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GDC is a very busy week, so be sure to add the annual Khronos sessions to your calendar. Just a 5 minute walk from Moscone, we are at the same easy-to-reach location as we were last year. After a full day of info-packed sessions, we wrap up with a dinner social, killer demos, giveaways, and more:
All guests that come to the sessions get a free Vulkan Shirt and a Vulkan reference card. Stay for the Khronos Evening Social and win even more cool prizes!
Seating for all Khronos sessions will be "registered guests first", then "first come next seated" – so please register since we expect a large crowd.
The WebGL + glTF and Vulkan sessions will be livestreamed and high quality video made available after the event is over.
| Time | Descripton | Session Info | Video |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wednesday, March 16th 8:30am – 10:00am |
Jon Peddie Research Press Sessions | View | |
| Wednesday, March 16th 12:00pm – 1:00pm |
WebGL + glTF | View | Watch |
| Wednesday, March 16th 1:00pm – 2:00pm |
Khronos Chapters Lunch | View | |
| Wednesday, March 16th 2:00pm – 7:00pm |
Vulkan: The API for Graphics & Compute | View | Part 1 Part 2 |
| Wednesday, March 16th 7:00pm – 9:30pm |
Khronos Evening Social | View |
Date: Wednesday, March 16 | Time: 12:00pm – 1:00pm | Location: SF Green Space
Come for a WebGL overview, demo, and Q&A session. Bring us your tough questions about performance, functionality, and other WebGL-related topics! Also learn about glTF, the GL Transmission Format, which defines a common publishing format for 3D content tools and services.
Date: Wednesday, March 16 | Time: 1:00pm – 2:00pm | Location: SF Green Space
Khronos Chapters are groups of Khronos Technology users who get together (virtually and/or in person) to expand their understanding of Khronos Technologies, share technical achievements (and get help with challenges), and socialize with colleagues. We encourage the “movers and shakers” of our industry to come forth and shoulder a role as a “Chapter Leader.” This is a casual “Lunch Open House Drop In” open to anyone with interest in meeting or leading people with similar interests in Khronos technologies in their part of the world. You do not need to attend the whole hour. Stop in for a few minutes and we’ll make the connection.
Menu:
Tramezzini Sandwich Platter: Tuna Olive, Mortadella Robiola, Turkey Fig Ceasar Salad Vegetarian Skewers Fruit Plate Breads & Condiments
Date: Wednesday, March 16 | Time: 2:00pm – 7:00pm | Location: SF Green Space
Vulkan is the new big thing and this is the place to get up to speed. Learn more about this API from the developers and engineers behind its creation, with a series of 30 to 45-minute sessions.
| Start Time | Speaker | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Welcome! | ||
| 2:00 PM | Tom Olson, Director, Graphics Research ARM |
Welcome and agenda |
| 2:05 PM | Tom Olson | How we got here History, goals, and significance; acknowledgements; project status and call for action |
| 2:20 PM | Jeff Bolz, Distinguished Engineer NVIDIA |
Vulkan design philosophy Explicit vs low-level; approach to threading; differences in HW (caps etc); all with examples of how they affected the API design. |
| Vulkan under the hood | ||
| 2:45 PM | Graham Sellers, AMD |
Memory allocation |
| 3:15 PM | Bill Licea-Kane, Qualcomm |
Command buffers, renderpasses, and subpasses Brief summary of command buffers. Renderpass/Subpass and why you should use it. |
| 3:45 PM | Tobias Hector, Software Design Engineer Imagination Technologies |
Barriers and synchronization Synchronization: Keeping your GPU well fed, without getting bitten |
| 4:15 PM | Alon Or-bach, Chair, WSI TSG Samsung |
Swapchains Unchained! What you need to know about Vulkan window system integration Swapchains Unchained! What game devs need to know about Vulkan Window System Integration |
| 4:30 PM | Karen Ghavam, CEO and Engineering Director Jon Ashburn, Principal Engineer Karl Schultz, Principal Engineer LunarG |
Vulkan layers Using the LunarG SDK and demonstration of using Vulkan Layers |
| Advice and experience | ||
| 5:00 PM | Dan Baker, Oxide |
How we organize our engine for Vulkan |
| 5:30 PM | Dan Ginsburg, Valve |
Performance results and lessons from porting Source 2 to Vulkan |
| Short subjects | ||
| 6:00 PM | Hans-Kristian Arntzen, ARM |
Vulkan does Retro RetroArch / libretro project description and results |
| 6:15 PM | Hai Nguyen, Creative Tech Lead |
Following the rules: Up and running with Vulkan on all implementations Experience from porting Cinder to Vulkan |
| 6:20 PM | Gergely Juhasz, Lead Graphics Engineer Kishonti |
GFXBench 5.0 for Vulkan demo of beta |
| 6:45 PM | Barthold Lichtenbelt, Sr. Director Tegra Graphics SW NVIDIA |
Vulkan and OpenGL ES Vulkan and ES pros and cons. With demo. |
Date: Wednesday, March16 | Time: 7:00pm – 9:30pm | Location: SF Green Space
Unwind at the end of a long day at a casual social with dinner, beer, wine, and dessert. Enjoy a few hours sharing drinks, demos, and good conversation with the Khronos Group members who bring you Vulkan, WebGL, OpenGL, and more.
