NVIDIA DEVELOPER SESSIONS
Thursday, March 3rd, 2011. All Day. Room 110, North Hall.

Time	Topic	Presenters
9am – 10am	NVIDIA Parallel Nsight: Accelerating GPU Development in BioWare's Dragon Age 2 DOWNLOAD PDF	Jeffrey Kiel (Manager, Graphics Tools, NVIDIA)
10:30am – 11:30am	NVIDIA Tegra: Zooming to Bang Bang Racing & Next-Gen Mobile Gaming DOWNLOAD PDF	Lars Bishop (Senior DevTech Engineer, NVIDIA) Mike Clark (Technical Director, Playbox Games)
1:30pm – 2:30pm	Stereoscopic 3D Demystified: From Theory to Implementation in Starcraft II DOWNLOAD PDF	Samuel Gateau (DevTech Engineer, NVIDIA), Dominic Filion (Senior Software Engineer, Blizzard)
3:00pm – 4:00pm	The Technology Behind the DirectX 11 Unreal Engine "Samaritan" Demo DOWNLOAD PDF	Martin Mittring (Software Engineer, Epic Games), Bryan Dudash (DevTech Engineer, NVIDIA)
4:30pm - 5:30pm	Realistic and Interactive Clothing in Epic Games' "Samaritan" Demo Using NVIDIA APEX DOWNLOAD PDF	Jeremy Ernst (Technical Animator, EPIC), Dane Johnston (Sr. Technical Artist, NVIDIA), Monier Maher (APEX Product Manager, NVIDIA)

Wednesday, March 2nd and Friday, March 4th | NVIDIA Booth # 1802

The theater will feature talks and demos on a wide range of topics covering the latest in GPU game technology. Open to all attendees, the theater is located in the NVIDIA booth and will feature developers and industry leaders from game studios and beyond. Check back here in the coming weeks for more details on featured speakers and topics.

Wednesday, March 2nd
10:00am	Building Photorealistic Shaders with mental mill® and iray®, Laura Scholl, mental images
11:00am	Building High Performance Games for Smartphones & Tablets Using Airplay SDK, Sam Clegg, Mark Sheehan, Ideaworks
12:00pm	BitSquid Tech: Benefits of a Data-Driven Renderer Tobias Persson, Bitsquid
1:00pm	3ds Max 2012 including nRigids with Nvidia Physx, Louis Marcoux, Autodesk
2:00pm	Working with Tegra – Let ShiVa3D Take the Strain, Philip Belhassen, Stonetrip
3:00pm	GPU Radiosity: Porting the Enlighten runtime to CUDA Chris Doran, Geomerics
4:00pm	The Future of Browser Gaming with the Turbulenz Engine, Duncan Tebbs, Turbulenz
5:00pm	Need Perf?  Got Bugs? Learn How Parallel Nsight Improves the Quality and Performance of Your Game, Jeffrey Kiel, NVIDIA
Friday, March 4th
10:00am	Creating Visually Captivating Cinematics with CryEngine3, Kirthy Iyer, Crytek
11:00am	Working with Android in Unity, Lucas Meijer, Unity
12:00pm	Next Gen Mobile Gaming with Tegra, Andrew Edelsten, NVIDIA
1:00pm	Bang Bang Racing & Next-Gen Mobile Gaming, Mike Clarke, Playbox
2:00pm	APEX Clothing with 3ds MAX, Dane Johnston, NVIDIA

GDC Tutorial Advanced Visual Effects with DirectX 11

Monday, Feb. 28, 10am-6pm

Speakers

Evan Hart (NVIDIA Corporation) Richard Huddy (AMD) Nicolas Thibieroz (AMD) Johan Andersson (DICE) Cem Cebenoyan (NVIDIA Corporation) Jon Story (AMD) Dan Baker (Firaxis)

John McDonald (NVIDIA Corporation) Jon Jansen (NVIDIA Corporation) Holger Gruen (AMD) Takahiro Harada (AMD) Nathan Hoobler (NVIDIA Corporation) Andreas Papathanasis (BioWare)

Session Description
Brought to you with the collaboration of the industry's leading hardware and software vendors, this day-long tutorial provides an in-depth look at the Direct3D® technologies in DirectX® 11 and how they can be applied to cutting-edge PC game graphics for GPUs and APUs. This year we focus exclusively on DirectX 11, examining a variety of special effects which illustrate its use in real game content. This will include detailed presentations from AMD and NVIDIA's demo and developer support teams as well as some of the top game developers who ship real games into the marketplace. In addition to illustrating the details of rendering advanced real-time visual effects, this tutorial will cover a series of vendor-neutral optimizations that developers need to keep in mind when designing their engines and shaders.

