Name: 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
Start: 2026-07-20T12:00:00-0700
End: 2026-07-20T13:30:00-0700

July 19| Los Angeles, California
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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

Will Wira

Walt Disney Animation Studios

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 →

Guillaume Brossard

Director of Engineering, Autodesk

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 →

Sam Richards

Monday July 20, 2026 12:00pm - 1:30pm PDT
JW Marriott - Gold Ballroom 3

SIGGRAPH BoF Session

Open Source Days 2026

Will Wira

Erik Strauss

Guillaume Brossard

Ted Waine

Sam Richards

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