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Birds of a Feather

Shared interests bring SIGGRAPH attendees together for graphics-related, attendee-organized, informational Birds of a Feather sessions.

Program Content

Birds of a Feather (BOF) sessions examine the hot topics of today and tomorrow. They are attendee-organized explorations or collaborations on topics impacting the industry. This is a space where attendees can take full advantage of the SIGGRAPH conference environment. If you have something on your mind, there might just be a BOF session dedicated to it.


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Monday, 24 August 2020聽expand all聽路聽collapse all
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8am - 9am PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
 ACM SIGGRAPH BOF: Chapters Party Room - Washington DC ACM SIGGRAPH Chapter hosts a 鈥淧otpourri (Manic Monday) Day 1
ACM SIGGRAPH PSCC
Social (Reunions/Alumni Events)
10am - 12pm PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
 ACM SIGGRAPH BOF: Virtual Beings World Showcase 2020: New Play Together
Liudmila Bredikhina
Akihiko Shirai
Production & Animation
10:30am - 11:30am PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
 A Journey through the SIGGRAPH Art Show Archives with Audience Participation
Jan Searleman
Bonnie Mitchell
Victoria Szabo
Arts & Design
10:30am - 11:30am PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
 ACM SIGGRAPH Cartographic Visualization (Carto) Birds of a Feather
Theresa-Marie Rhyne
Research & Education
11am - 12:30pm PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
 ACM SIGGRAPH BOF: Chapters Party Room - London ACM SIGGRAPH Chapter hosts Life Drawing
ACM SIGGRAPH PSCC
Social (Reunions/Alumni Events)
11am - 12pm PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
 Synthetic 3D Indoor Scene Datasets: Needs and Opportunities
Daniel Ritchie
Angel X. Chang
Manolis Savva
AI/Machine Learning
11:30am - 12:30pm PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
 Finding Work and Networking in the Age of COVID: Dos and Don'ts of Interviewing, Presentation and Networking Skills
Sharon Eisenberg
Pamela Thompson
Production & Animation
12pm - 1pm PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
 ACM SIGGRAPH BOF: S3 Resume & Reel Review Session 1
Corinne Price
Social (Reunions/Alumni Events)
1pm - 2pm PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
 Academy Software Foundation: Open Source Software for Visual Effects & Animation
David Morin
Rob Bredow
Daniel Heckenberg
Rachel Rose
Carol Payne
Emily Olin
Production & Animation
1pm - 2pm PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
 ACM SIGGRAPH Digital Arts Community Meeting and Information Session
VIctoria Szabo
Hye Yeon Nam
Arts & Design
1pm - 2pm PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
 ACM SIGGRAPH Professional and Student Chapters
ACM SIGGRAPH Professional & Student Chapters Committee
Kerry Kirkpatrick
2pm - 3pm PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
 Academy Software Foundation: Open Source Project Updates
Ken Museth
Larry Gritz
Brian Cipriano
Nick Porcino
Kimball Thurston
Doug Walker
Production & Animation
4pm - 5pm PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
 Through Digital Innovation Angle in Australasia
Tomasz Bednarz
Research & Education
6pm - 7pm PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
 The CG industry, research and education in Asia
Miho Aoki
Rick Xu
Ayumi Kimura
Juyeon Hong
Hye Yeon Nam
June Kim
Research & Education
