2025 LSAS Aerospace and Defense Workshop

Cesiumは、LSAS Tec株式会社主催の宇宙・防衛分野向けワークショップにて、以下のセッションを担当します：

講演（11月20日）
登壇者：Sarah McPeak
内容：Cesiumの最新技術と宇宙・防衛分野での活用事例を紹介。

ハンズオントレーニング（11月21日）
トレーナー：Danny Williams
内容：Cesiumプラットフォームを使った実践的な操作体験。

会場：赤坂インターシティコンファレンス（東京都港区赤坂1-8-1）
申込：[イベントページ]

このワークショップでは、LEO〜GEO〜XGEO領域における宇宙安全保障や軌道設計、SSA/SDAなどの最新技術が紹介されます。

Cesium will join the LSAS Tec-hosted workshop focused on aerospace and defense innovation with the following sessions:

Presentation (November 20)
Speaker: Sarah McPeak
Topic: Latest Cesium technologies and use cases in space and defense.

Hands-on Training (November 21)
Trainer: Danny Williams
Topic: Practical training using the Cesium platform.

Venue: Akasaka Intercity Conference Center, Tokyo, Japan (1-8-1 Akasaka, Minato-ku)
Registration: [Event Page]

The workshop covers topics such as SSA/SDA, satellite tracking, spacecraft design, and cislunar orbit planning across LEO, GEO, and XGEO domains.

I/ITSEC 2025

The Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation, and Education Conference (I/ITSEC) is the world’s largest modeling, simulation, and training event. Visit Cesium in booth 221.

FOSS4G North America 2025

Cesium is a silver sponsor of FOSS4G North America, the premier open geospatial technology and business conference. FOSS4G NA provides a vibrant and welcoming atmosphere for technologists, end users, and decision-makers to share their experiences and expertise in free and open-source software for geospatial.

Patrick Cozzi will deliver the keynote during the B2B event at 4:30 p.m. Monday, November 3, at the Hyatt Regency Reston.

Luke McKinstry will present "What's New in CesiumJS and the 3D Geospatial Ecosystem" at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, November 4, in room Reston ABC.

Matt Schwartz will present "What's New in 3D Tiles" at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, November 5, in the Lake Anne room.

133rd OGC Member Meeting

Join global experts, innovators, and decision-makers in the geospatial community for the 133rd OGC Member Meeting, held October 28–31, 2025, at the UCAR Center Green Campus in Boulder, Colorado.

- Thematic tracks on interoperability, trust in data, emerging technologies, and cross-domain applications.

- Keynotes, panels, and working sessions driving progress on open standards and real-world innovation.

- Networking with leaders from government, industry, and research.

The meeting will also feature the presentation of the Gardels Award, OGC’s highest annual honor, named for founding director Kenneth Gardels. The award recognizes an individual member whose contributions to the standards process and commitment to openness reflect Kenneth’s vision of using geospatial technology for the good of humanity and the environment.

Diego Diaz, Sean Lilley, Sarah McPeak, and Amanda Morgan will attend.

ArchiFuture 2025

CesiumはArchiFuture 2025のプラチナスポンサーです！

Cesiumは、日本を代表する建築・テクノロジーフォーラム「ArchiFuture 2025」にプラチナスポンサーとして参加します。

ぜひ、以下の講演にご参加ください：

講演タイトル：
建築と自然環境を結ぶオープン3D地理空間プラットフォームの進化 — Cesium最新事例・技術のご紹介

講演者：
久木田 弦（Cesium Japan Community Manager）

日時：
2025年10月23日（木）
11:15～11:45

会場：
TFTホール 東館9F B会場（東京）

事前申込制：
すべての講座はリアル会場での実施のみとなります。
10月16日（木）17時までにお申し込みください。
https://www.archifuture.jp/2025/form/

Cesiumブースにもぜひお立ち寄りください：
展示エリアにて、Cesiumの最新3D地理空間ソリューションをご紹介します。チームとの交流もお楽しみください。

展示会開催時間：
2025年10月23日（木）
10:00〜17:45

会場：
TFTホール（東京）
入場無料（事前申込制）

Cesium is proud to be a platinum sponsor of ArchiFuture 2025, Japan’s premier forum for architecture and technology. Admission is free with advance registration.

We invite you to attend our featured talk: "The Evolution of an Open 3D Geospatial Platform Connecting Architecture and the Natural Environment – Latest Cesium Use Cases and Technologies" by Gen Kukita, 11:15-11:45 a.m. JST in TFT Hall, Room B.

All sessions, including the Technical Forum, are in person only. Please register by Thursday, October 16, to secure your seat.

Stop by the Cesium booth at the exhibition area to explore our latest 3D geospatial solutions and connect with our team.

Year in Infrastructure 2025

At Bentley Systems' Year in Infrastructure, global industry leaders come together to showcase infrastructure delivery and performance excellence and exchange visionary ideas for the future.

Join virtually to hear Patrick Cozzi's keynote during the 8:30 a.m. CEST session "Shaping the Future of Infrastructure." Industry breakout sessions include cities, energy, electric utilities, transportation, water, and mining.

AUSA 2025

AUSA's annual meeting and exposition is October 13-15, 2025, in Washington, D.C., with a theme of “Agile, Adaptive, Lethal: Winning at the Pace of Change,” highlighting the Army’s continuous transformation for a complex future battlefield.

Danny Williams will attend.

