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Monday, July 20
 

10:00am PDT

OpenEXR - Kimball Thurston, Wētā FX
Monday July 20, 2026 10:00am - 11:00am PDT
JW Marriott - Gold Ballroom 4
This BoF is a part of SIGGRAPH, and you must be registered for SIGGRAPH to attend.

Open discussion with project maintainers about new features and future directions.

This BoF is part of a full day of open source BoFs hosted by the Academy Software Foundation as part of Open Source Days. Learn more at opensourcedays.aswf.io.
Presenters
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Kimball Thurston

Chief Technology Officer, Wētā FX
Monday July 20, 2026 10:00am - 11:00am PDT
JW Marriott - Gold Ballroom 4
  SIGGRAPH BoF Session

10:00am PDT

OpenVDB - Ken Museth, NVIDIA, Dan Bailey, ILM
Monday July 20, 2026 10:00am - 11:00am PDT
JW Marriott - Gold Ballroom 3
This BoF is a part of SIGGRAPH, and you must be registered for SIGGRAPH to attend.

Significant changes in the upcoming major release of OpenVDB.

This BoF is part of a full day of open source BoFs hosted by the Academy Software Foundation as part of Open Source Days. Learn more at opensourcedays.aswf.io.

Presenters
avatar for Dan Bailey

Dan Bailey

Senior Staff Software Engineer, ILM
Dan leads the FX/Crowds Engineering team at ILM where he has been for the past 9 years. He has been a member of the VDB Technical Steering Committee since the adoption of the project into the ASWF and an active contributor to the project since 2014. He won a SciTech Award in 2024... Read More →
avatar for Ken Museth

Ken Museth

Sr Director of the High-Fidelity Physics Research, NVIDIA
Monday July 20, 2026 10:00am - 11:00am PDT
JW Marriott - Gold Ballroom 3
  SIGGRAPH BoF Session

11:00am PDT

ASWF Machine Learning Working Group - Tommy Burnette, ILM, Cottalango Leon, Sony Pictures Imageworks & Cameron Target, Walt Disney Studios
Monday July 20, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm PDT
JW Marriott - Gold Ballroom 3
This BoF is a part of SIGGRAPH, and you must be registered for SIGGRAPH to attend.

​Updates from the ASWF Machine Learning Working Group. Ongoing progress on the DNA development and feedback from early adopters. New initiative for mutual learning sessions on the topics of interest in the AI/ML domain in VFX/Animation industry.

This BoF is part of a full day of open source BoFs hosted by the Academy Software Foundation as part of Open Source Days. Learn more at opensourcedays.aswf.io.
Presenters
CT

Cameron Target

VFX Coordinator, Walt Disney Studios
Fascinated by production team workflows, huge fan of Denis Villenueve movies, originally from Hong Kong.
TB
avatar for Cottalango Leon

Cottalango Leon

Software Architect, Sony Pictures Imageworks
Cottalango Leon is a Distinguished Engineer at Sony Pictures Imageworks, leading the development of artist tools used in award-winning films including Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Over the Moon, and Hotel Transylvania. He received an Academy Award® for Scientific and Technical... Read More →
Monday July 20, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm PDT
JW Marriott - Gold Ballroom 3
  SIGGRAPH BoF Session

11:00am PDT

MoonRay - Randy Packer & Jon Lanz, DreamWorks Animation
Monday July 20, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm PDT
JW Marriott - Gold Ballroom 4
This BoF is a part of SIGGRAPH, and you must be registered for SIGGRAPH to attend.

ASWF migration update, presentations and demos, roadmap and open discussion.

This BoF is part of a full day of open source BoFs hosted by the Academy Software Foundation as part of Open Source Days. Learn more at opensourcedays.aswf.io.

Presenters
JL

Jon Lanz

Sr. Software Engineer, DREAMWORKS ANIMATION
avatar for Randy Packer

Randy Packer

Sr. Manager, Production Software, DreamWorks Animation
Randy is sr. manager of rendering, shading and machine learning teams at DreamWorks, having started in 2015 as his first foray into the animation and the film industry. Randy's led the efforts of advancing MoonRay and it's feature set and related technologies since prior to it's usage... Read More →
Monday July 20, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm PDT
JW Marriott - Gold Ballroom 4
  SIGGRAPH BoF Session

12:00pm PDT

ASWF Diversity & Inclusion Working Group - Carol Payne, Academic Software Foundation
Monday July 20, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm PDT
JW Marriott - Gold Ballroom 4
This BoF is a part of SIGGRAPH, and you must be registered for SIGGRAPH to attend.

The Diversity & Inclusion WG at the Academy Software Foundation breaks down barriers to access and increases connections among participants in the Foundation’s projects, community, and the VFX & Animation industry. If you are passionate about the Entertainment industry and looking for a way to get involved, please consider attending! Our group members consist of engineers, students, faculty, and more. We'll provide group updates as well as save time for community discussion.

