Day 1 Recap

It is said, it takes a village to make a movie. The same applies to getting a conference together. Day 1 of the DigiPro + The Pipeline Conference was a memorable one and the chairs, committee members, and volunteers are a happy bunch.

Here is a picture from the end of day 1 check-in of some of the villagers 🙂

Now, let’s wind up the tape and recap all the events that transpired on the first day of the conference.

Chairs Introduction

Wizart DCC Platform in Production

Alexander Kalyuzhnyy blew a lot of minds while demonstrating the Universal Scene Description-based pipeline that he and his team developed at Wizart Animation.

Women in Pipeline

The first panel of the day informed us how the panelist landed a job that they are passionate about and also delved into what it means to be a woman in the pipeline, amongst other informative topics.

You can read more about this talk at https://thepipelineconference.com/2021/07/15/tpc-2021-panel-women-in-pipeline

We’d also like to give a shoutout to the following DigiPro talk (s) centered around Machine Learning in Animation and Rigging. You can read more about it and all other DigiPro talks at https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3469095 and also the DigiPro website.

Pipeline for Pipelines: DevOps for pipeline development

This series of talks followed by a panel was the most attended session of the day and a lot of questions were addressed by the panelists.

You can read more at https://thepipelineconference.com/2021/07/16/tpc-2021-talk-pipeline-for-pipelines-devops-for-pipeline-development

Transitioning to the cloud for a pipeline developer

In this series of talks, followed by a panel discussion, the challenges, gotchas, and the foundations necessary for a pipeline developer seeking to transition to the cloud were covered in great detail.

More information is available at https://thepipelineconference.com/2021/07/21/tpc-2021-panel-transitioning-to-the-cloud-for-a-pipeline-developer

Virtual Reception

The final event of the day was a Virtual Reception in GatherTown, which makes virtual interaction more human.

Following is one snapshot of a very engaging virtual interaction (which also included some music and dancing). Do join us there tomorrow.

Sponsors

A big shoutout to our sponsors whose support made organizing this conference possible.

Day 2

Day 2 is packed with more interesting talks/panels and ends with the DigiPro KeyNote: “Protecting Identities With Digital Veils” by Ryan Laney.

See you tomorrow. 🙂