ASWF

HPA Tech Retreat
2020-02-17 - 2020-02-20 | Rancho Mirage, CA
The HPA Tech Retreat is the pre-eminent gathering of industry-leading thinkers and innovation-focused companies engaged in the creation, management, and dissemination of content. Every year, for a week near Palm Springs, the HPA Tech Retreat brings together a world-class roster of well-known and emerging leaders in engineering, technology, creativity and business. At the HPA Tech Retreat, the most compelling topics facing the media and entertainment landscape today are presented, explored and debated.
Join us on Thursday, Feb. 20, from 2:30 – 3:15pm for the “State of Open-Source Software for VFX/Animation” panel moderated by David Morin, Executive Director of Academy Software Foundation.

Spark FX Conference & Open Source Summit
2020-02-14 - 2020-02-16 | Vancouver
SPARK FX CONFERENCE & OPEN SOURCE SUMMIT
VISUAL EFFECTS WITHOUT LIMITS
February 14 – 16, 2020 | Vancouver, BC, Canada
Spark Creativity. Spark Innovation. Spark Community. Year after year, SPARK FX presents some of the most creative and innovative work being done in VFX for both film and television. In partnership with the Academy Software Foundation, Sunday, February 16, is dedicated to open source for visual effects. Meet the leaders, be amazed by the case studies and examples of use in the industry, and bring technology and artistry together in Vancouver’s budding VFX open source community.
Details & Registration at SPARK FX Website.
ASWF Members: for more info, contact Zoe or Sang via the SPARK FX email.
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SPARK FX General Info – http://sparkfx.ca/festivals/information.php?SPARKFX2020-G
Conference & Open Source Summit – http://sparkfx.ca/festivals/information.php?SPARKFX2020-C
Career Fair – http://sparkfx.ca/festivals/information.php?SPARKFX2020-J

CVMP Conference 2019
2019-12-17 - 2019-12-18 | BFI Southbank, London, United Kingdom
The ACM SIGGRAPH European Conference on Visual Media Production (CVMP) brings together production and post-production specialists from the worlds of film, broadcast and games with imaging and graphics researchers, bringing together expertise in video processing, computer vision, computer graphics, animation and physical simulation. CVMP provides a European forum for presentation of the latest research and application advances, combined with keynote and invited talks on state-of-the-art industry practices.
Graham Jack, CTO at DNEG and an ASWF Board Member, will give a talk on “Academy Software Foundation: Advancing Open Source Software.”

AWS re:Invent
2019-12-02 - 2019-12-06 | Las Vegas, NV
AWS re:Invent is a conference hosted by Amazon Web Services for the global cloud computing community. The event will feature keynote announcements, training and certification opportunities, access to more than 2,500 technical sessions, a partner expo, after-hours events, and so much more.
The Academy Software Foundation will be featured in the following session:
Thursday, Dec 5, 1:45 PM – 2:45 PM
MGM, Level 3, Chairman’s Ballroom 360
CMP203 – Studio in the cloud: Content production on AWS
In this session, learn how AWS Thinkbox and our partners are helping studios work with the best talent to scale their VFX and CG pipelines and produce some of the most popular and award-winning content. We cover several in-depth post-production topics around real-world VFX studio pipelines, and we focus on virtual workstations and rendering workloads, combining Amazon EC2 and AWS Thinkbox Deadline for scalable, cost-effective computing. Learn how real customers working on Hollywood productions integrate their pipelines with AWS to realize the elasticity and scale provided by Amazon EC2 and how they intend to leverage AWS in the future.

SIGGRAPH Asia 2019
2019-11-18 09:30 - 10:30 (Australia/Brisbane) | Brisbane Convention Center, Mezzanine Meeting Room M5&M6, Brisbane, Australia
Join us for the Academy Software Foundation Birds of a Feather (BoF) on Monday, November 18th from 9:30-10:30 am in the Mezzanine Meeting Room M5&M6 at the Brisbane Convention Center.
Presenters:

Rob Bredow, Industrial Light & Magic; ASWF Board Chair
Daniel Heckenberg, Animal Logic; ASWF Technical Advisory Council Chair

Infinity Festival
2019-11-08 14:30 - 15:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Goya Studios, Hollywood, CA, United States
At Infinity Festival, the leading Silicon Valley innovators come together with Hollywood’s storytelling professionals to take over one city block in the heart of Hollywood to celebrate “Story Advanced by Technology!” This year’s event will focus on 4 Key Technologies: 5G, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain and Immersive.
ASWF Board Member Will McDonald, Senior Manager, Product Management – Studio Technology at Amazon Web Services, will be giving a talk:
Friday November 8, 2019 2:30pm – 3:15pm
Thought Leader: Studio in the Cloud
Will McDonald, Senior Manager, Product Management – Studio Technology
MAIN STAGE @ GOYA Studios Stage A