7pm - 7:30pm PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
 Networking Happy Hour - #MondayMotivation
Corinne Price
Social (Reunions/Alumni Events)
8pm - 9pm PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
 ACM SIGGRAPH BOF: The 33rd Yoichiro Kawaguchi鈥檚 CG Show and SAKE Party at SIGGRAPH 2020
Yoichiro Kawaguchi
Naomi Iwatani
Masaki Nakayama
Seiji Hori
Noriko Namikoshi
Miho Aoki
June Kim
Social (Reunions/Alumni Events)
Tuesday, 25 August 2020聽expand all聽路聽collapse all
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8am - 9am PST
Birds of a Feather
ACM SIGGRAPH Chapters Party Room - Washington DC ACM SIGGRAPH Chapter hosts a 鈥淧otpourri (Ever Changing Topics) Day 2
Birds of a Feather
 ACM SIGGRAPH BOF: Chapters Party Room - Washington DC ACM SIGGRAPH Chapter hosts a 鈥淧otpourri (Tech Tuesday) Day 2
ACM SIGGRAPH PSCC
Social (Reunions/Alumni Events)
9am - 10am PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
 Going Cloud Native
Natasha Kelkar
Doug Sherman
Jeremy Smith
Gerald Tiu
Mark Turner
Production & Animation
9:30am - 10:30am PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
 Computer Graphics in the continent of Africa
Jihed Jaouabi
Gbenga Ajide
June Kim
Jamal Sullivan
Anoir Bennour
Hassan El Youbi Youbi
Augmented Reality
VR
10am - 11am PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
 4th Annual Bridging the Gap: VFX & Animation's Shift to a Remote Workforce Due to COVID-19, Production/Technology Discussion
Johanna and Joe D'Amato
Production & Animation
10am - 11am PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
 ACM SIGGRAPH BOF: ACM SIGGRAPH Thesis Fast Forward
M. Alex. O. Vasilescu
Eftychios Sifakis
Research & Education
10am - 11am PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
 MaterialX: An Open Standard for Network-Based CG Object Looks
Douglas B. Smythe
Production & Animation
10am - 11am PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
 Secrets From A Lighting Artist
Michael Tanzillo
P. Jasmine Katatikarn
Production & Animation
10:30am - 11:30am PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
 AR/VR Workflows in Architecture Engineering and Construction and for safety training
Viveka Devadas
Production & Animation
11am - 12pm PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
 VFX Reference Platform - A Common Target for Building VFX Software
Nick Cannon
Francois Chardavoine
Production & Animation
1pm - 2pm PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
 Dynamic Simulation in Production
Mark A. McLaughlin
Production & Animation
1pm - 2pm PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
 Making a short film Automaton
Krzysztof Rost
Production & Animation
2pm - 3pm PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
 DIGITAL POWER: Activism, Advocacy, and the Influence of Women Online
KathyRae Huffman
Hye Yeon Nam
Derick Ostrenko
Agatha Sunyoung Park
Charlotte Eifler
Leslie Labowitz Starus
Liliana Conlisk Gallegos
Victoria Szabo
Arts & Design
5pm - 7pm PST
Birds of a Feather
ACM SIGGRAPH BOF: ACM SIGGRAPH Chapters Party Room - Drexel ACM SIGGRAPH Chapter hosts Exquisite Corpse
Birds of a Feather
 ACM SIGGRAPH BOF: Chapters Party Room - Drexel ACM SIGGRAPH Chapter hosts Exquisite Corpse
ACM SIGGRAPH PSCC
Social (Reunions/Alumni Events)
6pm - 6:30pm PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
 Networking Happy Hour - #TechTuesday
Corinne Price
Social (Reunions/Alumni Events)
6pm - 7:30pm PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
 What is happening in Japanese CG research and industry now?
