Khronos SIGGRAPH Updates

SIGGRAPH Vancouver August 7 – 11, 2011
Khronos celebrates our 10th year of participation at SIGGRAPH North America with a huge new “Member Demonstration Pavilion,” an Open House hospitality suite for Press & Educators, and five BOFs covering a variety of our APIs.

VISIT the new "Khronos Pavilion" Booth #663 right in the middle of the SIGGRAPH show floor. More details.
ATTEND the five Khronos BOFs – OpenGL, OpenCL, WebGL, COLLADA and Mobile APIs. More details.
ENTER the COLLADA Contest! Khronos is excited to announce a 3D content development contest with a $500 cash prize for the winner. More details.
LEARN about a new tech announcement during the OpenGL BOF. For more details or to request an appointment for a press briefing: jh@horizonpr.com
SCHMOOZE if you are a member of the Press or an Educator. Come to our Open House in Booth #764, all day Tuesday August 9th for AM and PM refreshments. For the Press we offer briefings on Khronos technology. For Professors and trainers we offer information about the soon-to-be-launched “Khronos Institute of Training and Education” (KITE). We invite feedback and participation from anyone interested in helping to launch this new initiative.

SIGGRAPH Hong Kong December 12 – 15, 2011
Join us in exciting Hong Kong where the Khronos Group will demonstrate and educate attendees about Khronos APIs at our 4th SIGGRAPH Asia. This year we offer two days of Khronos “DevU” educational sessions co-located with SIGGRAPH Asia educational sessions. We look forward to seeing you there!

VISIT the Khronos Pavilion to see numerous Khronos members hosting individual demonstration suites grouped together on the SIGGRAPH trade show floor. More details.
LEARN from Khronos members during two days of Khronos “Developer University” about how Khronos APIs enable developers tap into cutting edge graphics and media processing on platforms ranging from high-end workstations to mobile phones. More details.
HEAR Jon Peddie and Kathleen Maher speak at Khronos DevU. Khronos is proud to offer our audience key market insights from these industry experts at Jon Peddie Research.
SUBMIT your ideas to “Symposium of Apps” and be a part of SIGGRAPH Asia! (Submission deadline 15 September 2011). Neil Trevett, Khronos Group President is co-chairing “The Symposium on Apps,” the newest addition to the list of stellar conference programs at SIGGRAPH Asia 2011 in Hong Kong to introduce the opportunities and challenges of mobile applications development to the global graphics community. This inaugural program will educate and explore how visual and animation techniques can be used on mobile devices to create compelling end user experiences and to drive the use of advanced graphics capabilities on billions of new devices. We call for participation in the following four session areas:
- Presentations: on a specific topic related to mobile applications;
- Panel Discussions: among multiple participants from academia or industry;
- Workshops: a hands-on, how-to session for your product or research;
- Exhibits: showing your work in our mini-exhibition.
Click here for more information about how to make a submission for participation at the Symposium on Apps.

For more information on all of Khronos Group APIs, visit http://www.khronos.org/apis/