The Alliance for OpenUSD (AOUSD)

SIGGRAPH 2024
2024-07-28 - 2024-08-01
SIGGRAPH 2024 will take place from 28 July – 1 August 2024 in Denver, Colorado. The annual event is the premier conference and exhibition on computer graphics and interactive techniques worldwide. The show covers five key official Interest Areas: Arts & Design, Gaming & Interactive, New Technologies, Production & Animation, and Research & Education.

Conference: 28 July – 1 August
Exhibition: 30 July – 1 August
Virtual Access: 28 July – 1 September

Register here.
There will be many OpenUSD activations and sessions at this year’s show, including from AOUSD members. Keep checking this page for updates!
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

AOUSD Exhibitors at SIGGRAPH

AWE USA 2024
2024-06-18 - 2024-06-20
AWE USA will take place from 18 – 20 June 2024 in Long Beach, California. Augmented World Expo (AWE) is the world’s largest spatial computing event. It brings together an inspiring community of XR professionals including developers, creators, product leaders, startups, enterprise end users, investors, and more.
Register here.
Panel at AWE USA
State of 3D Asset Interoperability Using USD & glTF
AOUSD & The Metaverse Standards Forum 3D Asset Interoperability Domain Group
Thursday, June 20 at 2:30 p.m.
Room 101A – Developer Track
Speakers:

Aaron Luk, NVIDIA
Ashley Crowder, VNTANA
Henrik Edstrom, Autodesk
Neil Trevett, Metaverse Standards Forum

The Metaverse Standards Forum 3D Asset Interoperability Domain Group along with the Alliance for OpenUSD (AOUSD) are enabling cooperation between the USD and glTF communities to build synergies and reduce overlaps, gaps, fragmentation, and industry confusion. Developers building tools and platforms with USD and integrating the popular glTF standard will share the state of these 3D initiatives and how they can benefit each other. Join us to explore expanding the scope of 3D asset definitions to include behaviors, sound, physics, and scene composition and discuss how different standards organizations, open source projects, and commercial companies are converging towards a shared material representation for the open metaverse.

FMX - Film & Media Exchange 2024
2024-04-23 - 2024-04-26
The next edition of FMX – Film & Media Exchange will take place from April 23 to 26, 2024.
Register here.
Talks about OpenUSD coming soon

Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2024
2024-03-18 - 2024-03-22
March 18-22, 2024
San Francisco, CA
Come to the Game Developers Conference (GDC) to discover how the latest generative AI, RTX, and OpenUSD technologies are accelerating game development.

NVIDIA GTC 2024: AI Conference
2024-03-18 - 2024-03-21 | San Jose Convention Center, 150 W San Carlos St, San Jose, CA, United States
Join fellow developers, researchers, and thought leaders to shape the world with AI. Learn the latest in AI and hear from global leaders transforming industries.
Workshops March 17–21 |
AI Conference and Expo March 18–21 |
Keynote March 18 | San Jose, CA and Virtual
From the highly anticipated keynote by NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang to over 600 inspiring sessions, 200+ exhibits, and tons of unique networking events, GTC delivers something for every technical level and interest area. Whether you join us in person or virtually, you’re in for an incredible experience at the conference for the era of AI.
Register today.
Talks covering OpenUSD
Don’t miss the AOUSD members panel on Monday, March 18th and join a full day of OpenUSD sessions during OpenUSD Day on Tuesday, March 19th.
Register today to be a part of the 2024 GTC AI conference and get access to the highly anticipated keynote by NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang, 600 inspiring sessions, 200+ exhibits, and tons of unique networking events.

Academy Software Foundation's Open Source Forum
2024-02-22
Academy Software Foundation’s Open Source Forum

February 22, 2024 in Los Angeles and Virtual
The Academy Software Foundation’s (ASWF) annual Open Source Forum gathers business and technical leaders from the motion picture and media industries to discuss the state of open source software for visual effects and animation.

The event will feature a talk on “Advancing OpenUSD: Collaboration Between the ASWF and the Alliance for OpenUSD” by Guido Quaroni, Adobe and Nick Porcino, Pixar Animation Studios.

The event takes place in-person at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles and virtually. Register at https://events.linuxfoundation.org/aswf-open-source-forum/register/.

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
