SIGGRAPH 2011

Program	Date & Time	Focus
Full Conference Basic Conference Computer Animation Festival Birds of a Feather Mobile APIs BOF West Building, Room 122 Details Get the inside track on OpenGL ES, OpenVG, OpenMAX, and all the new-media APIs being used to develop the billion-dollar, billion-user gaming and mobile multimedia markets! marketing (at) goldstandardgroup.com Khronos Group	Thursday, 11 August 10am-12:00 pm	Education
Full Conference Basic Conference Computer Animation Festival Birds of a Feather Managing Creative Projects West Building, Room 116 Details This session is for attendees interested in discussing creative projects and how to manage them, with a particular emphasis on Agile methodologies. gil (at) conoa.com Gil Irizarry	Wednesday, 10 August 3-5:00 pm	Production Communities
Full Conference Basic Conference Computer Animation Festival Birds of a Feather Linux and Graphics pipeline tools. Garibaldi Room Details This session may be interesting to those who are building grapics pipelines on Linux and encountering difficulties associated with products, QT versions, python versions, gcc, etc. kevin.p.gambrel (at) disney.com Kevin Gambrel	Monday, 8 August 5:30-7:00 pm
Full Conference Basic Conference Computer Animation Festival Birds of a Feather Leonardo Community Meeting West Building, Room 101 Details Leonardo community members and all SIGGRAPH attendees are invited to hear presentations from selected Leonardo Affiliate Member organizations on cutting-edge research and educational programs in ArtScience around the world. pgr (at) leonardo.info Pamela Grant-Ryan	Wednesday, 10 August 10-11:30 am
Full Conference Basic Conference Computer Animation Festival Birds of a Feather JogAmp: 2D/3D & Multimedia Across Devices East Building, Room 19 Details JogAmp provides JOGL (OpenGL) and JOCL (OpenCL) across devices on top of Java. This session showcases resolution-independent curve, font, and UI GPU rendering on desktop and mobile (Android, etc.) devices. sgothel (at) jogamp.org JogAmp Community	Tuesday, 9 August 2:30-4:30 pm
Full Conference Basic Conference Computer Animation Festival Birds of a Feather IVRC (International Collegiate Virtual Reality Contest) West Building, Room 116 Details 10th anniversary of IVRC! The International Collegiate Virtual Reality Contest is organized through the Virtual Reality Society. IVRC2011, the 19th annual competition, is scheduled for this fall. shirai (at) mail.com IVRC Executive Committee	Sunday, 7 August 11am-12:00 pm	Education
Full Conference Basic Conference Computer Animation Festival Birds of a Feather In-Formation San Francisco ACM SIGGRAPH Plaza A Details This session is for attendees from San Francisco who are interested in the re-opening of the San Francisco ACM SIGGRAPH Chapter. tflaxman (at) flaxanimation.com Tereza Flaxman	Tuesday, 9 August 3-4:00 pm
Full Conference Basic Conference Computer Animation Festival Birds of a Feather GPU Ray Tracing Waterfront Ballroom B Details Join the third annual GPU Ray Tracing Birds of a Feather session. Show off your demos. Share your use cases, ideas, and gripes. High-performance CPU ray tracing is welcome, too. davemc (at) nvidia.com NVIDIA Advanced Rendering Center	Wednesday, 10 August 2-3:30 pm
Full Conference Basic Conference Computer Animation Festival Birds of a Feather Global Pipelines v2 East Building, Room 18 Details This companion event to the panel titled is an informal gathering to discuss the complex relationships between technology and collaboration for distributed work environments. estrauss (at) imageworks.com Erik Strauss	Tuesday, 9 August 5-6:00 pm
Full Conference Basic Conference Computer Animation Festival Birds of a Feather Games at SIGGRAPH Meetup West Building, Room 102 Details The goal of this session is to encourage dialog about new technologies in game development and interactive graphics. Discussion topics include mobile and social games, research in games and interactive graphics, and effective collaboration. dma35 (at) sfu.ca David Milam	Wednesday, 10 August 1:30-2:30 pm
Full Conference Basic Conference Computer Animation Festival Birds of a Feather French Animation Showcase - Session 2 East Building, Room 18 Details Come and enjoy a selection of state-of-the art animation films from the best French schools and artists! A selection by Annie Dissaux - AFCA. Networking opportunities after the session. raynald.belay (at) consulfrance-vancouver.org French Consulate in Vancouver, Masters of Digital Media Program, Association française du cinéma d'animation, Rencontres Audiovisuelles de Lille	Tuesday, 9 August 2:30-4:30 pm
Full Conference Basic Conference Computer Animation Festival Birds of a Feather French Animation Showcase - Session 1 East Building, Room 18 Details Come and enjoy a selection of state-of-the art animation films from the best French schools and artists! A selection by Annie Dissaux - AFCA. Networking opportunities after the session. raynald.belay (at) consulfrance-vancouver.org French Consulate in Vancouver, Masters of Digital Media Program, Association française du cinéma d'animation, Rencontres Audiovisuelles de Lille	Monday, 8 August 2:30-4:30 pm