FOSS4G 2025 Japan

Cesiumは、2025年10月11日〜12日に開催されるFOSS4G Japanにて以下を実施します：

ハンズオントレーニング（満席）
日時：10月11日（土）
詳細：https://talks.osgeo.org/foss4g-2025-japan/talk/PR7QBP/

セミナー「Cesium認定資格とオープンスタンダード最さんか
日時：10月12日（日）14:10–14:30
会場：専修大学 生田キャンパス 2号館 202教室
登壇者：Gen Kukita（Cesium GS）
詳細：https://talks.osgeo.org/foss4g-2025-japan/talk/NZYV9C/
参加無料登録：https://peatix.com/us/event/4575455
公式ページ：https://www.osgeo.jp/foss4g-2025-japan/

Cesium will join FOSS4G Japan 2025 with:

Hands-on Training (sold out)
Date: Saturday, October 11
Details: https://talks.osgeo.org/foss4g-2025-japan/talk/PR7QBP/

Seminar: Cesium Certification and Open Standards
Date: Sunday, October 12, 14:10–14:30
Location: Senshu University Ikuta Campus, Building 2, Room 202
Speaker: Gen Kukita (Cesium GS)
Details: https://talks.osgeo.org/foss4g-2025-japan/talk/NZYV9C/
Core Day Free Ticket: https://peatix.com/us/event/4575455
Official site: https://www.osgeo.jp/foss4g-2025-japan/

Intergeo 2025

Intergeo, the world's leading event for geodesy, geoinformation, and land management, brings together experts and visionaries from all over the world.

Find Cesium in the Bentley Systems space, hall 12.0, booth 0C078.

Alex Paulson and Peter Rummel, Bentley Systems director of infrastructure policy advancement (Europe), will deliver "Simplify the Complex with an Open Approach to Accelerate Value" at 11:40 a.m. CEST Thursday, October 9, on the Expo Main Stage.

Khronos Face-to-Face (F2F) Philadelphia

Open to Khronos members, the F2F Philadelphia event is a fast-moving, highly productive week where agendas advance, decisions are made, and valuable hallway conversations happen.

Members can log in to view the agenda and plan their days.

Bentley/Cesium is sponsoring the Wednesday evening reception.

Bentley Webinar: Introduction to Cesium: Enhance Your 3D Models with Real-World Context

In this webinar, you’ll discover how architecture, engineering, and urban planning organizations are using Cesium, the open platform for 3D geospatial, to build interactive web applications that bring real-world context to their 3D data. 

Danny Williams joins Christof Lorenz, director of market development, to share how to visualize models and enrich them with accurate geospatial context via Cesium ion.

Chicago Innovate Week 2025

Chicago Innovate Week brings together architects, engineers, contractors, and technology innovators through high-impact Innovation Exchange sessions and Tech Pioneer roundtables.

Cory Barr joins Jesper Wallgren (co-founder, Finch) and Greg Tran (CEO and co-founder, Trace) for virtual roundtable "Tools and Processes - Next-Generation Digital Innovation Platforms" at noon CDT on Monday, September 22.

GeoGov Summit 2025

The GeoGov Summit brings together leaders from government, industry, and academia to advance a shared vision for the nation's geospatial ecosystem. This year’s working theme is “Shaping the Future of Our National Geospatial Ecosystem: Together Through Partnership, Efficiency, Innovation, and Impact.”

Rory Linehan, Bentley Systems director of infrastructure policy advancement, will participate in "Plenary Session 1: The Role of Spatial Intelligence in National Progress" at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, September 9.

Trent Tinker, director of federal business development, will participate in "Beyond the Blueprint - Digital Twins in Practice" at 9 a.m. Wednesday, September 10.

2025 P3DL CoP Conference

Trent Tinker and Sarah McPeak will exhibit and speak at the 2025 Photogrammetry, 3D Visualization, and Lidar (P3DL) Community of Practice Conference.

TAK Offsite 2025

TAK Offsite is the annual U.S. Government TAK community gathering to share information, experiences, and lessons learned.

Trent Tinker will attend.

MODSIM World 2025

MODSIM World connects individuals to the MODSIM community and problems to solutions across disciplines and industries.

Danny Williams will attend.

Webinar: Design with Real-World Context: Cesium x D5 Render in Action

Danny Williams joins D5's Jeff Espinoza for the "Design with Real-World Context: Cesium x D5 Render in Action" webinar at 2 p.m. EDT on Friday, August 15.

Learn to:

- Import 3D Tiles directly into D5 Render;

- Create stunning, location-accurate visuals for architecture, urban planning, and storytelling; and 

- Streamline workflows from geospatial data to client-ready presentations. 

Helpful for architects, GIS professionals, and 3D artists seeking to bridge precision and photorealism. 

SIGGRAPH 2025

Join Cesium at SIGGRAPH, the premier conference for computer graphics:

Sunday, August 10

- Cory Barr will present "Accelerating AEC Workflows with 3D Geospatial Context in Runtime Engines" with Adam Liss, Philip Luhn, and David Willard of HNTB at 9:22 a.m. PDT in West Building, Ballroom C.

Monday, August 11

- Sean Lilley will cover Gaussian splats, voxels, AEC rendering, and glX at "glTF: Innovations in 3D Content Delivery and Use" at noon PDT in East Building, Room 15.

- Jake Adelgren will discuss 3D Tiles at the Carto BOF at noon PDT in East Building, Room 8.

Tuesday, August 12

- Jason Sobotka and Patrick Cozzi will be part of the Metaverse Standards Forum Frontier Workshop "Town Hall: Gaussian Splats - Ready for Standardization" at 10:45 a.m. PDT in East Building, Room 8.

- Amanda Morgan, Adam Morris, and Patrick Cozzi will participate in the Metaverse Standards Forum State of 3D Asset Interoperability using USD and glTF BOF at 1:30 p.m. PDT in East Building, Room 15.

Wednesday, August 13

- Cory Barr will lead the "Hands-On Class: A No-Code Introduction to Creating Geospatial Worlds with 3D Tiles and Cesium" lab at 10 a.m. PDT in West Building, Exhibit Hall B.

- Sean Lilley will address glX and 3D Tiles during "glTF & 3D Commerce: Unlocking New Possibilities for Real-Time 3D" at 10 a.m. PDT at the Fairmont Waterfront Hotel, British Ballroom. 

- We're sponsoring the Khronos Networking Reception. Join us 6-9 p.m. PDT at the Fairmont Waterfront Hotel, Waterfront Ballroom Foyer (lobby level).

2025 Cesium Developer Conference

Join us for the first global Cesium community event! The 2025 Cesium Developer Conference features technically oriented, community-driven tracks, including an optional pre-conference workshop day, two full days of learning and connecting with leaders and peers, and social opportunities throughout. 

US government employees: no cost for registration. Email hello@cesium.com for your code.

