practices, and explore opportunities for the future. It’s the conference for those who make anything.

Talks covering OpenUSD
ASWF + AOUSD – Using Open Source as a Competitive Advantage
Date/Time: Tuesday, November 14, 1:30-2:30 pm PT
Speaker: Guillaume Brossard, Director of Software Development, Autodesk
Description: Creating movies involves a lot of work, including delivering productions with increasingly impressive special effects and realistic computer-generated scenes, all while meeting tight deadlines and compressed budgets. Collaboration and efficiency are essential as complexity increases. This talk will use real-life examples from the film and games industry to show how open technologies can help clients improving collaboration and efficiency while providing strategic benefits for enterprises to contributing to these open technologies.
Class link: https://conferences.autodesk.com/flow/autodesk/au2023/sessioncatalog/page/inperson/session/1686766392031001ZjbE

The ABC’s of USD
Date/Time: Tuesday, November 14, 3:30-4:30pm PT
Speaker: Jordan Giboney, M&E Solutions Engineer, Autodesk
Description: It’s 2023 and you’ve been wondering “WTF is USD?” You’re not alone! Software never stops evolving, and it is easy to feel left behind when new tech enters the scene. Funny enough, that is exactly what USD is aiming to address. USD stands for Universal Scene Description, and it is an open-source initiative, meaning it is being built in a public facing manner, without any single company claiming ownership of its development. Rather, multiple companies share the same vision – a world where sharing production assets among programs is consistent, reliable and easy. In this class you will learn USD’s origin, where its currently at in the Media & Entertainment Industry, where it is headed, and how these techniques and technologies add benefit to any industry pipeline.
Class link: https://conferences.autodesk.com/flow/autodesk/au2023/sessioncatalog/page/inperson/session/1686766394332001ZH2K

Five Things to Know About Universal Scene Description (USD) for 3D Generalists (In-person)
Date/Time: Tuesday, November 14, 5:30-6:30pm PT
Speaker: Christopher Murray, Director of Learning and Training – Omniverse, NVIDIA
Description: As a 3D generalist working in architecture, engineering, construction, or manufacturing, it’s essential to understand Universal Scene Description (USD). USD is quickly becoming the industry standard for data exchange between different software applications. USD offers a powerful and efficient way to manage large and complex 3D scenes, allowing for better collaboration between different departments, and reducing the risk of errors during the production pipeline. In addition, USD enables the creation of real-time workflows using original source data, allowing for faster iteration and feedback. With the rise of virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), distributed computing, and cloud data aggregation, USD’s importance will only increase. A strong understanding of USD will empower 3D generalists to work more efficiently and effectively with multiple data sources between different teams.
Class link: https://conferences.autodesk.com/flow/autodesk/au2023/sessioncatalog/page/inperson/session/1686766057398001Z0M0