RegisterDate: Wednesday, March 16 | Time: 8:30am – 10:00am | Location: SF Green Space
This session is by invitation only.
Conveniently located between San Francisco’s SOMA and Financial Districts, SF Green Space is just steps away from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Moscone Center, Yerba Buena Gardens, and San Francisco’s top hotels and restaurants. Public transportation and numerous parking garages are located within two blocks of the space.
Walking distance from Moscone: 657 Mission St, Ste #200, San Francisco, CA 94105
For the latest up-to-date list of Vulkan, OpenCL and OpenGL ES session, please refer to the official GDC sessions page.
| Time | Session | Details |
|---|---|---|
| March 14 2:00pm - 4:00pm |
Interactive Round Table Discussions | Google Vulkan Room 2020, West Hall |
| March 15 10am-11am |
PowerVR Graphics Keynote: Latest Developments and Future Plans | Imagination Vulkan Room 3022, West Hall |
| March 15 1:20pm-2:20pm |
Efficient rendering with Vulkan on PowerVR: Migrating to Vulkan with the new PowerVR graphics framework | Imagination Vulkan Room 3022, West Hall |
| March 15 2:40pm-3:40pm |
Working with Vulkan on Android: An Introduction to SPIR-V | Imagination SPIR-V/Vulkan Room 3022, West Hall |
| March 15 4pm-5pm |
Panel Discussion: Is Vulkan a Game Changer? | Imagination Vulkan Room 3022, West Hall |
| March 15 4pm-5pm |
Publishing your Unity Content to the Web with WebGL | Unity WebGL Room 2014, West Hall |
| March 16 9:30am-10:30am |
Vulkan on Mobile with Unreal Engine 4 Case Study | ARM Vulkan Room 3022, West Hall |
| March 16 11am-11:30am |
Delivering Console Car Visuals on Mobile with CSR Racing 2 | OpenGL ES Room 2006, West Hall |
| March 16 11am-12pm |
High-performance, Low-overhead Rendering with OpenGL and Vulkan | NVIDIA OpenGL/Vulkan Room 3014, West Hall |
| March 16 11am-12pm |
Let Your Game Shine - Optimizing DirectX®12 and Vulkan Performance with AMD CodeXL | AMD Vulkan Room 2024, West Hall |
| March 16 12:30pm-1:30pm |
Vulkan Fast Paths | AMD Vulkan Room 2024, West Hall |
| March 16 2pm-3pm |
Multiplatform GPU Ray-Tracing Solutions with FireRender and FireRays | AMD OpenCL Room 2024, West Hall |
| March 17 10am-11am |
D3D12 & Vulkan: Lessons Learned | Vulkan Room 3016, West Hall |
| March 17 12:45pm - 1:45pm |
Practical Development for Vulkan | Valve Software |
| March 17 1:45pm - 1:50pm |
Vulkan on Android | Samsung Vulkan ARM Booth (1624) |
| March 17 2pm-2:30pm |
Vulkan and NVIDIA The Essentials | NVIDIA Vulkan Room 3014, West Hall |
| March 17 3pm-3:30pm |
Designing a VR Renderer and Engine for Modern CPU/GPUs using MaxPlay's Game Development Suite (GDS) | NVIDIA Vulkan Room 3014, West Hall |
| March 17 4pm-5pm |
Android TV Gaming: Designing (and Programming) for Success on Marshmallow | NVIDIA OpenGL ES / Vulkan Room 3014, West Hall |
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