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SIGGRAPH 2010 By Focus
Birds of a Feather
Full Conference 
Basic Conference 
Computer Animation Festival
Informal presentations, discussions, and demonstrations for people who share interests, goals, technologies, environments, or backgrounds. Birds of a Feather events are proposed by SIGGRAPH 2010 attendees. They must be free of charge, related to computer graphics or interactive techniques, open to all SIGGRAPH 2010 attendees, and non-commercial in nature (topics specific to one commercial product or for-profit company are not allowed). Please see Exhibitor Tech Talks if you would like to present on a specific product or service.
All requests for Birds of a Feather sessions are evaluated on a case-by-case basis to make sure they conform to SIGGRAPH 2010 rules. Sessions are scheduled in rooms at the Los Angeles Convention Center and at most SIGGRAPH 2010 hotels.
To schedule a Birds of a Feather session, please see Paul Caulfield in the Conference Management Office, Room 304A, Los Angeles Convention Center.
Birds of a Feather
Your Digital Media Start-up: How to Launch your New Business
Tuesday, 27 July | 12:15 PM - 1:30 PM | Room 301 B
This session is for attendees who want to learn how to launch a technology start-up. The focus is on organizational strategy, funding approaches, and IP protection.
Lori Hoberman Chadbourne & Parke LLP
lhoberman (at) chadbourne.com
ACM SIGGRAPH Carto BOF
Tuesday, 27 July | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM | Room 301 A
The ACM SIGGRAPH Cartographic Visualization (Carto) BOF explores how viewpoints and techniques from the computer graphics community can be effectively applied to cartographic and spatial datasets.
Theresa-Marie Rhyne
theresamarierhyne (at) gmail.com
Carto Project
COLLADA
Tuesday, 27 July | 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM | Room 402 A
See cutting-edge DCC tools and applications for gaming, 3D web, and visualization, and artworks generated from COLLADA content-creation-supporting media.
Khronos Group
marketing (at) goldstandardgroup.com
Khronos Group
Collaborative Undergraduate Computing Studios Facilitating Decentralized Participation
Tuesday, 27 July | 1:00 PM - 3:30 PM | Olympic 2 - JW Marriott
This session is for studio instructors and industry advisers associated with the NSF CreativeIT research project Collaborative Undergraduate Computing Studios Facilitating Decentralized Participation.
Margaret Lomas Carpenter
marge (at) viz.tamu.edu
Web3D CAD Working Group
Tuesday, 27 July | 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM | Room 301 B
This meeting of the Web3D consortium's CAD working group presents the new BREP component and demonstrates X3D implementations and a COLLADA -X3D content pipeline from CAD tools.
Web3D Consortium
anita.havele (at) web3d.org
Web3D Consortium
Animation Mentor Demo Reel Reviews
Tuesday, 27 July | 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM | Room 301 A
Please join the founders of Animation Mentor for a session of live demo reel reviews. Learn what professional animators look for when they look at your animation demo reel.
Animation Mentor
Molly (at) AnimationMentor.com
Animation Mentor
Translating Culture Into Interactive Design
Tuesday, 27 July | 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM | Room 507
Every culture has its own nuances. Designing interactive experiences for other cultures requires cultural understanding and efficient translation into core interaction.
frog design inc.
umyotb (at) gmail.com
X3D and HTML5
Tuesday, 27 July | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM | Room 301 B
Progress and new initatives on the X3D specification and proposed approaches to displaying an X3D scene inside an HTML page.
Web3D Consortium
anita.havele (at) web3d.org
Web3D Consortium
OpenCL
Tuesday, 27 July | 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM | Room 402 A
Meet designers and implementers of this significant new standard for heterogeneous parallel programming on GPUs and CPUs. Learn how OpenCL interoperates with OpenGL, enabling advanced, cross-platform, visual-computing applications.
Khronos Group
marketing (at) goldstandardgroup.com
Khronos Group
ACCAD/OSU Alumni Gathering
Tuesday, 27 July | 4:00 PM - 6:30 PM | Garden East - Wilshire Grand Los Angeles
This event is for attendees who have graduated or are currently attending The Ohio State University and are affiliated with the Advanced Computing Center for Arts & Design (ACCAD).
Elaine Smith
elaine (at) accad.osu.edu
The Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design
3D & Multimedia Across Platforms and Devices Using JOGL
Tuesday, 27 July | 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM | Room 507
This session discusses the features, contributions, and future of OpenGL, OpenCL, and OpenMax across devices and OS exposed on top of Java using the JogAmp open-source libraries.
Sven Gothel
sgothel (at) jausoft.com
JogAmp
RIT Alumni Reception at SIGGRAPH 2010
Tuesday, 27 July | 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM | Room 301 - Marriott Los Angeles Downtown
This event is for any Rochester Institute of Technology alumni who are attending SIGGRAPH 2010. Feel free to stop by and mingle with fellow alumni, friends, and faculty.
Ron Goldberg
rjgrar (at) rit.edu
Global Visual Effects Pipeline
Tuesday, 27 July | 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM | Room 301 B
Globalisation is a reality for most VFX studios. This session presents the The Moving Picture Company's perspective and offers an opportunity to discuss the challenges and solutions for a robust multi-site pipeline.
Hannes Ricklefs
hannes-r (at) moving-picture.com
Encontro dos Brasileiros
Tuesday, 27 July | 5:30 PM - 6:00 PM | Room 301 A
This session is for attendees interested in computer graphics in Brazil who want to exchange some experiences and meet some friends!
Luiz Garrido (ZU)
cad (at) luizgarrido.com
Pioneer Reception (For SIGGRAPH Pioneer Members Only)
Tuesday, 27 July | 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM | Diamond Foyer - JW Marriott