UN Open Source Week Tech Over Hackathon

UN Open Source Week 2025 facilitates global dialogue and collaboration on open source, digital public infrastructure (DPI), and developing innovative solutions to global challenges. UN Tech Over is designed to spotlight the transformative power of technology and multi-stakeholder cooperation, while deepening the UN’s engagement with the global open-source community. Hackathon participants can select from high-impact, real-world challenges developed by United Nations entities, each addressing urgent global issues aligned with the Global Digital Compact.

Software development manager Arun George is a first-round judge on June 17.

Infraweek Latin America 2025

Technology leaders and experts will gather to discuss the latest trends transforming infrastructure in Latin America. 

Discover how the region is embracing innovations such as digital twins, artificial intelligence, and advanced software for water, energy, digital cities, transportation, and ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) management.

Session 1: Infrastructure – Digital Twins and Sustainability highlights Cesium.

NXT DEV 2025

NXT DEV (Next Development) is a unique forum for the future of AEC software development, run by AEC Magazine, the organizer of NXT BLD.

Join Bentley Systems chief technology officer Julien Moutte for "Openness for All: Powering Tech Innovations and Data Flexibility in AEC" at 10:30 a.m. in the Churchill Room on June 12.

AWE USA 2025

AWE is the world's largest spatial computing event.

3:30 p.m. PDT, June 10, Room 102B: Paul Connelly, Bentley Systems software engineer, joins Eric Chadwick (DGG), Ashley Crowder (VNTANA), and Daniel Frith (London Dynamics) for the "CAD to Commerce: Building a 3D Experience" panel.

1 p.m. PDT, June 12, Room 101B: Daniel Iborra, Bentley Systems principal software engineer, joins Deia Green (Verizon), Alexey Medvedev (Meta), Kaiser Pister (ALL3D), and Laura Reznikov (Meta) for "The Future of 3D Graphics Development" panel.

Unreal Fest 2025

Federal technical sales manager Sarah McPeak and VP of business development and sales operations Danny Williams will attend Unreal Fest 2025 in Orlando.

Gaussian Splats Town Hall Part 3: Research Insights and Interoperability

Join the Metaverse Standards Forum for a town hall exploring the cutting-edge research shaping the future of Gaussian splats in digital reconstruction, visualization, and real-time rendering. Building on insights from the previous sessions, this town hall will delve into the research world of Gaussian splats and also review the latest progress made in interoperability.

This town hall will highlight active research in areas such as scalable level of detail (LOD) for massive scenes; efficient ray tracing with Gaussian primitives; animation; editing; and compression.

Jason Sobotka, senior software engineer at Cesium/Bentley Systems, will present.

Digital Construction Week 2025

Explore the future of the built environment and learn about the latest trends in digital construction, from BIM and AI to robotics and sustainable solutions.

Join technical sales manager Jillian Long for an introduction to Cesium at 2:30 p.m. BST on June 4 on the Tech Stage.

USGIF GEOINT Symposium 2025

This year’s symposium centers on the theme "Building a Secure Tomorrow Together." Visit Cesium in BOOTH 2231.

Patrick Cozzi will deliver the keynote “Digital Twins & GEOINT— Transforming Intelligence with 3D Analytics” at the Government Hub on Monday, May 19, at 1:30 p.m. CT.

Webinar for Japan Developer Community: What Is Cesium?

Cesium Webinar for Japan Developer Community 第1回 『Cesiumとは～ 3D地理空間プラットフォームとその可能性』

アジェンダ

- はじめに

- Cesium News Highlights　

- Cesium会社紹介　

- Cesium Platform概要　３D Tiles、 Platform

- Cesium 今日のユーザーストーリー

- Community Forum, Cesium認定資格（CCD）

- Q＆A

Illuminate 2025 Sydney

Bentley Illuminate 2025 is the premier event for infrastructure leaders across Australia and New Zealand to explore cutting-edge advancements shaping the future.

Ryan Veenstra, Cesium senior solutions architect, will present at Illuminate and be in the Experience Centre at the Cesium/iTwin stand throughout the day.

PhillyCHI UX Panel

Cesium is hosting community partner PhillyCHI for panel discussion "Landing Your Next UX Role" with Joe Pascavage, Maria Mutia, Andrea Sumrall, and Julie Froelich. We'll provide food and beverages.

PhillyCHI connects local UX practitioners by organizing monthly educational and networking events. Bentley Systems is a PhillyCHI annual sponsor.

Philly Postgres Meetup: April 2025

Cesium is hosting the April 2025 Philly Postgres Meetup. We will serve food and beverages.

Jonah Harris, Founder of NEXTGRES, will present "Stored Procedures Aren't Your Problem; Your Over-Engineered App Stack Is" at 6 p.m.

40th Space Symposium

Space Symposium is the premier event uniting global space professionals from all sectors, providing a unique platform to explore critical space issues, foster dialogue, and drive innovation across the space industry.

Visit Alex Paulson and Danny Williams from the Cesium team in the COMSPOC booth, #628.

NVIDIA GTC 2025

Cesium will take part in NVIDIA GTC 2025, among other industry luminaries, developers, researchers, and business strategists helping shape what’s next in AI and accelerated computing.

3D on the Web – A Khronos Group Event

Join the Khronos Group for "3D on the Web," a special event in San Francisco on March 19 during the week of GDC 2025. Daniel Iborra, principal software engineer, Bentley Systems, will present "WebGL, 3D Tiles, and iTwin.js: Pushing the Boundaries of Infrastructure 3D Visualization."

- Check-in and networking 5-6 p.m. PDT

- Presentations 6-8:30 p.m. PDT

- Networking, drinks, and dessert 8:30-9:30 p.m. PDT

2025 LA Geospatial Summit

Chris Andrews joins Christine Devine from USGIF, Canserina Kurnia from Esri, and moderator Thomas Horan from University of Redlands for the "Empowering the Geospatial Workforce of the Future" panel discussion at 2 p.m. PST at the annual LA Geospatial Summit in Los Angeles.

Philadelphia ACM SIGGRAPH 2024 Computer Animation Festival

Philadelphia ACM SIGGRAPH is bringing the SIGGRAPH Computer Animation Festival back for another exciting in-person viewing, featuring stunning shorts from the 2024 conference. Join us for light refreshments and to celebrate the evolution of computer graphics as a powerful storytelling medium.

