New! The Business Symposium will take place at the JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE on Saturday, 27 July and Sunday, 28 July. Join fellow industry professionals and production leaders for networking and exploration of trending and future technologies that will change the way we do business.
Program Content
The Business Symposium is a VIP event that explores the intersection of technology, creativity, and business and will take place at the JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE . It features speakers from a range of industries and backgrounds, allowing you to explore the future of innovation, design, and technology.
The Business Symposium covers topics of importance to senior managers who want to know how emerging technologies shape and affect business. It features keynote speakers, panel discussions, and plenty of opportunities to network and build relationships.
Symposium attendees meet, interact and network with fellow executives, content creation experts, computer graphics pioneers, and those from the broader community who are looking for insights into computer graphics-related business opportunities.
Registration includes admission to Opening Ceremony and ACM SIGGRAPH Awards Presentations; ACM SIGGRAPH Award Talks, ACM SIGGRAPH Frontiers Talks, ACM Student Research Competition, ACM SIGGRAPH Workshops, Appy Hour, Art Gallery, Art Papers, Birds of a Feather, Emerging Technologies, Exhibitor Sessions, Experience Presentations, International Center, Job Fair (Tuesday and Wednesday), Keynote Session, Posters, Poster Sessions, Studio, and Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality and the Exhibition (Tuesday–Thursday).
Elizabeth Baron (Saturday, 27 July)
Elizabeth Baron is Vice President, Immersive Solutions for Silverdraft Supercomputing. She has been the driving force in the development and deployment of global, collaborative immersive paradigms for industrial design and engineering. She focuses on the use of disruptive technology solutions to solve workflow and visualization challenges with enterprise partners to apply creative and elegant immersive solutions that connect knowledge with experience for cross-functional teams.
Paul Salvini (Sunday, 28 July)
Paul Salvini is the Chief Executive Officer of the Accelerator Centre, a leading technology incubator located in the University of Waterloo’s David Johnston Research and Technology Park. He is also Waterloo’s Associate Vice-President, Research Commercialization. Formerly Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Christie Digital Systems Canada Inc. and CTO at Side Effects Software, Paul has led award-winning teams of engineers and software developers in bringing to market advanced visualization, simulation and display technologies.
A tactile feedback device that delivered effective and expressive tactile sensations in free air, without requiring the user to wear a physical device. Combined with interactive graphics and applications, AIREAL enabled users to feel virtual objects, experience free-air textures and receive haptic feedback with free-space gestures.
Birdly was an installation that explored the experience of a bird in flight. Unlike a common flight simulator, users do not control a machine. Instead, they embody a bird, the Red Kite. To evoke this embodiment, the system relied on sensory-motor coupling. Participants controlled the simulator with hands and arms, and a head-mounted display provided a first-person perspective of a bird.
From Previs to Final in Five minutes. Epic Games teamed up with Ninja Theory, Cubic Motion, and 3Lateral to create the world's first believable human driven live by an actress within an Unreal Engine game world.
