Presenter: Bruna Berford, Lead Animator -Penrose Studios

Bio: Bruna Berford is a VR Animator working for Penrose Studios, a startup based in San Francisco. At Penrose, Bruna helped bring to life the beautiful and unique Allumette, a VR film which held its World Premiere at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival. Before joiningPenrose, Bruna worked as an animator at Oculus Story Studio and as a cinematic artist at Telltale Games (Minecraft Story Mode and Game of Thrones). She is also the creator and director of "Occupation: Animator", considered an inspiration among the animation community. Originally from Brazil, Bruna holds degrees from the Academy of Art, Animation Mentor and Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro(PUC-Rio).

Bio: Anatoli is one of the principle engineers who has been at Jaunt from the early days. He and his team have been working on Jaunt's production pipeline from its initial version running a handful of servers in the back closet to an AWS powered on demand system running globally on tens of thousands of nodes around the globe. Prior to joining Jaunt, Anatoly founded and sold computer vision startup, Stanford Robotics. Prior to that he spent his time as a senior engineering manager at Synopsys

Presenter: Nathan Rowe, Founder - SculptrVR

Bio: Nathan Rowe has an M.S. in Pure Mathematics, but is software developer by trade. He worked for 3 years in the security imaging field doing 2D/3D Image Processing and Machine learning for X-ray and CT scanners. He then spent two years in the 3D printing industry to writing computational geometry software for the printers. He founded SculptrVR in September 2015 which released the first commercial version of its software on April 5th with the Vive headset

For information about Jaunt, SculptrVR & Penrose Studios, please visit http://san-francisco.siggraph.org

6pm - doors open

6:00 - 7:30 VR demos with appetizers/drinks provided

7:30 - 9:00 - presentations in the theater