Full Conference Basic Conference Computer Animation Festival Birds of a Feather Encontro dos Brasileiros 2011 West Building, Room 116 Details This session is for attendees interested in computer graphics in Brazil who want to exchange experiences and meet some friends! cad (at) luizgarrido.com Luiz Garrido	Monday, 8 August 5-6:00 pm	Production Communities
Full Conference Basic Conference Computer Animation Festival Birds of a Feather Educators Meet and Greet SIGGRAPH Village, West Building, Ballroom Foyer Details An informal reception at the SIGGRAPH Village for all educators attending SIGGRAPH 2011. mjbarr (at) mtsu.edu Marc J. Barr (SIGGRAPH Education Committee)	Wednesday, 10 August 4-5:00 pm	Education
Full Conference Basic Conference Computer Animation Festival Birds of a Feather Dynamic Simulation in Production Saturna Island Details This session is for attendees interested in hearing about and discussing the latest trends in dynamic simulation (rigid, cloth, hair, fluids, etc.) in production. Come. Connect. Collaborate. Experience. Enjoy. Eat. mark.mclaughlin (at) disney.com Mark A. McLaughlin	Tuesday, 9 August 5:30-7:00 pm	Production Communities
Full Conference Basic Conference Computer Animation Festival Birds of a Feather Cortex Open Source Framework East Building, Room 19 Details For current and prospective users of the Cortex open-source framework for visual effects software development. john (at) image-engine.com John Haddon	Monday, 8 August 2-3:30 pm
Full Conference Basic Conference Computer Animation Festival Birds of a Feather Concept Artists, The Road to the Emmy Award East Building, Room 19 Details This session is for attendees interested in concept art. Christophe Vacher has 20 years of experience in the field, and he recently won an Emmy for individual achievement. info (at) vanas.ca Mario Pochat Vancouver Animation School	Thursday, 11 August 4-5:00 pm
Full Conference Basic Conference Computer Animation Festival Birds of a Feather Computer Graphics for Simulation West Building, Room 102 Details This session reviews recent advances in simulation theory and computer graphics. Topics include specifications (Web3D,WebGL,DEVS), visualization requirements for simulation, graphical tools, and general CG simulation technologies. richards (at) spawar.navy.mil John Richardson	Wednesday, 10 August 2-3:00 pm	Research
Full Conference Basic Conference Computer Animation Festival Birds of a Feather COLLADA BOF West Building, Room 122 Details See cutting-edge DCC tools and applications for gaming, 3D web, and visualization, and artworks generated from COLLADA content-creation-supporting media. marketing (at) goldstandardgroup.com Khronos Group	Thursday, 11 August 2-4:00 pm	Education
Full Conference Basic Conference Computer Animation Festival Birds of a Feather Collaborative Undergraduate Computing Studios Facilitating Decentralized Participation Port of San Francisco Details This meeting is for studio instructors and industry advisors associated with the NSF CreativeIT research project, Collaborative Undergraduate Computing Studios Facilitating Decentralized Participation. marge (at) viz.tamu.edu Margaret Lomas Carpenter	Tuesday, 9 August 9-10:30 am
Full Conference Basic Conference Computer Animation Festival Birds of a Feather Call for Contributions for the IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications' New Education Department West Building, Room 116 Details Want to contribute an article to this department? Want to give valuable input on what YOU think should be printed there? Meet with the co-editors in this Birds of a Feather session. domik (at) uni-paderborn.de Gitta Domik and G. Scott Owen	Tuesday, 9 August 2-4:00 pm	Education
Full Conference Basic Conference Computer Animation Festival Birds of a Feather Blender Foundation: Community Meeting West Building, Room 122 Details Chairman Ton Roosendaal presents the results of the past year's work on the open-source 3D program Blender, summarizes plans for next year, and invites attendees to provide feedback. ton (at) blender.org Blender Foundation	Sunday, 7 August 2-4:00 pm	Art
Full Conference Basic Conference Computer Animation Festival Birds of a Feather Blender Foundation: Artist showcase West Building, Room 122 Details Artists from past Blender Open Movie projects will give demos of work they did. This is an open-stage event for which everyone is invited to show work as well. ton@blender.org Blender Foundation	Sunday, 7 August 4-6:00 pm	Art
Full Conference Basic Conference Computer Animation Festival Birds of a Feather Blacks in Animation & VFX Gabriola Island Details Join us for our third annual networking event with students, artists, recruiters, educators, and executives of color in the animation, VFX, and gaming industries. blackanimation (at) gmail.com Krystal Cooper	Wednesday, 10 August 6:30-8:30 pm	Art
Full Conference Basic Conference Computer Animation Festival Birds of a Feather Augmented and Mixed Reality West Building, Room 102 Details Learn more on how to extend X3D capabilities to support augmented reality and mixed reality applications. Johannes.Behr (at) igd.fraunhofer.de Johannes Behr	Thursday, 11 August 1-2:00 pm	Research