- Networking happy hour 6-7 p.m.

- Opening remarks 7:15-7:30 p.m.

- Screening 7:30-8:30 p.m.

- Post-showing happy hour 8:30-9:30 p.m.

Geo Week 2025

Chris Andrews, VP of Platform Integrations, joins Alex Chu from Google, Amy Rose from Overture Maps Foundation, Scott Simmons from Open Geospatial Consortium, and moderator Matt Collins from Geo Week News for "What Open Data Means for Geospatial Professionals" at 11 a.m. MT in Bluebird 1B at the Colorado Convention Center.

G-Spatial Expo 2025

G-Spatial Expo 2025 is held as a forum for industry, academia, and government to collaborate and promote the use of geospatial information and satellite positioning. Cesium will attend in person January 29-31 at Booth E-38 and online January 22-February 7.

Philadelphia Data Visualization Meetup

Cesium is hosting the January 2025 Philadelphia Data Visualization Meetup. We will have snacks, pizza, beer, and non-alcoholic beverages.

Doors open at 5:30 p.m., and talks begin at 6 p.m.:

- Sharing Your Process in Data Viz by Ben Kates, Senior Data Visualization Developer at the Urban Institute

- Graph It, Don't Stack It: Mapping Your Reading List with ReadGraph by Quinn McHugh, Mechanical Engineer Turned Information Nerd

GeoPhilly Meetup: Exploring the Future of 3D GIS: Innovations and Insights

Cesium is hosting GeoPhilly for an evening of engaging presentations showcasing 3D geospatial work, interactive discussions, and plenty of time to network over snacks and drinks.

GeoBuiz Summit 2025

With the theme “Sensors to Services: Driving Productivity and Market Economy,” the ecosystem will be in the spotlight at the GeoBuiz Summit 2025. Patrick Cozzi will join Bentley iTwin Ventures' Tom Kurke and moderator Ananya Narain for "In Conversation Session: Strategic Partnership and Merger: Advancing Geospatial Value Chain across Infrastructure and Engineering Industry" at 12:15 p.m. on Tuesday, January 14.

I/ITSEC 2024

The Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation, and Education Conference (I/ITSEC) is the world’s largest modeling, simulation, and training event. Visit Cesium in booth 221.

FOSS4G 2024 Japan

Cesium will participate in FOSS4G 2024 Japan.

On the Hands-on Day (November 9), we will offer an introductory session on Cesium and a fundamental CesiumJS development course. On Core Day (November 10), Patrick Cozzi will deliver a keynote speech, sharing the journey of how Cesium has developed open-source software and open standards and how collaboration with the open-source geospatial community has fostered strong connections with Japan and the world. 

- Register for Hands-on Day here.

- Register for Core Day here.

Unreal Fest 2024 Tokyo

Cesium is attending Unreal Fest 2024 in Tokyo.

At 11:20 a.m. JST in Hall A, Cesium will present "Innovative AEC Digital Twin Case Studies Enabled by Cesium for Unreal" (Cesium for Unrealで実現するAECデジタルツインの革新事例) with EARTHBRAIN and Nippon Koei.

If you would like to meet with the Cesium team at the event, please submit this form.

Chicago Innovate Symposium 2024

Chicago Innovate Tech is an event organized and moderated by local design technologists, architects and engineers that focuses on innovation and technology in the architecture AECO industry.  

Dave Braig will present "Tools + Process in AECO" with Richard Harpham, Co-Founder at Skema, and Azubike Ononye, Founder and Fractional Digital Technology Director at FutureBreed.

Bentley Partner Summit 2024

Cesium will participate in two sessions on October 23, 2024:

- "Fit to Grow: The Power of an Open Developer Platform" at 9:15 a.m. CEST with Patrick Cozzi

- "How to Grow with Geospatial Applications" at 4:45 p.m. CEST with Danny Williams

VRARA Los Angeles: Enabling Digital Twins with the Cesium Platform

In this webinar hosted by the VRARA Los Angeles chapter, Dave Braig, Cory Barr, and Ben Jewett will present "Enabling Digital Twins with the Cesium Platform."

AUSA 2024

AUSA's annual meeting and exposition is October 14-16, 2024, in Washington, DC. Cesium will attend October 15.

NVIDIA AI Summit: From Flat to Fabulous: Turning 2D Imagery into 3D Tiles

Connect with NVIDIA and its ecosystem of customers and partners doing innovative, meaningful work in the public sector and beyond.

Dave Braig joins Tim Woodard, NVIDIA, for "From Flat to Fabulous: Turning 2D Imagery into 3D Tiles." This talk will be at JW Marriott - Capitol Ballroom Salon E.

Year in Infrastructure 2024

At Bentley Systems' Year in Infrastructure, global industry leaders come together to showcase infrastructure delivery and performance excellence and exchange visionary ideas for the future.

Swarthmore College: The Road to 10 Million Downloads: Building Open Source Community

Gabby Getz will meet with students to discuss FOSS projects and how Cesium maintains its open source community.

Unreal Fest 2024

Cesium will attend Unreal Fest 2024 in Seattle.

Join Ryan Veenstra for "Building Immersive Real-World Digital Twins with Unreal, Twinmotion and Cesium" at 11:45 a.m. PT on October 3 in Room 443.

INTERGEO 2024

INTERGEO, the world's leading event for geodesy, geoinformation, and land management, brings together experts and visionaries from all over the world.

Danny Williams and Klaus Konarkowski will demo Cesium in the Bentley Systems space, Hall 3, Booth F3.044.

Geo-Resolution 2024

Join the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Saint Louis University, the Taylor Geospatial Institute, and the geospatial community for Geo-Resolution 2024: Modeling the Future to Address Today’s Geospatial Challenges.

Patrick Cozzi—Cesium founder and Bentley Systems Chief Platform Officer—joins Tara Mott, Esri; Dalton Fox, Boeing; Rex Hansen, Esri; and Bob Pette, NVIDIA; for the "Geospatial Simulations, Gaming, and Augmented Reality Tools" panel at 10:45 a.m. CT.

