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Key Learnings
- Learn about OpenUSD in the media and entertainment industry.
- Learn about how OpenUSD is being adopted in other industries, including architecture, engineering, and construction.
- Learn about the Alliance for OpenUSD and its role in fostering the standardization, development, and growth of OpenUSD.
Speakers
- AVAngel VelezAngel Velez is a Distinguished Engineer and Product Owner at Autodesk, Inc. In 1992, he graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with BS degrees in computer science and mathematics, and he graduated from Stanford University with a master's degree in computer science in 1994. After working in the mechanical CAD industry for 5 years, he joined Charles River Software in 1999 to work on a project that eventually became known as Revit. Currently, Angel is a product owner and developer on the Revit Protractors and Con-tractors teams, which concentrate on connected desktop and cloud-based workflows (including IFC and the AEC Data Model) and Revit core geometry.
- SDSviat DulianinovSviat is a seasoned strategy executive with 10 years of strategic management, management consulting, and startup experience across the United States and Europe. Prior to joining Bright Machines, he served as Chief Strategy Officer at Dutch retailer SPAR. Previously, Sviat had a distinct consulting career at Bain & Company and co-founded an airport mobility company. Sviat holds a Bachelor's degree in Economics and Foreign Languages from MGIMO University and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
- DHDan HermanDan Herman has been active in computer-graphics research, development and production for over 25 years. At DigitalFish, Dan leads a widely respected team developing new techniques for digital media and immersive content, with customers including many of the best-known media companies, production studios, technology leaders and consumer brands worldwide. At Pixar Animation Studios, Dan managed and led development on projects involving feature animation tools, special effects, autonomous characters, games, and production tracking systems. At DreamWorks Animation, Dan was a core contributor to the design and architecture of the Academy Award-winning "Premo" 3D animation system. Prior to his time at Pixar, Dan sailed in the 1995 America's Cup as navigator for the yacht Young America, where he also headed development of the extensive instrumentation system used onboard Young America and its support boats. His previous work in computer graphics centered on CAD/CAM and scientific visualization. He holds a Master's in Computer Science from Cornell University and a Bachelor's in Cognitive Psychology from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and Cornell.
- ELEdward LuongEd has been a software engineer at Pixar since 2010. He worked on the initial development of USD as well as the adoption and deployment of it into the Pixar pipeline.
- SASean AhernSean Ahern is Ansys's representative on the Alliance for OpenUSD, promoting open standards for 3D data interchange for large-scale engineering applications. Sean is a Principal R&D Engineer at Ansys, bringing over three decades of experience in high-performance computing (HPC) and scientific visualization. After earning degrees in computer science and mathematics from Purdue University, Sean joined Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where he contributed to the Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative (ASCI), a program aimed at advancing HPC capabilities for national security. His work included contributions to the Chromium cluster rendering framework and the VisIt visualization system, both of which earned R&D 100 Awards. In 2005, Sean moved to Oak Ridge National Laboratory to lead visualization efforts at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility. There, he focused on developing architectures for data analysis and visualization capable of scaling to trillions of mesh elements. He also served as Executive Director of the National Institute for Computational Science at the University of Tennessee, overseeing some of the nation's largest supercomputing resources for open science. In 2014, Sean moved to industry, joining Computational Engineering International. After its acquisition by Ansys in 2017, he led the EnSight team for two years following the founder's retirement, guiding its evolution and co-designing the web-centric Ansys Dynamic Reporting framework. Currently, he applies his expertise in data scalability within Ansys's Data Processing Framework (DPF) team, addressing complex customer challenges through the introduction of advanced HPC data processing methods.
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