This BoF is part of a full day of open source BoFs hosted by the Academy Software Foundation as part of Open Source Days. Learn more at opensourcedays.aswf.io.
Presenters
avatar for Carol Payne

Carol Payne

Founding Color Science Lead, Wizard
Carol Payne has served as the Technical Steering Committee Chair for OpenColorIO since 2021. She started her career in VFX, working for six years at Industrial Light & Magic, most prominently as Color & Imaging Engineer, and moved to Netflix from 2019-2023 as an Imaging Technologist... Read More →
Monday July 20, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm PDT
JW Marriott - Gold Ballroom 4
  SIGGRAPH BoF Session

12:00pm PDT

Open Review Initiative, including OpenRV and xSTUDIO - Erik Strauss, Sohonet; Guillaume Brossard, Autodesk; Ted Waine, DNEG; Sam Richards, Independent; Will Wira, Walt Disney Animation Studios
Monday July 20, 2026 12:00pm - 1:30pm PDT
JW Marriott - Gold Ballroom 3
This BoF is a part of SIGGRAPH, and you must be registered for SIGGRAPH to attend.

Updates from the Open Review Initiative team. Demonstration of the latest work in live collaboration protocols including support for annotations. Progress and community updates from OpenRV and xSTUDIO, as well as our work on Encoding, and Plugin Development.

This BoF is part of a full day of open source BoFs hosted by the Academy Software Foundation as part of Open Source Days. Learn more at opensourcedays.aswf.io.
Presenters
avatar for Will Wira

Will Wira

Walt Disney Animation Studios
avatar for Erik Strauss

Erik Strauss

Chief Product Officer, Sohonet
I am a technology leader with experience in building organizations that develop creative content tools and media processing at scale. I'm passionate about computer graphics and distributed collaboration. I thrive in areas where innovation enables creators to tell incredible stories... Read More →
avatar for Guillaume Brossard

Guillaume Brossard

Director of Engineering, Autodesk

avatar for Ted Waine

Ted Waine

Expert Software Developer, DNEG
After studying physics and optics as an undergraduate Ted started his career in Medical Imaging before entering VFX in 2003, joining DNEG's R&D team. Since then Ted has worked on a wide variety of projects involving, among many things, computer vision, image based modelling, application... Read More →
avatar for Sam Richards
Monday July 20, 2026 12:00pm - 1:30pm PDT
JW Marriott - Gold Ballroom 3
  SIGGRAPH BoF Session

1:00pm PDT

OpenTimelineIO - Eric Reinecke, Netflix
Monday July 20, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm PDT
JW Marriott - Gold Ballroom 4
This BoF is a part of SIGGRAPH, and you must be registered for SIGGRAPH to attend.

OpenTimelineIO is an interchange format and API for editorial timeline information. Please join us for an overview of what OpenTimelineIO does and some updates from the past year.

This BoF is part of a full day of open source BoFs hosted by the Academy Software Foundation as part of Open Source Days. Learn more at opensourcedays.aswf.io.
Presenters
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Eric Reinecke

Sr. Software Engineer, Video Engineering, Netflix
Monday July 20, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm PDT
JW Marriott - Gold Ballroom 4
  SIGGRAPH BoF Session

1:30pm PDT

MaterialX and OpenPBR - Jonathan Stone, Lucasfilm & Adrien Herubel, Autodesk
Monday July 20, 2026 1:30pm - 3:00pm PDT
JW Marriott - Gold Ballroom 3
This BoF is a part of SIGGRAPH, and you must be registered for SIGGRAPH to attend.

Join MaterialX and OpenPBR Technical Steering Committee members and contributors as they share recent milestones, future plans and answer questions from the community.

This BoF is part of a full day of open source BoFs hosted by the Academy Software Foundation as part of Open Source Days. Learn more at opensourcedays.aswf.io.
Presenters
avatar for Jonathan Stone

Jonathan Stone

Lead Rendering Engineer, Materials and Shading, Lucasfilm ADG
Jonathan Stone is a Lead Rendering Engineer in the Lucasfilm Advanced Development Group and the lead developer of MaterialX. He has designed real-time rendering and look-development technology for Lucasfilm since 2010, working on productions including The Mandalorian, Star Wars: The... Read More →
avatar for Adrien Herubel

Adrien Herubel

Director, Software Engineering, Autodesk
Monday July 20, 2026 1:30pm - 3:00pm PDT
JW Marriott - Gold Ballroom 3
  SIGGRAPH BoF Session

2:00pm PDT

ACES - Scott Dyer, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Monday July 20, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm PDT
JW Marriott - Gold Ballroom 4
This BoF is a part of SIGGRAPH, and you must be registered for SIGGRAPH to attend.

Join ACES Technical Steering Committee members and fellow imaging professionals for an open, forward-looking discussion on the digital color workflows. Bring your feedback, challenges, and ideas as we discuss current feature support, cross-application interoperability, and what ACES should tackle next.

