The Pipeline Conference is the flagship event of the Digital Production Pipeline Association, a community that spans more than 50 studios and 40 countries across animation, VFX, games and immersive media. It keeps going year-round through our online speaker series, technical roundtables, Discord and the pipeline sessions we coordinate at SIGGRAPH and GDC.
TPC is by engineers for engineers — the board, organisers and volunteers all work in pipeline engineering themselves. Expect a room of pipeline developers, technical directors, production R&D and infrastructure people from more than 50 studios across 40-plus countries, and conversations in the hallway that are as useful as the ones on stage.
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A keynote and a program of talks on the work studios are doing right now: AI-assisted production, OpenUSD implementation, cloud adoption, render farm modernization, real-time graphics, virtual production, workflow automation and production storage. Active projects with real budgets and real deadlines, including the parts that broke.
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The tenth Pipeline Awards close out the day. Nominees are put forward by a committee of experienced pipeline professionals and voted on by the community, across two categories: Pipeline Project of the Year and Pipeline Hero of the Year — the tools that save studios months of work, and the people who build them.
About the awards