NEW YORK CITY – The RealTime Conference has announced the lineup for its second show, which will take place on Monday, May 4th. Featuring over 40 individual sessions and keynotes, the event will highlight the practical and potential uses of realtime technology across multiple markets.
Speakers participating in the online event include members of Walt Disney, Ikea and Looking Glass Factory, with all sessions free to the public. Registration is open now at: https://realtimeconference.com/registration/.
“With more than 4,000 registrants from 87 countries, we are extremely pleased with the success of the first conference,” notes RealTime Conference co-founder Jean-Michel Blottière. “We received amazing feedback from the community, proving that there is a real benefit to a show like this. We can’t wait to see how that community continues to grow through future events!”
Debuting back on April 6th and 7th, the inaugural RealTime Conference featured speakers focused on the growth and application of realtime technology in architecture, virtual production, automotive, intelligent agents, digital humans and more. Over the course of two days, each of the nearly 70 sessions saw hundreds of concurrent participants, with the keynote addresses attracting nearly 1,000 people each. Videos of each session are being added on a daily basis.
The May 4th conference will highlight all new sectors, beginning with design & manufacturing, followed by volumetric capture, including light fields and holograms. Additional sessions will then shift to universal scene description (USD) in realtime, as well as XR for entertainment, emphasizing both technical uses and artistic insights. Experts and pioneers will discuss everything from ideation to immersive design to how realtime technology can change the creative process.
Beginning at 8am(EST), the day will include in-depth presentations, Q&As, roundtable discussions and more. The May event will also feature a keynote address given by Martin Enthed, the digital manager leading the Ikea Digital Lab and DevOps IT. He will be joined by Ikea 3D manager Dan Frith to discuss how the company is taking advantage of realtime graphics for consumer-facing displays, and where they see that technology going in the future.
The RealTime Conference is also partnering with the Visual Effects Society (VES) to co-host a special event titled “May the 4th Be with You,” highlighting the legacy of Star Wars. Hosted by VES communications director Naomi Goldman, the event will feature an in-depth conversation with special guest Dennis Muren, ASC, visual effects artist, supervisor and creative director at Industrial Light & Magic. Following May’s sessions, the RealTime Conference will return on June 8th with an event focusing on a new slate of topics, including: virtual production through the eyes of European Studios, immersive storytelling, digital humans (with an emphasis on artificial intelligence, machine learning and general adversarial networks), games cinematics, open source in realtime and more.