This BoF is part of a full day of open source BoFs hosted by the Academy Software Foundation as part of Open Source Days. Learn more at opensourcedays.aswf.io.
Presenters
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Scott Dyer

Senior Imaging Engineer, Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences
Monday July 20, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm PDT
JW Marriott - Gold Ballroom 4
  SIGGRAPH BoF Session

3:00pm PDT

Adopting OpenUSD and MaterialX in Production Pipelines - Paolo Selva, 880 Productions NZ and Martin Davies, LAIKA
Monday July 20, 2026 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
JW Marriott - Gold Ballroom 3
This BoF is a part of SIGGRAPH, and you must be registered for SIGGRAPH to attend.

Presentations and open discussion about integrating OpenUSD and MaterialX in production pipelines, with successes and failures, possible how-tos.

This BoF is part of a full day of open source BoFs hosted by the Academy Software Foundation as part of Open Source Days. Learn more at opensourcedays.aswf.io.
Presenters
avatar for Martin Davies

Martin Davies

VFX Pipeline Manager, LAIKA
avatar for Paolo Selva

Paolo Selva

Principal Engineer, 880 Productions NZ
Monday July 20, 2026 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
JW Marriott - Gold Ballroom 3
  SIGGRAPH BoF Session

3:00pm PDT

Color Interop Forum - Carol Payne
Monday July 20, 2026 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
JW Marriott - Gold Ballroom 4
This BoF is a part of SIGGRAPH, and you must be registered for SIGGRAPH to attend.

Join us for a discussion about the Color Interop Forum specification work over the last year! Color Interop covers a broad area - beyond OCIO and ACES and into metadata, DCC best practices, color management in USD and broader 3D ecosystems, and more. We have three new specifications to share and discuss, and a few updates to previous specs. We will be walking through these docs, and leaving time for group discussion.

This BoF is part of a full day of open source BoFs hosted by the Academy Software Foundation as part of Open Source Days. Learn more at opensourcedays.aswf.io.
Presenters
avatar for Carol Payne

Carol Payne

Founding Color Science Lead, Wizard
Carol Payne has served as the Technical Steering Committee Chair for OpenColorIO since 2021. She started her career in VFX, working for six years at Industrial Light & Magic, most prominently as Color & Imaging Engineer, and moved to Netflix from 2019-2023 as an Imaging Technologist... Read More →
Monday July 20, 2026 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
JW Marriott - Gold Ballroom 4
  SIGGRAPH BoF Session

4:00pm PDT

OpenColorIO - Carol Payne, Wizard & Doug Walker, AutoDesk
Monday July 20, 2026 4:00pm - 5:00pm PDT
JW Marriott - Gold Ballroom 4
This BoF is a part of SIGGRAPH, and you must be registered for SIGGRAPH to attend.

OCIO is an open source color management solution hosted at the Academy Software Foundation. Join us for an informal community discussion around current/planned OCIO development, implementation, and workflows.

This BoF is part of a full day of open source BoFs hosted by the Academy Software Foundation as part of Open Source Days. Learn more at opensourcedays.aswf.io.
Presenters
avatar for Carol Payne

Carol Payne

Founding Color Science Lead, Wizard
Carol Payne has served as the Technical Steering Committee Chair for OpenColorIO since 2021. She started her career in VFX, working for six years at Industrial Light & Magic, most prominently as Color & Imaging Engineer, and moved to Netflix from 2019-2023 as an Imaging Technologist... Read More →
avatar for Doug Walker

Doug Walker

Tech Lead, Autodesk
Doug is the Technology Lead for Color Science at Autodesk, working on products such as Flame, Maya, Arnold, and Shotgrid. He is also very active in open source projects, serving as the Chief Architect on the OpenColorIO Technical Steering Committee and as part of the Architectural... Read More →
Monday July 20, 2026 4:00pm - 5:00pm PDT
JW Marriott - Gold Ballroom 4
  SIGGRAPH BoF Session

4:00pm PDT

The USD Collective Projects - Paolo Selva, 880 Productions NZ and Martin Davies, LAIKA
Monday July 20, 2026 4:00pm - 5:00pm PDT
JW Marriott - Gold Ballroom 3
This BoF is a part of SIGGRAPH, and you must be registered for SIGGRAPH to attend.

A BOF meet-up of The USD Collective Projects participants and anyone else interested in knowing the status of the projects and how to participate/contribute to this collective initiative.

This BoF is part of a full day of open source BoFs hosted by the Academy Software Foundation as part of Open Source Days. Learn more at opensourcedays.aswf.io.

Presenters
avatar for Paolo Selva

Paolo Selva

Principal Engineer, 880 Productions NZ
avatar for Martin Davies

Martin Davies

VFX Pipeline Manager, LAIKA
Monday July 20, 2026 4:00pm - 5:00pm PDT
JW Marriott - Gold Ballroom 3
  SIGGRAPH BoF Session
 
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