Takeaway
Attendees will gain greater insights into advanced utilization of the Direct3D 11 graphics API as used in popular shipping titles.

Intended Audience
The intended audience for this session is a graphics programmer who is planning or actively developing a Direct3D 11 application

Schedule

10-10:30am
DX11 Performance Gems (Jon Jansen, NVIDIA)
This session is a whistle-stop tour of DX11 features that can help improve application performance. We'll take a peek into the darker less-visited corners of DX11, we'll look at how tessellation can be used to enable new volumetric lighting effects, and we'll also take the 10000ft view of DirectCompute, focusing on its performance-enhancing features, and looking at how to make good day-to-day algorithmic choices.

10:30-11am
Deferred Shading Optimizations (Nicolas Thibieroz, AMD)
This session will focus on presenting GPU-based optimizations allowing better performance in deferred or semi-deferred engines.

11-11:15am BREAK

11:15-11:45am
Civilization 5 DX11 Technology (Dan Baker, Firaxis)
A technical discussion on Firaxis' Low Overhead Rendering Engine (or Firaxis' LORE). The Civilization V engine renders huge number of graphical items via a streamlined renderer and a heavily threaded engine. This enables the engine to render well over 5000 fully uniquely animated characters, without instancing or any other gimmicks. This talk will conclude with some discussion on DX11 tessellation and future work of compute shaders.

11:45am-12:15pm
Dragon Age 2 DX11 Technology (Andreas Papathanasis, BioWare)
This talk will cover the development process, technical challenges and solutions while integrating DX11 on the multiplatform DRAGON AGE 2 engine. We'll demonstrate how it is possible to integrate high impact/low cost DX11 features, cover implementation details for some of the features themselves, and present the overall benefits the technology brings to the end product.

12:15-1:45pm LUNCH

1:45-2:45pm
DirectX 11 Rendering in Battlefield 3 (Johan Andersson, DICE)
A technical deep dive into the DX11 rendering in Battlefield 3, the first title to use the new Frostbite 2 Engine. Topics covered include DX11 optimization techniques, efficient deferred shading, high-quality rendering and resource streaming for creating large and highly-detailed dynamic environments on modern PCs.

2:45-3pm BREAK

3-4pm
AMD's Favorite Techniques (Takahiro Harada 30mins, Holger Gruen 30mins)
This session will take a look at some of AMDs favorite techniques from the last year, including the use of DirectCompute to accelerate physics, an innovative new highly efficient solver for Diffusion DOF, and DirectCompute accelerated post-processing.

4-4:15pm BREAK

4:15-4:45pm
AMDs Favorite Techniques Contd (Jon Story 30mins)

4:45-5:30pm
Tessellation on Any Budget (John McDonald, NVIDIA)
A technical survey of real-time tessellation techniques, tricks and pitfalls that work for any development budget. Covers the spectrum from entirely procedural techniques to those that allow complete artistic freedom.

5:30-6:15pm
High Performance Post-Processing (Nathan Hoobler, NVIDIA)
This talk discusses common performance concerns for effects utilizing DirectCompute by walking through a sample post-processing application, applying non-obvious but important optimizations one by one and explaining how they relate to topics such as exposing parallelism, taking advantage of shared memory, and efficient data access patterns.

Company Name	Booth number
3DVIA / Dassault Systemes	1818
Activision	2526 CP
Adobe Systems Incorporated	2130
Allegorithmic	3014
ARM	1829
Autodesk	1424
Bigpoint Inc.	2002
Bigworld	BMR 101
Blizzard Entertainment	2432 CP
Crytek Gmbh	1002
Digital River	1830
Disney Interactive Media	2420 CP
Electronic Arts	BMR 101
Epic Games inc.	BS 400
Geomerics	BMR 137 / BMR 139
Gold Cool	1624 / BS 443
Google, Inc.	814
Khronos Group	1444
Scaleform	1438
Shanda	1624 / BS 443
SpeedTree	3012
Stonetrip	2010
Telltale Games	3016 CP
The9	1930 / BMR 342
THQ	2502 CP
Trinigy	1810
Tripwire Interactive	2338 CP
Unity Technologies	1416