Discuss Best Practices for Professional Development and Career Growth at the SIGGRAPH 2023 Practitioners Sessions
No one is ever born brilliant at their job. Behind every successful person is years of experience, learnings, and reflections that help them continually build a career that best bridges the gap between what they want to do and who they want to be. With information now within a keyboard’s reach, it has never been easier to pursue professional self-education on one’s terms. At the same time, the rise of automation, fluid job markets and a continued evolution of technologies and best practices means that a professional career is a continuous learning journey rather than the outcome of a single qualification.
It can often be difficult to find the right direction for one’s continued career growth. Whether you are just starting out in a new role, are an experienced professional looking to contribute value to your team, or are looking to reskill for a different role and/or industry, few qualities have the same impact on your trajectory as your own understanding of what balance of skills and best practices work best for you. Everyone has their own definition of professional success, and knowing yours allows you to make more meaningful contributions, affect change, and find better ways to manage your time for your professional work, your personal life and everything in between.
To this end, ACM SIGGRAPH would like to invite you to the first ACM SIGGRAPH Practitioners Sessions at SIGGRAPH 2023 focusing on career growth in computer graphics and interactive techniques. The ACM SIGGRAPH Practitioners Sessions are an in-person sessions for practitioners at the conference to have open discussions, with like-minded peers, on professional development in our industries, including but not limited to different approaches to creating and scoping engineering projects, developing tech stacks, identifying opportunities for taking research to practice and the productization journey thereof, and finding better ways to balance and support your and your team’s needs in between. These sessions are organized by the ACM SIGGRAPH Practitioner Career Development Committee (PCDC), a standing of committee of ACM SIGGRAPH whose directive is to plan, develop, and facilitate activities that support the career development of computer graphics and interactive techniques practitioners across different industries worldwide.
The ACM SIGGRAPH Practitioners Sessions will be held on Tuesday to Thursday, August 8-10, 2023, at the ACM Village Theater (West Hall 501, Los Angeles Convention Center). The sessions are open to everyone with a SIGGRAPH Conference Pass.
We believe that the ACM SIGGRAPH Practitioners Sessions is a small step towards having open community discussions on skills and best practices that, alongside the organization’s commitment to technical skills development, is necessary to building a well-rounded professional career in computer graphics and interactive techniques. We look forward to seeing you and having these conversations in person at this year’s conference, and are always open to feedback on how we can do better or more in the future.
Sincerely,
Juan Miguel de Joya
ACM SIGGRAPH Practitioner Career Development Committee Chair
Autodesk Consulting Media & Entertainment
The ACM SIGGRAPH Practitioner Sessions
ACM SIGGRAPH Practitioners: Skills You Need to Step Up!
Tuesday, August 8, 2023, 10:00AM – 12:00NN PST
ACM SIGGRAPH Theater, West Hall 501, Los Angeles Convention Center
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ACM SIGGRAPH Practitioners: Research to Practice: Getting There and Back Again
Wednesday, August 9, 2023, 10:00AM – 12:00NN PST
ACM SIGGRAPH Theater, West Hall 501, Los Angeles Convention Center
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ACM SIGGRAPH Practitioners Town Hall
Wednesday, August 9, 2023, 10:00AM – 12:00NN PST
ACM SIGGRAPH Theater, West Hall 501, Los Angeles Convention Center
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Featured Speakers (at time of writing)
Ken Museth
Senior Director, Simulation Technology, NVIDIA
Recipient of the ACM SIGGRAPH 2023 Practitioner Award
Peter Crossley
Director of Engineering, Nuke
Mark Elendt
Mathematician, SideFX Software
Eric Haines
Distinguished Engineer, NVIDIA
Pete Shirley
Vice President, Graphics, Activision
Dan Ring
Head of Research, Foundry
Orly Liba
Staff Research Scientist, YouTube
Per Christensen
Principal Scientist, Pixar’s RenderMan Group
Frederic Servant
Director of Engineering, Entertainment & Media Solutions, Autodesk
Patrick Cozzi
CEO, Cesium