SIGGRAPH Asia 2025
2025-12-15 - 2025-12-18
SIGGRAPH Asia 2025, the 18th ACM SIGGRAPH Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques in Asia, will take place from 15 – 18 December 2025 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC).
As a premier event in computer graphics, interactive techniques, AI, XR, animation, and gaming, SIGGRAPH Asia brings together researchers, developers, creators, and industry professionals to exchange ideas and showcase innovations shaping the future.
Register today.

Schedule
Tuesday, December 16
2:00 – 2:20 p.m. | EDUCATOR’S FORUM
Overcoming Facial Animation Hurdles by Leveraging Interdisciplinary Knowledge and AI-Assisted Creative Process
Adobe
2:50 – 3:55 p.m. | TECHNICAL PAPER PRESENTATION
Animation, Simulation & Deformation
Meta
3:15 – 4:45 p.m. | EXHIBITOR TALK
Adobe Substance 3D Keynote and Demo with our Guests from More VFX and Rising Sun Pictures
Adobe
4:51 – 5:02 p.m. | TECHNICAL PAPER PRESENTATION
Control Operators for Interactive Character Animation
Epic Games
5:00 – 6:00 p.m. | SESSION
From Gaussian Splats to GeoAI: Powering the Next Generation of Digital Twins
Esri
Wednesday, December 17
10:00 – 12:00 p.m. | LAB
Advancing World Simulation With 3D Gaussian Splatting for Large-Scale Environment Reconstruction
NVIDIA
1:00 – 2:30 p.m. | LAB
Applying AI Weather Models With NVIDIA Earth-2
NVIDIA
1:30 – 2:30 p.m. | FEATURED SESSION
From Pixels to Physics: How Advancements in Graphics Are Accelerating Physical AI
NVIDIA
1:30 – 2:30 p.m. | FEATURED SESSION
Pixar Animation Studios – Panel: Alien Abduction! The Truth Behind the Making of Pixar’s Elio (VFX, Photography, Character, etc)
Pixar Animation Studios
2:45 – 4:15 p.m. | LAB
Accelerating ROS 2 Workloads With NVIDIA GPU-Powered Libraries and Generative AI Models
NVIDIA
4:30 – 6:00 p.m. | LAB
Synthetic Data Generation for Robot Learning Pipelines With NVIDIA Cosmos
NVIDIA

ASWF Open Source Forum
2026-02-26
The Academy Software Foundation (ASWF) Open Source Forum is an annual event that gathers business and technical leaders to share ideas, insights, and experiences to drive the future of open-source software across the motion picture and media industries.
Several AOUSD members will be attending, including ASWF, Autodesk, Sony, Epic Games, and NVIDIA.
Register here by February 13, 2026.

Details
Address: Netflix, 1455 N Van Ness Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90028
Date: Thursday, February 26
1:35 -1:45 PM | WELCOME
Welcome to Open Source Forum 2026
Academy Software Foundation
3:15 – 3:35 PM | SESSION
AI Dailies Notes Assistant
Sony Pictures Imageworks
4:50 PM- 5:00 PM | LIGHTNING TALK
An Approach To Scalable, High-performance Video: Tiled Mipmapped Video (TMV) With OpenAPV
Epic Games
5:05- 5:25 PM | SESSION
Gaussian Splatting in OpenUSD: Collaboration Between the ASWF and the Alliance for OpenUSD
NVIDIA
5:55 – 6:15 PM | SESSION
fVDB: Fusing OpenVDB, NanoVDB, PyTorch for Spatial Intelligence
NVIDIA
6:15 – 8:00 PM | RECEPTION
Beers of a Feather