Bektur Ryskeldiev
Miho Aoki
Ayumi Kimura
June Kim
Research & Education
Wednesday, 26 August 2020聽expand all聽路聽collapse all
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8am - 9am PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
 ACM SIGGRAPH BOF: Chapters Party Room - Washington DC ACM SIGGRAPH Chapter hosts a 鈥淧otpourri (Wellness Wednesday Soundscape) Day 3
ACM SIGGRAPH PSCC
Social (Reunions/Alumni Events)
9am - 10am PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
 Women in CG
Diana Arellano
Aruquia Peixoto
Hye Yeon Nam
Laura Morales
June Kim
11am - 12pm PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
 Volumetric Videos - transforming arts, entertainment and music industries
Hannah Bianchini
New Technologies
12pm - 1pm PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
 Computer Graphics in Latin America
Aruquia Peixoto
Laura Morales
Gabriel Casique
Santiago Echeverry
June Kim
Research & Education
12:30pm - 1:30pm PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
 ACM SIGGRAPH BOF: 2023: Celebrating SIGGRAPH50
Mary Whitton
David Kasik
1pm - 2pm PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
 ACM SIGGRAPH: AI, Art and Social Justice: Understanding and Addressing Bias, Representation and Inclusive Practices in the Development of AI Systems
Andres Burbano
Ruth West
Valencia James
Vernelle A. A. Noel
Nettrice Gaskins
Amelia Winger-Bearskin
VIctoria Szabo
Arts & Design
2pm - 3pm PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
 Design Fiction Jam: Wondrous Wearables
Helen Oliver
Arts & Design
2pm - 3pm PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
 Postcards from the Immersive Edge and Bloopers from the Virtual Classroom
Hye Yeon Nam
Miho Aoki
Research & Education
2pm - 3pm PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
 Sharing Ideas Teaching 3D Animation
Richard Lapidus
Research & Education
2pm - 3pm PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
 Women in Technology: Knocking Down Barriers
Sarah Counnas
Mike Day
Megha Davalath
John McStravick
Sarah Scialli
Social (Reunions/Alumni Events)
3pm - 4pm PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
 ACM SIGGRAPH Town Hall: Technical Papers
Sylvain Paris
Research & Education
3pm - 4pm PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
 The XR Educators Survival Kit: Hidden Gems for Learning in a time of Remote Teaching
Marla Schweppe
Barbara Mones
Melissa Oldrin
Megan O'Connor
Nathan Thomas
Research & Education
4pm - 5pm PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
 Exploring SocialXR as Education Laboratories for Experiential Learning (In AltspaceVR)
Christopher Stapleton
Thomas Furness III
Steve Lewis
Adaptive Technology
Research & Education
Adaptability
4pm - 5pm PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
 LA SIGGRAPH Chapters Gathering - ticket info
Joan Collins
New Technologies
5pm - 11pm PST
Birds of a Feather
ACM SIGGRAPH BOF: ACM SIGGRAPH Chapters Party Room - LA ACM SIGGRAPH Chapter hosts a six-hour DJ-VJ set
Birds of a Feather
 ACM SIGGRAPH BOF: Chapters Party Room - LA ACM SIGGRAPH Chapter hosts a six-hour DJ-VJ set
ACM SIGGRAPH PSCC
Social (Reunions/Alumni Events)
5pm - 7pm PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
 ACM SIGGRAPH BOF: Chapters Party Room - MTSU ACM SIGGRAPH Chapter hosts SIGGRAPH Student Hangout
ACM SIGGRAPH PSCC
Social (Reunions/Alumni Events)
5pm - 6pm PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
 ACM SIGGRAPH BOF: Immersive and Interactive Experiences
Mark Billinghurst
Tomasz Bednarz
Bektur Ryskeldiev
June Kim
Augmented Reality
VR
5pm - 5:30pm PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
 Networking Happy Hour - #WisdomWednesday
Corinne Price
Social (Reunions/Alumni Events)
6pm - 8pm PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
 Virtual Escape Room -- NETWORKING
Corinne Price
Social (Reunions/Alumni Events)
Thursday, 27 August 2020聽expand all聽路聽collapse all
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8am - 9am PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
 ACM SIGGRAPH BOF: Chapters Party Room - Washington DC ACM SIGGRAPH Chapter hosts a 鈥淧otpourri (Throwback Thursday) Day 4
ACM SIGGRAPH PSCC
Social (Reunions/Alumni Events)
9am - 10am PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
 ACM SIGGRAPH BOF: ISEA International - Open Forum
sue Gollifer
Research & Education
9am - 10am PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
 ACM SIGGRAPH BOF: Massive Collaborative Animation Projects: Annual Meeting
Miho Aoki
William Joel
Johannes DeYoung
Claudia Davis
Anna Ursyn
Research & Education
9:30am - 11am PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
 Innovations in Creative Industries in Russia
Asiya Gizatulina
Bektur Ryskeldiev
Sergey Tsypsyn
Helena Nikonole
Arman Yahin
Maxim Zhestkov
Alexey Kalenchuk
New Technologies
10am - 11am PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
 Evolving Graphics Hardware Beyond the Triangle: What does the next generation GPU Architecture look like?
