NVIDIA GTC: How Universal Scene Description Can Become the "HTML" of the Metaverse

Join this session to hear from a panel of distinguished technical leaders as they talk about the power of Universal Scene Description (USD) as a standard for the 3D internet. These luminaries will share how their individual companies see the potential of USD, and what their teams are doing to contribute to the evolution of the framework and ecosystem.

Michael Kass, Senior Distinguished Engineer, NVIDIA

Aaron Luk, Senior Engineering Manager, Omniverse, NVIDIA

Patrick Cozzi, CEO, Cesium

Nadine Alameh, CEO, Open Geospatial Consortium

Gordon Bradley, Autodesk

Guido Quaroni, Senior Director of Engineering of 3D & Immersive, Adobe

Sebastian Grassia, Project Lead, Universal Scene Description (USD), Pixar

Simon Haegler, Esri R&D Center Zurich

NVIDIA GTC: Building the SpaceVerse: A Proof of Concept for US Space Force

Learn how NVIDIA, Cesium, Epic Games, and MAXAR Technologies worked together to demonstrate the potential of the SpaceVerse, a bold metaverse vision set by the U.S. Space Force that embraces technical collaboration. The group will discuss the motivations and technologies behind this proof of concept, built on open standards and collaboration, demonstrating an SLD 45 space launch. We’ll also cover our go-forward plan to continue building on the SpaceVerse concept.

Jennifer Arnold, Professional Visualization Executive – Federal, NVIDIA

Michael Torres, Chief of Digital Infrastructure & SpaceVerse, U.S. Space Force Chief Technology & Innovation Office

Tim Woodard, Senior Solutions Architect, NVIDIA

Major Andrew Compton, Commander, Spaceport Integration Office, U.S. Space Force

Shawn Walleck, Director of Operation, Spaceport Integration, SLD 45

Tony Frazier, EVP and GM Public Sector Earth Intelligence, Maxar Technologies

Brady Moore, Director, Mission Support, Cesium

Danny Williams, Technical Account Manager, Epic Games

Shashi Bhushan, Principal Engineer DevTech Omniverse, NVIDIA

Immersive Technology Summit

"Geospatial Integration Using the Unity Geospatial Framework, ESRI Unity SDK and Cesium Unity SDK"

A free, half-day Unity Developers Workshop at the Immersive Technology Summit presented by VRARA Central Florida, hosted by Full Sail University.

Speakers include:

Dr. Paul Cummings, Chief Architect, Unity Technologies;
Rex Hansen, Principal PM, Esri;
Gary Haus, Senior Solutions Engineer, Unity Technologies; and
Brady Moore, Director of Mission Support, Cesium.

Registration is required.

GeoGov Summit

GeoGov Summit brings together stakeholders representing Federal geospatial agencies; Commercial geospatial, space, IT, and Engineering companies, enterprise end users, and development and civil society organizations with an objective to facilitate discussions and estimate the evolving role of geospatial information in US economy and society.

GeoBuiz Summit 2023

Cesium CEO Patrick Cozzi will participate in a panel discussion on the topic of Connected Constructions: Advancing Sustainable Infrastructure.

Philadelphia Javascript Developers Meetup

Gabby Getz, 3D Graphics Developer, Cesium, will present "CesiumJS: Lessons learned maintaining a large WebGL code base" alongside Ted Agolii, Certara; Otoloye Oyeniran, Wajusoft; and Jevelson Simenthy, Comcast.

The Road to the Open Metaverse

Achieving a metaverse for all will require unprecedented cooperation. Leaders from the industry will share their vision for an open and inclusive metaverse. Patrick Cozzi joins Brian Markwalter, Edwina Fitzmaurice, Peggy Johnson, and Neil Trevett for this panel at CES 2023.

I/ITSEC 2022

The Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference (I/ITSEC) is the world’s largest modeling, simulation, and training event. Visit Cesium in booth 2266.

Unreal Fest 2022

Brady Moore, Cesium's Director of Mission Support will join the panel discussion, The World is Your Canvas: Building 3D Global Scale Real or Imaginary Worlds, alongside Sébastien Lozé, Unreal Engine Business Director, Simulation, Epic Games; David Cardella, Program Management Lead for Developer Technology, Esri; Dan Nord, Chief Product Officer & SVP, MAXAR; and Michael Putz, CEO, BlackShark AI.

O3DCon 2022

Shehzan Mohammed, Cesium's Director of 3D Engineering & Ecosystems, will be speaking at O3DCon, the Open 3D Foundation’s flagship conference. This event brings together a vibrant, diverse community focused on building an unencumbered, first-class, 3D engine poised to revolutionize real-time 3D development across a variety of applications—from game development, metaverse, digital twin, and AI, to automotive, healthcare, robotics, and more.

NTSA October Webinar – Open Standards and Applications Towards the Military Metaverse

Organized by the National Training & Simulation Association (NTSA). Cesium's Shehzan Mohammed joins Gastao De Figueiredo, SVP Strategic Partnerships, Blackshark.ai; Nadine Alameh, Ph.D. CEO of Open Geospatial Consortium; Neil Trevett, VP, Developer Ecosystems, NVIDIA; and Moderator Jennifer Arnold of NVIDIA to discuss ongoing efforts to create open standards for the metaverse, and how they apply to GEMS (Gaming, Exercise, Modeling and Simulation) use cases. Other topics include the impact of geospatial data and its semantic representation, the goals of the Metaverse Standards Forum, and where to learn more.