Full Conference

Basic Conference

Computer Animation Festival

Birds of a Feather

Mobile APIs BOF

West Building, Room 122

Details

Get the inside track on OpenGL ES, OpenVG, OpenMAX, and all the new-media APIs being used to develop the billion-dollar, billion-user gaming and mobile multimedia markets!

marketing (at) goldstandardgroup.com

Khronos Group

Thursday, 11 August
10am-12:00 pm

Education

Full Conference

Basic Conference

Computer Animation Festival

Birds of a Feather

Linux and Graphics pipeline tools.

Garibaldi Room

Details

This session may be interesting to those who are building grapics pipelines on Linux and encountering difficulties associated with products, QT versions, python versions, gcc, etc.

kevin.p.gambrel (at) disney.com

Kevin Gambrel

Monday, 8 August
5:30-7:00 pm

Full Conference

Basic Conference

Computer Animation Festival

Birds of a Feather

JogAmp: 2D/3D & Multimedia Across Devices

East Building, Room 19

Details

JogAmp provides JOGL (OpenGL) and JOCL (OpenCL) across devices on top of Java. This session showcases resolution-independent curve, font, and UI GPU rendering on desktop and mobile (Android, etc.) devices.

sgothel (at) jogamp.org

JogAmp Community

Tuesday, 9 August
2:30-4:30 pm

Full Conference

Basic Conference

Computer Animation Festival

Birds of a Feather

In-Formation San Francisco ACM SIGGRAPH

Plaza A

Details

This session is for attendees from San Francisco who are interested in the re-opening of the San Francisco ACM SIGGRAPH Chapter.