Atif Zafar
Steve Brightfield
Jon Peddie
Andrew Gruber
Dave Shreiner
New Technologies
11am - 12pm PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
 ACM SIGGRAPH BOF: Undergraduate Research Alliance
William Joel
Research & Education
12pm - 1pm PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
 Global VFX Pipelines
Fran Zandonella Benjamin
Alex Schworer
Rob Blau
Production & Animation
12:30pm - 1:30pm PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
 Overcoming production hurdles in CG industry in the age of social distancing
Asiya Gizatulina
June Kim
Christopher Bedrosian
JD Fievet
Alexis Wanneroy
Victoria Vong
Production & Animation
1pm - 2pm PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
 State of Hair in the Industry
Megha Davalath
Production & Animation
1pm - 2pm PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
 Virtual Production in Education
Nick Jushchyshyn
Research & Education
2pm - 3pm PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
 State of Rigging in the Industry
Valerie Bernard
Production & Animation
3pm - 4pm PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
 Making XR a Reality for Teaching Culturally Relevant STEAM Concepts
Loretta Cheeks
Amon Millner
Kwaku Aning
Oyewole Oyekoya
Research & Education
3pm - 4pm PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
 State of Animation Tools in the Industry
Valerie Bernard
Production & Animation
4pm - 5pm PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
 NYC ACM SIGGRAPH Chapter
David Vega
Social (Reunions/Alumni Events)
5pm - 7pm PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
 ACM SIGGRAPH BOF: Chapters Party Room - Bogota ACM SIGGRAPH Chapter hosts Magic Realism
ACM SIGGRAPH PSCC
Social (Reunions/Alumni Events)
5pm - 5:30pm PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
 Networking Happy Hour - #ThrowbackThursday
Corinne Price
Social (Reunions/Alumni Events)
5:30pm - 6:30pm PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
 ACM SIGGRAPH Town Hall: Feedback on the Virtual Experience
Adam Bargteil
Mikki Rose
6pm - 8pm PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
 Virtual Trivia -- NETWORKING
Corinne Price
Social (Reunions/Alumni Events)
Friday, 28 August 2020聽expand all聽路聽collapse all
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5am - 6am PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
 ACM SIGGRAPH Town Hall: Technical Papers II
Sylvain Paris
8am - 9am PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
 ACM SIGGRAPH BOF: Chapters Party Room - Washington DC ACM SIGGRAPH Chapter hosts a 鈥淧otpourri (Farewell Friday) Day 5
ACM SIGGRAPH PSCC
Social (Reunions/Alumni Events)
8:30am - 9:30am PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
 E-learning Content Creators Group for Animators and Designers
Holly Bloom
Production & Animation
9am - 10am PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
 Meet the Partners
Diana Arellano
June Kim
10am - 11am PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
 Women of SIGGRAPH Conversations
Munkhtsetseg Nandigjav
Adele Newton
Mikki Rose
Kristy Pron
Gracie Arenas Strittmatter
Christine Holmes
Corrine Price
3pm - 4pm PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
 "The Depth Camera: An in Depth Look" Virtual Birds-of-a Feather meeting (CANCELLED)
Mike Amron
Production & Animation
3pm - 4pm PST
Birds of a Feather
ACM SIGGRAPH BOF: ACM SIGGRAPH Chapters Party Room - LA ACM SIGGRAPH Chapter hosts Discord Party Server
Birds of a Feather
 ACM SIGGRAPH BOF: Chapters Party Room - LA ACM SIGGRAPH Chapter hosts Discord Party Server
ACM SIGGRAPH PSCC
Social (Reunions/Alumni Events)
Augmented Reality
VR
3pm - 4pm PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
 Cinematic Storytelling at NASA: A look at the Past, Present, and Future
Rebecca Perry
Peter Lish
Research & Education
8pm - 10pm PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
 ACM SIGGRAPH BOF: Chapters Party Room - Vancouver ACM SIGGRAPH Chapter hosts Star Wars + Toy Story Trivia!
ACM SIGGRAPH PSCC
Production & Animation
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Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
 Artifice Social Virtual reality
Tanic nakpresha
Arts & Design
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather Artifice Social Virtual reality