GeoGov Summit 2024

Cesium is proud to sponsor the 2024 GeoGov Summit.

GeoGov Summit serves as an annual event to convene a high-level and forward-looking G2G and G2B forum of leaders and experts from across government, industry, NGOs, and academia to identify and explore opportunities to enhance the national geospatial strategy, to collaboratively map out solutions to improve data and decision-support capability, and to improve governance/coordination of our nation’s geospatial infrastructure.

Cesium Head of Research Norm Badler will speak as a panelist for "Plenary Session 5: Readying the Geospatial Workforce to New Markets, Sources, Technologies, and Practices" at 4:30 p.m. ET on Wednesday, September 11.

FOSS4G NA

Cesium is proud to sponsor FOSS4G North America, the premier open geospatial technology and business conference.

Philadelphia Data Vizualization Meetup

Cesium is sponsoring the Philadelphia Data Visualization Meetup. Doors open at 5:30 p.m., and talks begin at 6 p.m.:

- Introduction by John Thompson, Software Developer, Business Development, at Cesium

- The Impact of Anti-Obesity on Consumer Health Categories by Nurit Bloom, Brand Strategy and Marketing Consultant

- Philly Neighborhood Explorer: demystifying neighborhood choice using open-source spatial data by Anna Duan, Data Science Grad Student and Researcher at Penn

- Data Viz (!=) Inkblot test by Jordan Remmes, Digital Producer, Founder: Thuraya Digital

FOSS4GNA: The Road to 10 Million Downloads: Building the Open Source Community

Cesium empowers developers across industries to maximize the potential of their 3D data through an open and interoperable platform to support data compatibility and community collaboration. This year, CesiumJS, our open source JavaScript library for creating 3D globes, hit 10 million downloads. Building a healthy open source community has taken concerted effort over a decade, and we’ve built a sustainable business model around keeping CesiumJS open source and giving our developers the quality they’ve come to expect. Supporting the growth and development of the FOSS4G community within the 3D space is integral to Cesium’s success and continued roadmap.

Cesium engineering team continues to build out CesiumJS to improve its functionality and interoperability for the open source ecosystem. Investments Cesium has made into its open source platform in the last year include Bathymetric Data, a SketchFab Integration and making accessible 3D buildings in Japan. The impact of these investments expands the 3D ecosystem, increases access to data, and keeps our open source platform performant and accessible.

Beyond our engineering efforts, Cesium invests directly into the 3D geospatial community through its grants program and developer certification track. On our grants side we have continued to support 3D improvements to QGIS, supported YouthMappers kick off into 3D, 3D tile improvements in ThreeJS, and a WebODM/Cesium integration. We also have 90 Cesium Certified Developers and counting that have gone through our free developer certification program. Providing a means of validation and recognition for their hard work to support the 3D community. The impact of Cesium’s community investments helps lower the barrier to ecosystem entry, props up interoperability in the ecosystem, and champions open standards.

SIGGRAPH 2024

Join Cesium at SIGGRAPH, the premier conference for computer graphics.

SIGGRAPH 2024 Birds of a Feather Session: Cartographic Visualization (CARTO)

This session is organized by our friend Theresa-Marie Rhyne and explores how viewpoints and techniques from the computer graphics community can be effectively applied to cartographic and spatial data sets. Janine Liu, 3D Software Developer, will present, along with Esri and Web3D Consortium.

3D Pipeline Days

Cesium CEO Patrick Cozzi will participate in this event that is co-located with SIGGRAPH. 3D Pipeline Days brings speakers and participants from leading tech companies, brands, retailers, and platform companies gather to discuss the latest developments in technology, 3D standards, and how to advance the state of the art around scalable 3D pipelines – enabling the entire industry to move from PoC demos to doing 3D at massive scale.

Accelerate your AEC Projects with Real World 3D Data - Session 2

Live webinar hosted by Epic Games to show how users like Pennoni are accelerating their Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) Projects with integrations from Cesium and Epic Games.

Free for Epic Enterprise licensees.

Accelerate your AEC Projects with Real World 3D Data

Live webinar hosted by Epic Games to show how users like Pennoni are accelerating their Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) Projects with integrations from Cesium and Epic Games.

Free for Epic Enterprise licensees.

US Geospatial Market and Economy

Overview of the US Geospatial Market and Economy presented by Geospatial World

CSPI Expo 2024

Cesium will join our partners at EARTHBRAIN in their booth to present recent innovations in Smart Construction.

Ben Jewett will present at the following dates and times:

Wednesday 5/22: 4:10-4:20PM JST
Thursday 5/23: 4:10-4:20 PM JST
Friday 5/24: 3:00-3:10 PM JST

Geo Week Free Webinar: Demystifying Universal Scene Description (USD)

In this free webinar by Geo Week News, a panel of industry experts will delve into the fundamentals of USD, discussing its key features, benefits, and practical applications in professional workflows. For professionals working with 3D data, understanding USD is becoming increasingly essential for staying competitive and efficient in today's dynamic 3D landscape. Whether you're just getting started with USD or looking to deepen your understanding of its advanced features and workflows, this webinar will equip you with the knowledge and insights you need to harness the full potential of USD in your 3D projects.

Kim Nyberg, Trimble Inc.
Marco Tillmann, NVIDIA Omniverse
Dave Braig, PMP, GISP, Cesium
Matthew Collins, Geo Week News

I3D Symposium 2024

I3D is the ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games

USGIF GEOINT Symposium 2024

Visit Cesium in BOOTH 1831.

FMX 2024

Cesium's Shehzan Mohammed will participate in the 28th edition of FMX - Film & Media Exchange, one of the world’s most important conferences dedicated to animation, effects, interactive and immersive media.

NVIDIA GTC 2024

Cesium will take part in NVIDIA GTC 2024, among other industry luminaries, developers, researchers, and business strategists helping shape what’s next in AI and accelerated computing.