tflaxman (at) flaxanimation.com

Tereza Flaxman

Tuesday, 9 August
3-4:00 pm

Full Conference

Basic Conference

Computer Animation Festival

Birds of a Feather

Global Pipelines v2

East Building, Room 18

Details

This companion event to the panel titled is an informal gathering to discuss the complex relationships between technology and collaboration for distributed work environments.

estrauss (at) imageworks.com

Erik Strauss

Tuesday, 9 August
5-6:00 pm

Full Conference

Basic Conference

Computer Animation Festival

Birds of a Feather

French Animation Showcase - Session 2

East Building, Room 18

Details

Come and enjoy a selection of state-of-the art animation films from the best French schools and artists! A selection by Annie Dissaux - AFCA. Networking opportunities after the session.

raynald.belay (at) consulfrance-vancouver.org

French Consulate in Vancouver, Masters of Digital Media Program, Association française du cinéma d'animation, Rencontres Audiovisuelles de Lille

Tuesday, 9 August
2:30-4:30 pm

Full Conference

Basic Conference

Computer Animation Festival

Birds of a Feather

Encontro dos Brasileiros 2011

West Building, Room 116

Details

This session is for attendees interested in computer graphics in Brazil who want to exchange experiences and meet some friends!

cad (at) luizgarrido.com

Luiz Garrido

Monday, 8 August
5-6:00 pm

Production Communities

Full Conference

Basic Conference

Computer Animation Festival

Birds of a Feather

Dynamic Simulation in Production

Saturna Island

Details

This session is for attendees interested in hearing about and discussing the latest trends in dynamic simulation (rigid, cloth, hair, fluids, etc.) in production. Come. Connect. Collaborate. Experience. Enjoy. Eat.

mark.mclaughlin (at) disney.com

Mark A. McLaughlin

Tuesday, 9 August
5:30-7:00 pm

Production Communities

Full Conference

Basic Conference

Computer Animation Festival

Birds of a Feather

Concept Artists, The Road to the Emmy Award

East Building, Room 19

Details

This session is for attendees interested in concept art. Christophe Vacher has 20 years of experience in the field, and he recently won an Emmy for individual achievement.

info (at) vanas.ca

Mario Pochat
Vancouver Animation School

Thursday, 11 August
4-5:00 pm

Full Conference

Basic Conference

Computer Animation Festival

Birds of a Feather

COLLADA BOF

West Building, Room 122

Details

See cutting-edge DCC tools and applications for gaming, 3D web, and visualization, and artworks generated from COLLADA content-creation-supporting media.

marketing (at) goldstandardgroup.com

Khronos Group

Thursday, 11 August
2-4:00 pm

Education

Full Conference

Basic Conference

Computer Animation Festival

Birds of a Feather

Call for Contributions for the IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications' New Education Department

West Building, Room 116

Details

Want to contribute an article to this department? Want to give valuable input on what YOU think should be printed there? Meet with the co-editors in this Birds of a Feather session.

domik (at) uni-paderborn.de

Gitta Domik and G. Scott Owen

Tuesday, 9 August
2-4:00 pm

Education

Full Conference

Basic Conference

Computer Animation Festival

Birds of a Feather

Blender Foundation: Artist showcase

West Building, Room 122

Details

Artists from past Blender Open Movie projects will give demos of work they did. This is an open-stage event for which everyone is invited to show work as well.

ton@blender.org

Blender Foundation

Sunday, 7 August
4-6:00 pm

Art

Full Conference

Basic Conference

Computer Animation Festival

Birds of a Feather

Augmented and Mixed Reality

West Building, Room 102

Details

Learn more on how to extend X3D capabilities to support augmented reality and mixed reality applications.

Johannes.Behr (at) igd.fraunhofer.de

Johannes Behr

Thursday, 11 August
1-2:00 pm

Research