OGC Member Meeting: Metaverse Special Session

Shehzan Mohammed will represent Cesium in this discussion about Geo standards for the Metaverse and the Geo for the Metaverse Working Group, which is envisioned to be the liaison between OGC and the Metaverse community. It will represent OGC in the Metaverse Standards Forum - bringing all the community's work on 3D (3D Tiles/I3S/3D Portrayal/ CityGML/ WTMS/GeoVolumes API/etc) , modeling & simulation (CDB/IndoorGML/InfraGML/PipelineML/ARML/GeoPose/etc), OGC APIs, and more to the forefront.

WDBE 2022

Shehzan Mohammed, Cesium's Director of 3D Engineering & Ecosystems, will be speaking at World of Digital Built Environment (WDBE). WDBE has become a platform for the growing global AEC community, highlighting the brightest minds and most cutting-edge digital solutions improving our urban future.

2022 P3DL CoP Conference

Brady Moore, Cesium's Director of Mission Support will present, "Building a Data-First Approach to Modernizing Multi-Domain 3D Visualization" at the 2022 P3DL (Photogrammetry, 3D Visualization, and Lidar Community of Practice) Conference.

Building the Open Metaverse - SIGGRAPH 2022

Cesium CEO Patrick Cozzi and Marc Petit, VP, Unreal Engine Ecosystem at Epic Games, co-organized this 2-part, full-day course to bring technical experts from across the community together to share their vision and contributions to an open metaverse.

The course introduces the fundamental concepts and building blocks for the open metaverse, covering the current state and potential future directions. The themes of openness, collaboration, and interoperability are woven throughout the topics.

Presenters include:

Nadine Alameh, CEO, Open Geospatial Consortium

Rev Lebaredian, Vice President, Omniverse & Simulation Technology, NVIDIA

Steve May, CTO, Pixar Animation Studios

Morgan McGuire, Chief Scientist, Roblox

Jeff Petersen, Principal Engineer, Amazon Web Services

Guido Quaroni, Senior Director of Engineering, Adobe 3D&I

Neal Stephenson, Cofounder, Lamina1 and Author, Snow Crash

Natalya Tatarchuk, Distinguished Technical Fellow and Chief Architect, VP, Professional Artistry & Graphics Innovation, Unity Technologies

Neil Trevett, President, The Khronos Group, and VP, Developer Ecosystems, NVIDIA

Building the Open Metaverse in Philadelphia

SIM Philadelphia

The metaverse has come into the limelight with everything from coverage on CNBC to Roblox's creator platform to Facebook's rename to Meta.  What is or may become the metaverse?  What computing trends - from game engines to VR to AR wearables - are enabling this?  What does it mean for the metaverse to be open and how can we facilitate openness with open standards?  And how is Philadelphia-based tech startup, Cesium, playing a role in building the metaverse?

GEOBuiz Summit

Cesium CEO Patrick Cozzi will discuss Architecture, Engineering, and Infrastructure at this annual gathering of geospatial business leaders.

USGIF GEOINT Symposium 2022

The USGIF GEOINT Symposium is the nation's largest gathering of GEOINT professionals.

Visit the Cesium team in BOOTH 1011 to see easy ways to integrate One World Terrain data with hi-res insets, move from 2D to 3D, access and stream metadata with 3D Tiles Next, and leverage game engine technology to build never-before-seen applications and experiences with Cesium for Unreal.

Monday, April 25

2-3 PM - Training Session: Creating Accurate, Global-Scale Realtime Simulations with Cesium for Unreal Engine
Presented by Nithin Pranesh, Cesium for Unreal Developer

Tuesday, April 26

1:40 PM - Lightning Talk: 3D Tiles Next: Data Performance for the Future of 3D Geospatial
Presented by Brady Moore, Director of Mission Support

3:30-4:15 PM - Panel: What is the Metaverse Anyway?
Moderated by Patrick Cozzi, CEO

Khronos Group WebGL Meetup

The Khronos Group hosts this virtual WebGL meetup that includes experts from Google, Intel, Mozilla, and Cesium.

Sean Lilley will discuss how 3D Tiles Next uses glTF to scale massive models and its efficient implementation in WebGL.

New Space Workshop: How Can We Build Space from Scratch?

SSSI and the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) are partnering on this virtual event to discuss New Space.

Cesium CEO Patrick Cozzi will join a panel discussion on "Evolving the New Space Ecosystem," along with Prashant Shukle, COO, KorrAI; Joe Morrison, VP Commercial Product, Umbra; Mani Thiru, Space Industry Development Asia Pacific, AWS; and moderator Bill Barrett, Senior VP, Asia Pacific Aerospace Consultants.

Combining High-performance Simulation, New Gaming Technologies and Defence Innovation

Brady Moore, Cesium's Director of Mission Support, joins experts from NATO Modelling and Simulation Group, Epic Games, and the Foundation for Strategic Research to discuss how game technology can support high-intensity warfare training.

Metaverse Session at 121st OGC Member Meeting

Cesium CEO Patrick Cozzi will participate in a special public session on the metaverse during the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)'s 121st Member Meeting. The week-long event of Standards Working Group meetings, special sessions, workshops, and keynotes will take place December 6-14, 2021.

I/ITSEC 2021

The Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference (I/ITSEC) is the world’s largest modeling, simulation, and training event. Visit Cesium in booth 2634.

Web3D Conference

Cesium's Peter Gagliardi will discuss Cesium and 3D Tiles at this international conference on 3D Web technology hosted by SIGGRAPH.