GTC: Enabling 3D Geospatial for the Industrial Metaverse with Cesium for Omniverse and 3D Tiles

Ingesting massive, global-scale, real-world geospatial data into virtual worlds is fundamental to building physically accurate industrial metaverse applications and digital twins. These digital twins are critical to simulating real-world environments in architecture, engineering, & construction, smart cities, defense, autonomous driving, robotics, climate science, and more. Geospatial data and virtual worlds provide context, spatial coherence and relationships, and real-time monitoring capabilities. We’ll share how we built Cesium for Omniverse, an open-source extension for NVIDIA Omniverse that enables an accurate WGS84 globe, an efficient 3D Tiles streaming engine for massive 3D geospatial data and level of detail selection, and integration with Cesium ion for easy and optimized access to 3D tiling pipelines and global data. Learn how Omniverse’s OpenUSD and Fabric, combined with 3D Tiles and glTF, enable high-fidelity streaming and rendering for global-scale digital twins using open standards. Part of GTC OpenUSD Day.

Shehzan Mohammed, Director of 3D Engineering & Ecosystems, Cesium

GTC: Digitalizing the World's Largest Industries with OpenUSD and Generative AI

Every industry has an opportunity to leverage the 3D internet to accelerate their path to automation and digitization. Hear this panel of major enterprise leaders and luminaries provide an update on their industrial metaverse projects — what milestones they've reached, what development priorities they have next, and what they see as the current blocks to progress. Part of GTC OpenUSD Day.

Christine Osik, Head of Simulation, Amazon Robotics

Dean Takahashi, Lead Writer, VentureBeat

Patrick Cozzi, CEO, Cesium

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

Joe Bohman, Executive Vice President, PLM Products, Siemens Digital Industries Software

Andy Pratt, CVP of Emerging Technologies, Microsoft

John Lu, Wistron Manufacturing Operations Director, Wistron

Paulina Chmielarz, Industrial Operations Digital and Innovation Director, Jaguar Land Rover

Leveraging OpenUSD for Geospatial Workflows

NVIDIA weekly livestream with members from the Omniverse team, partners, and special guests from the community dive into the latest OpenUSD and Omniverse announcements, features, and workflows.

Cesium for Omniverse delivers 3D Tiles and real-world digital twins at global scale with remarkable speed and quality. In this episode, we are joined by special guests from Cesium to discuss their extension and leveraging OpenUSD for geospatial workflows while diving into the AEC Demo Pack.

Cesium Ecosystem Grants Webinar

Learn about the Cesium Ecosystem Grant Program, get 2024 updates, and get your questions answered in real-time.

GeoBuiz Summit 2024: Plenary Session 2: Geospatial Imaging and Digital Twin of Everything

GeoBuiz Summit is an annual international conference focused on the geospatial industry, which encompasses a range of technologies and applications related to mapping, location-based services, and spatial data analysis.

Trent Tinker, Senior Business Development Manager, will participate in "Plenary Session 2: Geospatial Imaging and Digital Twin of Everything" with moderator Ananyaa Narain, VP- GW Consulting, Geospatial World, and fellow panelists:

Erik Jorgensen, Chairman and Group CEO, Vexcel Imaging

Takayuki Odawara, Executive Officer, GM of Business dept., Synspective

Miriam Daniel, Vice-President Google Maps for Consumers, Google

Boon Khai Tan, CEO, JTC Corporation

I/ITSEC 2023

The world's largest Modeling, Simulation, and Training Event.

Visit Cesium in BOOTH 559.

Philadelphia Data Vizualization Meetup

Cesium is sponsoring the Philadelphia Data Visualization Meetup.

Trimble Dimensions User Conference

Cesium CEO Patrick Cozzi will participate in the Geospatial Startup and Investor Panel to explore the Geospatial startup, innovation and venture investment landscape and market trends. Corporate and industry venture capital investment experts, Geospatial innovation leaders, and startup founders will discuss the emerging technology trends as well as the dynamics around raising capital and successfully growing a geospatial startup in today’s environment.

Philadelphia Unreal Engine Technology Symposium

Cesium team members will participate in this "Phun-Real Fest 2023" presented by Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design at Drexel University and Epic Games.

FOSS4G North America 2023

FOSS4G NA provides opportunities for the community to learn, explore, share, and collaborate on the latest ideas and topics in open source geospatial technologies.

FOSS4G: Investing $1 Million in the Open Ecosystem

Cesium team members Kyle Heisey and Danielle Stollak discuss the Cesium Ecosystem Grant program, which provides $1M to promote innovation, interoperability, and collaboration in the 3D geospatial ecosystem, the Cesium Certified Developer Program, and other ways to get involved in the community.

Black Tech Philly Weekend Study Hall

Black Tech Philly, an organization dedicated to providing educational tools and resources to the Black and Brown communities of Philadelphia, will hold a weekend study and networking session at Cesium HQ.

GÉOMTL 2023

Cesium will participate in the 21st edition of this event hosted by CIG Montréal that gathers all communities interested in geomatics, geolocation, and geospatial.

The State of 3D Asset Interoperability using USD and glTF BOF

First presented at SIGGRAPH 2023, the Metaverse Standards Forum is repeating this Birds of a Feather session for those who were not able to attend.

Speakers: Patrick Cozzi, Cesium; Guido Quaroni, Adobe; Henrik Edström, Autodesk; Eric Haines, NVIDIA; Marc Petit, Epic Games; Alexey Medvedev, Facebook

The Metaverse Standards Forum 3D Asset Interoperability Domain Group is enabling cooperation between the USD and glTF communities to build synergies and reduce overlaps, gaps, fragmentation, and industry confusion. Developers building tools and platforms with USD and integrating the popular glTF standard will share the state of these 3D initiatives and how they can benefit each other. Join us to explore expanding the scope of 3D asset definitions to include behaviors, sound, physics, and scene composition and discuss how different standards organizations, open source projects, and commercial companies are converging towards a shared material representation for the open metaverse.

LibertyJS

Gabby Getz will speak at LibertyJS, which brings together world class experts in Web and Cloud technologies to Philadelphia for 2 days of talks, workshops and showcases.