NVIDIA GTC 2026
2026-03-16 - 2026-03-19
GTC 2026 will take place from March 16–19, 2026 in San Jose, California and online. From physical AI and AI factories to agentic AI and inference, GTC 2026 will showcase the breakthroughs shaping every industry.
Explore the catalog of OpenUSD sessions and trainings featuring AOUSD members at this year’s show, and register now with code AOUSD20 for 20% off.
We are excited that so many AOUSD members are exhibiting and presenting this year, including Cadence, Foxconn, Lightwheel, Microsoft, PTC, Schneider Electric, Siemens and NVIDIA.
For a limited time at GTC, attendees can complete the OpenUSD Development Certification for free. Join our onsite prep session and livestream community office hours to ensure you’re exam-ready.
Sunday, March 15
8:30-4:30 p.m. | Workshop
OpenUSD Crash Course: Build 3D Data Pipelines for Physical AI
NVIDIA partnered with UME Studio
Monday, March 16
11:00-1:003:45 p.m. | Keynote
NVIDIA GTC 2026 Keynote with Jensen Huang
NVIDIA
2:00-3:45 p.m. | Lab
Assembling Industrial Digital Twins with OpenUSD and NVIDIA Omniverse Libraries
NVIDIA
Tuesday, March 17
8:00-9:45 a.m. | Lab
Build Robot-Ready Assets for Physically Accurate Simulations
Lightwheel
9:00-9:40 a.m. | Talk
Beyond the Basics: OpenUSD for Advanced Physical AI Simulation
NVIDIA
9:00-9:40 a.m. | Talk
Autonomous AI Factories: A Technical Preview of Agent-Native Production
Microsoft
10:00-10:40 a.m. | Talk
A New Standard for Unified Power and Infrastructure Design With OpenUSD
Schneider Electric
10:00-11:30 a.m. | Tutorial
Deep Dive: Streaming Immersive Robotics Teleoperations
Lightwheel
1:00-2:45 p.m. | Lab
Advance World Simulation With 3D Gaussian Splatting for Large-Scale Environment Reconstruction
NVIDIA
3:00-3:40 p.m. | Talk
How Open World Models are Powering the Next Breakthroughs in Physical AI
NVIDIA
4:00- 4:40 p.m. | Panel
How to Build Planetary-Scale AI Infrastructure
Cadence, PTC, Schneider Electric, NVIDIA
4:00- 5:00 p.m. | Lightning Talk
Building the Next Wave of AI-Enabled Robots
Lightwheel
Wednesday, March 18
8:00–8:45 a.m. | Certification
Your Path to Physical AI and OpenUSD Certification at GTC
NVIDIA
10:00-10:40 a.m. | Talk
Develop Physical AI Applications and Build Data Factories With the Robotics Ecosystem
Foxconn
11:00-11:40 a.m | Talk
AI-Driven Digital Twins Optimize Facility Simulation and Autonomous Driving
Delta Electronics
4:00-4:40 p.m. | Panel
Autonomous Networks: The New Brain of Telco Operations
Accenture
5:40- 5:55 a.m. | Talk
Maximize Tokens-per-Watt With AI Factory Digital Twins, From Chip to Grid
Siemens
7:30–9:30 p.m. | Meetup
Physical AI Developer Meetup
*Must be registered with a conference pass for day of event

Adobe Summit 2026
2026-04-20 - 2026-04-22
Adobe Summit will take place April 20-22 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
As the premier annual Digital Experience Conference, Adobe Summit is where AOUSD members are exploring how AI and emerging workflows — including digital twins — are shaping the future of content creation at scale.
We are excited to see several AOUSD members will be presenting, including Adobe, Accenture, Coca-Cola, and NVIDIA.
Register today.
Monday, April 20
9:30-11 am PDT | Session
Adobe Digital Twins: Making Every Product a Content Pipeline [L423]
Adobe
11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m PDT | Session
Velocity at Scale: How Coca Cola Deaveraged Its Content Supply Chain [S915]
Adobe, The Coca-Cola Company
2-4 p.m. PDT | Keynote
Day One Keynote
Adobe, NVIDIA
4:30-5:30 p.m. PDT | Session
How SAP Is Rebuilding the Content Supply Chain for AI-Powered Scale [S707]
Accenture

Hannover Messe 2026
2026-04-20 - 2026-04-24
Hannover Messe will take place April 20-24 in Hannover, Germany.
As the world’s leading trade fair for industrial technology, Hannover Messe is where AOUSD members are exploring how physical AI, simulation, and digital twin workflows — including OpenUSD-based solutions — are shaping the future of industrial automation.
We are excited to see several AOUSD members will be presenting, including Microsoft, NVIDIA, PTC, and Siemens.
Microsoft

Bringing Humanoids to Production
Physical AI in Practice – How do we move from fixed automation to adaptive systems?
Accelerating Physical AI and Robotics for Autonomous Manufacturing

NVIDIA

Beyond the Pilot: Scaling Industrial AI in the Cloud

PTC

Powering Industrial Organizations with AI: Strategies for Data-Driven Innovation

Siemens

Enabling High Fidelity CFD for the Next Industrial Revolution
From Data Silos to Living Factory: Scaling the Industrial Metaverse with Siemens Digital Twin Composer on AWS

Register today.
Monday, April 20
4:00-5:00 p.m. CEST | Panel
Physical AI in Practice – How do we move from fixed automation to adaptive systems?
NVIDIA, Siemens
Wednesday, April 22
1:30-2:15 p.m. CEST | Panel
Powering Industrial Organizations with AI: Strategies for Data-Driven Innovation
PTC, NVIDIA, Microsoft
2:35-3:15 p.m. | Panel
Bringing Humanoids to Production
Hexagon, NVIDIA, Microsoft, BMW

SIGGRAPH 2026
2026-07-19 - 2026-07-23
SIGGRAPH 2026 will take place from July 19-23 2026 in Los Angeles. The annual event is the premier conference and exhibition on computer graphics and interactive techniques worldwide.
Register today here.