Gabby will contribute to, "Building 3D Geospatial Visualizations With Cesium, Google, and ArcGIS"

Unreal Fest 2023

Cesium CEO Patrick Cozzi will participate in, "The World is Your Canvas: 3D Global-Scale Real or Imaginary Worlds - 2023 Update" alongside Alban Bergeret (Epic Games), Kevin Bullock (Maxar), Rex Hansen (Esri), Scott Simmons (OGC), Hannes Walter (Blackshark AI), and Sacha Leprêtre (CAE).

Philadelphia Data Visualization Meetup

Cesium is sponsoring the Philadelphia Data Visualization Meetup.

Speakers:
Ben Garvey, CTO at Common Paper
Love and Pizza: The Only Good Pie Chart

Kavana Rudresh, Director, Enterprise Analytics and Data Science - Comcast
Kavana will briefly talk about her career in analytics as well as share some best practices on communicating technical concepts to a non-technical/business audience.

Neil Halloran, Filmmaker
Neil will briefly talk about his passion for presenting humanitarian numbers with emotion before sharing a rough cut of his upcoming film about the first vaccine and the eradication of smallpox.

GeoGov Summit

Cesium is a proud sponsor of the GeoGov Summit, which 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. Cesium CEO Patrick Cozzi will speak as a panelist on “Simplifying Complexity: Innovation and Automation for Actionable Insight.”

SIGGRAPH 2023

Join Cesium at the 50th SIGGRAPH, the premier conference for computer graphics.

SIGGRAPH: The Khronos Group and Metaverse Standards Forum Networking Reception

Cesium is a proud sponsor of this event. Please join us!

SIGGRAPH: Digital Twins Go Geospatial with OpenUSD, 3D Tiles, and Cesium

Part of NVIDIA OpenUSD Day, Sean Lilley, Staff 3D Software Developer and Lead for Cesium for Omniverse, will lead this exploration of OpenUSD, 3D Tiles, and geospatial data to create rich digital twins. He’ll offer insight into data pipelines, 3D Tiles streaming, scene management and performance considerations, and the future of USD and geospatial.

ACM SIGGRAPH Practitioners: Research to Practice: Getting There and Back Again

Cesium CEO Patrick Cozzi joins this conversation along with Dan Ring, Head of Research, Foundry; Peter Shirley, Vice President of Computer Graphics, Activision; Orly Liba, Staff Research Scientist, YouTube; and Per Christensen, Principal Scientist, Pixar’s RenderMan Group. 

Patrick will address, "Applying Research to Practice: Going from Proof of Concept to Product."

SIGGRAPH Birds of a Feather Session: Geometry, Textures, and Workflow - Optimizing glTF

Adam Morris, Staff 3D Software Engineer, joins Pawel Nikiel and Max Limper, DGG; and Andreas Vasilakis, Phasmatic, to explain cutting-edge techniques for optimizing geometry, textures, and node structure within glTF.

Photogrammetry, 3D Visualization, and Lidar (P3DL) Community of Practice Conference

Cesium's Brady Moore will participate in the P3DL Digital Twin Panel along with Jeffrey Hatzel, Blue Marble Geographics; Lynn Montgomery, Lockheed Martin; and Tyson Quink, Esri.

Moderated By: Todd Johanesen, NGA

Introduction: CW5 Stephen Joseph, NGA

SIGGRAPH Birds of a Feather Session: Cartographic Visualization (CARTO)

Lisa Bos, Senior Product Manager, will participate in this session organized by our friend Theresa-Marie Rhyne that explores how viewpoints and techniques from the computer graphics community can be effectively applied to cartographic and spatial data sets.

SIGGRAPH Birds of a Feather Session: The State of 3D Asset Interoperability using USD and glTF

Co-organized by Cesium CEO Patrick Cozzi, Guido Quaroni, Adobe 3D&I, and Marc Petit, Epic Games.  

Topics and Speakers: 

The Quest for 3D data Interoperability Between glTF and USD using Open Source Extensions
Guido Quaroni, Senior Director of Engineering, Adobe, 3D & 1

PBR Material Interop – MaterialX, USD, glTF
Henrik Edström, Distinguished Architect, Graphics, Autodesk

glTF and USD: a User’s Perspective
Eric Haines, Distinguished Engineer, NVIDIA

CSPI EXPO

Cesium will accompany Earthbrain at the 5th Construction & Survey Productivity Improvement EXPO.

USGIF GEOINT Symposium 2023

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

Visit the Cesium team in BOOTH 1805.

GEOINT Symposium Panel: ModSim is Not Just a Game

Cesium 3D Software Developer Gabby Getz joins Tony Frazier, Maxar; Ryan Gauthier, Army Geospatial Center; and Max Ozenberger, Esri, for a discussion of modeling and simulation applications, development, and research across government, industry, and academia.

GEOINT Symposium Training Session: Creating Accurate, Global-Scale Realtime Simulations with Cesium for Unity

This hands-on training session will guide users through creating a simulation that integrates large-scale geospatial data using the 3D Tiles open standard, the Cesium for Unity plugin, and the Unity game engine.

GEOINT Symposium Lightning Talk: Creating Synthetic Environments with Open Standards and Open Source Visualizations

Cesium's Brady Moore, Director of Mission Support, will deliver "Creating Synthetic Environments with Open Standards and Open Source Visualizations"

GEOINT Symposium Panel: The Metaverse Reality

This panel will build off the prior keynote remarks by taking a deeper look at the realities of the metaverse today. Panelists will discuss how the GEOINT community and its customers are currently approaching the metaverse—what is reality, what is hype, and what is truly within reach.  

Moderator: Patrick Cozzi, CEO, Cesium

Panelists:  

Jennifer Arnold, Professional Visualization Executive-Federal, NVIDIA 

Dan Nord, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Maxar Earth Intelligence, Maxar Technologies 

David Sracic, Technical Lead, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division, U.S. Navy

Deep Dive: Bentley's LumenRT for NVIDIA Omniverse and Cesium

Join us for a webinar on the power of Bentley's LumenRT for NVIDIA Omniverse and its integration with Cesium. The panel will discuss how the integration of these tools to build digital twins can help visualize complex construction projects in real-time, optimize project timelines and budgets, and how Bentley and Cesium are driving innovation in the construction industry. Join us live to get your questions answered directly by the experts.

Philly JS Developers MeetUp

Cesium is hosting the Philly JS Developers Meetup.

5:30-6:30 PM - happy hour featuring live music, catered food and drinks, and gaming.

6:30-7:40 - Speaker Sessions

JavaScript at Scale: Tooling and “Buildology” in iTwin.js presented by Bill Goehrig and Caleb Shafer, Bentley Systems

Visualizing Cloud Observability Data presented by Tarek Sherif, Datadog

Beyond Code: How Business School Can Open Doors for JavaScript Developers presented by Dax Hill, Vanguard

7:40-8:30 - Networking and Music

Cesium Ecosystem Grants Webinar

Bring your questions about Cesium Ecosystem Grants to this seminar about the inspiration, process, and potential impact of grants on the 3D geospatial ecosystem. The session will be recorded and made available on Cesium's website.

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.

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

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

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.

NVIDIA GTC 21

Cesium CEO Patrick Cozzi will join a panel of global Metaverse futurists and luminaries for "A Vision of the Metaverse." Experts will share their vision of the Metaverse, its potential, and what needs to happen to build the foundation.

Dean Takahashi, Lead Writer, GamesBeat/VentureBeat

Tim Sweeney, Founder and CEO, Epic Games

Morgan McGuire, Chief Scientist, Roblox

Rev Lebaredian, VP of Simulation Technology and Omniverse Engineering, NVIDIA

Patrick Cozzi, CEO, Cesium

Willim Cui, Vice President of Tencent Games, Tencent

Christina Heller, CEO, Metastage

Jinsoo Jeon, VP, Head of Metaverse Company, SK Telecom

DINAcon: "swissgeol.ch - a technological innovation"

Cesium's Sam Rothstein will join experts from Camptocamp and the Federal Office of Topography swisstopo, to discuss how open source software like CesiumJS makes creating 3D visualizations accessible to a broad range of professionals.

Geospatial World Forum

Cesium is a proud sponsor of GWF and will lead the plenary session on AEC and Digital Cities and participate in a panel discussion on "The Rise of Data Platforms & Fusion for Defence Intelligence."

O3DE CON

Cesium's Shehzan Mohammed and Bao Tran will present, "Bridging the Physical and Digital Worlds: Cesium and 3D Tiles for O3DE" at this conference by the O3D Foundation that explores open source collaboration in gaming.

3D Geoinfo

Cesium's Shehzan Mohammed will join a panel discussion, America's Future with LiDAR & Digital Twinning, with experts from OGC and USGS.

USGIF GEOINT Symposium

Cesium will be exhibiting at this year’s GEOINT, the largest gathering of geospatial intelligence professionals in the US. Find us in booth 2431 or catch Cesium CEO Patrick Cozzi on the YPG panel on "Bringing the Geospatial Metaverse from Idea to Reality" on Thursday, Oct. 7 at 3 pm.

An Exploration of Pervasive 3D in Geospatial with glTF - SIGGRAPH 2021

Cesium's Sam Suhag will join this session that explores what it takes to incorporate 3D models of buildings, terrain, and environment into Geospatial applications including Cesium, Unreal Engine (4 and 5), and others from the community. This is a BOF session organized by Leonard Daly, The Khronos Group. Registration at the basic level is required.

Building the Open Metaverse BOF - SIGGRAPH 2021

The metaverse will be an open and immersive network for gaming, social engagement, and enterprise collaboration, enabled by the advancement of a breadth of graphics technology, including game engines, AR wearables, real-world scans, and VR. Cesium CEO Patrick Cozzi and Marc Petit, VP and General Manager, Unreal Engine at Epic Games, co-organized this event to bring technical experts from across the community together to share their vision and contributions to an open metaverse. Registration for SIGGRAPH required.

Presenters include:

Nadine Alameh, CEO at Open Geospatial Consortium

Teddy Bergsman, Senior Director, Quixel at Epic Games

Rev Lebaredian, VP, Simulation Technology at NVIDIA

Morgan McGuire, Chief Scientist at Roblox

Shehzan Mohammed, Director of Product Management at Cesium

Royal O'Brien, GM of Digital Media and Games, Linux Foundation

Christine Perey, Spime Wrangler at PEREY Research & Consulting

Ash M. Richter, Senior Technology Architect at In-Q-Tel

Mark Sagar, CEO and Co-Founder, Soul Machines

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

Vladimir Vukićević, DIrector, Software Engineering at Unity

Samantha G. Wolfe, Founder at PitchFWD and Adjunct Professor at NYU Steinhardt

Carto (Cartographic Visualization) BOF - SIGGRAPH 2021

The ACM SIGGRAPH Cartographic Visualization (Carto) session explores how viewpoints and techniques from the computer graphics community can be effectively applied to cartographic and spatial data sets. Cesium's Sam Rothstein will join experts from Esri and the Web3D Consortium for this annual event organized by Theresa-Marie Rhyne. Registration is required.

Smart Construction Digital Meetup

Join speakers from Cesium, Komatsu, and Hunzinger Construction to learn more about Smart Construction and how 3D geospatial technology is driving digital transformation in AEC. Hosted by our friends at Geoawesomeness. 

The Earth Archive Virtual Congress

Cesium CEO Patrick Cozzi will join experts from Esri and Intel Geospatial for the Geospatial Infrastructure for Conservation: Technology Panel Discussion.

GeoConvergence Workshop

Cesium CEO Patrick Cozzi joins a panel of experts including Dr. Sarah Battersby, Dr. Michael Botts, Sanjay Kumar, and Nadine Alameh to discuss The Sciences and Technologies of the GeoConvergence. The GeoConvergence Workshop event is hosted by the American Geographical Society in support of the National Science Foundation.

Unlocking Geospatial and Game Engines

A one-of-a kind virtual event hosted by our friends at Geoawesomeness. Unlocking Geospatial Technology for Game Engines is a virtual Cesium for Unreal digital meetup and will feature a panel discussion with leaders from Cesium, Epic Games, and the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), along with Cesium for Unreal demos and audience Q&A.

The panel will discuss the impact of bridging geospatial and game engine technologies, our shared vision for an open metaverse, and the importance of openness and interoperability in our approach.